Lauren Steadman put the disappointment of Rio behind her to secure a brilliant triathlon gold. Steadman came home 41 seconds ahead of American Grace Norman in the women’s PTS5 category, while ParalympicsGB team-mate Claire Cashmore, another former swimmer turned triathlete, completed the podium in bronze. In the men’s PTS5 race, George Peasgood took silver behind
Women’s wheelchair basketball squad end Australia hoodoo to book quarter-final spot ParalympicsGB beat Australia in women’s wheelchair basketball for the first time at a Paralympic Games as they booked a spot in the Tokyo 2020 quarter-finals. Australia had come out on top when the teams met at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London
ParalympicsGB are on track to medal in the equestrian team test as Sir Lee Pearson, Natasha Baker and Sophie Wells sit in third place overnight and best of the teams with one athlete still left to ride. Grade II rider Pearson started well on Saturday, on his home-bred horse Breezer, with a score of 77.636
Maisie Summers-Newton is living in a dream world after matching her idol Ellie Simmonds with a second Paralympic swimming gold medal at her maiden Games. The 19-year-old had already broken the world record on the way to gold in her main event, the 200m individual medley SM6, before following it up with another title in
Thomas Young and Sophie Hahn scorched to Paralympic sprint titles in the space of just 26 minutes – the first two athletics golds of Tokyo 2020 for ParalympicsGB. Young went sub 11 seconds for the first time in his career as he claimed the men’s 100m T38 title in a European record 10.94 seconds. And
Neil and Lora Fachie both won Paralympic gold before Kadeena Cox led the way to a team sprint triumph – all in world record time on a magical day for ParalympicsGB at the velodrome. There have been some remarkable days in recent British cycling history and this belongs in that company, yielding five medals to
Sophie Hahn equalled her own world record to lay down a serious marker on the track ahead of tonight’s women’s 100m T38 Paralympic final. The defending champion saw Colombia’s Darian Jiminez Sanchez erase her Paralympic record in the first heat, clocking 12.54 seconds. But the 24-year old responded in style, equalling her 12.38s time from
Maisie Summers-Newton set a Paralympic record as she qualified in style for the women’s 100m breaststroke SB6 final alongside Ellie Simmonds. Elsewhere, Grace Harvey qualified fastest in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB5 heats while Zara Mullooly reached the final of the women’s 100m freestyle S10 on a productive morning in the pool for ParalympicsGB. Summers-Newton
Alison Peasgood narrowly missed out on a second Paralympics medal as triathlon made its Tokyo 2020 bow at the Odaiba Marine Park. Peasgood and guide Nikki Bartlett were catching France’s Annouck Curzillat and her guide Celine Bousrez down the final straight but ran out of track and finished two seconds behind the eventual bronze medallist
Natasha Baker kept the equestrian medals flowing in Tokyo with ParalympicsGB’s fourth gong in two days, clinching an incredible silver in the dressage grade III individual test on Keystone Dawn Chorus. The five-time Paralympic champion had seen Sir Lee Pearson romp to a 12th Games gold medal during the opening bout of equestrian action a
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