50 golds up for grabs on day six of Paris Paralympics

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Elizabeth Hudson

BBC Sport Journalist

The Paris Paralympics are nether mode and you tin program however to travel the contention with our day-by-day usher - each times BST.

A squad of 215 athletes volition correspond ParalympicsGB successful the French superior with a people of 100-140 medals acceptable by UK Sport.

At the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games, held successful 2021, the GB squad finished 2nd down China successful the medal array with 124 medals, including 41 golds.

The Games began with the opening ceremonial connected Wednesday, 28 August, with the archetypal medals decided the pursuing time and enactment continuing until the closing ceremonial connected Sunday, 8 September.

Medal events: 63

Para-cycling road (women’s C1-3, C4, C5, B, H1-3, H4-5, T1-2 clip trials; men’s C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, B, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, T1-2 clip trials); Para-equestrian (Grade IV expansive prix test, Grade V expansive prix test); Para-swimming (men’s S12 100m freestyle, SM14 200m IM, S8 400m freestyle, SB2 50m breaststroke, S7 men’s 50m freestyle; women’s S12 100m freestyle, SM14 200m IM, S8 400m freestyle, SB3 50m breaststroke, S7 100m freestyle, S9 100m freestyle; mixed 49 constituent 4x100m freestyle relay); Para-athletics (women’s F41 discus, F46 changeable put, F32 changeable put, T36 100m, T53 100m, T54 100m; men’s F46 changeable put, javelin F34, 400m T37, agelong leap T38, 100m T53, nine propulsion F51, 100m T54, agelong leap T64, changeable enactment F36); Wheelchair fencing (men’s foil class A, foil class B; women’s foil class A, foil class B); Para-powerlifting (women’s -41kg, -45kg; men’s -49kg, -54kg); Wheelchair tennis (quad doubles); Para-archery (men’s idiosyncratic recurve open); Para-table tennis (women’s singles WS5, WS10, men’s singles MS10); Shooting Para-sport (P4 – mixed 50m pistol SH1, R9 mixed 50m firearm prone SH2)

Highlights

Day 7 volition beryllium the archetypal accidental to spot Britain’s astir palmy Paralympian Sarah Storey astatine Paris 2024.

The 17-time golden medallist crossed swimming and cycling opted retired of the way programme to ore connected the roadworthy and she starts her run for golden fig 18 successful the C5 clip proceedings (from 07:00) - an lawsuit wherever she has won golden astatine each Games since her cycling debut successful 2008.

The women's B clip proceedings could besides beryllium a bully 1 for GB with Tokyo metallic medallists Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall and the 2023 satellite metallic medallists Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl aiming for gold.

Ben Watson, Jaco van Gass and Fin Graham volition beryllium aiming for a cleanable expanse successful the men’s C3 clip proceedings portion Archie Atkinson volition beryllium chasing hard successful the C4 event.

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Storey is competing astatine her ninth Games - a British Paralympic record

Scottish wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn volition beryllium hoping to go the archetypal non-Chinese jock to triumph the T53 100m rubric (19:08) since Tanni Grey-Thompson triumphed successful Athens successful 2004.

Kinghorn won satellite golden successful 2023 but China's Fang Gao and Hongzhuan Zhou and Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner volition beryllium large dangers.

Another Scot Stephen Clegg should beryllium among the main challengers successful the S12 100m freestyle last (16:30) portion Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius are the fastest 2 successful the satellite this twelvemonth successful the SM14 200m IM (16:50) and Rhys Darbey and Will Ellard could fig successful the men’s contention (16:42).

Alice Tai has antecedently been a 50/100m specializer but swimming the Channel successful 2023 has helped her turn to emotion the longer distances and she volition hoping for a medal successful the S8 400m freestyle (17:24) alongside Brock Whiston.

Powerlifter Zoe Newson beryllium hoping to assistance her mode to a 3rd Paralympic medal erstwhile she goes successful the -45kg part (16:00) portion Para-equestrian rider Sophie Wells volition besides beryllium aiming to adhd to her six idiosyncratic medals successful the Grade V expansive prix trial (11:55).

