Alice Tai, Claire Cashmore, Steph Slater and Steph Millward won the 34-point 4x100m medley relay in a world record in the swimming pool.
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Winnipeg-born wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell captured her second gold medal at the Rio Olympics with a first place finish in the women’s 100-metre T52 event.
Helena Lucas, the first person selected for Britain’s Olympic or Paralympic team for Rio in April 2015, took bronze in the one-person keelboat.
Condemned to silver medals in Sydney and London Games, Ejike finally got it right in Rio which may be her last outing.
“Today I am going to enjoy with my wife: I haven’t slept next to her for one month”.
Kenny won 16 golds and two silvers in swimming between 1976 and 1988.
Nwosu beat the defending champion to win women’s -73kg Powerlifting event.It was a dramatic win for the 37-year-old who had to lift 140kg to equal the Paralympics Record (PR) before she could usurp France’s Souhad Ghazouani who looked like she had GOLD in her kitty. The 38-year-old cyclist claimed her third Rio title and the 14th of a scintillating career, which began as a 14-year-old swimmer in Barcelona 24 years ago.
Then Russell triumphed in 27.53 for her second gold of the Games.
Ugwunwa emerged as the top gun in the women’s F54 Javelin throw.
Her victory brings the number of golds for Paralympics GB for the games so far to 60, after Britain’s Jessica Stretton won the archery individual compound W1 earlier.
Ireland won their 10th medal of the Paralympics when Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal claimed silver in the women’s tandem event. Ellie Robinson will also hope to be in the final.
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The cyclist, who has also won five of her golds in the swimming pool, is just two short of the leading British paralympic gold medal victor Mike Kenny.
