Paralympic Games 2024: Five golds on Super Saturday
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Great Britain's para-swimmers won five gold medals in the space of 40 minutes on what has been dubbed 'Super Saturday' for ParalympicsGB.
There were also two gold medals in para-taekwondo, bringing the total of Britain's gold medals to 11 out of their 25 medal haul so far.
Here are some of the highlights of day three of the Paralympic Games 2024 in Paris.
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Who won gold on day three?
Great Britain's swimmers performed amazingly in La Defense Arena on Saturday.
Stephen Clegg broke a 12-year world record in winning the men's S12 100m.
Not be outdone William Ellard, 18, also broke a record when he won the 14 200m freestyle world record in one minute 51.30 secs.
Then seven-time world champion Alice Tai got her first individual Paralympic gold in the women's S8 100m backstroke.
In Para-taekwondo, Amy Truesdale won women's K44 +65kg gold.
She avoided disqualification after a kick inadvertently caught Uzbekistan's Guljonoy Naimova in the face.
She said: "The hardest fight is the one that I have every day in my mind and I smashed that today, so I'm grateful that was the fight that I won."
Matt Bush claimed ParalympicsGB's fifth gold medal of the day in the men's K44 +80kg final.
What else happened on day three?
Archie Atkinson got silver in the velodrome after getting very close to gold in the men's C4 4,000m individual pursuit.
The 20-year-old world record holder was racing Slovakia's Jozef Metelka for the top spot.
But with two laps to go and a significant lead, Atkinson fell missing out on the gold but gaining a silver.
He said: " I just ran out of energy and went down."
Meanwhile, para-archer Jodie Grinham, who is seven months pregnant, beat team-mate and friend Phoebe Paterson Pine to the bronze in the women's individual compound.
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