The medals gathered also looked good enough to guarantee Nigeria her best ever placement in the Paralympics; the highest mark being the 22nd position achieved in Sydney 2000.
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Class 6-8 bronze in the team table tennis – for Will Bayley, Aaron McKibbin and Ross Wilson – saw Britain’s total rise to 119 before Cockroft and Adenegan delivered.
In the wheelchair fencing men’s foil team final, China’s Ye Ruyi, Sun Gang and Hu Daoliang defeated Poland’s Michal Nalewajek, Dariusz Pender and Jacek Gaworski 45-27. Wimbledon champion Reid inflicted a 6-1 6-2 defeat in 54 minutes on his less experienced team-mate to emulate fellow Scot Andy Murray and win on Centre Court on the Rio Olympic Park.
The Asian nation finished the ninth day of competition with 93 gold, 74 silver and 49 bronze medals, ahead of Britain (58 gold), Ukraine (38), the United States (36) and Australia (17).
Storey – Britain’s most decorated female Paralympian – won ParalympicsGB’s 60th gold of the Rio Games with victory in the women’s C4/C5 road race.
Russian Federation finished second in the London 2012 medal table, behind China and one place ahead of Britain.
Steve Bate and his pilot Adam Duggleby, like Storey, have two titles on the bike from Rio and will bid for a third in the tandem road race.
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds will hope to regain the S6 100m freestyle title which she won in Beijing as a 13-year-old.
In the pool, Ollie Hynd won gold in the 200m individual medley SM8 category, while another British swimmer Hannah Russell triumphed in the 50m freestyle S12 event.
Paul Blake took T36 400m gold, there was boccia success for David Smith, and John Walker landed archery gold.
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Sailor Helena Lucas, the first Briton selected for the Olympics or Paralympics, leads the one-person keelboat ahead of the 11th and final race.
