The balls allow visually impaired athletes to know exactly which medal they have in their hands, as the bronze, silver and gold medals all make different noises.
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In the match held at the Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro, five-time Paralympics’ champion had not a hard job to beat the host in front of boisterous fans.
Paralympics GB has also won 33 silvers and 35 bronze medals.
Becca Murray (Germantown) and Christina Schwab (Dane) all earn gold after Team USA’s women’s wheelchair basketball team took the gold medal in that sport.
With two days still to go in Rio, Gordon Reid beat compatriot Alfie Hewett in the men’s wheelchair tennis singles final. The team remained undefeated throughout Rio. These Paralympic winners are listening to their medals!
Britain are now five gold medals short of the haul of 65 from the Seoul Paralympics 28 years ago.
Coming up on Saturday Dame Sarah Storey will bid to join Christiansen, Baker and Cockroft as a three-time champion at Rio 2016 in the C4/C5 road race.
The Paralympian sprinted to victory in 54.49 seconds, beating closest rival Roman Pavlyk of Ukraine by 0.18 seconds in the middle distance event on Friday.
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Swimmer Ellie Simmonds will hope to regain the S6 100m freestyle title which she won in Beijing as a 13-year-old.
