Henshaw and Sugar retain Paralympic titles

Britain's Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar some retained their Paralympic titles successful awesome benignant arsenic the Para-canoe events reached their climax successful Paris.

Former swimmer Henshaw claimed her 2nd Paris rubric arsenic she held connected to her kayak KL2 crown up of team-mate Emma Wiggs astatine a blustery Vaires-sur-Marne.

Sugar, a erstwhile sprinter, added to the GB golden medal haul arsenic she secured back-to-back KL3 titles with chap Briton Hope Gordon fifth.

And erstwhile Mr England Jack Eyers clinched va'a VL3 metallic aft being edged retired by Ukraine's Vladyslav Yepifanov.

Henshaw, 37, who underwent elbow country a twelvemonth ago, had powered to a Paralympic grounds successful her triumph successful the VL3 last connected Saturday.

And she was beardown from the commencement successful Sunday's race, rapidly gathering an vantage implicit Katalin Varga of Hungary and transverse the enactment successful different Games champion of 49.07 seconds.

Varga momentarily stopped paddling mid-race allowing Wiggs to overtake her and decorativeness successful 51.56 to adhd metallic to her VL2 title.

"I raced past summertime with a truly unhappy elbow and it was that flip up betwixt 'do I bash it present and anticipation that I'll beryllium backmost successful signifier for the Games?' oregon 'do we hazard it and hazard not being present astatine all?'" Henshaw told Channel 4.

"I'm truthful grateful that radical advised maine to bash it erstwhile we could and erstwhile we did.

"I was a one-eventer successful swimming truthful I lone ever got the accidental to contention for 1 medal and erstwhile it came to this Games, I thought 'isn't it going to beryllium bully to get 2 bites of the cherry?'

"The 2 golds was the eventual icing connected the barroom and to execute that is conscionable unbelievable, I'm conscionable immensely grateful."

Sugar was progressive successful a conflict aboriginal connected against location favourite and Tokyo metallic medallist Nelia Barbosa but erstwhile the 33-year-old got up of her rival she was not going to beryllium stopped.

Her clip of 46.66 seconds - 1.25secs up of the Frenchwoman - was a caller Paralympic best.