There are numerous gold medal opportunities on Saturday’s penultimate day, not least for Dame Sarah Storey as she bids for her third gold of Rio 2016 and 14th of her career in the C4/C5 road race.
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The 46-year-old starred in five consecutive Games from 1988 to 2004, claiming 12 medals in swimming events, but returned after a 12-year hiatus to become the latest Briton to win two golds in two different sports.
According to the committee, the medals have been produced using strict sustainability criteria – from the initial mining to the design of the end product.
Wheelchair tennis star and second seed Yui Kamiji got over her semifinal disappointment to take bronze – her and Japan’s first women’s Paralympic wheelchair tennis medal – by beating Diede de Groot of the Netherlands, 6-3, 6-3. “The rounded cases that hold the medals were made from freijó wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)”, it added.
Powerlifter Mohammed Khalaf won the United Arab Emirates’ first medal of this Paralympics by clinching gold in the -88 kg competition.
The four-time Paralympian’s success in the individual dressage lA, defending the title she won four years earlier in London, also secured ParalympicsGB overall team gold.
Lucas in April 2015 was the first athlete to be selected for Britain’s Olympic or Paralympic teams for Rio and victory for the 37-year-old from Surrey would be an ideal finale to a stellar sporting summer in Rio.
His third Paralympic medal came in the T36 400 metres, winning in 54.49 seconds.
Gordon Reid added Paralympic gold to the silver medal he won Thursday with doubles partner Alfie Hewett. However, entering his T51 100m final Tuesday he had the pressure of making 200 million Mexicans happy – and he didn’t disappoint, recording a season’s best of 21.96s to win bronze, Mexico’s eighth medal of the Paralympics.
“It’s been an awesome competition”.
Ukraine, winners of consecutive Paralympic titles at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, continued to create chances but they were not able to convert and the Iranians took full advantage on the 50 minute mark.
“The sport has evolved over the last four years and I’m just not good enough”, said Weir, who has won a record equalling six London Marathons. The Olympians inspired us by getting the job done here in Rio.
In addition to the medals, each medallist will also receive a doll of mascot Tom with gold, silver or bronze hair.
“(And) as a team we’ve smashed our medal target”. Stutzman was born without arms.
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Yurie Kanuma, 35, and her guide Mai Tanaka cycled to silver in the women’s time trial for visually impaired athletes, the 2014 road time trial world champion winning a medal on her Paralympic debut.
