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  1. Debrunner in running for fourth goldpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 4 September

    Para-athletics - women's T53 100m final

    Catherine Debrunner won four golds at last year's World Championships in Paris, and tonight the Swiss wheelchair racer has the chance to make it four Paralympic golds in the French capital.

    Since winning the T54 5,000m title on Saturday, Debrunner has beaten GB's Sammi Kinghorn to gold in both the T54 1500m and T53 800m finals in Paralympic record times.

    The pair go head-to-head again tonight in the T53 100m medal race, with Debrunner the world record holder in the event and favourite to win a fourth title at the Stade de France.

    Catherine DebrunnerImage source, Getty Images
  2. paralympic athletics

    Kinghorn targets Paris treble on trackpublished at 19:08 British Summer Time 4 September

    Para-athletics - women's T53 100m final (19:08)

    Sammi KinghornImage source, Getty Images

    GB's Sammi Kinghorn will soon target a Paris 2024 treble after winning her second silver at the Stade de France.

    The 28-year-old finished second in the women's T54 1500m behind Catherine Debrunner on Tuesday - two days after finishing runner-up to the Swiss athlete in the T53 800m event.

    On both occasions Debrunner set a Paralympic record to deny Kinghorn gold, and the Briton will once again come up against the triple Paralympic champion - chasing a fourth title in Paris - in the T53 100m final.

    Remarkably, Kinghorn stopped momentarily with 200m to go because she thought the race was over but still powered to silver in a time of three minutes 16.01 seconds.

    "Who would have thought a sprinter would get a medal over 1500m, I certainly did not," Kinghorn said.

    "I got a bit disorientated and stopped at 200m to go because I thought we were done - it’s so loud in here which we’re not used to. That noise is absolutely electric and I’m absolutely buzzing to come away with a medal."

  3. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Ukraine; GB fourthpublished at 19:06 British Summer Time 4 September
    Breaking

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    What a charge at the finish from the Ukraine team who take gold ahead of Brazil in silver and Spain who grab bronze.

    Great Britain's Stephen Clegg produces a sterling finish and claims fourth for ParalympicsGB.

  4. Postpublished at 19:06 British Summer Time 4 September

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    Brazil have the edge with 100m to go. Ukraine are also charging. GB are about fifth but not far off a medal.

    Stephen Clegg goes last for GB.

  5. Postpublished at 19:05 British Summer Time 4 September

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    Two swimmers to go, the halfway point. China have slipped away and it's Brazil battling out with Japan for the lead.

    Rebecca Redfern goes into the water for GB.

  6. Postpublished at 19:04 British Summer Time 4 September

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    China lead Japan with Brazil third. GB are in the middle of the pack with Matthew Redfern up next.

  7. Postpublished at 19:03 British Summer Time 4 September

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    Take your marks, peep. GB get going with Scarlett Humphrey, but it's China who get the best reaction and race away.

  8. wheelchair tennis

    Hewett and Reid lead on serve at start of second setpublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 4 September

    Hewett/Reid 6-4 2-1 Cattaneo/Houdet*

    Now then. What will the second set bring us? Breaks are common in wheelchair tennis, so the team that can hold on to their serve can be in the driving seat.

    Stephane Houdet hovers at the net menacingly and – you’ve guessed it – the second set starts with a break, just like the start of the first set.

    Can Houdet hold his own serve? The answer is no, as Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have their game faces on.

    Hewett is looking a lot more solid on his serve – again the British pair start to target Frederic Cattaneo, and it pays off. Finally a hold. Game on, or deja vu?

    Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid high-fiveImage source, Getty Images
  9. One last swimming event on Wednesdaypublished at 18:58 British Summer Time 4 September

    Mixed 49 points 4x100m freestyle relay final

    There's one final swimming event today, and it's set to be a thriller with GB likely to be well-placed in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay 49 points final.

    Relay teams are based on a point score corresponding with a swimmers class. So a S6 swimmer is worth six points and a S12 is worth twelve points, etc. The total of all the competitors must add up to 49 points or less.

    GB are going with Scarlett Humphrey, Matthew Redfern, Rebecca Redfern and Stephen Clegg.

    This event was first swam at the Paralympics in Tokyo 2020 with a Russian team winning with a time of 3:53.79.

  10. Postpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 4 September

    A brilliant result for ParalympicsGB. Can they add to that medal in the pool?

  11. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Dimitri Coutya (Great Britain)published at 18:56 British Summer Time 4 September
    Breaking

    Men’s foil B category

    It is gold for wheelchair fencer Great Britain's Dimitri Coutya in the men’s foil B category.

