In 2012 I was fortunate enough to get silver and bronze (800m) and I’ve finally done it (win gold).
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Scroll down for Friday’s highlights. This could be considered another legacy of Rio 2016.
The 37-year-old qualified for the 100m and 200m finals earlier in the competition but was disqualified in both, recording a false start and also being illegally pulled by her guide.
And her 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan finished with bronze to move ParalympicsGB above the London haul, meeting the target set by funding partners UK Sport.
Elsewhere, China’s Liu Cuiqing took the T11 400m in 56.71 as Terezinha Guilhermina of the host nation Brazil took bronze. “We’ve shown it again and hopefully we’ll go on to show it in future”. “And I hope, one day, the crisis will end, and everything will be back to normal”, Ibrahim Al-Hussein said. I’ve had a change of coach and injury after injury.
“I was very good, very confident and very focused”.
Blake’s actor father, also called Paul, played Star Wars baddie Greedo, who came a cropper at the hands of Hans Solo’s blaster in a cantina on Tatooine. His mother is a former dancer with the Royal Ballet.
There were two more golds in cycling and swimming, two in athletics and one in equestrian as Britain surpassed the Beijing bounty of 42 gold medals with the best tally since 64 gold medals were plundered 28 years ago.
Australia took home 32 gold, 23 silver and 30 bronze medals.
Swimmer Keiichi Kimura confirmed himself as Japan’s star of the 2016 Paralympics, winning his third medal of the Games and second silver when he finished second in the men’s S11 100-meter butterfly, 0.19 seconds behind Spanish victor Israel Oliver.
With two days still to go in Rio, Gordon Reid beat compatriot Alfie Hewett in the men’s wheelchair tennis singles final.
However, with roles reversed, the pair were facing off on opposite sides of the net.
Amputee Sae Tsuji won a track bronze for Japan, running 1:00.62 in the women’s 400 T47 event.
The 25-year-old Bulgarian has no movement in his lower limbs, but he has soared up the shot put and discus rankings in recent times.
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. The amputee has form this year too, winning gold at the IPC European Championships in June. Britain won gold medals in seven sports at London 2012.
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Despite being the reigning world and Paralympic champion and the current world record holder in the event, the pressure was on.
