Winnifrith, 13, and Twomey, 14, star for GB in Paris

Iona Winnifrith will bid to join fellow teenager Bly Twomey as a two-time GB Paralympic medallist in Saturday's SB7 50m breaststroke

Medals for a 13 and a 14-year-old, a world record and more golds in the pool - day eight at Paris 2024 was a memorable one for ParalympicsGB.

On a thrilling Thursday Great Britain's youngest athlete at the Games, Iona Winnifrith, won silver in Para-swimming, while 14-year-old Bly Twomey claimed bronze in Para-table tennis.

GB's Dan Pembroke twice broke the F13 javelin world record on his way to successfully defending his Paralympic title.

Plus, there were two further gold medals for GB on day eight thanks to Para-swimmers Becky Redfern and Alice Tai.

In total GB claimed 10 medals on Thursday, with three of them gold.

It means Great Britain's total stands at 83 medals, including 36 gold. Only China, who have 74 golds and 166 in total, have more.

Two teenagers lead the way for GB

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

Born in 2011 and aged just 13 years and 148 days, teenager Winnifrith stormed to silver with a personal best swim on Thursday, only beaten by Neutral Paralympic athlete Mariia Pavlova's world-record time in the SB7 100m breaststroke final.

She told Channel 4 "it's mad and pretty cool" to even be competing in Paris.

Winnifrith returns to action in the SB7 50m breaststroke on Saturday and, should she podium, would join fellow teenager Twomey as a two-time GB Paralympic medallist.

Para-table tennis star Twomey, 349 days older, finished with a bronze after a hard-fought WS7 semi-final defeat by Turkey’s Kubra Korkut, who is 30 and more than twice her age.

Earlier in the Games Twomey won bronze in the WD14 women’s doubles, alongside Felicity Pickard.

The future is bright for the two Brits.

Pembroke beats world record, twice

Pembroke, 33, successfully defended his Paralympic title from Tokyo 2020

Great Britain's Pembroke beat the world record with his third throw. With his fourth he smashed it.

Before Thursday the global best was 71.01m, but defending champion Pembroke soon beat it with a 71.15m effort and then, with his very next throw, chucked a huge 74.49m.

None of his competitors came close.

Earlier, Sammi Kinghorn ended her Paralympics with a fourth medal by winning silver in the T53 400m.

The 28-year-old finished second behind Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner for the third time at Paris, having pipped her to gold in Wednesday's 100m final.

Tai 'did not expect to win'

You would think most athletes would know when they have won gold, right?

Well British Para-swimmer Tai admitted she was unaware she had won her S8 50m freestyle final, and had to be told by one of her rivals that she had pipped them to gold.

The 25-year-old, who had her leg amputated just two years ago, now has two golds, one silver and a bronze at Paris - but never expected to compete over her shortest distance.

"I'm not usually lost for words but my brain is going 'woo-woo'," she told Channel 4.

"My 50m has been a bit hard, my stroke has not been as balanced just because of the loss of my leg. I did not expect to win."

Earlier, GB's Redfern triumphed in the SB13 100m breaststroke final, finally getting gold after finishing second at the past two Games.

Great Britain now have 16 Paralympic golds in the pool at Paris 2024, more than any other nation.

Who won GB's other medals on day eight?

Olivia Broome was the only participant in the women's -50kg powerlifting final to complete three lifts of more than 110kg

GB's Olivia Broome said she will "treat herself to some pizza" after securing powerlifting bronze in the women's -50kg category.

Compatriot Mark Swan said "this is just the start" after he won silver in the men's -65kg Para-powerlifting final on his Paralympics debut.

Anna Nicholson won Great Britain's first medal of the day by claiming bronze in the women’s F35 shot put final.

Great Britain collected silver in the wheelchair fencing men's team foil, losing their gold-medal match with China 45-34.

GB's men's wheelchair basketball team guaranteed themselves at least a silver medal after a 71-43 semi-final win over Germany. They will face the USA in their final on Saturday.

And finally, Para-tennis player Alfie Hewett reached Saturday's wheelchair men's singles final with a 6-2 6-0 win over Spanish third seed Martin de la Puente.

The medal table