GB's women volition look the United States successful their wheelchair basketball quarter-final (15:00) portion the archetypal wheelchair tennis medals volition beryllium decided astatine Roland Garros successful the quad doubles with Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade facing formidable Dutch duo Sam Schroder and Niels Vink for the gold.

World watch

Germany's Markus Rehm - champion known arsenic the Blade Jumper - volition commencement arsenic beardown favourite to triumph his 4th Paralympic agelong leap rubric successful the T64 class (19:29).

Rehm, who mislaid his close limb beneath the genu successful a wakeboarding mishap successful 2003 and jumps utilizing a bladed prosthesis, has been the prima of Para-athletics, perpetually pushing the boundaries of his event.

However, helium is incapable to vie astatine the Olympics due to the fact that it was ruled that jumping disconnected his prosthesis gives him an vantage implicit non-amputees.

His existent satellite grounds stands astatine 8.72m - the ninth longest leap of each time. His 2024 champion is 8.44m - a region which would person won Olympic metallic successful Paris and golden astatine the erstwhile 4 Games.

Did you know?

As good arsenic modular racing bikes with modifications wherever required and tandems, the Para-cycling roadworthy programme besides features handcycling and trike races.

A handcycle has 3 wheels and riders usage the spot of their precocious limbs to run the chainset. It is utilized by cyclists with spinal cord injuries oregon with 1 oregon some little limbs amputated.

Tricycles are utilized by riders with locomotor dysfunction and equilibrium issues specified arsenic cerebral palsy oregon hemiplegia.

Medal events: 63

Para-athletics (women’s F35 changeable put, T38 agelong jump, F57 changeable put, T37 100m, F64 changeable put, T63 agelong jump, T12 100m, T53 400m, T54 400m, F33 changeable put; men’s T12 400m, T13 400m, F11 discus, F64 discus, T11 100m, T53 800m, F35 changeable put, T54 800m, F13 javelin); Shooting Para-sport (R6 - mixed 50m firearm prone SH1); Para-swimming (women’s SB7 100m breaststroke, S10 400m freestyle, SB11 100m breaststroke, SM9 200m IM, SB13 100m breaststroke, SB12 100m breaststroke, S8 50m freestyle; men’s S5 50m freestyle, S6 100m freestyle, SB11 100m breaststroke, SM9 200m IM, SB13 100m breaststroke; mixed 4x50m medley – 20 point), Para-powerlifting (women’s up to 50kg, up to 55kg; men’s up to 59kg, up to 65kg); Boccia (mixed BC1/2 team, mixed BC3 pairs, mixed BC4 pairs); Wheelchair tennis (women’s doubles; quad singles); Para-table tennis (men’s MS2 singles, MS3 singles, MS11 singles; women’s WS7 singles, WS11 singles); Wheelchair fencing (women’s foil team; men’s foil team); Para-cycling road (men’s H1-2 roadworthy race, H3 roadworthy race, H4 roadworthy race, H5 roadworthy race; women’s H1-4 roadworthy race, H5 roadworthy race); Goalball (women’s final, men’s final), Para-archery (mixed squad recurve open); Para-judo (women -48kg J1, -48kg J2, -57kg J1; men -60 kg J1, -60 kg J2)

Highlights

GB volition beryllium hoping for occurrence astatine antithetic ends of the acquisition standard connected time 8 successful Paris.

Discus thrower Dan Greaves volition beryllium hoping to triumph his seventh medal astatine his seventh Games successful the F64 lawsuit (18:04), having made his debut successful Sydney successful 2000 aged 18 and winning a gold, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes implicit his career. Team-mate Harrison Walsh volition besides beryllium challenging for a medal.

And successful the pool, 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, the youngest subordinate of the GB team, has a beardown accidental of a medal successful the SB7 100m breaststroke (16:30) astatine her archetypal Games.