    The world number one in the event tops his first Paralympic podium after overpowering two-time defending champion China’s Feng Yanke 15-7 at the Grand Palais in Paris.

    Dimitri CoutyaImage source, Reuters
  12. paralympic athletics

    Another Para-athletics world recordpublished at 18:49 British Summer Time 4 September

    The world record has been broken again in the women's F32 shot put final!

    Ukraine's Anastasiia Moskalenko produces a stunning 8.00m throw to move ahead of Brazil's Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira in the battle for gold.

    The next final on the track will be the women's T53 100m final, featuring Great Britain's Sammi Kinghorn and world record holder Catherine Debrunner, and we will begin building up to that one shortly!

  13. paralympic table tennis

    Davies progresses to finalpublished at 18:46 British Summer Time 4 September

    Para-table tennis men's MS1 singles semi-final

    Great Britain's Robert Davies has just put on an impressive display to book himself a spot in the finals of the MS1 singles.

    The Rio 2016 gold medallist beat Hungary’s Endre Major 3-1.

    Major fought back from two sets down to level, before Davies eventually sealed the win in what was a tense battle between the pair.

    Davies will play in the final on Friday against Federico Falco or Yunier Fernandez.

  14. wheelchair tennis

    Hewett and Reid take the first setpublished at 18:43 British Summer Time 4 September

    *Hewett/Reid 6-4 0-0 Cattaneo/Houdet

    The pressure builds on Stephane Houdet as he serves to stay in the first set, and given the pattern of play with constant breaks, Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid break once again – and take the first set.

    One set closer to the final.

    Alfie Hewett and Gordon ReidImage source, Getty Images
  15. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Leary (Australia)published at 18:40 British Summer Time 4 September
    Breaking

    Women's S9 100m freestyle final

    Alexa Leary wins gold with a new world record time of 59.53.

    USA's Christie Raleigh-Crossley takes silver with Brazil's Mariana Ribeiro in bronze.

    GB's Toni Shaw finishes eighth.

  16. paralympic swimming

    Postpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 4 September

    Women's S9 100m freestyle final

    And they're off. GB's Toni Shaw makes a decent start. World record holder Alexa Leary is already into the lead.

  17. paralympic swimming

    Leary hopes determination leads to goldpublished at 18:37 British Summer Time 4 September

    Women's S9 100m freestyle (17:24)

    Elizabeth Hudson
    BBC Sport in Paris

    Alexa Leary celebrates her world recordImage source, Getty Images

    Alexa Leary was aiming to represent Australia in Olympic triathlon before she suffered a horrific training crash in July 2021 which left her with major brain damage, blood clots and several broken bones.

    She had to learn how to walk and talk again but has shown fierce determination to become an elite Para-swimmer and made her international debut at last year’s World Championships in Manchester, winning gold in this event.

    She broke the world record earlier this year and did it again in the morning heats and will go in as favourite for gold.

  18. paralympic swimming

    Postpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time 4 September

    Women's S9 100m freestyle final

    We're about to follow a Brit in a swimming final with the women's S9 100m freestyle taking place shortly.

    But GB's Toni Shaw will be up against a world record-breaking rival...

  19. wheelchair tennis

    Hewett and Reid look to break for first setpublished at 18:33 British Summer Time 4 September

    *Hewett/Reid 5-4 Cattaneo/Houdet

    Now we are getting to the nervy stuff, and it is beginning to show as Alfie Hewett starts to get vocal with his support team.

    In what is sounding like a familiar refrain, Hewett and Gordon Reid break. Yes, again.

    Can they hold this time? For once Reid actually slows things down, which confuses Frederic Cattaneo, who might have been expecting more of a belter from the British end.

    But the French quickly get the measure of this new serving tactic. Another break.

  20. paralympic athletics

    World records fall at Stade de Francepublished at 18:30 British Summer Time 4 September

    Brazil's Wanna Helena Brito Oliveira has set a world record of 7.89m to take control of the women's F32 shot put final at the Stade de France, while neutral athlete Vladimir Sviridov has done the same in the men's F36 event with a 17.18m throw in a spectacular start to the evening session.

    In the first event on the track this evening, China's Shi Yiting has set a Paralympic record of 13.39 seconds take take gold in the women's T36 100m - her second triumph following 200m glory.

    And we're now only about 40 minutes away from Sammi Kinghorn's bid for Paralympic gold...