Rio Paralympics Day Six

Day six saw ParalympicsGB equal their haul of gold medals from London 2012 with three in the space of 20 minutes late in the evening. Libby Clegg with guide Chris Clarke stormed to the T11 200m title after the home favourite and defending champion Guilhermina Terezinha was disqualified for a false start while also on the track, Georgie Hermitage set a new world record on her way to the T37 400m.

Hollie Arnold set back-to-back world records as she won the F46 Javelin with a throw of 43.01 while Rob Davies claimed the Class 1 table tennis title. Piers Gilliver took silver in the men's individual epee wheelchair fencing while Stephen Miller claimed bronze in the F32 club throw.

Over in the pool, Stephanie Millward eased to gold in the S8 100m backstroke, four seconds clear of Australia's Maddison Elliott - in a new Paralympic record time of 1:13.02. Matt Wylie took gold in the S9 50m freestyle and Ollie Hynd secured silver in the S8 100m.

Ellie Simmonds and David Weir both relinquished titles with Simmonds taking bronze in the S6 400m freestyle with Weir finishing fourth in the T54 1500m. Success in wheelchair tennis as Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker took bronze in the women's wheelchair tennis doubles.

Elsewhere, in an all-Polish fencing final, Adrian Castro won bronze in the men's individual sabre event category B at the expense of his future father-in-law, Grzegorz Pluta. America's Tatyana McFadden claimed her second gold medal of the Rio Games and her fifth overall at the Paralympics by winning the women's 1500m T53/54 final.

China's Shang Guangxu,  smashed his own world record twice as he took gold with 6.77m in a superb men's long jump T37 final and his compatriot Hu Jianwen also set a world record of 10.74 to win the men's 100m T38 final.