New Zealand leads the medals per capita table at the Rio Paralympics, with the nine medals one edging the nation ahead of Slovenia and Jamaica into first place.
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It is Pascoe’s 13th medal at the Paralympics and third of her Rio campaign following a gold in the 100m backstroke S10 and silver medal in the 50m freestyle S10.
Her first throw of 7.83m broke the world record of 7.72m.
Team GB’s Kadeena Cox has made history at the Paralympic Games in Rio winning a medal in two different sports and still managed to find time to watch Coach Carter in between.
“To be here now is incredible, I’m just so happy”. I was mentally worn out and I wasn’t sure I was going to do it. “I have only been doing it a year and a half and being on top of the world is unbelievable”. “I hope to inspire many people and young disabled athletes to get into sport”.
Nigerian weightlifter Lucy Ejike has shattered the Paralympic and world record three successive times by winning gold with a lift of 142kg at the Rio Games on Sunday.
Pascoe was almost a full second clear of her nearest rivals.
Butterworth joined the Great Britain cycling squad two years later and at London 2012, he won three silver medals, but said afterwards that he would trade them all in for a gold.
Dame Sarah, who won her 12th Paralympic title on Thursday and will target two more on the road next week, switched from swimming to cycling in 2005, She eventually finished fourth on Saturday, with Crystal Lane fifth.
British athlete Kare Adenegan took silver in the same race that Cockroft took gold.
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Before then, Kehinde in the -65kg men’s category had lifted 218kg to beat his rivals to the gold medal.
