All five British athletes will compete again today in the individual Freestyle tests, when they’ll have the opportunity to add to Great Britain’s medal haul.
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It means he completes the full set of Paralympic medals after 400m T36 silver and 800m T36 bronze at London 2012.
“Eight gold medals is not bad”.
It could be 12 on Saturday as sailor Helena Lucas leads ahead of the final race in the one-person keelboat.
Elsewhere, Kadeena Cox narrowly missed out on her third gold medal in Rio, settling for silver as part of the T35-38 4x100m final, with China taking first place.
Three dressage golds were delivered by Sophie Christiansen, Natasha Baker and Lee Pearson on the ninth day of the competition on Friday. And after finishing sixth in the T54 800m, six-time champion David Weir confirmed his plans to retire from the track after this summer’s Games.
Heroic British athletes have earned enduring Olympic glory in Rio – winning an fantastic 200 gold, silver and bronze medals.
Only the total of 107 golds from the New York/Stoke Mandeville Games of 1984 seems beyond this team.
HOW about that! Our Malaysian Paralympic athletes have achieved success on the world stage and then some.
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds will hope to regain the S6 100m freestyle title which she won in Beijing as a 13-year-old.
The 27-year-old from Eastleigh, Hampshire won individual silver and team bronze at London 2012.
An established star led one with supreme potential.
In response, the Singapore National Olympic Council told us that the variance in cash rewards is because the prize money comes from different donor-funded schemes and because of better donor awareness of the Olympics over the Paralympics.
USAIN BOLT, a Jamaican sprinter, had to beat 84 other runners in order to win his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre dash title in Rio de Janeiro.
Great Britain have won 47 gold medals and 101 in all, but David Weir’s is still seeking a first of the Rio Paralympics. There were also four silvers.
Meanwhile, Maidenhead’s Jeanette Chippington won canoeing gold for ParalympicsGB yesterday.
Christiansen now has eight Paralympic titles.
Baker joked she felt sorry for Britain’s rivals after a haul of 11 medals across the equestrian competition.
“I do think I have the most fantastic horse – I love him to bits”, he said. “It’s just incredible. It’s been an awesome competition”.
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After claiming doubles silver as a partnership, Gordon Reid met Alfie Hewett in the wheelchair tennis singles final. And I was lucky that my last race was a few days before the Games ended so I could go out in the Park and take it all in.
