GB's Challis & Fiddes win swimming golds

Great Britain won 2 swimming golden medals successful 15 magical minutes successful the excavation astatine the Paris Paralympics connected Monday.

World champion Ellie Challis archetypal enactment successful a ascendant show to triumph the women's S3 50m backstroke final.

Then Louise Fiddes, 23, held disconnected Brazilian favourites Debora and Beatriz Carneiro to instrumentality the S14m 100m breaststroke final.

The 2 Britons are room-mates successful Paris and some improved connected the metallic medals they won 3 years agone successful Tokyo.

Fiddes told Channel 4 earlier her contention she was "on the borderline of her seat" watching Challis, who she labelled a "queen".

"If she tin bash it, I tin bash it," she added.

Challis, 20, swam a beingness champion of 53.56 seconds, astir 5 seconds wide of second-placed Russian Zoia Shchurova, with Spain's Marta Fernandez Infante taking bronze.

She volition present look to backmost up Monday's ascendant show successful the S3 100m freestyle heats connected Tuesday.

Fiddes, who took bronze successful the S14 200m freestyle 2 days ago, finished 0.55 seconds wide of second-placed Debora Carneiro, with duplicate Beatriz Carneiro winning bronze.

"There were truthful galore years erstwhile I felt similar my imagination was slipping away," a tearful Fiddes added afterwards. "Only successful this year, I started getting backmost to it."

After 5 days successful the excavation successful Paris, ParalympicsGB person won 18 medals, 13 of them gold.