Summary

  • Whitehead defends 200m T42; ahead of GB team-mate Henson in third

  • Firth wins gold medal in S14 200m freestyle, Applegate takes silver in same race

  • Butterfield wins gold medal with world record in F51 club throw

  • Silvers for swimmers Redfern & Hamer; bronze for Marren, Craig & Millward

  • GB win five golds in afternoon session - three rowing & two cycling

  1. paralympic swimming

    Paralympic Swimming - Millward goes for elusive goldpublished at 23:38 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Women's 100m S8 final

    Swimmer Stephanie Millward has an impressive collection of Paralympic medals but there is one colour missing - gold.

    The 34-year-old won four silvers and one bronze in London four years ago, has collected a bronze in the 400m freestyle S8 in Rio and has a chance for gold tonight in the 100m version.

    Born in Saudi Arabia, she competed in able-bodied swimming and trained with the Great Britain squad in the build-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney before, at the age of 17, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which affects her walking, vision, balance and coordination.

    "Swimming has helped me get my life back. In fact, it has given me a life," she said. Could there be a gold medal in her life very soon? Find out very, very soon.

    Stephanie MillwardImage source, Getty Images
  2. Grimes doesn't improvepublished at 23:34 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    F51 club throw final

    GB's Kylie Grimes has completed all six of her throws but couldn't improve on her 18.75m in her second attempt - she's currently fourth.

    Fellow Briton Jo Butterfield is still top of the pile - she's one of three athletes still to take their final three throws.

  3. bronze medal

    Bronze medal - Josef Craig (GB)published at 23:34 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Men's 100m freestyle S8 final

    A tougher category than four years ago, but Great Britain's Josef Craig has won another Paralympic medal.

    Craig, 19, who lives in Newcastle, won a gold in the 400m freestyle S7 in London 2012 and has won another Paralympic medal, this time at S8.

    China's Yihan Wang and Maodang Song win gold and silver respectively.

    Oliver Hind, a gold medallist in the 400m freestyle S8 final misses out on another medal as he comes fourth.

    Josef CraigImage source, PA
  4. paralympic swimming

    Paralympic Swimmingpublished at 23:33 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Men's 100m freestyle S8 final

    So where is our next medal coming from? Maybe, just maybe, in the swimming pool as Britain have two entrants in the men's 100m freestyle S8 final.

    They are Josef Craig (pictured) and Oliver Hynd.

    Hynd has already had a glorious moment in Rio, winning gold in the men's 400m freestyle race. However, Craig was the fastest qualifier, despite him being re-classified in April 2014.

    He won 400m freestyle gold in London in the S7 category, and will be aiming to claim another gold, this time in a shorter distance, but at the S8 category. 

    Josef CraigImage source, Getty Images
  5. 'I'm going to take the 100m medal off someone'published at 23:29 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    WhiteheadImage source, PA

    GB's 200m T42 gold medallist Richard Whitehead, speaking to Channel 4: "The Paralympic legacy has moved on in the last four years and it was a lot more competitive today. It's great to be Paralympic champion again.

    "I realised I had won in the last 20m or so and I started to think about how hard I've had it, and how much I owe the people who have supported me.

    "I've got the 100m to go now. The 200m was my medal. I've kept that and I'm going to take the 100m medal off somebody else."

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 23:25 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    #bbcrio2016

    Emma Davis: All Paralympians impress me. They don't let their bodies impose any boundaries to what they can achieve.

  7. The medal tablepublished at 23:25 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Everyone keeping count? You will be doing well if you are. The medals, of all colours, continue to come thick and fast for ParalympicsGB.

    This is how it stands. At 23:25 BST. I have to put the time in, because it could well change again very soon.

    Medals
  8. bronze medal

    Bronze medal - Dave Hensonpublished at 23:24 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    200m T42 final

    Whitehead and HensonImage source, PA

    GB's Dave Henson has had a remarkable few years.

    He has won a brilliant bronze medal in the 200m T42 final, five years after his lost his legs in an IED explosion while serving with the military in Afghanistan.

    "It's 9/11 today. It's pretty important. I've been through a lot - I've lost a lot of friends along the way. This is a big day," he tells Channel 4.

    "Five and a half years ago I nearly died. I've got my wife and daughter watching at home. Words can't express how thankful I am or their support.

    "A bronze medal shows how far I've come. I won gold at the Invictus Games in 2014 and a week later I gave up smoking and thought I'd give Rio a bash."

