Dame Sarah Storey has won Great Britain’s 60th gold medal of the Rio Paralympics and the 14th of her career.
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Coming up on Saturday Dame Sarah Storey will bid to join Christiansen, Baker and Cockroft as a three-time champion at Rio 2016 in the C4/C5 road race.
Britain’s most decorated female Paralympian, 38, won her third gold of the Games and her 14th Paralympic gold from both cycling and swimming with victory in the in the women’s C4-5 road race.
After John Walker’s win on Friday, a second archery gold medal followed on the penultimate day of the Games.
And Gordon Reid beat team-mate Alfie Hewett in the men’s wheelchair tennis singles final.
That was after Vicky Jenkins won the duel for bronze, beating Kim Ok-geum of South Korea 125-124.
Paul Blake claimed Britain’s 50th gold of the XV Paralympics in the T34 400 metres athletics on Friday morning and David Smith won the 51st with boccia victory.
Only the total of 107 golds from the New York/Stoke Mandeville Games of 1984 seems beyond this team.
It will be one of the enduring images of the Paralympic Games in Rio. Russian Federation finished second in the London 2012 medal table, behind China and one place ahead of Britain.
China lead the medal standings, but Britain’s advantage over a chasing pack led by Ukraine appears unassailable.
Less than two seconds later they surpassed it – and the target dictated by funding partners UK Sport – as 15-year-old Kare Adenegan from Coventry took bronze.
Sailor Helena Lucas, the first Briton selected for the Olympics or Paralympics, leads the one-person keelboat ahead of the 11th and final race.
The equestrian riders added to the total with an imperious display, ensuring Britain won a best-ever haul of seven equestrian gold medals.
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It was the first of nine medals in the pool, with silvers for Steph Millward and 13-year-old Abby Kane, the youngest of ParalympicsGB’s 264 athletes.
