Tuesday 4 September 2012

Paralympics Day 5

 Day five and more success for ParalympicsGB with gold for Mickey Bushell with an amazing ride in the T53 100m with a new Paralympic record of 14.75 seconds.

David Weir took third in the T54 1500m heats to reach tomorrow's final while David Devine strolled to victory in the heats of the T12 800m.

Gold for Natasha Baker in the grade II individual freestyle to secure her second gold of the games while gold medal favourite Lee Pearson had to settle for bronze in the individual freestyle dressage.


Over in the pool, golden girl Ellie Simmons broke the WR early in the day in the SM6 200m individual medley heat with a time of 3:06.97 and smashed it later on in the final to power away from the rest of the field in a time of 3:05.39 to secure her second gold of the games with fellow Brit Natalie Jones taking the bronze missing out on a GB 1-2 by 1/100th of a second.

Sascha Kindred won silver in the Men's equivalent and Susie Rodgers sealed bronze in the Women's 100m S7 freestyle while GB won silver in the Women's 4x100m relay.

Paul Davies secured bronze in the Table Tennis and in Wheelchair Basketball, the women's team qualified for the quarter finals to face Germany and the men also reach the quarters.

GB stay second in the medal table with China surely impossible to catch with 112 medals to GB'S 63.



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