  9. 'About more than winning'published at 23:24 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

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

    You get to 2017 and if Richard does well at the World Championships I don't think he will want that to be the end of it. 

    He is motivated about winning but for Richard Whitehead it's more than that. It's about showing how people with amputations and prosthetics can perform.

  10. Postpublished at 23:19 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Elizabeth Hudson
    BBC Sport's Paralympics reporter in Rio

    Marathon man, world record holder and now double Paralympic champion, Richard Whitehead continues to reign supreme and thrill the crowds.

    The 40-year-old has worked so hard on his starts over the last 12 months and the first 100m, traditionally his weak point, are now stronger.

    The only thing that might irritate Whitehead is that he failed to break the 23-second barrier - maybe we will see that at next year's World Championships in London.

    And he gets to share the podium with Dave Henson, the Invictus Games hero who came to the sport just a couple of years ago after losing his legs in Afghanistan in 2011.

    Henson jumped up and down with absolute delight after spotting he had won bronze on the big stage.

    Richard WhiteheadImage source, PA
  11. Up and runningpublished at 23:17 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Allison Curbishley
    BBC athletics expert on Radio 5 live

    Dave Henson all credit to you. He is still learning to run on these blades. At the age of 31 he has started his Paralympic career with a medal.

  12. Mixed emotionspublished at 23:17 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Allison Curbishley
    BBC athletics expert on Radio 5 live

    Richard Whitehead is feeling as all we are. It's agony because he got so close to breaking that 23-second barrier.

  13. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Richard Whiteheadpublished at 23:14 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    200m T42 final

    Age is but a number.

    GB's Richard Whitehead has another number - it's two. Two Paralympic gold medals in the 200m T42 final.

    He was level coming out of the bend but left silver medallist Ntando Mahlangu of South Africa in his wake as he finished in 23.39secs.

    And, get this, GB's Dave Henson has bagged bronze - tremendous stuff.

  14. world record

    World record - Sophie Pascoe (NZ)published at 23:14 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Women's 200m individual medley SM10 final

    What a competitor New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe is. She has just collected her eighth Paralympic gold medal. Yes, eighth.

    This one comes in the women's 200m individual medley SM10 final, which she wins in a time of 2:24.90. Great Britain's Harriet Lee finishes in seventh place.

    Pascoe's roll of honour reads like this: Eight golds (three in 2008, three in 2012 and two in 2016) and five silvers (one in 2008, three in 2012 and one in 2016). Awesome. Absolutely awesome.

    And it could get even better for her, as she has another two chances for gold in Brazil - in the 100m butterfly and 100m freestyle.

  15. Postpublished at 23:13 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    200m T42 final

    And they're off! 200m until Paralympic glory - can Richard Whitehead do it at 40 years old?

  16. paralympic athletics

    Paralympic Athleticspublished at 23:12 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    200m T42 final

    GB's Richard Whitehead is on the start line - he's alongside team-mate David Henson who had problems with his blade rhythm in the heats.

  17. world record

    World records - Krypak (Ukr), and Dubrov (Ukr)published at 23:12 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Paralympic swimming

    A couple of world records to let you know about in the pool.

    The men's 50m butterfly has been won by Ukraine's Maksym Krypak in a time of 25.23 seconds, with his countryman Denys Dubrov also setting a new world's best in the men's individual medley 200m SM10.

    His time is 2:06.87, faster than anyone has ever gone before.

  18. 'Like a pure Olympic sprinter'published at 23:11 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Allison Curbishley
    BBC athletics expert on Radio 5 live

    You need to see it to believe it. It's phenomenal to watch. David Brown exploded out the blocks. His knee lift looks like a pure Olympic sprinter. Sub 11 seconds fully blind fold. You go and try that.

  19. gold-medal

    Gold medal - David Brownpublished at 23:11 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    100m T11

    World record holder David Brown has just flown in the 100m T11 final to win gold in a Paralympic record time of 10.99secs.

    David BrownImage source, PA
  20. paralympic swimming

    Paralympic Swimming - Lee aims for second medal of Gamespublished at 23:09 British Summer Time 11 September 2016

    Women's 200m individual medley SM10

    Harriet Lee has already snaffled one medal at the Rio Paralympics, a silver in the women's 100m breaststroke SB9, and has a chance for more success in the women's 200m individual medley SM10 event.

    Lee, 25, who has a growth condition called Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, spent 40 hours in intensive care in May 2012, before going on to win a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke SB9 at the London Paralympics only four months later.

    Harriet LeeImage source, PA