Storey and Sandilands take GB to 38 golds in Paris

Sarah Storey and Ben Sandilands won quick-fire golden medals connected Friday greeting to instrumentality Great Britain’s tally to 38 golds astatine the 2024 Paralympics successful Paris.

Storey, 46, won the C4-5 women’s roadworthy race to assertion her 19th vocation Paralympic gold, edging retired France’s Heidi Gaugain astatine the finish.

Sandilands, 21, acceptable a caller satellite grounds successful the men’s T20 1500m last to win connected his Paralympic debut.

Elsewhere successful Para-athletics, Marcus Perrineau Daley won metallic successful the men’s T52 100m final.

In Para-table tennis, William Bayley booked a spot successful Friday night’s MS7 last to warrant him astatine slightest a metallic medal.

Great Britain person won 87 medals truthful acold astatine the Paralympics successful Paris, including 38 golds. Only China, with 74 golds and 167 medals successful total, are up of GB successful the medal table.

On Wednesday morning, Storey won her 18th Paralympic golden medal successful the women’s C5 clip trial, fending disconnected a situation from French teen Gaugain, 19.

The 2 did conflict again connected Friday, lone this clip implicit 71km alternatively than the 14.1km and, again, Storey came retired connected apical against Gaugain.

Storey's French challenger was not calved erstwhile Storey claimed her 16th and last Paralympic medal astatine the 2004 Paralympic games successful Athens, each of which were successful Para-swimming.

With conscionable 1 kilometre to go, Storey looked arsenic if she would person to settee for a metallic but fought backmost to fend disconnected Gaugain’s precocious onslaught and assertion her 30th vocation Paralympic medal.

Storey won by little than a 2nd with a clip of 1 hr 54 minutes 24 seconds.

Storey’s latest golden makes her lone the 4th Paralympian to triumph 19 vocation golden medals.

In the men’s C4-5 roadworthy contention final, GB’s Archie Atkinson and Blaine Hunt started the race, but did not finish.

Sandilands was the archetypal subordinate of ParalympicsGB to assertion a medal connected time 9 successful Paris.

The Scottish Paralympic debutant won the men’s T20 1500m by much than 4 seconds. In doing so, helium broke the satellite record, antecedently held by Michael Brannigan of the USA by a tenth of a second, successful a clip of 3:45.40.

ParalympicsGB’s 2nd medal connected the way was won by Perrineau Daley, 35. Another Paralympic debutant, helium crossed the enactment successful 17.27 seconds, conscionable implicit fractional a 2nd down Belgian victor Maxime Carabin.

In the women’s T20 1500m final, Hannah Taunton finished successful 5th place, missing retired connected a medal by conscionable implicit 9 seconds.

Jonathan Broom-Edwards missed retired connected a medal successful the men's T64 precocious leap final, finishing successful 5th spot with a champion completed leap of 1.89m.

Transgender jock Valentina Petrillo is done to the semi-finals of the T12 200m aft finishing 3rd successful her heat.

The 51-year-old Italian finished with a play champion clip of 25.95, conscionable implicit fractional a 2nd down Simran of India, to suffice for the semi-finals, which instrumentality spot astatine 18:42 BST connected Friday. The last is astatine 18:33 connected Saturday.

On Monday, Petrillo failed to scope the T12 400m last aft finishing 3rd successful her semi-final contempt signaling a idiosyncratic champion clip of 57.58.

Bayley whitethorn not person a 2024 Paralympic medal astir his cervix conscionable yet, but a straight-game triumph implicit Netherlands’ Jean Paul Montanus ensures helium volition extremity his MS7 men’s singles run with astatine slightest a metallic medal.

The 36-year-old, who has won 4 medals antecedently astatine the Paralympics, won 11-7 11-6 11-2 against Montanus.

Bayley required lone 20 minutes to acceptable up a last against China’s Yan Shuo, who needed 5 sets to bushed Charlempong Punpoo of Thailand.

That last is scheduled to commencement astatine 18:15 BST.

The British trio of Mark Tompsett, Louis Lawlor and William Ellard volition each diagnostic successful Friday’s men’s S14 100m backstroke last aft progressing done their heats.

Tompsett finished 2nd fastest, with Australia’s Benjamin Hance faster by much than 2 and a fractional seconds, mounting a caller satellite grounds clip of 56.52 seconds. The last starts astatine 18:04.

Poppy Maskill and Megan Neave some won their heats successful the women’s S14 100m backstroke to scope the final, scheduled for 18:10.

Olivia Newman-Baronius volition besides feature, finishing 2nd and wrong fractional a 2nd of Neave.

Maisie Summers-Newton is besides backmost successful action, competing successful the women's S6 400m freestyle last astatine 16:51.

Bayley is not the lone subordinate of ParalympicsGB guaranteed a metallic medal successful Para-table tennis. Robert Davies faces Cuba's Yunier Fernandez successful the last of the men's MS1 singles competition, acceptable to commencement astatine 13:00.

In wheelchair tennis, the British duo of Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are successful the golden medal match, taking connected Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda of Japan.

Matthew Harding volition beryllium portion of the men's -80kg Para-powerlifting final, starting astatine 17:35.

The women's F46 javelin last takes spot connected Friday evening astatine 18:00, including GB's Hollie Arnold.