Bate, who also won 4km tandem pursuit gold with Duggleby, said: “We wanted to win this for the whole team”.
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The 38-year-old has won two of those golds – the first in the individual pursuit on Tuesday was her 12th Paralympic gold, making her Britain’s most successful female Paralympian.
And now the 25-year-old from Leeds has gold medals from two sports at the same Games – the first Briton to do so in 32 years.
Storey began her career as a swimmer but was forced to abandon the pool after suffering persistent ear infections after the 2004 Athens Games.
Sophie Wells stormed to victory in the Grade IV dressage individual championship.
Lora Turnham and her pilot Corrine Hall took bronze behind Dunlevy and McCrystal, 34.59secs behind.
An adventure junkie who has hand-cycled across the Himalayas, climbed El Capitan and completed an Ironman since winning silver in London four years ago, Darke went one better in Rio to win the H1-2-3 time trial.
Britain are guaranteed gold and silver in Friday’s men’s wheelchair tennis singles final.
But Lee Pearson’s bid for an 11th Paralympic gold goes on as he had to settle for silver in the grade Ib event, on Zion.
Ex-Formula One driver Alex Zanardi after claiming his third Paralympic cycling gold medal in the time trial: “When you find yourself in a certain situation you have to identify where you want to go and focus on what you can achieve on that given day”. Cox has never ridden a road race before.
“I’m so happy and so glad I’ve done it, for everyone’s who struggled with chronic conditions”, she said.
“It’s a dream come true”.
“Every day in training I’m pushing on”.
Cockroft, who won two titles four years ago, said: “London was incredible, but what makes a better athlete is if you can come back four years later and do that again”.
“I’ve been crying a lot, it feels pretty good”, she said. Kare Adenegan, the 15-year-old from Coventry, took bronze behind her team-mate, as Cockroft set a world record of 58.78 seconds.
“To be Paralympic champion is wonderful”.
Alfie Hewitt will meet Gordon Reid, the Wimbledon champion.
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Hewitt, the 13th seed, beat Joachim Gerard of Belgium, the 2nd seed, 7-5 6-3. It gave Britain an 84th medal of the Games.
