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ParalympicsGB roared into the men’s wheelchair basketball semi-finals with another brilliant comeback to see off Canada 66-52.
GB trailed 42-34 midway through the third quarter but scored 24 points in the last to seal their safe passage to the last four, guaranteeing their place in Sunday's medal matches.
Player-coach Gaz Choudhry top-scored with 21
David Smith felt the presence of his late grandfather as he secured an emotional defence of his Paralympic boccia title in Tokyo.
Smith beat Malaysia's Chew Wei Lun in a tense thriller, going behind in the opening end before showing his class to secure a 4-2 victory.
The win was his fifth medal, having also won
Honda has created a giant set of rugby goalposts from its fleet of new cars to celebrate the launch of a new partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and England Rugby.
The multi-year agreement sees Honda become the Performance Partner and Official Vehicle of England Rugby.
To celebrate it, a team at Honda’s mass
Tim Jeffery is already aiming for shooting gold at Paris 2024 after finishing seventh in the R5 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2.
Jeffery made his first major final since 2016 having qualified fifth and his score of 146.5 saw him knocked out second.
His ParalympicsGB teammates Ryan Cockbill and
The 21-year-old gave birth to Patrick last July and acknowledges that the Covid delay had allowed her to compete at her second Paralympic Games, having also won silver in this event in Rio.
And while Redfern has had to do all this with her
Sammi Kinghorn ended her wait for Games glory with bronze to give ParalympicsGB a first women’s 100m T53 medal since 2004.
Kinghorn finished fifth in the event on Paralympic debut at Rio 2016 and was fourth over 800m earlier this week but wasn’t missing out on the podium this time around, finishing third behind Chinese pair Gao Fang and Zhou Hongzhuan.
The 25-year-old, who holds the 200m world
Paul Karabardak held his nerve against world number one Alvaro Valera as ParalympicsGB edged a thrilling men's class 6-7 table tennis team event semi-final.
Karabardak imitated partner Will Bayley as the Brits bounced back from losing a heart-breaking doubles match to reach the final by seeing off Spain.
Having lost to Valera and Jordi Morales, 17-15 in
Daniel Bethell enjoyed a winning start to his Tokyo campaign after becoming the first badminton player to represent ParalympicsGB at a Games.
The 25-year-old recovered from an indifferent first few points to beat Japan’s Daisuke Fujihara 21-11 21-7, the perfect opening to competition in the men’s singles SL3 class.
He will next face Indonesia’s Ukun Rukaendi on
Andy Lapthorne and Antony Cotterill faced weather delays, court switches and an epic late-night finish before falling agonisingly short of Paralympic men’s quad doubles bronze in Tokyo.
The clock had struck 2am in Japan by the time ParalympicsGB’s wheelchair tennis pair hit their final shot but it wasn’t to be a victorious one.
Lapthorne and Cotterill missed out 7-5 3-6 7-5
Chocolate cake awaits for archer Victoria Rumary after firing her way to bronze on ParalympicsGB debut in Tokyo.
Rumary got the better of United States’ Lia Coryell 131-123 to take the final spot on the Paralympic podium having earlier lost out in the women’s individual W1 semi-finals.
A 127-107 defeat to Sarka Musilova ended the
Rebecca Redfern set her stall out in the battle for 100m breaststroke SB13 medals by qualifying second fastest for tonight's final.
The 21-year-old, who hit the qualifying time for Tokyo in April, broke the event's world record in the heats and won silver at Rio 2016.
Redfern looked in the mood for a repeat in her
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