It could beryllium a bully time for the GB throwers. Along with Greaves and Walsh, Dan Pembroke defends his F13 javelin rubric (19:45) having won 2 satellite titles since his golden successful Tokyo successful 2021 portion Funmi Oduwaiye volition anticipation to situation successful the F64 women’s changeable enactment (10:43). A propulsion astir her season’s champion of 11.82m could enactment the erstwhile hoops subordinate successful the medal premix and Anna Nicholson volition beryllium hoping for a archetypal large medal successful the F35 changeable enactment (09:00), having smashed her PB earlier this summer.

Also successful the field, Olivia Breen in the T38 agelong leap (09:04) and Sammi Kinghorn successful the T53 400m (18:25) connected the way volition beryllium aiming to adhd to their Paralympic medals.

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Pembroke was an Olympic hopeful but a degenerative oculus information saw him measurement distant from the athletics for a time

Shooter Matt Skelhon won Paralympic golden connected his debut successful Beijing successful 2008 and goes into the R6 mixed 50m firearm prone SH1 lawsuit arsenic reigning satellite and European champion and volition beryllium aiming to clasp each 3 titles astatine erstwhile (qualifying 08:30, last 10:45).

In the pool, Becky Redfern volition beryllium cheered connected by four-year-old lad Patrick arsenic she hopes to marque it 3rd clip fortunate successful the SB13 100m breaststroke (18:22) aft silvers successful Rio and Tokyo.

Powerlifters Olivia Broome and Mark Swan volition beryllium hoping for medals successful the women’s -50kg (11:00) and men’s -65kg (17:35) events portion the boccia squad finals take spot with GB hoping to fig successful the BC1/2 squad (16:00) and the BC3 mixed pairs (20:00) and the men’s basketball semi-finals volition guarantee plentifulness of excitement (15:00 and 20:30).

World watch

Sprinter Timothee Adolphe is 1 of the large location hopes for occurrence astatine the Stade de France and helium volition beryllium aiming to radiance successful the T11 100m last (18:08) for athletes with small oregon nary vision.

As good arsenic his athletics career, Adolphe is besides a talented hep hop creator and was signed up by manner location Louis Vuitton for a Games advertizing run wherever helium joined Olympic swimming prima Leon Marchand.

In the pool, Germany’s Elena Semechin and American Ali Truwit volition some beryllium hoping to assertion medals aft challenging times.

Semechin won golden astatine Tokyo 2020 nether her maiden sanction of Krawzow but months aboriginal was diagnosed with a malignant encephalon tumour. Now backmost to afloat fitness, she goes successful the SB12 100m breaststroke (18:29).

Truwit could beryllium a large challenger successful the 400m S10 freestyle last (16:50) conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aft losing her limb beneath the genu successful a shark onslaught successful the Caribbean.

Did you know?

Boccia is 1 of 2 Paralympic sports – on with goalball – which does not person an Olympic counterpart. Similar to petanque, it is played by athletes successful wheelchairs who person an impairment that affects their centrifugal function.

The sanction comes from the Italian connection for ‘ball’ and the athletics made its Paralympic debut successful 1984 and is played by athletes from much than 70 countries.

Medal events: 57

Para-athletics (women’s T47 agelong jump, F12 changeable put, T20 1500m, F38 discus, T64 100m, F46 javelin, T20 agelong jump; men’s F54 javelin, T20 1500m, T52 100m, T64 precocious jump, F37 discus, F57 changeable put, T62 400m, T51 100m; mixed 4x100m cosmopolitan relay); Para-cycling road (men’s C4-5 roadworthy race, B roadworthy race; women’s C4-5 roadworthy race, B roadworthy race); Para-equestrian (team test); Para-powerlifting (men’s up to 72kg, up to 80kg; women’s up to 61kg, up to 67kg); Wheelchair tennis (men’s doubles; women’s singles); Para-table Tennis (men’s MS1 singles, MS6 singles, MS7 singles; women’s WS1-2 singles, WS3 singles); Para-swimming (men’s S6 400m freestyle, S5 50m butterfly, S10 100m backstroke, S9 100m butterfly, S14 100m backstroke, S3 50m freestyle, S4 50m freestyle, S11 100m butterfly, S8 100m freestyle; women’s S6 400m freestyle, S5 50m butterfly, S10 100m backstroke, S9 100m butterfly, S14 100m backstroke, S4 50m freestyle); Wheelchair fencing (men’s epee A, epee B; women’s epee A, epee B); Sitting volleyball (men’s final); Para-judo (women’s -57kg J2, -70kg J1, -70kg J2; men’s -73kg J1, -73kg J2)

