Team GB’s Kadeena Cox has made history at the Paralympic Games in Rio winning a medal in two different sports and still managed to find time to watch Coach Carter in between. “It’s insane how loud it gets in there, it either helps or hinders you and it helped me and drove me on”.
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She broke the world record to beat a Chinese athlete into second place and Britain’s most decorated female Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey into fourth.
And Butterfield rounded off the day with her win, soon after Whitehead had triumphed, with David Henson third behind his team-mate.
“I’m really, really annoyed by the actions; it doesn’t take six days to get to Rio”, he says.
Stilwell is also the Paralympic record-holder at 200 metres, having first set the mark in Beijing in 2008 and breaking it while repeating as gold medalist in London in 2012.
“As an athlete with MS I don’t know where I’m going to be in four years’ time”.
“I absolutely love to race”, Mitchell said.
Paralympic Games debutante, Nigeria’s Ndidi Nwosu, defeated London 2012 gold medallist Souhad Ghazouani of France in the women’s under 73 kilogram powerlifting final at Riocentro – Pavilion 2 in Rio de Janeiro today.
Then Lora Turnham and her pilot Corrine Hall claimed Britain’s seventh gold at the velodrome with victory in the tandem three-kilometres pursuit.
Sophie Pascoe has stormed to the eighth gold medal of her glittering Paralympics swimming career, winning the 200m individual medley in Rio.
Is it because of a MALE Winner of Gold and Female Winner of Silver or Bronze, if this is the reason, One should notice! the Gold guy is physically challenged and silver women is fit and fine.
He failed his first two weights, but managed to lift 207kg on his third and final attempt to secure a medal.
The Kiwi contingent has already won nine medals and is ahead of Slovenia who are now in second place with Jamaica in third based on population.
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On what fast became Super Sunday, there were also golds for Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley in the mixed double sculls and the mixed coxed four.
