GB win Paralympic triathlon, boccia and swimming golds in bumper day in Paris

Triathlete Dave Ellis opened Great Britain's medal relationship connected time 5 of the Paralympics, taking golden successful the men's PTVI lawsuit successful Paris.

It did not instrumentality agelong for Megan Richter and Hannah Moore to adhd golden and bronze respectively successful the women's PTS4 lawsuit arsenic crowds flocked to the banks of the Seine, with 11 triathlon events taking place connected 1 day.

Tokyo 2020 medallists Claire Cashmore and Lauren Steadman won metallic and bronze respectively successful the women's PTS5 event.

Ellie Challis upgraded her metallic from Tokyo with a triumph successful the women's S3 50m backstroke, portion roommate Louise Fiddes triumphed successful the SB14 100m breaststroke.

Stephen McGuire won golden successful boccia's BC4 men's idiosyncratic event, beating Colombia's Edilson Chica, portion Dan Bethell took badminton metallic successful the SL3 singles, losing a choky lucifer to India's Kumar Nitesh.

GB's 4 golds took their tally to 28 and their wide medal number to 52 - 2nd lone to China (84 medals, including 42 golds), who person topped the array astatine the past 5 Games.

Ellis and usher Luke Pollard made up for heartbreak successful Tokyo by winning golden successful the men's PTVI event.

They went successful arsenic favourites 3 years agone but suffered a mechanical nonaccomplishment connected the motorcycle limb which ended their race.

There were nary specified issues successful the French capital, with Ellis and Pollard putting successful a ascendant last tally limb to determination up from 3rd and decorativeness successful a clip of 58 minutes 41 seconds.

Paralympic debutant Richter swiftly followed with triumph successful the women's PTS4 competition, finishing successful 1 hr 14 minutes 30 seconds.

Alison Peasgood took 4th successful the women's PTVI alongside usher Brooke Gillies, having returned to the athletics aft the commencement of her lad Logan past August.

There were immoderate acquainted faces astatine the beforehand of the women's PTS5 event, with each 3 Tokyo medallists returning to the podium.

Three years agone it was GB's Steadman who took the title, finishing up of team-mate Cashmore, who took bronze, and American Grace Norman.

This clip it was Norman who triumphed, coming up of Cashmore and Steadman.

The trio stock a beardown enslaved - Steadman and Claire Cashmore were schoolmates successful Devon, portion the Tokyo golden medallist was Norman's bridesmaid erstwhile she got married.

It has been a pugnacious fewer years for Steadman, who has suffered with agelong Covid and returned to triathlon aft a spell successful wintertime sports, but she present has a 2nd Paralympic medal.

Cashmore's haul present stands astatine 10, with a podium spot astatine each Games since Athens 2004.

Challis was Britain’s youngest medallist astatine the Tokyo Games erstwhile she won metallic successful the S3 50m backstroke astatine the property of 17.

She went 1 amended successful Paris, winning golden with a clip of 53.56 seconds, with a spread of astir 5 seconds to 2nd place.

Within 15 minutes, Challis' Paris roommate Fiddes followed up with a golden of her own, beating Brazilian twins Debora and Beatriz Borges Carneiro successful the women's SB14 100m breaststroke final, coming successful connected 1 infinitesimal 15.47 seconds.

Team-mate Olivia Newman-Baronius placed eighth successful the aforesaid race, portion Harry Stewart finished successful 5th successful the men's SB14 100m final.

In his 4th Games, GB's Stephen McGuire secured his archetypal medal - and it was a gold.

The 40-year-old defeated Colombia's Edilson Chica 8-5 to triumph boccia's BC4 men's idiosyncratic title.

Dan Bethell was edged retired for golden successful Para-badminton's men's SL3 singles, successful a lucifer with India's Kumar Nitesh that went close down to the wire.

The lucifer reached 21-21 successful the decisive last game, but Nitesh won successive points to decision Bethell, who takes a 2nd successive metallic successful the event.

GB's wheelchair rugby squad mislaid their bronze-medal lucifer 50-48 to Australia, portion four-time Paralympic medallist Will Bayley progressed to the quarter-finals of the men's array tennis MS7 singles, beating France's Stephane Messi successful consecutive games.

At the Stade de France British attraction focuses connected Jonnie Peacock, who volition beryllium attempting to triumph his 3rd Paralympic golden successful the men's T64 100m last astatine 18:50.

Peacock finished connected apical of the podium successful London and Rio, but finished with a bronze medal successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

Meanwhile, six-time golden medallist David Weir volition beryllium successful enactment successful the archetypal circular of the men's T54 1500m (20:25).

In the greeting session, Tunisia's Walid Ktila failed to triumph a 4th consecutive men's T34 sprint title, finishing 2nd to Thailand's Chaiwat Rattana.

In the archetypal circular of the women's T12 400m, Italy’s Valentina Petrillo, the archetypal openly transgender jock to vie astatine the Paralympics, qualified from her vigor aft finishing 2nd with a clip of 58.35 seconds.

Petrillo, won bronze successful the World Championships past year, volition contention successful the semi-finals astatine 19:43.

Two of the 3 GB competitors qualified for the last of the women's T54 1500m - Melanie Woods and Samantha Kinghorn some acceptable qualifying times, but Eden Rainbow-Cooper, whose medal hopes were ended by a collision successful the 5,000m final, missed retired with a seventh-place decorativeness successful her heat.