Highlights

Sarah Storey goes for different Paralympic golden arsenic she bids to clasp her rubric successful the C4-5 roadworthy contention (from 08:30) portion Tokyo metallic medallists Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl volition purpose to spell 1 amended successful the Women’s B contention with Archie Atkinson aiming for a medal successful the men’s C4-5 event.

Jonathan Broom-Edwards bids to clasp his T64 precocious leap rubric (10:45) portion Hollie Arnold volition beryllium hoping to regain her T46 javelin crown (18:18) aft finishing 3rd successful Tokyo earlier winning 2 satellite titles successful 2023 and 2024.

Jeanette Chippington, the oldest subordinate of the ParalympicsGB squad successful Paris aged 54, is among the GB Para-canoeists getting their campaigns nether mode – she goes successful the heats of the VL2 (09:20) earlier the preliminaries of the KL1 (10:25).

GB volition anticipation to proceed their dominance successful the Para-equestrian squad trial (from 08:30) having won each golden since it was introduced into the Games successful 1996.

It could besides beryllium a large time successful the wheelchair fencing astatine the Grand Palais with Piers Gilliver aiming to clasp his epee A crown (19:50) and some Dimitri Coutya successful the epee B (18:40) and Gemma Collis successful the women’s epee A (20:25) besides successful bully form.

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Hewett is playing astatine his 3rd Paralympics

Alfie Hewett has won everything successful wheelchair tennis, isolated from a Paralympic golden medal, and helium and Gordon Reid will anticipation to fig successful the men’s doubles decider (from 12:30) aft winning metallic successful some Rio and Tokyo.

Table tennis subordinate Will Bayley volition anticipation to beryllium progressive successful the MS7 singles last (18:15) and triumph again aft Rio golden and Tokyo metallic portion Rio champion Rob Davies and Tokyo bronze medallist Tom Matthews could fig successful the MS1 singles decider (13:00).

Poppy Maskill will beryllium aiming for golden successful the excavation successful the S14 100m backstroke (18:08). Bethany Firth won 3 golds successful the lawsuit – 1 for Ireland successful 2012 earlier switching nationalities and triumphing for GB successful Rio and Tokyo but she volition not beryllium successful Paris having precocious fixed birth.

World watch

US sprinter Hunter Woodhall watched connected proudly successful Paris successful August arsenic his woman Tara Davis-Woodhall won Olympic agelong leap golden and helium volition anticipation to lucifer her accomplishment successful the T62 400m (18:33)

His Paralympic plans were hampered by a bout of Covid aft the Olympics but Woodhall, who claimed bronze successful the lawsuit successful Tokyo, volition beryllium hoping to beryllium afloat fit.

Dutch wheelchair tennis prima Diede de Groot will beryllium favourite to clasp her women’s singles rubric astatine Roland Garros (from 12:30) aft a 2024 which has already yielded Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles.

And successful the pool, Italy’s Simone Barlaam volition beryllium hoping for different palmy nighttime successful the S9 100m butterfly (17:34) with Ireland’s Barry McClements bidding to figure.

Did you know?

Para-equestrian teams are made up 3 athletes, astatine slightest 1 of which indispensable beryllium a Grade I, II oregon III and nary much than 2 athletes wrong a squad whitethorn beryllium the aforesaid grade.

Each operation rides the acceptable trial for their grade, which is scored arsenic per the idiosyncratic trial – nary scores are carried implicit from the erstwhile test.

The scores of each 3 squad members are combined to nutrient a squad total, and the federation with the highest full takes gold.

In Grade I to III, athletes thrust successful smaller dressage arenas compared with Grade IV to V, and the trouble of tests increases with the grade.

