We've seen some superb action on day two of the Paralympics in Paris.

ParalympicsGB won four golds, three silvers and two bronzes and are in contention for a similar haul tomorrow.

Thanks for joining us today and be sure to spend your Saturday with us as well.

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It was a strong day for ParalympicsGB in Paris, with nine medals won - including four golds.

Have a read of our reports on the main stories from day two at the Paralympics:

• Van Gass wins cycling gold days after cycling accident
• Kearney and Summers-Newton power to swimming gold
• Day two round-up

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There are 49 gold medals to be won on Saturday, with ParalympicsGB in contention in a number of events.

Alice Tai goes in the S8 100m backstroke (17:06) as the fastest in the world and a strong favourite to win her first individual Paralympic gold.

Meanwhile 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, the youngest member of the GB team at the Games, will aim to make the final of the women’s SM7 200m individual medley (19:10).

Rising cycling star Archie Atkinson will be hoping to add the Paralympic title to his world gold in the C4 4,000m individual pursuit (qualifying 10:14, final 13:55) while Jaco van Gass will be hoping to add a second gold in the men’s C1-3 1,000m time trial (qualifying 09:19, final 13:07).

At the Stade de France, both Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn will be aiming to hold on to their T38 100m crowns (18:35 and 19:06). And after failing to win a medal in Rio and Tokyo, can a resurgent David Weir finish on the podium in the T54 5,000m (19:25)?

In Para-archery, defending champion Phoebe Paterson Pine and Jodie Grinham, who is seven months pregnant, will hope to challenge for medals in the women’s compound (19:00).

Read our full day-by-day guide here.

David Weir is safely through to Saturday's men's 5,000m T54 final!

The six-time gold medallist joins reigning champion Marcel Hug in the medal race, which will take place at 18:00 BST tomorrow.

Weir comes through on the final lap, conserving energy before working his way through the field to win in 11 minutes 17.91 seconds.

Weir has a season's best - and personal best - of 9:13.83, just 0.02 seconds slower than Switzerland's Hug.

It's not one to miss...

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Brock Whiston won the silver medal in the women's SB8 100m breaststroke and spoke to Channel 4 afterwards:

"I’ve done a lot faster this season. I’m just really disappointed in myself. I know you can’t control what other athletes are doing but my own time wasn’t quick for me.

"I just feel disappointed that I let everyone down.

"I think I just got a bit nervous on the first 50 and then I don’t know what happened if I am honest.

"I’m just really disappointed but I just want to say a massive someone at home, because they were always there for me. I’m so sorry."

Alan Jewell
BBC Sport in Paris

The first member of the Paralympic Refugee team to win a medal says she hopes her achievement "sends a message for all the refugees in the world to follow hope, follow freedom and follow peace".

Zakia Khudadadi, from Afghanistan, won bronze in the K44 -47kg Para-taekwondo category in Paris.

The 25-year-old is based in the French capital and is one of eight members of the Paralympic Refugee Team competing at the 2024 Paralympics.

She represented her country in Tokyo three years ago after being safely evacuated in the days prior to the Games when the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital, Kabul, and seized power, as foreign forces hastily completed their withdrawal.

The Taliban government has placed heavy restrictions on women's rightsin Afghanistan. Protesters have told the BBC they were beaten, abused, jailed and even threatened with death by stoning.

"Today, in my country, life is not easy for all the women and girls in Afghanistan because Taliban is in Afghanistan," Khudadadi told the BBC.

"Everything is finished for all the women. Maybe for this medal all the women continue life and continue the fight with Taliban. Maybe [one day] we are together with peace in my country."

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Now it's the turn of seven-time Paralympian David Weir, a six-time gold medallist, to attempt to join Marcel Hug in Saturday's men's 5,000m T54 final.

Weir has the fastest personal best and season's best in this heat, but can he get the job done?

It is Marcel Hug who takes victory in the first of two men's 5000m T54 heats and qualifies for Saturday's final - but GB's Daniel Sidbury withdraws mid-race.

Hug's silver helmet has seen him dubbed the Silver Bullet - but he is certainly no stranger to gold.

The 38-year-old will be aiming to add to his six Paralympic titles at the Stade de France, having claimed four golds in Tokyo three years ago.

Second best to Britain's David Weir at London 2012, the Swiss won his first Paralympic golds in Rio in the T54 800m and marathon, before completing a clean sweep of wins in the 800m, 1500m, 5,000m and marathon in Tokyo and adding three world golds on the track in Paris last year.

Can anybody stop him repeating his quadruple haul in 2024?

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In the BC2 women's individual Boccia pool stage, ParalympicsGB's Claire Taggart has booked her place into the quarter-finals.

Taggart, 29, ended her pool campaign with a 4-3 defeat to Portugal's Cristina Goncalves.

With two progressing from each pool and Taggart and Goncalves beating Ecuador's Joselyn Lyon in their opening matches, they will now feature in the quarter-finals, taking place on Saturday evening.

