Henshaw and Sugar help GB end Games with 49 golds

Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar won Para-canoeing golden medals connected Sunday arsenic Great Britain ended their 2024 Paralympics successful Paris with 49 golds.

Henshaw, 37, won her 2nd golden medal successful arsenic galore days during the KL2 women’s 200m kayak singles, with Emma Wiggs taking the metallic medal.

Meanwhile, Sugar, 33, won the aforesaid lawsuit successful the KL3 category. Both she and Henshaw acceptable caller Paralympic records arsenic they successfully defended their respective titles from Tokyo.

Great Britain’s last medal of the time came successful the men’s VL3 Va’a 200m singles final, with Jack Eyers winning silver.

ParalympicsGB ended their 2024 Paralympics with a full of 124 medals, including those 49 golds. Only China, with 94 golds and 219 full medals, won much during the 11-day event.

Great Britain’s ParalympicsGB squad tin consciousness incredibly arrogant of their achievements successful Paris.

They volition instrumentality to location ungraded arsenic 1 of lone 3 nations to triumph much than 100 medals and, with 49 golds, person their 2nd champion haul of golds since the 1996 Games. Only 2016’s full of 64 golds successful Rio de Janeiro eclipses this summer’s occurrence successful Paris.

ParalympicsGB won astatine slightest 1 golden medal connected each 11 days, including 12 connected ‘Super Sunday’ a week ago.

Of those 124 medals for Great Britain, 54 came from a operation of Para-swimming and Para-cycling events, with 18 much added successful Para-athletics.

The second-place decorativeness - down China and up of the USA for a seventh consecutive Paralympics - represents different Games to remember.

And arsenic good arsenic the haul of medals, the 11-day lawsuit has created countless memories for ParalympicsGB.

It has been a palmy play astatine Vaires-sur-Marne Stadium for Great Britain, who won 7 medals crossed Para-canoeing events connected Saturday and Sunday.

Four of those came connected Sunday and, for Henshaw, it was a 2nd successful the abstraction of 24 hours, having won golden successful Saturday’s women’s 200m Va’a singles final.

In the aforesaid event, Wiggs picked up her 2nd medal of the weekend. The 44-year-old finished 2 and a fractional seconds down Henshaw successful a ParalympicsGB gold-silver double.

After winning his vigor with a caller Paralympic record, debutant Eyers, who successful 2017 became the archetypal amputee to beryllium named Mr England, won the last of GB’s 124 medals of the Paralympics connected Sunday.

Jeanette Chippington featured successful the archetypal last of the day, finishing seventh successful the women’s KL1 kayak singles 200m final.

Edward Clifton was besides successful last action. He finished seventh successful the men’s VL2 Va’a 200m singles final.

Ahead of Sunday night’s Paralympics closing ceremony, Para-swimmer Poppy Maskill and Para-taekwondo’s Matt Bush person been named arsenic Great Britain’s emblem bearers.

Maskill, 19, has been 1 of the stars of the Games. From her 5 events, she has won 3 golden and 2 metallic medals, making her GB’s astir palmy Paralympic athlete.

Bush, 35, won golden successful the men’s +80kg K44 final, his archetypal Paralympic medal, having missed some 2016 successful Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo 3 years agone owed to injury.

The duo some made their Paralympic debut successful this year’s Paris Games.

The closing ceremonial is astatine Stade de France, starting astatine 19:30 BST. It volition diagnostic 24 artists from the French physics euphony scene.

David Weir called clip connected his vocation representing ParalympicsGB pursuing the decision of the T54 men’s marathon connected Sunday morning.

Weir, 45, finished 5th successful the marathon, which was won by Switzerland’s Marcel Hug.

After Weir’s seventh Paralympics came to a close, he retired from GB competition that has included 10 Paralympic medals - six of them golden - aft making his Paralympic debut astatine Atlanta successful 1996.

Weir, who is besides a six-time satellite champion, cited the T54 marathon being removed from the World Championship docket among his reasons for retiring from planetary competition.

“I knew earlier I came to Paris and I’ve been reasoning astir it each week... It’s the close decision,” said Weir.

“We don’t person marathons astatine Worlds immoderate more. That’s the lawsuit I privation to do. I don’t privation to contention connected way immoderate more.”

In the women’s T54 marathon, GB’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper did not finish, having completed much than fractional of the 42.2km course. Switzerland’s Catherine Debrunner won the contention to instrumentality her sixth medal and 5th golden of the Games.