Sunday 11 September 2016

Rio Paralympics Day Three

Day Three saw another huge medal haul for ParalympicsGB with eight in total across the day. Kadeena Cox stormed to gold in the C4-5 Time Trial as she became the first Brit since 1988 to secure a medal in two different sports toppling Isabel Barr's milestone which saw her medal in Shooting and Athletics at Seoul.

Hannah Cockroft retained her T34 100m title with  15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan taking silver. The first gold of the day went to Andy Lewis with victory in the PT2 Para-triathlon. Bronzes for Sabrina Fortune in the F20 shot put and Alice Tai in the S10 100m backstroke. Toby Gold took silver and compatriot Andy Small bronze in the T33 100m.

Paralympic veteran Sascha Kindred was sixth in the S5 50m freestyle before Andrew Mullen finished fourth in the S5 50m butterfly.

Elsewhere, Slovakia's Darko Duric entertained the crowd in the aquatics centre after he forgot to take the headphones off the top of his cap before his 50m butterfly S5 race and also in the pool, Ukrainian Maksym Krypak broke the world record in the S10 100m backstroke with a time of 57.24 seconds.


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