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
Sir Lee Pearson danced to a 14th Paralympic gold medal on his horse Breezer and in a glimpse of the future, was joined on the podium by 25-year-old Games debutant Georgia Wilson. The pair are separated by 22 years of age – this is Pearson’s fifth Games and Wilson’s first – but both shone in
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
Phoebe Paterson Pine held her nerve to win the women’s individual compound open final and claim archery gold for ParalympicsGB. Paterson Pine defeated Mariana Zuniga Varela of Chile 134-133 in a tense gold-medal match to secure the Paralympic title. The Cirencester archer had earlier beaten her close friend, teammate and world number one Jess Stretton
Louise Sugden won a brilliant powerlifting bronze in the women’s -86kg category, securing the medal with her final lift. The Newbury lifter successfully made 131kg in the last round, a lift that previously would have broken the Paralympic record, to reach the podium. It was a tense final round as Sugden’s attempt was initially recorded
Maria Lyle’s Paralympic results were exactly the same as Rio 2016 but the emotions totally different as she repeated her T35 sprint double with 200m bronze in Tokyo. The Scot won her fourth Paralympic bronze medal, once again producing a season’s best when it mattered most and clocking 30.24 seconds to reach the rostrum. It
You would think that after notching an incredible 13th Paralympic gold medal, that Sir Lee Pearson knows what he is doing as well as anyone on a horse. And yet after a shock dressage team test to music gold in Tokyo, the 47-year-old equestrian star was adamant it was not the case. He joked: “We
Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker are just one win away from another Paralympic wheelchair tennis medal after sailing into the semi-finals of the women’s doubles. The two-time bronze medallists, who are seeded fourth at Tokyo 2020, defeated Kgothatso Montjane and Mariska Ventner of South Africa 6-2, 6-0 in Sunday’s quarter-final and will face unseeded Chinese
Hannah Cockroft smashed her own world record to win a sixth Paralympic gold medal and lead a British one-two with Kare Adenegan in the women’s 100m T34. The Hurricane blew through Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium at all-time high speed, picking up from the 40-metre mark to win in a time of 16.39 seconds. It was the
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
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