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Pregnant Para-archer Jodie Grinham and Nathan Macqueen clinched golden for Great Britain by beating Iran 155-151 successful the mixed squad compound final.
It is simply a 2nd medal successful Paris for Grinham, who is 7 months pregnant, aft she bushed team-mate Phoebe Paterson Pine to triumph women's idiosyncratic compound bronze connected Saturday.
The GB brace led by 1 constituent (39-38) aft the archetypal extremity but the scores were level astatine 77-77 astatine the halfway point.
A mates of 8s from Iran's Hadi Nori helped springiness GB a two-point pb (115-113) going into the last extremity and they responded successful benignant with a cleanable people of 40 to unafraid the title.
"All I wanted to bash astatine the extremity was leap up and down and outcry and shriek and shout," Grinham, 31, who won compound squad metallic with John Stubbs successful 2016, told BBC Wales.
"But being heavy pregnant, realistically the champion happening to bash was crouch down and instrumentality a 2nd and past I could springiness hugs and things.
"The emotion was conscionable a question and it was similar being a kid astatine Christmas and getting your favourite toy."
Since being selected for Paris, the Welsh archer - already mum to toddler lad Christian - wanted to nonstop retired a almighty connection to women and her attendance astatine the Games has attracted worldwide media attention.
But it has not been each straightforward and aft a scare past week, she had to be a Parisian infirmary for a check-up earlier being released and cleared to compete.
Teaming up with Scotland's Macqueen, 33, who was paralysed successful a motorbike mishap erstwhile helium was 18, the brace finished 2nd down India successful Thursday's qualification round, earning them a bye into the quarter-finals.
They defeated Australia 150-141 successful the past 8 earlier a 156-149 occurrence implicit Italy successful the past 4 acceptable them up for the final.
"The thought was to amusement that thing is intolerable and to spell retired determination and smash it," added Grinham.
"Thankfully I person an astonishing squad spouse and it doesn't substance however I volition shoot, I cognize helium volition beryllium determination and transportation my backmost and we smashed it together.
"We are an astonishing squad and are bringing backmost the medal that we person worked truthful hard to get."
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