ParalympicsGB are off to a great start in the Boccia tournaments with two wins from two games. 

They earned a comprehensive 11-2 win over the Netherlands in the BC1-2 mixed team event before beating Slovakia 4-2 in the BC4 mixed pairs. 

If you don't know what Boccia is, this is a game for athletes with severe physical impairments where they have to throw six red or blue balls as close to the white jack as possible to score points. 

Some conditions are more severe than others so each athlete is separated by four classes numbered 1-4 - the lower the number, the higher the impairment impacts performance.

GB's Matt Skelhon missed on qualification for the mixed R3-10m Air Rifle Prone-SH1 final, finishing 11th earlier.

Germany are really pushing with GB now leading 42-40 with just under five minutes left.

Have you ever come face to face with your hero? Ellie Robinson, who won gold last night in a sensational swim, will do just that when she meets Ellie Simmonds in the S6 50m freestyle final (21:50 BST). 

Inspired by Simmonds' gold medal at London 2012, Robinson decided to take up swimming at her local club in Northampton. And now she has a gold medal of her own already and is in form to land another at just 15 years old. 

"I’ve got loads of confidence after winning that gold, it feels great knowing I’ve got the potential to do well," said Robinson.     

Also later we have Andrew Mullen going up against Rio's poster boy Daniel Dias in the men's S5 50m butterfly final (21:56) and Alice Tai in the women's S10 100m backstroke final (23:31). 

Great scenes as the basketball gets stuck between the hoop and the board as Germany take a shot early in the final quarter. 

It takes an official a couple of goes to dislodge it with another ball.

Germnay have cut GB's lead to 36-32.

End of the third quarter and GB's women lead the reigning champions Germany 36-28.

The Germans were only able to score four points in that quarter.

Tanni Grey-Thompson
11-time Paralympic champion on BBC Radio 5 live

Oh it's absolutely horrible when you're waiting for the heat times to come up. 

It's not a good place for your head to be.

So it's really good news for Sammi, as she gets a chance to learn from that race today.

Good news for wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn - she has qualified for the T53 400m as a fastest loser.

Kinghorn finished sixth in the final of the 100m on Thursday.   

The 400m final is on Sunday at 21:30 BST.

Great Britain's women are really coming on strong at the wheelchair basketball - they now lead Germany 32-26 in the third quarter.

Jordanne Whiley is out on court to begin her wheelchair tennis campaign and will take on South Korea's Ju Youn Park. 

Fellow Briton Louise Hunt has lost the first set 6-1 to American Dana Mathewson.

To the Maracana now and wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn has finished fourth in her heat in the T53 400m.  

Kinghorn clocked 56.76 seconds and will wait to see if she qualifies as a fastest loser.

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Britain's Joe Townsend has finished sixth in the PT1 triathlon, finishing in one hour four minutes 43 seconds.

Townsend lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2008.

The gold was won by Netherlands' Jetze Plat in 59.31.

Great Britain could not fight back against gold medal favourites Ukraine, who held on to their 2-1 lead in their Group A game.

If GB win against Ireland in their next game on Monday, they will progress to the fifth place play-off. 

It's really, really tight between GB's women and Germany at the wheelchair basketball.

In fact, it couldn't be tighter at half-time with the score level at 24-24.

GB trailed by six points earlier.

Nick Hope
BBC Sport's Paralympics reporter in Rio

Double Paralympic champion Hannah Cockcroft suffered the first defeat of her career in September of last year - in the 400m by fellow Briton Kare Adenegan.

However, Cockcroft tells me that's made her more determined in training than ever before.

"Losing my first race is always a sore subject but I think at that point I realised the rest of the world was catching up and that's made me go so much quicker over the last year," she says.

"I have two British rivals - one 15 and one 16 and they are so strong and it helps me push myself in every single session which now I am doing I don't think I was always doing.

"I think before I always stayed in my comfort zone and been where I'm happy - now I'm taking myself out of that and really finding out how quick I can go."

Nick Hope
BBC Sport's Paralympics reporter in Rio

Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockcroft became a household name after her T34 100m and 200m double gold success at London 2012, but the 200m has since been removed from the Paralympic programme.

She will bid to defend her 100m crown later tonight before taking on the 400m and 800m distances later in the competition.

"Three gold medals is the aim for these Paralympics, but it's not going to be easy and I can't promise I'm going to do it," she tells me.

"The 100m is the one that means the most to me, whilst the 400m is fun, but the 800m will be the biggest challenge.

"All three are possible and I'm looking forward to showing people I can do more than just get my head down and sprint in a straight line."

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Natalie Greenhough will not be leaving Rio with a medal as she loses her final repechage to Croatia's Lucija Breskovic by Ippon. 

Her male counterparts Sam Ingram (Men's -90kg) and Jack Hodgson (Men's +100kg) know how that feels as they were beaten by Ippon too in their quarter-finals earlier. 

But they still have a chance to fight for bronze in their respective repechages later. 

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Sabrina Fortune is thrilled at winning bronze in the F20 shot put at the Rio Paralympics - and rightly so.

The 19-year-old has just given a lovely interview to Radio 5 live's Tim Peach.

"No word can put a picture on that - it's the most amazing thing you can do," she said.

"I came here for a personal best - I didn't think I'd get a medal as well.

"It's such an honour to run around the track with the GB flag behind you.

"I hope, maybe, in Tokyo I can get the gold medal." 

Great Britain's women trail Germany 17-14 at the end of the first quarter in the wheelchair basketball. 

They lost to world champions Canada on day one but thrashed Argentina yesterday.