Richard Whitehead, Beth Firth and Jo Butterfield won gold as ParalympicsGB took their overall medal tally to 56 on day four of the Rio Games.
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Thornhill and Scott had set the fastest qualifying time in the third heat, executing a smooth catch of their Australian opponents and giving themselves the best chance possible of progressing to the finals. She put the disappointment to one side by winning gold in the C4 500m time-trial in a world record.
Swimmer Alice Tai claimed Britain’s eighth medal of the day, with bronze in the S10 100m backstroke.
“I can’t believe this, I am so happy”, she beamed.
She broke the Paralympic Record (PR) and World Record (WR) by lifting 136kg, followed by a lift of 138kg, and then a massive lift of 142kg.
In the following final, the T33 100m, Toby Gold took silver and Andrew Small bronze.
“In Sydney I had the opportunity to compete with 11 other unbelievable women and share the podium with them”, said Stilwell, who was paralyzed at the age of 17 when she was riding piggyback with a friend and fell backwards hitting her neck on a stair.
Fachie and Mitchell clocked one minute 00.241 seconds as Holland’s Tristan Bangma and Teun Mulder triumphed in a Paralympic record of 59.822secs.
Pascoe finished nearly six seconds ahead of the silver medal victor Aurelie Rivard of Canada. “The 100m is my favourite event – I have never been beaten over it and didn’t expect to be beaten over it”.
So far the Kiwi athletes have picked up four gold, three silver, and two bronze medals.
Earlier Lauren Steadman took PT4 triathlon silver at Copacabana beach and rower Tom Aggar arms-shoulders single sculls bronze at Lagoa.
It was Roland Ezuruike that started the gold medal haul when he won a gold medal in the men’s -54kg after Kehinde Tijani won Team Nigeria’s first medal with a silver medal in the women’s -45kg.
Para-triathlete Steadman, who was born without a lower right arm, had been favourite to add Paralympic gold to her 2013 and 2014 world titles.
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There was success for British wheelchair tennis pair Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker as they beat Chile’s Macarena Cabrillana and Francisca Mardones 6-0 6-0 in the women’s doubles quarter-finals.