Grade I athletes execute tests astatine a walk, portion Grades II and III tin locomotion and trot. In Grades IV and V, they execute tests astatine a walk, trot, cantor and bash lateral work.

Medal events: 75

Para-athletics (men’s T13 agelong jump, F34 changeable put, T34 800m, T35 200m, T37 200m, T36 100m, F41 javelin, F33 changeable put, T20 agelong jump, T38 1500m, T64 200m, F63 changeable put, T47 400m; women’s F54 javelin, T13 400m, F40 changeable put, T11 200m, T12 200m, T47 200m, T34 800m, T38 400m, T63 100m); Para-cycling roadworthy (women’s C1-3 roadworthy race, T1-2 roadworthy race; men’s C1-3 roadworthy race, T1-2 roadworthy race; mixed H1-5 squad relay); Para-canoe (men’s KL1, KL2, KL3; women’s VL2, VL3); Para-equestrian (Grade I freestyle test, Grade II freestyle test, Grade III freestyle test, Grade IV freestyle test, Grade V freestyle test); Para-judo (men’s -90kg J1, -90kg J2, +90kg J1, +90kg J2, women’s +70kg J1, +70kg J2); Para-powerlifting (women’s up to 73kg, up to 79kg; men’s up to 88kg, up to 97kg); Wheelchair tennis (men’s singles); Para-swimming (men’s SM10 200m IM, S6 100m backstroke, S8 100m butterfly, S7 50m butterfly, S4 50m backstroke, S12 100m butterfly, S3 200m freestyle; women’s SM10 200m IM, S6 100m backstroke, S8 100m butterfly, S7 50m butterfly, S4 50m backstroke, S11 100m freestyle, SM5 200m IM; mixed 34 constituent 4x100m freestyle relay); Para-table tennis (men’s MS4 singles, MS8 singles, MS9 singles; women’s WS4 singles, WS6 singles, WS8 singles, WS9 singles); Wheelchair fencing (women’s epee team, men’s epee team); Wheelchair hoops (men’s final), Blind football (final), Sitting volleyball (women’s final)

Highlights

The last time of the way athletics programme should spot 2 of Britain’s astir palmy and high-profile athletes successful action.

Hannah Cockroft goes successful arsenic favourite for the T34 800m (19:20) – an lawsuit wherever she is two-time defending champion and unbeaten successful the lawsuit astatine large championships since 2014.

Shot putter Aled Sion Davies took bronze successful the lawsuit astatine London 2012 but is unbeaten ever since and goes into the F63 last (19:25) arsenic fig 1 successful the satellite while Zak Skinner volition anticipation to marque up for 4th successful Tokyo with a medal successful the T13 agelong leap (09:00).

Tokyo golden medal-winning canoeist Emma Wiggs volition beryllium hoping to clasp her VL2 rubric (10:52) portion Charlotte Henshaw, who besides won golden successful Tokyo, and wintertime Paralympian Hope Gordon could beryllium warring it retired successful the VL3 lawsuit (11:36) – a caller summation to the programme successful Paris.

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Hannah Cockroft holds the satellite grounds successful the T34 800m

Britain’s 3 judoka volition each beryllium successful enactment – Tokyo golden medallist Chris Skelley successful the +90kg J2 part (final 17:13) aft Dan Powell and Evan Molloy bid for glory successful the -90kg J1 (14:32) and 90kg J2 (16:09) divisions.

Ben Watson and Fin Graham could combat it retired again successful the men’s C1-3 roadworthy contention (from 08:30) aft winning golden and metallic successful Tokyo portion Daphne Schrager and Fran Brown spell successful the women’s race.

The Para-equestrian events reason with the freestyle events (from 08:30) involving the apical 8 combinations successful each people from the idiosyncratic tests earlier successful the programme.

The last nighttime of the swimming could spot butterfly occurrence for some Alice Tai in the women’s S8 100m lawsuit (17:07) and for Stephen Clegg successful the men’s S12 100m (18:23) – the second was edged retired for golden successful Tokyo by 0.06 seconds.

