GB's Wiggs and Henshaw win Paralympic canoe golds

Charlotte Henshaw will go for a second gold in the KL2 single on Sunday

Britain's Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw won canoeing gold medals at the Paralympics.

Wiggs, 44, retained her canoeing VL2 (va'a) title for her third Paralympic gold overall.

Henshaw won the VL3 event ahead of team-mate Hope Gordon, who took silver.

There was also a silver for GB's Dave Phillipson in the men's KL2 (kayak) race.

It is a second Paralympics gold for 37-year-old Henshaw, who will attempt to retain her KL2 title on Sunday - with Wiggs also due to compete.

In her VL2 final Wiggs came home in 58.88 seconds over the 200m course at Vaires-sur-Marne near Paris.

Jeanette Chippington, the oldest member of the ParalympicsGB squad in Paris at 54, was fourth in one minute 2.41 seconds.

Chippington is competing in her eighth Games, having made her debut as a swimmer in 1988 in Seoul.

Wiggs has four Paralympic medals, having taken gold in the KL2 at Rio 2016 before a silver in Tokyo in 2021.

She said: "My race number is 44, which happens to be my age, so when I was given that I thought 'maybe that is a bit of a bad omen'.

"But it shows anything is possible, and that's mainly because other people believe in what I can do and that helps me find that belief."

Henshaw won the VL3 in 55.70, a Paralympic Games best, with Gordon - who became GB's first female Para-Nordic skier at the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics - clocking 56.58.

Henshaw said: "This is the first VL3 event in the Games for women and Hope and I have really taken the bull by the horns in the last few years.

"We really wanted to move this event along and bring it to be the world-class one that it is now.

"I'm so pleased for us both to be on the podium together."

Henshaw also has four Paralympic medals - swimming silver and bronze at London 2012 and Rio 2016 respectively and now two canoeing golds.

In his KL2 final Phillipson finished in 42.43, just over a second behind Australia's Curtis McGrath, who won his third consecutive title.

Phillipson, 35, was competing in his second Paralympics as a canoeist after three as a wheelchair tennis player.

Robert Oliver, 36, was sixth in the KL3 final as Algeria's Brahim Guendouz took gold.