Great Britain’s Paralympians have won more medals at Rio 2016 than they managed four years ago in London – with two days of the Games still remaining.
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Dunham, who will be 68 later this month, secured her 10th career Paralympic medal by winning the individual freestyle silver medal behind compatriot Sophie Christiansen, who moved onto eight Paralympic career gold medals after making it a hat-trick of successes.
For the British athlete, this was his third Paralympic medal; having won gold in the 200m earlier this week and claiming gold in the same event at London 2012.
It was Britain’s seventh equestrian gold medal of the Games.
“It’s going to sound big-headed but I think you have to have more than talent to stay at the top”.
It means he completes the full set of Paralympic medals after 400m T36 silver and 800m T36 bronze at London 2012. The team are also in semi-final action later in the day.
“We gave our best efforts (and) are getting better”, said captain Yukinobu Ike, 36, who scored a team-high 22 points. “We’ve shown it again and hopefully we’ll go on to show it in future”.
“I always want to do my best at everything I put my hand to – whether that’s academic work or sport”, said the 29-year-old, who goes in Friday’s freestyle competitions.
“I had an injury, but managed to recover in time for the Games. He is just the best horse in the world”.
Scotsman Reid overcame Hewett 6-2 6-1 to add the Paralympic title to the Wimbledon and Australian Open grand slams he won earlier this year.
Chippington won the first Paralympics canoeing title in her sixth Games, 20 years after her prior two golds in the swimming pool.
The 40-year-old said: “I’ll definitely be back for London 2017 but I don’t know about Tokyo 2020”. Teammate Anne Dunham, competing in her fifth Games was second, and there was a hugely popular bronze for Brazil’s Sergio Oliva, his country’s second para-dressage medalist after team mate Marcos Alves took two bronzes in Beijing 2008.
In the men’s 100 T54 wheelchair race, Yoshifumi Nagao advanced to Saturday’s final after finishing second in his heat.
The team made up of: Kadeena Cox, Maria Lyle, Georgie Hermitage and Sophie Hahn already had a host of individual medals to their name but couldn’t quite beat the Chinese team with the baton. They have never lost team gold since the sport of dressage was introduced at the Paralympics in Atlanta in 1996.
Zanardi, who had both legs amputated following a motor-racing crash in 2001, added the road race title to the time-trial win he claimed on Wednesday.
“When I took on the role in November I took a massive personal risk”.
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Orla Barry won Ireland’s eighth medal of the Paralympics with silver in the F57 discus.
