It was Britain’s best one-day haul of the last three Paralympics. Onye first throw of 7.83m had erased her own world record of 7.72m set at the 2015 IPC world athletics championships in Doha but the Nigerian went further to set the best record in the history of the event. “I’ve been doing it for a year and a half and now, being on top of the world, it’s fantastic”. He had amputations to both legs.
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Egypt’s Islam El Shehaby (blue) refuses to shake hands after defeat by Israel’s Or Sasson in their men’s over-100kg judo contest at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 12, 2016. If you train hard and have belief in your ability you can come away with a medal.
At the Rio Velodrome, Jon-Allan Butterworth became Britain’s first Iraq and Afghanistan veteran to win Paralympic gold.
The 30-year-old from Sutton Coldfield triumphed in the C1-5 mixed team sprint at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday alongside Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe.
He joined the Battleback programme – a partnership between the British Paralympic Association and the Ministry of Defence – and now is a Paralympic champion.
“I just wanted that one gold”.
Paralympics GB’s women wheelchair basketball players are top of their group after beating Germany.
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley meanwhile saw off China in the double sculls event while James Fox, Pam Relph, Dan Brown and Grace Clough defended Great Britain’s gold won at London 2012 in the mixed coxed four, edging ahead of the US and Canada.
It was a third Paralympic title for Firth, who also won S14 100m backstroke on Thursday’s opening day of the Games and won gold in that event for Ireland at London 2012.
But the day’s British highlight was Cox, who claimed T38 100m bronze on the athletics track on Friday night and emulated Isabel Barr’s success from 1988 in Seoul.
Her time of 17.43 seconds resulted in the 24-year-old from Halifax setting a new Paralympic record.
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The International Paralympic Committee said Sunday it was skeptical about Algeria’s claim that its women’s goalball team missed a game against Israel in Rio purely due to travel delays, and hinted that the team could be disqualified from the Games.
