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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 but
Stephen Clegg qualified second fastest to tee up a tilt at his own 100m butterfly S12 world record and Paralympic gold.
The Scot led from start to finish, turning in 26.98 and winning his heat in a time of 59.13 seconds.
Clegg's focus has been laser-like on going under
High jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards and track star Owen Miller struck gold for ParalympicsGB on a sensational morning of athletics in Tokyo.
Broom-Edwards beat India’s Praveen Kumar and Poland’s Maciej Lepiato in what turned into a three-way shoot-out for T64 gold by clearing 2.10m with his second attempt.
It had appeared Kumar would win when he
Daniel Pembroke stormed to a sensational javelin gold medal on another medal-filled night of athletics for ParalympicsGB.
The F13 athlete set a new Paralympic record with a massive throw of 69.52m in round three to beat the previous best by nearly four metres.
Pembroke had to wait for the competition to
From Rugby World Cup winners to grassroots juniors, Lions coaches to Six Nations commentators, the game has come together to celebrate the return of community rugby this week, in a joint campaign between the RFU, Scottish Rugby and WRU which is being supported by The National Lottery to encourage the return to community rugby clubs.
As part of the campaign, a short film features
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 to win 6-4 6-2.
But neither Whiley nor Shuker are here to settle
Bethany Firth and Reece Dunn were the headline grabbers for Britain’s swimmers on day nine of Tokyo 2020, as Firth claimed a third successive Paralympic title in the Women’s S14 100m Backstroke, moments after Dunn’s bronze in the men’s event took him to five medals for the Games.
As well as Firth’s piece of history and Dunn becoming Paralympics GB’s most decorated athlete in Tokyo, there was a bronze for Jessica-Jane Applegate, also in the S14 100m Backstroke, while there were a trio of fourth-placed finishes involving Brits at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, as the GB swimmers continue to show the products of their training, commitment and perseverance.
It is a symbol of Firth’s class in the Women’s S14
Bethany Firth made it a hat-trick of 100m backstroke Paralympic titles while Ellie Simmonds competed in what is likely to be her final-ever race at the Games.
Firth won 100m backstroke S14 in London while swimming for Ireland, and has now won the race in Rio and Tokyo for ParalympicsGB as she made it three in a row in style.
And having won two silver medals already this
Krysten Coombs got the better of teammate Jack Shephard as ParalympicsGB’s badminton debutants continued to make their mark in Tokyo.
Shephard is the number one seed in men’s singles SH6 Group A but it was Coombs took the first game 21-12, capitalising on uncharacteristic errors from the world number one.
Shephard then fought back in the second before
ParalympicsGB’s BC4 boccia mixed pairs had no answer to defending champions Slovakia but the trio of Stephen McGuire, Louis Saunders and Evie Edwards have vowed to up their game if they meet again.
After an opening win over Brazil, the British trio went down 8-0 to the Slovakians, who are also world champions, leaving them in a fight to make the semi-finals.
Currently second in their pool, it could be a
An improved performance mattered more than the result for ParalympicsGB archer Hazel Chaisty after bowing out of the women’s individual recurve open event in Tokyo.
Chaisty lost out to Italy’s Vincenza Petrilli at the quarter-final stage, sharing the first two sets before conceding the last two to go down 6-2.
But the way she shot in comparison to her
Rebecca Redfern produced one of Paralympics GB’s moments of the Games in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre pool with a sensational silver in the Women’s SB13 100m Breaststroke in Wednesday’s finals.
Barely a year ago, Redfern became a mother for the first time when she gave birth to son Patrick in July 2020. Fourteen months on, and the 2019 world champion is relishing the chance to show her new Paralympic medal to her son when she gets back to the UK.
Redfern made her intentions clear over an
