ParalympicsGB rewrote the history books at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games after a phenomenal medal haul which saw the team reach the podium in more sports than any other nation at a single Games. The British team won medals across 18 sports and finished second behind China on the medal table with 124 medals overall,
Amy Truesdale won ParalympicsGB’s second taekwondo medal in two days with K44 +58kg bronze in Tokyo. The 32-year-old added to yesterday’s performance from Beth Munro, who became Britain’s first medallist in a sport which is making its Paralympics debut in Japan. Truesdale went down 60-14 to fifth seed Guljonoy Naimova of Uzbekistan in the semi-finals
Hannah Cockroft was bloodied but not beaten as she defended her Paralympic 800m T34 title with a dominant victory. Cockroft took nearly 12 seconds off her Paralympic record from five years ago but her time of 1:48.99 was just fractions slower than her world best from Switzerland earlier this year, with team-mate Kare Adenegan taking
Beth Munro stormed to a sensational silver in just her second international competition to become ParalympicsGB’s very first medallist in taekwondo. Munro took her place on the K44 -58kg podium after Denmark’s Lisa Gjessing’s experience proved to be the difference, winning all three rounds with a total scoreline of 32-14 in the gold-medal contest. The
Bronze felt like gold for Jordanne Whiley after becoming the first British wheelchair tennis player to win a women’s singles medal at a Paralympic Games. Whiley already holds two bronze medals alongside Lucy Shuker but now has an individual honour to go alongside doubles success, in her first Games since giving birth to son Jackson.
Jonnie Peacock paid tribute to Libby Clegg as she brought the curtain down on her Paralympic athletics career with a relay silver. Peacock and Clegg joined forces with Ali Smith and Nathan Maguire as ParalympicsGB finished third in the universal 4x100m relay, a performance later upgraded after China were disqualified. “To be a part of
Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl won silver in the women’s B road race to round-off a hugely successful Games for ParalympicsGB’s cyclists. World champions Unwin and Holl kept up with the leaders around the gruelling Fuji International Speedway course, only briefly dropping off the back of a breakaway made by Katie-George Dunlevy of Ireland
A proud Lesley Stewart finished 13th in the R8 Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification after three years out with a major injury. Stewart finished two places ahead of ParalympicsGB team-mate Lorraine Lambert in a high-scoring qualification event. The Blairgowrie shooter scored 1133, just 14 off the eighth and final qualifying spot, while Lambert ended
Emma Wiggs held her nerve to power to Paralympic gold and admitted the last five years have taken their toll both emotionally and physically. Wiggs won KL2 gold in Rio after making her Paralympic debut four years earlier as a sitting volleyball player at London 2012. She will bid to defend that title on Saturday
Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker will go for wheelchair tennis gold for the first time in their Paralympic careers after reaching Saturday’s women’s doubles final. The ParalympicsGB pair are guaranteed at least a silver medal thanks to a straight-sets semi-final win over China’s Wang Ziying and Zhu Zhenzhen, making the most of their second-seed status
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