Lewis Coombes
BBC Sport at Grand Palais

Wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver is through to the semi-final of the men's sabre category A following a convincing 15-8 quarter-final win over Italy's Matteo dei Rossi.

It is the first of four events thatthe world and double European champion from Gloucestershire is competing in here in Paris.

Meanwhile, bronze is the best that Dimitri Coutya from London can now hope for in sabre A, after being narrowly beaten 15-13 by second seed Adrian Castro from Poland in his quarter-final. He is now in the repechage, as is Gemma Collis in the women's sabre A, who lost her last-16 tie.

Emma Smith
BBC Sport at Chateau de Versailles

Durward-Akhurst is world number one and partners Athene Lindebjerg, who was the mount of Sophie Christiansen in Rio 2016 with the pair winning three golds.

She formed a partnership with Athene Lindebjerg at the start of 2023, and in all their competitive outings they had never finished off the podium - until today.

Still, Durward-Akhurst seems happy with her Paralympic debut - and has the chance to go for a medal again in the team event on Friday and Grade I individual freestyle on Saturday.

And of course we'll be keeping you across the pick of the action across sports.

Some news from the Para-equestrian...

All eyes on the afternoon swimming session where there's one, two, three....15 finals taking place from 16:30 BST.

Four of them involve Great British athletes, including Ellie Challis who goes in the 100m S3 freestyle at 18:30 BST.

Fingers crossed for some home medals!

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• Samantha Kinghorn won her second Para-athletics silver of the Games, placing second in the women's T54 1500m at the Stade de France.
• Natasha Baker and Georgia Wilson added bronzes for ParalympicsGB in the individual grade III and II events at the Chateau de Versailles.
• This evening, gold medal-winning swimmers Tully Kearney and Ellie Challis progressed through their heats as they seek further success, while Faye Rogers, Callie-Ann Warrington and twin sisters Scarlett and Eliza Humphrey also race in finals.
• Table tennis players Will Bayley, Robert Davies and Thomas Matthews are in quarter-final action.
• In wheelchair fencing, Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver contest quarter-finals.
• Great Britain's men face Australia in the quarter-finals of the wheelchair basketball.
• On the track, Nathan Maguire competes in the men's T54 1500m.

Former Australian tennis player Todd Woodbridge, who won Olympic doubles gold in 1996, spoke to Channel 4 about what makes a good doubles partnership: "They have to gel well together and cover each other's weaknesses.

"It's important on court that one player takes the lead at certain points in the match, whoever leads can then direct traffic and work through problems and then the pair can sit down and work through tactics. That’s one of the key and lucky things in tennis is that you time to do that.

"Working together is the best thing and to make your partner look good, you know you're doing a great job."

Germany's Natascha Hiltrop has just become the Paralympic champion, taking the lead in the women's 50m rifle three positions SH1 final with her last shot.

She finishes with 456.5 points. Slovakia's Veronika Vadovicova wins silver with 456.1.

Defending champion Cuiping Zhang of China takes bronze with 446.0 points. World champion and world number one Anna Benson of Sweden comes fourth.

Italy's Sara Morganti has just ended GB's Mari Durward-Akhurst's hopes of winning a medal on her Paralympic debut, rising into the silver medal position with four riders to come.

Roxanne Trunnell, of the United States, still leads the standings with an outstanding score of 78.000.

Alan Jewell
BBC Sport at La Defense Arena

The swimming programme at La Defense Arena got off to a deafening start on day one of the Paralympics when home favourite Ugo Didier defeated Italian rival Simone Barlaam in first race of the Paralympics, the men's S9 400m freestyle.

Didier and Barlaam go again tonight in the 100m backstroke and there is a French flag in every seat ready to be waved furiously.

A school group sat in the gods have already made a start...

Top seeds Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have been powering through both the singles and also together in the doubles competition.

And here they come on Court Suzanne Lenglen, ready to team up again against the Dutch pairing of Ruben Spaargaren and Maarten Ter Hofte, seeded seventh.

Want to know how wheelchair tennis works, how many sets are there in a match or who are the big stars competing? Have a read of our explainer here.

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A score of 72.583 points puts Mari Durward-Akhurst into the bronze medal position on her Paralympic debut.

There are five riders still to come in the Grade I event. The Briton faces a nervous wait to see if that will be enough to earn a medal.

Mari Durward-Akhurst looks delighted with Athene Lindebjerg as the duo complete their routine and the crowd unite in silent applause.

Is it enough for a podium place? It's a lengthy wait for the official score to appear on the big screen...

Here comes GB's Mari Durward-Akhurst at the spectacular Chateau de Versailles venue.

Roxanne Trunnell, of the United States, is still setting the gold-medal standard with a score of 78.000.

What can the world number one and horse Athene Lindebjerg produce?

As you'll have seen if you've been following coverage of the Paralympics, there are numerous different classifications for each of the 22 sports being played in Paris.

Each sport has different physical demands and so has its own set of classifications.

Click here for our guide to classifications.

Emma Smith
BBC Sport at Chateau de Versailles

At the end of each routine, messages are flashed up on the big screens asking for spectators to give "silent applause" - to wave their hands, rather than clap.

This is to avoid creating too much noise which might startle the horses. It is also for the benefit of the human athlete - if a rider is thrown from their horse, their physical impairment might prevent them stopping themselves from getting serious injury.

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Not long to wait now until GB's Paralympic debutant Mari Durward-Akhurst makes her bid for the podium in the Grade I at Chateau de Versailles.

Roxanne Trunnell, of the United States, lead the standings with a score of 78.000 - more than five points clear of second-place currently occupied by the Netherlands' Annemarieke Nobel.

Ireland's Micheal Murphy has been pushed down to fifth on the leaderboard, as Italy's Carola Imperboni replaces Australia's Stella Barton in the medal positions after 15 of 22 riders.

Next up is Anastasja Vistalova, of Czechia, before Durward-Akhurst is up.

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We have a new leader in the Para-shooting after 20 shots.

Veronika Vadovicova is now at the summit with 202.5 points. China's Cuiping Zhang has dropped to second on 201.8 points and India's India's Avani Lekhara is third with 201.5.

Swedish world champion Anna Benson is last on 198.7 points.

Plenty of change after 10 shots in our final. Now it's China's Cuiping Zhang with a solo lead on 101.3 points.

Australia's Natalie Smith is second on 100.8 and Slovakia's Veronika Vadovicova third on 100.7.

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ParalympicsGB's Sammi Kinghorn secured her second silver medal of the Paris Games in the women's T54 1500m this morning, with Swiss racer Catherine Debrunner taking gold.

The 28-year-old from Melrose also won silver in the T53 800m two days prior.

She has already improved from her performance in Tokyo where she won a bronze and silver, and she is now a four-time Paralympic medallist.

Kinghorn said: "Who would have thought a sprinter would get a medal over 1500m? I certainly did not. I thought I'd be jostling for fourth, maybe squeeze a third. It was all pretty exciting.

"There's some strong, strong athletes in there. To beat Susanna [Scaroni, bronze medallist] has blown my mind and to be able to sit on the back wheel of Catherine is incredible."

Sabrina Fortune says winning Paris Paralympics shot put gold with a new world record for her maiden Games title "felt so good" after disappointment in Tokyo.

Fortune, a bronze medallist in Rio but fifth in Tokyo, improved her own world record in the F20 event for athletes with intellectual impairments with a first-round effort of 15.12m to win the title.