Para Athletics World Championships: Dan Pembroke wins javelin gold with European record

Pembroke made his GB debut astatine the 2022 Europeans successful Poland

Britain's Dan Pembroke gave himself an aboriginal day contiguous by adding the satellite javelin rubric to his Paralympic crown astatine the Para Athletics World Championships successful Paris.

Iran's Ali Pirouj took metallic with 63.70m and Cuba's Ulicer Aguilera Cruz bronze with 59.79m.

"It was bully to get that 1 successful erstwhile I'm inactive 31," Pembroke told BBC Sport.

GB's seventh golden medal of the contention came connected a nighttime erstwhile squad co-captains Sammi Kinghorn and Dan Greaves won metallic and bronze respectively.

Wheelchair racer Kinghorn followed up her T53 100m golden connected Friday with her 2nd metallic of the week - this clip successful the 400m - portion Greaves, whose archetypal Worlds were successful 2002, took bronze successful the F44 discus.

• 'I person lived different beingness distant from sport'

Pembroke was trying to suffice for the London 2012 Olympics earlier an elbow wounded ended his hopes.

Already dealing with the degenerative oculus information retinitis pigmentosa, which causes gradual show loss, helium stepped distant from the athletics to spell travelling earlier returning and being classified arsenic a Para jock successful 2019 and embarking connected a caller athletics career.

"I truly wanted to get a large propulsion successful early," said Pembroke, whose adjacent people is the 71.01m satellite grounds held by Aleksandr Svechnikov of Uzbekistan.

"To spell 65m successful the opening circular was incredible. Then I gathered my thoughts, concentrated connected myself and pulled it retired of the container successful the 2nd round.

"I truly similar being pushed and to person a scrap successful a competition, but sometimes you person to vie against yourself. A triumph is simply a triumph and and I americium truly happy.

"The contention was truly agelong contiguous - it took implicit 2 hours - truthful it's hard to support that adrenaline each the mode through.

"But it has fixed maine truthful overmuch assurance going into adjacent year."

Earlier, Kinghorn was progressive successful different conflict with Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner, who came retired connected apical for her 4th golden of the meeting.

"I came present to combat for arsenic galore medals arsenic I could and that's 1 successful each race, which I'm truly pleased about," said 27-year-old Scot Kinghorn, who besides finished 2nd down Debrunner successful the 800m earlier beating her successful the 100m.

"I lone had astir 5 hours' slumber aft my 100m, which wasn't ideal, but I was inactive adjacent to my PB today, though I fumbled my start.

"I americium blessed with the acceleration and blessed with the time, truthful it is breathtaking for adjacent year."

Greaves won his archetypal World Championship medal since helium took metallic successful Lille successful 2013 with a champion propulsion of 57.92m arsenic helium finished down Americans David Blair (60.36m) and Jeremy Campbell (60.33m).

"It means a batch to correspond Great Britain astatine the property of 40. So galore radical person helped to get maine determination and guarantee I enactment arsenic 1 of the champion of the world," Greaves said.

"I privation I had been capable to enactment successful a longer propulsion to enactment the unit connected due to the fact that I americium successful amended signifier than the result.

"But to beryllium connected the podium and person my woman and children determination to spot maine triumph a medal connected the large signifier is phenomenal and hopefully thing they volition remember."