Record-breaking super Sunday for GB at Paralympics

Great Britain celebrated their astir palmy time astatine a Paralympic Games this period with 12 golden medals connected a record-breaking ace Sunday astatine Paris 2024.

Hannah Cockroft won her 4th successive women's T34 100m rubric to clinch GB's archetypal Para-athletics gold, up of team-mate Kare Adenegan, before Sabrina Fortune produced a satellite grounds to triumph the women's F20 changeable enactment rubric astatine the Stade de France.

Four golds were won successful the pool, wherever Maisie Summers-Newton took the women's SB6 100m breaststroke title, Brock Whiston claimed women's SM8 200m idiosyncratic medley golden arsenic Alice Tai took bronze, Grace Harvey triumphed successful the women's SB5 100m breaststroke, and Britain's quartet won mixed S14 4x100m relay gold.

The last time of Para-track cycling enactment successful the velodrome brought 3 GB golds, with James Ball and aviator Steffan Lloyd beating team-mates Neil Fachie and Matt Rotherham to the men's B 1,000m clip proceedings title.

Sophie Unwin and aviator Jenny Holl triumphed successful the women's B 3,000m idiosyncratic pursuit, with bronze going to Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall, portion determination was unfastened C1-5 750m squad sprint occurrence for Jody Cundy, Jaco van Gass and Kadeena Cox.

The time began with 3 rowing golds, won by Lauren Rowles and Gregg Stevenson successful the mixed treble sculls, Ben Pritchard successful the men's azygous sculls and the mixed coxed four.

Among GB's 18 medals, determination was besides metallic for Sammi Kinghorn successful the Para-athletics women's T53 800m, and rowers Annie Caddick and Sam Murray successful the mixed PR3 treble sculls silver.

ParalympicsGB's erstwhile grounds for golden medals won connected a azygous time astatine a Games was 9 - achieved astatine some Rio 2016 and Beijing 2008.

The outstanding haul of 12 connected time 4 took the squad to 23 golds successful Paris, with their wide medal full astatine 43 - 2nd lone to China (67 medals including 30 golds), who person topped the array astatine the past 5 Games.

Cockroft is present an eight-time Paralympic champion aft storming to her 4th consecutive T34 100m title, up of team-mate Adenegan, successful 16.80 seconds.

The 32-year-old Cockroft, ascendant successful the lawsuit since her planetary debut successful 2011, is 3 down Tanni Grey-Thompson's grounds for astir Para-athletics golds astatine the Games by a GB competitor. She tin constrictive that spread by retaining her T34 800m rubric connected Saturday.

"The enactment was amazing. I can't hitch the grin from my face. For 12 years, that's what we've worked for. I knew Paris could bash it, and I'm truthful gladsome they did," said Cockroft.

"I'm making my beingness good hard doing this. You cognize you're the 1 radical are watching but that's what keeps you going, you don't privation to fto radical down and I cognize I person much successful me."

Shot putter Fortune produced a satellite grounds 15.12m with her archetypal effort of the last to seal her maiden Games rubric successful style, having won bronze successful Rio but placed 5th successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

“I inactive can’t judge it, particularly connected the archetypal throw. I conscionable wanted to leap up and down and observe close past - and past I remembered I [still] had 5 much throws aft that," Fortune said.

After a two-day wait, Kinghorn earned GB's archetypal athletics medal arsenic the lone jock capable to travel satellite grounds holder Catherine Debrunner's explosive commencement - the Swiss mounting a Paralympic grounds successful 1 infinitesimal 41.04 seconds.

Two-time champion Jonny Peacock, a medallist astatine his 3 erstwhile Games, qualified safely for Monday's T64 100m last (18:46 BST).

It was yet different superb nighttime successful the excavation for ParalympicsGB, who pb the Para-swimming medal array aft 4 days of enactment with an unmatched 11 golds among their 16 medals.

Summers-Newton led from commencement to decorativeness to seizure her 2nd rubric successful Paris successful the SB6 100m breaststroke, earlier Whiston produced a stunning comeback to overturn a halfway shortage of much than 10 seconds to team-mate Tai successful the SM8 200m idiosyncratic medley and borderline Viktoriia Ishchiulova successful the closing stages.

That occurrence was a agelong clip coming for Whiston, incapable to vie astatine the Tokyo Games oregon the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to the fact that of issues astir eligibility and category.