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid volition beryllium hoping to fig successful the men’s singles medal matches successful the wheelchair tennis astatine Roland Garros (from 12:30) portion astatine the Bercy Arena, the men’s wheelchair basketball programme comes to a climax (20:30).

World watch

American Ellie Marks was owed to vie astatine the 2014 Invictus Games successful London but alternatively a respiratory corruption near her successful a coma successful Papworth Hospital successful Cambridge.

She recovered and aft winning 4 golds astatine the Invictus Games successful 2016 presented 1 of the golden medals to the infirmary unit who saved her life.

She made her Paralympic debut successful Rio, winning breaststroke golden and successful Tokyo claimed S6 backstroke golden and volition purpose to support her rubric (16:53).

Italy volition anticipation for different Para-athletics cleanable expanse successful the T63 100m (20:22) wherever Ambra Sabatini, Martina Caironi and Monica Contrafatto finished successful the medal positions successful Tokyo and again astatine the 2023 and 2024 Worlds.

And astatine the Eiffel Tower Stadium, Brazil will beryllium hoping to proceed their dominance successful the blind football tourney successful the gold-medal lucifer (19:00).

Did you know?

Blind shot teams are made up of 4 outfield players and 1 goalkeeper, who is sighted.

Matches are divided into 2 20-minute halves and played connected a transportation measuring 40 metres x 20 metres with boards moving down some sidelines to support the ball, which has rattles built successful truthful players tin find it, wrong the tract of play.

In attack, the footballers are aided by a usher who stands down the absorption goal.

Spectators are asked to enactment soundless during play and erstwhile players determination towards an opponent, spell successful for a tackle oregon are searching for the ball, they accidental "voy" oregon a akin word.

Medal events: 14

Para-athletics (men’s T54 marathon, T12 marathon; women’s T54 marathon, T12 marathon); Para-canoe (women’s KL1, KL2, KL3; men’s VL2, VL3); Para-powerlifting (women’s up to 86kg, implicit 86kg; men’s up to 107kg, implicit 107kg); Wheelchair basketball (women’s final)

Highlights

On the last day, enactment returns to the streets of the French superior with the marathons (from 07:00) which volition see a 185-metre ascent and nexus Seine-Saint-Denis, the country astatine the bosom of the Games, and cardinal Paris.

As the contention nears its end, the competitors volition walk done Place de la Concorde, which hosted the opening ceremony, earlier heading up the Champs-Elysees and its cobbles to the Arc de Triomphe and the decorativeness enactment astatine the Esplanade des Invalides, which was besides the Olympic marathon finish.

Eden Rainbow-Cooper made a large breakthrough erstwhile she won the Boston Marathon successful April and volition anticipation to radiance connected the Paris streets on with David Weir who famously won successful London but was 5th successful Tokyo aft failing to decorativeness successful Rio.

GB volition beryllium hoping for canoe occurrence with defending KL2 champion Charlotte Henshaw and KL3 champion Laura Sugar some hoping to beryllium connected apical of the podium again (10:41 and 11:07) and could exemplary and Mr England victor Jack Eyers onshore a medal successful the VL3 last (11:33)?

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Eyers chose to person his close limb amputated aged 16 and was the archetypal amputee to beryllium crowned Mr England

World watch

The last time of powerlifting sees the heavyweights instrumentality to the signifier – the women’s up to 86kg (09:35) and implicit 86kg divisions (13:00) and the men’s up to 107kg (08:00) and implicit 107kg (14:35) - the last golden medal earlier the closing ceremony.

In the implicit 107kg part successful Tokyo, Jordan’s Jamil Elshebli and Mansour Pourmirzaei of Iran some lifted 241kg – astir 38 chromatic successful aged wealth - with Elshebli winning golden connected countback.

China’s Deng Xuemei lifted 153kg to instrumentality the women’s implicit 86kg and you tin expect plentifulness of large lifts again this clip around.

The women’s wheelchair hoops besides takes centre signifier with the Netherlands aiming to clasp the rubric they won for the archetypal clip successful Tokyo (final 12:45).

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