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
Gemma Prescott admitted just making it to Tokyo 2020 was an accomplishment as she finished seventh in the women’s club throw F32 on the first evening of athletics action. Poland’s Roza Kozakowska won gold with a huge 28.74m world record, with Prescott’s best effort of 18.28m well down on her 22.21m personal best. However, the
Jessica Stretton set a new Paralympic record to finish first in the women’s individual compound open ranking round to cap a scintillating morning of archery in Tokyo. The 21-year-old, who won gold at Rio in 2016, hit 48 tens and 25 Xs to record a score of 694 and finish ahead of the Russian Paralympic
Olivia Broome won bronze and Ali Jawad reached a milestone all of his own on a momentous morning for British powerlifting at the Tokyo International Forum. The two athletes are at opposite ends of the scale when it comes to experience, with Broome making her Paralympic debut and Jawad defying odds to make his fourth
Kadeena Cox stormed to a sensational world record to successfully defend her C4-5 500m time trial gold, as ParalympicsGB continued to count the medals at the Izu Velodrome. The 30-year-old stopped the clock in 34.812 seconds to give her a factored time of 34.433 and triumph by more than a second from Canada’s Kate O’Brien,
Maria Lyle put a difficult 18 months behind her as she stormed to ParalympicsGB’s first athletics medal of Tokyo 2020. World champion Lyle won women’s 100m T35 bronze in Rio and repeated that feat with a season’s best on the opening morning of athletics competition in Tokyo. China’s Zhou Xia took a gold with a
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley set a Paralympic best time as they got the defence of their mixed double sculls rowing title off to the best possible start. The experienced pair finished seven seconds clear of Ukraine in Heat 2 to qualify automatically for Sunday’s A final in a time of 8:42:27. Since Rio, the
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