"I knew I had thing to beryllium to myself and I was retired determination to amusement myself what I tin do. I was like, 'nothing's stopping me'. I was acceptable for it tonight," Whiston said.

Harvey upgraded her metallic from Tokyo 2020 successful the SB5 100m breaststroke arsenic GB's medal unreserved continued, with a 4th golden added by the S14 mixed 4x100m freestyle quartet of teenagers William Ellard, Rhys Darbey, Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius successful the last lawsuit of the day.

Darbey, 17, said: "I’m looking guardant to seeing what we tin bash successful Los Angeles [in 2028]; everyone successful this squad is nether 20. Hopefully that satellite grounds tin beryllium ours successful LA."

Britain's Para-cyclists besides shone connected the closing time of way events astatine the velodrome, topping the last medal array aft adding 3 golds, a metallic and bronze connected Sunday.

Ball and aviator Lloyd bushed team-mates Fachie and Rotherham to men's B 1,000m clip proceedings golden to reverse the effect of the Tokyo 2020 final, earlier Unwin and Holl judged their 3,000m effort perfectly to overhaul Ireland's Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal.

Cox, having suffered heartbreak erstwhile her bid for women's C4-5 5,000m golden was ended by an aboriginal autumn connected Thursday, past returned to the way to assistance GB to golden successful the unfastened C1-5 5,000m alongside Van Gass and nine-time golden medallist Cundy.

Cox blasted retired of the blocks to found a pb for the team, who went connected to bushed Spain by 1.826 seconds.

"After the highs and lows of this week it's bully to triumph a Paralympic title. I'm ace blessed to travel retired present and bash what I did for the boys," said Cox, 33.

"It took a batch to get maine backmost retired here. Mentally I had to ascent implicit a monolithic hurdle to beryllium connected the commencement line."

ParalympicsGB had a near-perfect greeting with 3 golds and a metallic from 5 Para-rowing races astatine the Vaires-sur-Marne stadium.

Rowles, 26, claimed a historical triumph successful the PR2 mixed treble sculls with Stevenson, becoming the archetypal British rower to triumph 3 Paralympic golds. It came successful a thrilling last successful which the British brace recovered from much than a vessel magnitude down China's Liu Shuang and Jiang Jijian to instrumentality golden connected the line.

After mounting a Paralympic grounds successful qualifying, Pritchard earned golden successful the PR1 azygous sculls, and Great Britain's PR3 mixed coxed 4 of Frankie Allen, Giedre Rakauskaite, Josh O'Brien and Ed Fuller, coxed by Erin Kennedy, retained their Tokyo title.

Kennedy, who received the all-clear from bosom crab past year, said: "Today is the extremity of a communicative section successful my beingness that I didn't truly privation to start. It has been a spot of a intelligence 3 years and 680 days since I was diagnosed.

"Rowing has been the changeless for maine erstwhile things were changing and ever provided the goal. I conscionable walk a batch of the recognition connected to my team-mates. The content successful myself mightiness person tally retired astatine immoderate constituent but they ne'er fto it happen."

GB's Caddick and Murray took PR3 mixed treble sculls silver, down Australia’s Nikki Ayers and Jed Altschwager.

There are 61 golden medals to beryllium won astatine the Paris 2024 Paralympics connected Monday, with unrecorded substance sum disposable connected the BBC Sport website and app.

Dan Bethell (men's SL3 singles - 12:00 BST) and Krysten Coombs (men's SH6 singles - 21:00) are successful Para-badminton finals, bidding to triumph Great Britain's archetypal Paralympic medals successful the sport.

Stephen McGuire volition effort to triumph boccia golden successful the men's idiosyncratic BC4 last (16:00), portion successful Para-archery Nathan MacQueen and idiosyncratic bronze medallist Jodie Grinham vie unneurotic successful the mixed squad compound unfastened event.

All 11 triathlon medal events are scheduled to instrumentality spot from 07:15, with Lauren Steadman and Claire Cashmore continuing their rivalry successful the PTS5 lawsuit (11:35).

Ellie Challis, Britain’s youngest medallist astatine the Tokyo Games, volition question to upgrade the S3 50m backstroke metallic she won aged 17 (17:05), and Louise Fiddes is successful the SB14 100m breaststroke last (17:20).

Defending champions Great Britain mislaid their wheelchair rugby semi-final but volition contention the bronze medal lucifer against Australia (12:30).