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Bailey guarantees her first table tennis medal

Sue Bailey will earn her very first medal at her sixth Paralympic Games on a day that ParalympicsGB guaranteed themselves three podium finishes in the table tennis team events. Bailey first represented ParalympicsGB at Sydney 2000 and 21 years on will finally taste medal success after combining with Megan Shackleton to reach the women’s team

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Women’s wheelchair basketball team fall at quarter-final stage

ParalympicsGB put in a commendable performance but the women’s wheelchair basketball team failed to progress through the quarter-finals with a 47-33 loss to China. Great Britain will now contest the seventh and eighth play-off after China largely dominated the contest at the Ariake Arena. A rapid start from Chinese team saw them surge ahead early

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Breen and Blango bag brilliant bronzes

All that glittered was athletics bronze for ParalympicsGB as Olivia Breen and Columba Blango both banked podium places at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. European champion Blango, competing at only his second major championships, clocked a personal best 47.81 seconds to claim third place in the men’s 400m T20. And Breen – a three-time Paralympian

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Brilliant Storey equals Kenny’s all-time record

Dame Sarah Storey made history by securing a record-equalling 16th Paralympic gold medal in Tokyo to tie Mike Kenny’s all-time British record. The cyclist dominated the women’s C5 time trial at the Fuji International Speedway and won by 92 seconds from teammate Crystal Lane-Wright for her second gold of the 2020 Games to become ParalympicsGB’s

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A “story of triumph not defeat”

Ellie Robinson declared her Tokyo journey to be a story of “triumph, not defeat” having defied all odds just to reach her second Paralympic Games. Robinson, who today celebrates her 20th birthday, marked her debut in style as a 15-year-old at Rio 2016, when she became a gold and bronze medallist. Defending her women’s 50m

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