Venue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8 |
Coverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website |
Hannah Cockroft secured her seventh Paralympic gold medal with a dominant win in the T34 800m, the first of three British titles on day 11 in Tokyo.
Cockroft set a new Paralympic record as British team-mate Kare Adenegan took silver, almost 11 seconds behind.
In another British one-two, Charlotte Henshaw won KL2 200m Para-canoe gold, with Emma Wiggs clinching silver.
Another gold soon followed in Para-canoe, with Laura Sugar becoming KL3 champion.
Stuart Wood, making his Paralympic debut in Tokyo, won bronze in a tight finish in the VL3 200m final.
Badminton player Dan Bethell became Britain’s first medallist in the sport on its Games debut, taking silver in the SL3 singles final where he lost 21-14 21-17 to India’s world champion Pramod Bhagat.
Jordanne Whiley and Lucy Shuker were left with silver in the wheelchair tennis women’s doubles after they were beaten 6-0 6-1 by Dutch top seeds Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot in the final.
It is Whiley’s second…