So far, Team Nigeria is placing nine on the medal table with five gold, two silver and one bronze medals, while China is topping with 40gold, 31silver and 24 bronze medals.
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Bronze for Britain in the backstroke.
She’s the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics, then it was Isabel Barr in shooting and athletics.
Great Britain is second with 56 medals (23 golds, 14 silvers, 19 bronzes), and Ukraine is third with a total of 49 medals (18 golds, 13 silvers and 18 bronzes).
But Spence pointed out that the team could have made it on time even by boat. The duo qualified for the gold medal ride in the women’s B 3000m Individual Pursuit, finishing second behind the British tandem in a time of 3:31.569.
Grimaldi, who won gold in the T47 long jump event on Friday, will also compete in the 200 metres later in the week. She has four track gold medals, plus was a member of Canada’s wheelchair basketball team that claimed gold in 2000 in Sydney. “I’ve been doing it for a year and a half and now, being on top of the world, it’s fantastic”.
Powerlifting gave the country the previous medals and one of the gold medals yesterday, but athletics also came to the party with a gold in the shot put event.
Another world record followed and an eighth gold medal for ParalympicsGB in the final event in the cycling track programme. I said two years ago in my hospital bed I would go to Rio, and now I have done that.
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“We just really enjoyed every second of it, picking up these medals in front of this fantastic crowd”.
