“In addition to featuring braille, the Paralympic Games medals include a special innovation; they have a tiny device inside which makes a noise when the medal is shaken, allowing visually impaired athletes to know if they are gold, silver or bronze”.
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Orla Barry won Ireland’s eighth medal of the Paralympics with silver in the F57 discus.
Christiansen, who juggles her sporting heroics with a City career with Goldman Sachs, defended her Grade 1a championship title ahead of British team-mate Anne Dunham, who took silver.
Gold medal winners also included Paul Blake in the T34 400m athletics, David Smith in BC1 boccia and John Walker in the men’s individual compound.
Britain’s success in the velodrome continued on the road as Storey’s 13th Paralympic title and second of Rio 2016 was followed by gold for Karen Darke in the H1-2-3 event and for Steve Bate and his pilot Adam Duggleby in the men’s tandem event.
“I’m just thrilled”, said Christiansen, who has cerebral palsy. I think even more successful than London for our team.
Maddison Elliott added to her gold medal haul, beating her teammate Lakeisha Patterson in a world record time of 0.74.
Blake showed his own dedication to the film franchise with an excited Twitter post proudly displaying an autograph from the original movie’s leading actor Mark Hamill at the London Star Wars celebration in August.
“We came to these Games with a team of 264 of the best prepared athletes that Great Britain has ever produced, ready to take on the best in the world on the greatest stage we have”.
Iranian sitting volleyball players, meanwhile, have been crushing over rivals to secure their way to the semi-final round of the competitions in Rio as they trounced Ukraine in three consecutive sets (25-22, 28-26 and 25-20) in the last event of Men’s Preliminaries Pool B, on Wednesday. “My goal is a gold medal, so I haven’t achieved it yet”, said the two-time singles Grand Slam champion.
Two of her three golds came in new events, the 400m and 800m. She has five in all after winning two at London 2012.
Less than two seconds later they surpassed it – and the target dictated by funding partners UK Sport – as 15-year-old Kare Adenegan from Coventry took bronze.
“Before my accident I did not know anything about the Paralympics”, said Al Aryani, a former captain in the Armed Forces.
“Someday I will tell my sons, “Cafu said I am a very good player”.
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It capped a terrible week for the star of London 2012, who failed to get a medal of any colour in the defence of his track titles – though he still has the marathon tomorrow (Sat).
