I’m really happy and it hasn’t sunk in.
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The 38-year-old will now retire from the Paralympics following a remarkable 20 year career in which he has won an incredible 13 medals.
A memorable session for Britain ended with Susannah Rodgers claiming the team’s sixth swimming gold by winning the S7 50m butterfly.
“I didn’t know where I was”.
It is understood the 38-year-old was disqualifed due to a “technical infringement.” in his heat.
“I broke the world record in 2008 for the first time and I am a distance swimmer”. It would not last long.
Bayley, a silver medallist at London 2012, beat Brazil’s Israel Pereira Stroh 3-1 in the men’s class 7 table tennis final on day five.
“These last four years have been unbelievable”.
After five days of competition British athletes have topped the podium 28 times and are second behind China in the standings.
The 37-year-old, who won four golds in four events at London, still has a shot at success in Rio with the 800m, 1500m, 4x400m relay and marathon to come.
The 25-year-old Welshman, who has a combined disability of Talipese and Hemi-hemilia in his right leg, topped his nearest rivals by more than one metre at 15.97m. The emotion of missing Lenny Weir’s arrival into the world seemed to catch up with the wheelchair racer as his long run of success in the Paralympic Games ended with him finishing in a tired fifth place. “But I’m 99% sure I won’t do Tokyo”, he said.
Grinham, 23, from Telford, said: “John and I have competed together in a few competitions but have never done better than bronze, so to do so at the Paralympic Games is incredible”. “But I’m looking forward to coming home and seeing the little man soon”.
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Fellow Briton Richard Chiassaro was fourth as Kenny van Weeghel of Holland took gold.
