Day ten saw the final full day of competition and like many across the games, it was an historic one as ParalympicsGB achieved their best medal haul since Seoul 1988 with a total of 147 thereby also passing the total of 131 from Sydney 2000. However, the death of Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad overshadowed the action on Saturday after the 48-year-old suffered fatal injuries during a crash in the men's C4-5 road race.
GB's success began with Dame Sarah Storey extending her lead as the most decorated female Paralympian with her third gold of the games in the Women's C4-5 road race with fellow Brit Crystal Lane collecting the bronze.
Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby took bronze in the men's B road race (for the visually impaired) while in the Archery, a stunning GB 1-2-3 in the W1 individual archery as Jess Stretton defeated Jo Frith in the final and Vicky Jenkins took bronze. Gold in the Mixed Team Archery as Jo Frith and John Walker took the title over South Korea.
Over in the pool, Bethany Firth stormed to the SM14 200m individual medley with Jessica-Jane Applegate taking the silver while Ollie Hynd set a new world record as he took the SM8 200m medley. Hannah Russell took gold in the women's S12 50m freestyle final with Stephanie Millward taking silver in the women's 200m individual medley, Tom Hamer powered to silver in the men's version.
Ellie Robinson won bronze in the S6 100m freestyle, Andrew Mullen collected the S5 50m backstroke silver and 200m freestyle bronze. The biggest surprise in the pool came from the youngest swimmer for GB as Abby Kane at just 13 claimed a superb silver in the women's S13 100m backstroke.
Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team won bronze by beating Turkey 82-76 in a thrilling finish while on the track, Maria Lyle collected bronze in the T35 200m while in Sailing, Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell won bronze in the two-person keelboat and Helena Lucas repeated the feat in the one-person keelboat 2.4mR.
Finishing second
in the medal table behind China, they set 49 Paralympic and 27 world
records. Both the oldest (Anne Dunham) and youngest (Abby Kane)
competitors on the team claimed medals, and 11 sports won gold medals
with a record-equalling 15 securing at least one medal.
A truly great Paralympic games to write about but it's not over yet, one more review to come of what will hopefully be a superb closing ceremony and the 'closing' updates wise of this blog until the Winter Olympics/Paralympics in 2018.....
GB's success began with Dame Sarah Storey extending her lead as the most decorated female Paralympian with her third gold of the games in the Women's C4-5 road race with fellow Brit Crystal Lane collecting the bronze.
Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby took bronze in the men's B road race (for the visually impaired) while in the Archery, a stunning GB 1-2-3 in the W1 individual archery as Jess Stretton defeated Jo Frith in the final and Vicky Jenkins took bronze. Gold in the Mixed Team Archery as Jo Frith and John Walker took the title over South Korea.
Over in the pool, Bethany Firth stormed to the SM14 200m individual medley with Jessica-Jane Applegate taking the silver while Ollie Hynd set a new world record as he took the SM8 200m medley. Hannah Russell took gold in the women's S12 50m freestyle final with Stephanie Millward taking silver in the women's 200m individual medley, Tom Hamer powered to silver in the men's version.
Ellie Robinson won bronze in the S6 100m freestyle, Andrew Mullen collected the S5 50m backstroke silver and 200m freestyle bronze. The biggest surprise in the pool came from the youngest swimmer for GB as Abby Kane at just 13 claimed a superb silver in the women's S13 100m backstroke.
Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team won bronze by beating Turkey 82-76 in a thrilling finish while on the track, Maria Lyle collected bronze in the T35 200m while in Sailing, Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell won bronze in the two-person keelboat and Helena Lucas repeated the feat in the one-person keelboat 2.4mR.
Day 11 saw the eventing come to an end and for the first day of the entire games, no medals for GB but with an overall haul of 64 golds - the most since 1988 and 147 medals also bettering 1988, GB have well and truly smashed it in Rio!
After Lee Pearson led the ParalympicsGB team out in the opening ceremony the history making Kadeena Cox will carry the flag out at tonight's closing ceremony.
A truly great Paralympic games to write about but it's not over yet, one more review to come of what will hopefully be a superb closing ceremony and the 'closing' updates wise of this blog until the Winter Olympics/Paralympics in 2018.....
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