Meanwhile Ellie Simmonds and veteran swimmer Sascha Kindred both bagged gold medals, smashing world records in the process.
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Simmonds was victorious in the SM6 200 metres individual medley race, claiming her fifth Paralympic gold.
“I’m really looking forward to racing her, it’s going to be such a tough race”. “I wrote a poem ages ago called MS My War about how we have to keep on striving for winning the war and I think that swim has just won that war”.
“This morning I was disqualified, we put an appeal in, we won the appeal”, he said.
Jonathan Broom-Edwards was also jumping for joy after he secured a silver medal in the T44 high jump. She broke the world record in her heat. Bayley, 28, won silver at London 2012 and was understandably thrilled to have gone one better in Rio. This has been such an experience – it’s unlike anything else in my life.
Millward went into the race as the fastest qualifier and completely bossed the second half of the race, with her winning time of 1:13.02 more than four seconds quicker than runner-up Maddison Elliott of Australia.
Robinson finished fourth but she has enjoyed herself in Rio.
“Swimming in London, I wasn’t happy with my medal – I was happy with my performance but I knew I had more in me”. I was born on the 13th (of December, 1978), my mum was born on the 13th as well, and seven’s a special number for me as well. It was there but I didn’t let it come out naturally. I didn’t know where I was or where everyone else was.
He said: “I have played him before and he has beaten me twice, but I had the confidence to come here and beat him when it mattered”.
Libby Clegg and guide runner Chris Clarke continued to impress as they made it two wins in a day to go into tomorrow’s T11 200m final.
Earlier on day six, Georgina Hermitage, Hollie Arnold and Rob Davies took Great Britain’s Paralympic Games gold medal haul to 31.
On the water, alumna Hannah Stodel got her Paralympic campaign underway as part of a three man crew in the sonar competition. The veteran Paralympian, who made his debut at Atlanta in 1996, has now won 13 medals – seven of them gold – and later revealed that the disappointment of only winning a silver at London 2012 inspired his success.
“Expect more golds for Storey, too, as she is the favourite to win two of her three remaining events, the road race and road time-trial, and could add a further medal in the 500m time-trial on the track on Saturday”, says The Times.
So while the pressure is on to finally take their place on the podium, the British trio are full of confidence that they can finally achieve their career dream. We’ve got to walk away with a medal; it’s everything we’ve worked for.
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“The judges saw something wrong, but we proved we did nothing wrong”.
