It took Paralympics GB’s tally to 49 golds and 104 medals in all.
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It added that the gold used to make the medals has been extracted without the use of mercury.
Canoeists Jeanette Chippington, Emma Wiggs and Anne Dickins took golds at Lagoa on Thursday morning as Britain’s gold medal haul climbed to 46.
The Cork woman finished fifth in Beijing in 2008, while claiming bronze at London 2012.
And Hannah Russell’s victory in the S12 100 metres backstroke in the swimming pool took Britain above the total number of golds won eight years ago in China.
“Ejike first broke the Paralympic record by lifting 136kg before subsequently adding lifts of 138kg and 142kg to seal the world record and hand Nigeria with their third gold medal of the Games”, reports United Kingdom media, Independent.
Taking bronze in the club throw, Miller is a Paralympian legend.
More medals will be up for grabs in Friday’s freestyle test, after which the team medal will be presented to the Great Britain team, whose team total of 453.306 beat Germany by nearly 20 points. The big matchup with the USA team, winners of two of the four Paralympic wheelchair rugby tournaments held since 2000, is scheduled for Friday.
Shot putter Deepa Malik on Monday confirmed India’s third medal at the Paralympic Games.
Team USA scooped a hat trick of medals in the women’s 1,500m T54, for athletes with spinal chord injuries who use a wheelchair in track events.
“A personal best is good and I just want to do my best for the relay later in the week”.
The Britons lost the first set 6-2 and had a break in the second, only for Wimbledon singles champion Reid to be broken.
Abdellatif Baka of Algeria stormed to gold in a world-record time of 3:48.29, followed by Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia with silver and Henry Kirwa of Kenya with bronze.
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Great Britain have won 31 golds at the Games so far. However, the Wicklow woman topped the World Series table this year with two Road Race silver medals at World Cups events in Ostend and South Africa so will be expecting better today.
