Tokyo Paralympics: ParalympicsGB are second in the world
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DAY TWELVE: The final day of the Paralympics - so sad for us all to say goodbye to an incredible event! But it brings more medals for ParalympicsGB. The Men's Wheelchair Basketball team won a bronze medal with their amazing performance. And Krysten Coombs also bagged a bronze in the Men's Singles SH6 Badminton event. ParalympicsGB has dominated the competition throughout the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, finish second in the world overall. with 124 medals in total. The closing ceremony takes place at midday on Sunday in the UK.
DAY ELEVEN: Another amazing day for ParalymicsGB, taking both first and second place in not one but two different events. Wheelchair racers Hannah Cockroft and Kare Adenegan took gold and silver in the T34 800m race. Para-canoers Charlotte Henshaw won gold in the KL2 200m with gold-medalist canoe sprinter Emma Wiggs taking silver in this event. Not to be outdone, Laura Sugar also bagged a gold in the KL3 para-canoe event – can-oe believe it? Champion athlete Aled Davies, who won gold at the London and Rio Paralympics, has won yet another gold medal in Tokyo today in the F63 Men's Shotput.
DAY TEN: It's been another major day of success for GB! Golds came from Emma Wiggs (pictured) in the VL2 canoe sprint Owen Miller (T20 1500m) and Jonathan Broom-Edwards (T64 high jump). Will Bayley and Paul Karabardak took silver in class 6-7 table tennis event, and there were more silvers for Richard Whitehead (T61 200m) and Gordon Reid & Alfie Hewett (wheelchair tennis men's doubles), as well as Stephen Clegg in S12 100m butterfly and Sophie Unwin & Jenny Holl in women's B road race. There were also bronze medals for Jeanette Chippington (VL2 canoe sprint), Hannah Taunton (T20 1500m) and Rob Oliver (KL3 canoe sprint).
DAY NINE: Sarah Storey (pictured centre) won a record-breaking 17th Paralympic gold in C4-5 road race, with her GB team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright (pictured left) finishing seven seconds behind to take silver. Meanwhile Ben Watson won the men's C1-3 race with Fin Graham claiming silver. Bethany Firth won the S14 100m backstroke title for third Games in row. Jessica Jane-Applegate took bronze behind Firth and Reece Dunn bronze in S14 backstroke. Sammi Kinghorn has taken silver in T53 400m and Dan Greaves bronze in the F64 discus.
DAY EIGHT: David Smith (pictured) has retained his Paralympic boccia title with a thrilling victory in Tokyo in the BC1 individual event. It was GB's 30th gold medal of the Games. Archer Victoria Rumary has won bronze for GB in the women's W1 event while there was also table tennis bronzes for the class 4-5 team of Sue Bailey and Megan Shackleton and class 8 team of Ross Wilson, Aaron McKibbin and Billy Shilton. Swimmer Becky Redfern won silver in the SB13 100m breaststroke and wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn won her first Paralympic medal with bronze in the T53 100m.
DAY SEVEN: Sarah Storey (pictured) became the joint most successful GB Paralympian of all time, winning a 16th gold in the C5 time trial. Crystal Lane-Wright took silver. In the women's B time trial, Lora Fachie and her pilot Corinne Hall won silver. Ben Watson won gold in the C3 time trial and George Peasgood won bronze in the C4 time trial. In the pool, Reece Dunn's new world record won the men's SM14 200m individual medley. Bethany Firth and Louise Fiddes won silver and bronze respectively in the women's SM14 individual medley, while there were bronzes for Stephen Clegg and Hannah Russell in the S12 100m freestyle. Plus Columba Blango won athletics bronze in the men's T20 400m and Olivia Breen won bronze in the T38 long jump!
DAY SIX: It's been a medal-tastic Monday out in Tokyo, and the day is far from over yet! There were golds for wheelchair racer Andrew Small and archer Phoebe Paterson Pine. Harri Jenkins claimed bronze behind Andrew, and Louise Sugden won powerlifting bronze. In para-equestrian, Lee Pearson won gold and Georgia Wilson bronze in the individual freestyle test (both grade II), with Natasha Baker winning silver in the grade III. Jonnie Peacock (pictured) won joint bronze in the T64 100m in Tokyo as he missed out on a third consecutive Paralympic sprint title.
DAY FIVE: What a day for ParalympicsGB! The men's wheelchair rugby team stunned the USA to win gold for the first time ever. Hannah Cockroft set a brand new world record to win her third consecutive T34 100m crown, with her teammate Kare Adenegan taking silver. There were two rowing golds as both GB's PR2 mixed double sculls pair Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley, and the PR3 mixed coxed four team, successfully defended their Paralympic titles. In the triathlon, GB's Lauren Steadman was victorious in a women's PTS5 event while George Peasgood earned silver in the men's race.
DAY FOUR: Great Britain are truly on a roll, having now won an incredible 39 medals in total! The team is now in second place on the medal leader board, with only China securing more wins. Neil Fachie and his wife Lora (pictured) both won Paralympic gold within 16 minutes of one another in their track cycling events. Neil and pilot Matt Rotherham smashed their own world record in the B 1000m time trial while Lora and her teammate Corrine Hall successfully retained their B 3,000m pursuit crown. There was also gold for the mixed team sprint with Kadeena Cox and Jaco van Gass winning their second titles in Tokyo and Jody Cundy claiming his eighth career Paralympic success. Swimmer Maisie Summers-Newton secured a second gold medal after claiming victory in the SB6 100m breaststroke final.
DAY THREE: Another great day for Britain with 27 medals so far at the Games. It started with a bronze medal for powerlifter Olivia Broome. On the athletics track Scottish Maria Lyle won bronze in the women's T35 100m. In the velodrome Jaco van Gass took home bronze in the C1-3 100m time trial and then Kadeena Cox (pictured) won gold in the C4-5 500m time trial. Then to the pool where Stephen Clegg got bronze in the men's 100m S12 backstroke - becoming the third member of his family to win a Paralympic medal...impressive. Hannah Russell then retained her S12 100m backstroke title and won gold. Reece Dunn also won gold for the S14 200m freestyle. Another great day for fencing too, with Piers Gilliver, Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson won bronze in the epee team event.
DAY TWO: Five gold medals and three world records - it was another great day for Great Britain. In Equestrian, Lee Pearson won gold in the dressage to make it 12 Paralympic titles in all! In the pool, swimmers Tully Kearney and Maisie Summers-Newton both set world records on their way to winning gold medals. And Jaco van Gass set a world best on his way to cycling gold, just holding off team-mate Fin Graham. Piers Gilliver completed the gold rush in wheelchair fencing. Tandem pair Aileen McGlynn and Helen Scott (pictured) won silver in the women's B 1,000m time trial, and Jody Cundy also won a cycling silver. Sophie Wells (silver) and Georgia Wilson (bronze) won equestrian medals, and there was a bronze for wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya.
DAY ONE - Seven medals in total for Great Britain: At her EIGHTH Paralympic Games, Dame Sarah Storey (pictured) won GB's first gold in Tokyo. It was in the track cycling in the C5 3,000m individual pursuit. She beat her team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright who took silver. Stephen Bate and his pilot, Adam Duggleby also won a silver medal in the B 4000m individual pursuit. In the pool Tully Kearney won silver in the S5 200m freestyle, Reece Dunn won silver in the men’s S14 100m and Toni Shaw won bronze in the women’s S9 400m freestyle, with a lifetime best.
- Published25 August 2021
- Published24 August 2021
- Published24 August 2021