Great Britain's Jaco van Gass won Britain's first cycling gold medal of the Paralympics earlier today.

Just a week ago, he was involved in a car accident and despite fears he would not be able to even compete, Van Gass won gold and you can watch how he did it below.

Great Britain's Rachel Choong completes the turnaround against Peru's Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas to win her opening women's singles SH6 group match!

Choong lost the first game but takes the third 21-17 to clinch victory at La Chapelle Arena.

That's a first win for the first female to represent Great Britain in the sport at a Paralympic Games as the 30-year-old bids to reach the quarter-finals.

The first five in each heat will advance to the men's 5000m T54 final, which takes place on Saturday at 19:39 BST.

In heat one, GB's Daniel Sidbury bids for a pace in the medal race and comes up against defending champion Marcel Hug, of Switzerland.

Hug is the world record holder with a best of 9:13.81 - and Britons Sidbury and David Weir are the only other men in the competition with personal bests below 9:14.

Sidbury won double bronze at last year's World Championships, including in this event - won by Hug.

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Great Britain's Maisie Summers-Newton won one of ParalympicsGB's two gold medals on day two in the pool with victory in the SM6 women's 200 metre individual medley.

You can watch how she won that gold below.

For the second time in as many days, Great Britain's Tully Kearney won a gold medal in the pool.

On day one, it was the S5 women's 200 metre freestyle and today, she matched that gold medal with another over 100 metres.

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As we approach the end of the action on day two at the Paralympic Games, let's take a look at what has happened on Friday:

• Tokyo champions Tully Kearney and Maisie Summers-Newton defended their para swimming titles, taking ParalympicsGB to four golds on Friday.
• Kearney won her second gold of the Games in the women's 100m freestyle S5 and Summers-Newton took victory in the women's 200m individual medley SM6 final, while there was silver for Brock Whiston in the women's 100m breaststroke S8.
• Those successes came after Lizzi Jordan and pilot Danni Khan won para cycling women's B 1000m time trial gold, with Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl taking bronze in that event, and Jaco van Gass beat team-mate Finlay Graham to the men's C3 3,000m individual pursuit title.
• Blaine Hunt won men's C4-5 1,000m time trial silver, while Matthew Robertson claimed men's C2 3,000m individual pursuit bronze in the velodrome.

• Brazil's Julio Agripino dos Santos got the Para-athletics off to a flying start by winning men's T11 5,000m gold in a world record in the first race on day two of the Paris Paralympic Games.
• ParalympicsGB's Zachary Shaw qualified for the final of the men’s T12 100m, while team-mate Eden Rainbow-Cooper also progressed in the women's T54 5000m.

Great Britain's Rachel Choong has forced a deciding game in her opening women's singles SH6 group match at La Chapelle Arena.

The 30-year-old, the first female to represent Great Britain in the sport at a Paralympic Games, lost the first game to Peru's Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas 21-14 but takes a close second 21-19.

As we approach the end of the action on day two, let's take another look at the medal table.

After a day which brought four golds, Great Britain are second in the standings behind China.

ParalympicsGB now have six golds among a total haul of 15 - two golds and five medals fewer than the Tokyo table-toppers.

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ParalympicsGB legend David Weir has six Paralympic golds and 10 medals to his name, with this his seventh Games after making his debut as a 17-year-old in Atlanta 28 years ago.

The 45-year-old, an eight-time London Marathon champion, last medalled at London 2012 when he won four golds - but he has vowed that he is not in Paris just to make up the numbers.

Weir broke the T54 5,000m British record in February, finishing just 0.2 seconds behind Marcel Hug as the Swiss set a new world record time of nine minutes 13.81 seconds in Dubai.

He has also set new personal bests over 800m and 1500m, despite previously retiring from track competition.

"I've got my spark back, I feel like I'm 10 years younger," he told BBC Sport earlier this year.

"It was a shock to me in Dubai because I didn't think I could keep up with the guys but I raced really well."

It was Hug who took the T54 5,000m title in Tokyo three years ago, one of four golds he won at those Games.

Still to come on the track tonight, Great Britain's David Weir and Daniel Sidbury will bid for a place in the men's 5000m T54 final.

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ParalympicsGB history maker Rachel Choong has just started her first women's singles SH6 group match at La Chapelle Arena.

Choong, 30, is the first female to represent Great Britain in the sport at a Paralympic Games and faces Peru's Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas.

She had to watch from the sidelines as badminton made its Paralympic debut in Tokyo, with her SH6 category for short stature athletes not part of the inaugural programme, but her life changed in late 2021 when it was confirmed for Paris.

Choong, who has a Chinese-Malaysian background, has been competing internationally since 2008 and made her World Championship debut in 2013, winning gold in the women’s singles and mixed doubles. She has gone on to regularly accrue major championship singles and doubles medals since then.

As well as the singles, where she is world number three, she has a medal chance in the mixed doubles alongside partner Jack Shephard - the top pairing in the world - however they lost their opening group match on Thursday.