The first day of the Paralympics saw Britain pick up their first gold and narrowly avoid what would have been their first ever Paralympic gold medal on the track. The first UK gold on the track came courtesy of David Weir, who came home in first place in the men’s T34 100m – a result Britain had been hoping for, but not necessarily expecting. Just behind him was Mark Fielding, who won the men’s T38 400m, and Jonathan Fox, who won the men’s T34 800m. Fielding and Fox were also the British gold medal hopes on the second day of competition, and Fielding’s individual gold was just as important as Weir’s and the other gold wins.
The weekend’s Paralympic success was tempered by the news that the British team won just two medals over the two-day period, including just one gold.
GB Gold medal-winning Paralympian Helen Clitheroe has become the latest sportsperson to represent Great Britain at the Rio Paralympic Games after winning her third medal of the Games in the women’s marathon.
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On the tenth day of the Tokyo Paralympics, Great Britain won three additional gold medals, bringing its total to 100.
Canoeist Emma Wiggs, athletes Jonathan Broom-Edwards and Owen Miller, and athletes Jonathan Broom-Edwards and Owen Miller all won gold.
With Friday’s victories, Great Britain has now won medals in 16 different sports in Japan, the first time any country has done so in a single Games.
Wiggs won the VL2 200m event, which was the first time the Va’a boat was raced at the Paralympics. The Va’a boat is an outrigger canoe with a support float and a single-bladed paddle.
On Saturday, she will attempt to defend her KL2 kayak championship.
Broom-Edwards, the world champion and silver medalist in Rio, went one better in the T64 category, clearing 2.10m on his second try for gold after three attempts at 2.07m.
Miller, who was competing in his first Paralympics, won the T20 1500m in three minutes 54.57 seconds, beating Russian Alexander Rabotnitskii.
Richard Whitehead, on the other hand, had to settle for silver in his quest for a third consecutive 200m championship, losing to South African 19-year-old Ntando Mahlangu in the T61 category. In the F46 javelin, reigning champion Hollie Arnold could only manage bronze.
Arnold had a 39.05m lead heading into the final round, but was passed by both world record holder Hollie Robinson of New Zealand (40.99m) and Dutchwoman Noelle Roorda of the Netherlands (40.06m).
With a silver medal in the -58kg category, Beth Munro became Britain’s first taekwondo medalist at the Paralympics.
The 28-year-old from Liverpool, who just began competing in late 2019, was defeated 32-14 by four-time world champion Lisa Gjessing of Denmark.
After losing 79-68 to hosts Japan in the semi-finals, the GB men’s wheelchair basketball team will face Spain for bronze on Sunday.
GB has been in the third and fourth play-offs for the sixth Games in a row.
Britain’s Stephen Clegg suffered sorrow on the last day of the swimming competition when he was beaten to gold in the S12 100m butterfly final by 0.06 seconds.
Clegg, the world record holder who had already won two bronze medals at the Games, was defeated by Azerbaijan’s Raman Salei.
“I’d be lying if I claimed I wasn’t disappointed with today’s performance,” he remarked after clocking 57.87 seconds. “I had a different color in mind when I started this.”
In the men’s doubles, silver went to Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett in wheelchair tennis, Sophie Unwin and her pilot Jenny Holl in the women’s B road race, and Will Bayley and Paul Karabardak in the class 6-7 table tennis team.
After China was disqualified, the universal relay team of Libby Clegg and her guide Chris Clarke, Jonnie Peacock, Ali Smith, and Nathan Maguire was promoted to silver from bronze. The gold medal went to the United States.
In a rematch of the Rio final, Reid and Hewett were defeated by Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in a final-set tie-break.
After Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal made a late push for gold, Unwin and Holl defeated Sweden’s Louise Jannering and Anna Svaerdstroem in a race for silver.
Bayley and Karabardak had a difficult challenge against Liao Keli and Yan Shuo of China, and after losing the first doubles match, Bayley was defeated in his singles encounter as their opponents cruised to victory.
Jordanne Whiley won bronze in wheelchair tennis singles, Jeanette Chippington and Rob Oliver won bronze in para-canoe, and athlete Hannah Taunton won bronze in athletics.
With a 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 win against Dutchwoman Aniek van Koot, Whiley became Britain’s first women’s singles medalist at the Paralympics.
Chippington, 51, who has competed in seven Olympic Games since making her debut as a swimmer in Seoul in 1988, placed third behind Wiggs, with teammate Oliver taking bronze in the KL3 event.
Taunton, like Miller, participates in the T20 division for athletes with intellectual disabilities, and she ran a personal best in the 1500m final to take bronze.
Wiggs paddles his way to the top.
Wiggs won gold in the first Para-Canoe event in Rio, but wrist surgery in 2018 put her athletic career in jeopardy.
Her recovery was difficult, and she characterized herself as “totally confused and perhaps for the first time in my life, I felt handicapped, with a little wrist injury.”
She led from the start to win in 57.028 seconds, more over four seconds ahead of Susan Seipel of Australia, with Chippington third.
“It’s just very emotional,” she continued. “I’m simply very thankful to the Japanese people and the organizing committee for making these Games a reality.” We were here because it was critical for paralympic sport to continue to develop.
“I love that I can park my wheelchair on the side of the lake and paddle away, and no one walking their dog will be able to tell which parts of you function and which don’t.”
Munro has a strong showing in his Games debut.
Munro was born without her left hand and used to play netball before participating in a disability sport event in 2019.
Until she was fast-tracked into the GB Taekwondo program for these Games, it seemed that Paris would be her destination.
Despite being one of the youngest competitors in her category, she defeated world champion Li Yujie of China to get to the final against Gjessing.
However, the Dane utilized all of her expertise to dominate and win their fight, leaving Munro with mixed emotions.
Munro (right) was just in her second competition at the time.
“I’m overjoyed to have won a silver, but I’m unhappy with the result,” she stated.
“I probably let the first round get away from me and then attempted to catch up the rest of the way.”
“But for the short trip I’ve been on, I’m very happy to have walked away with a silver medal as a Paralympian.”
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Thanks to discus thrower Haider Ali, who demonstrated his athletic flexibility, Pakistan earned their first Paralympic gold medal.
Ali earned his country’s first medal in the long jump in Beijing in 2008, and he followed it up with bronze in Rio.
He focused on throws for Tokyo and won the F37 category with a throw of 55.26 meters, beating the rest of the competition by 2.83 meters.
Zhang Cuiping of China won gold in the women’s 50m rifle three positions SH1 event for the third time in a row, breaking her own Paralympic record in the process.
Zhang received a score of 457.9, with Natascha Hiltrop of Germany coming in second with a score of 457.1.
In the women’s S6 100m backstroke, American swimmer Elizabeth Marks won gold.
Marks, who was wounded while serving as a soldier in Iraq in 2010, was scheduled to participate in the 2014 Invictus Games in London, but he became sick on the night of the competition and required emergency care at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire.
Marks went on to win four gold medals in the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando, but gave one of them to Prince Harry to give to the hospital’s medical staff.
The Paralympics is an international sporting event for elite athletes with physical disabilities. The games were founded in 1960 in Rome, Italy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, in different cities worldwide. London is the host city in 2012. The Paralympic Games are organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Olympic Charter (version 7.0) states, “The Paralympic Games are the global equivalent of the Olympic Games, in which the Olympic Charter is observed.” The Paralympic motto is “A super-human effort”.. Read more about paralympics medal table 2012 and let us know what you think.
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