I’m going to wrap things up for today – we’ll be back for more of the same tomorrow. It’s been quieter for ParalympicsGB after a raucous couple of days, golds coming in with ease. But Faye Rogers can remain jubilant, having won in the S10 100m butterfly, with Callie-Ann Warrington just behind her to complete a GB one-two. Thanks for joining me!
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Chris Page writes in: “This really hasn’t been Hug’s Games, despite his two Silvers. I can feel the disappointment in his interviews. Like with Dave Weir, I think we’re seeing a Changing of The Guard in wheelchair racing.
“I’ve followed the sport for almost 40 years, and it’s come a long way since then in terms of athletes and equipment. But there’s hope for GB with Nathan Maguire. He did a great job in his first Paralympic final.”
A last look at the track tonight with the T37 women’s 400m final, where there’s a home star in Laure Ustaritz. Gold belongs to Ukraine’s Nataliia Kobzar, though, running a personal best to pip China’s Jiang Fenfen. Kobzar has her second medal of these Games, having won silver in the T37 200m.
Marcel Hug has to settle for second, with China’s Jin Hua taking gold in the T54 men’s 1500m! Jin Hua is now both a world and Paralympic champion. GB’s Nathan Maguire finishes fifth. Hug was sandwiched by the Chinese racers, given little room to manoeuvre and break free from the pack. Jin’s compatriot Dai Yunqiang took bronze with a personal best.
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We’re about to get going with the T54 men’s 1500m. ParalympicsGB have Nathan Maguire representing them, who finished fourth in the T54 400m final on Sunday. He’s up against Marcel Hug, the world and Paralympic-record holder in this event.
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A reminder: Faye Rogers’ gold took GB to 30 at this year’s Games. China remain No 1 with … 50 golds.
GB beat Australia in men's wheelchair basketball quarter-finals
Victory is secured for ParalympicsGB, with an 84-64 scoreline. Ben Fox led the way with 26 points, with Gregg Warburton contributing 22 and Lee Manning 21. They ran away with it in the fourth quarter, scoring 28 points to Australia’s 13. Germany are up next in the semis.
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Time to cast an eye on the track, where we’re about to start the T20 men’s 400m final. It’s a strange start, with a delay because the man in lane eight, Colombia’s Jhon Sebastian Obando Asprilla pulls up with a little niggle that he needs to sort. He’s OK to go … and he starts brilliantly to take the lead, and despite slowing down he holds on to win gold with a time of 48.12! He looked as if he had cramp before he started but somehow he’s just gone and grabbed himself the No 1 prize. Terrific stuff.
GB's Faye Rogers wins the S10 women's 100m butterfly
Callie-Ann Warrington has the lead at the 50m mark, while Faye Rogers is second. It’s turning into a battle between the two GB swimmers and it’s Rogers who takes gold! Her final time is 1:05.84, with Warrington 0.57 seconds behind. Warrington narrowly missed out on bronze in the S10 100m freestyle but she’s got a medal tonight.
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Thanks, Niall. On to the S10 women’s 100m butterfly we go, with Faye Rogers and Callie-Ann Warrington representing ParalympicsGB.
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In the men’s basketball, Britain take a 56-49 lead over Australia into their final quarter. And with that, I’ll hand you back to Taha …
A belting race in the women’s 100m T47, with Kiara Rodriguez bringing home gold for Ecuador, ahead of Brittni Mason (USA) and Anna Grimaldi (New Zealand).
Venezuela’s Lisbeli Andrade led for much of the race but went down just behind the line with what looked like a painful injury, and is helped off the track by medics.
Fencing update: Britain’s Piers Gilliver is into the men’s epee final, beating Ukraine’s Artem Manko 15-14 in a nailbiting semi-final.
He will face Germany’s Maurice Schmidt in the final later on – there have been some delays in the fencing events today – but medal hopes have ended for Gemma Collis and Dimitri Coutya.
It’s a brilliant two-man battle all the way down the final straight, with Italy’s Stefano Raimondi edging out Ukraine’s Ihor Nimchenko. Australian teenager Alex Saffy takes bronze.
We’re deep into multi-screen territory now. GB lead Australia 46-39 in the basketball, which is on More4 (Grand Designs will follow, presumably). Back to the pool for the men’s butterfly S10 …
The women’s 100m T13 final is go … Ireland’s Orla Comerford makes a flying start but Lamiya Valiyeva and Rayana Soares da Silva are gaining … It’s Azerbaijan’s Valiyeva who takes a storming gold and a world record, with Brazil’s Soares taking silver and Comerford bronze.
On the track, gold for Brazil’s Jerusa Geber dos Santos in the women’s 100m T11, where runners compete with guides.
Meanwhile, some words from Ellie Challis after her fourth-place finish earlier. “I would have liked to have been faster than that tonight but it wasn’t the night for me and that’s OK,” Challis told BBC Sport.
“Fourth is never easy to deal with but after yesterday, dreams come true – gold and gold with my room-mate – I really couldn’t have asked for more.”
Italy’s Carlotta Gilli leads Olivia Chambers into the final length of the 200m medley, and the American isn’t going to catch her. The defending champion collects gold, her 10th career Paralympic medal.
Winning bronze is Irish teenager Róisín Ní Ríain, who comes through late on to earn her second medal of these Games.
In the pool, after a break to dish out some medals almost exclusively to Chinese athletes, it’s time for the women’s 200m medley (SM13).
“Why is China so good at the Paralympics?” asks Kurt Perleberg. Tough to answer this one in a paragraph, but they do have the largest dedicated para-sport centre in the world, situated just outside Beijing.
In the men’s shot put F20, Ukraine’s Oleksander Yarovyi is in a class of his own – on his way to gold, he has beaten his own world record twice. Fair play.
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Next on the track, it’s the women’s 200m T64 final – with world-record holder Kimberley Alkemade the big favourite. Heading into the turn, only Dutch compatriot Marlene van Gansewinkel is close, but Alkemade pulls clear to win with a Paralympic record. Bronze belongs to Germany’s Irmgard Bensusan.
Wheelchair basketball update: Great Britain starting to eke out a lead against Australia – it’s 36-30 at half-time.
An early gold from tonight’s track session went to Ukraine’s Yuliia Shuliar, who won the women’s 400m T20. Shuliar pipped Turkey’s Aysel Onder by 0.07s, with India’s Deepthi Jeevanji third.
Speaking of world records, another has fallen on the track, with Jaydin Blackwell winning gold in the 400m T38 race in 48.49s. It’s the American’s second gold of the Games after winning the 100m T38. Compatriot Ryan Medrano came second, with Colombia’s Juan Campos Sanchez in third.
Ihar Boki has won his fifth gold of the Games in the 200m medley SM13, setting a world record in the process. Boki, who is from Belarus but here as a neutral athlete, has now won 21 [TWENTY-ONE] Paralympic gold medals in his career – making him the most successful male Paralympian of all time.
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Gold for the USA’s Leanne Smith in the women’s S3 100m freestyle, and in a Paralympic record too. GB’s Ellie Challis is edged out of the medals into fourth place. Marta Fernandez Infante of Spain wins silver, Australia’s Rachel Watson takes bronze.
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Thanks, Taha. Let’s start with a wheelchair basketball update. Great Britain are taking on Australia in the men’s quarter-finals – they lead 17-16 after the first quarter.
I’m going to nip off for a quick break. Niall McVeigh will be good company in the meantime.
More good ParalympicsGB table tennis news: Will Bayley has triumphed in his MS7 men’s singles quarter-final against Germany’s Björn Schnake, winning 3-1. Bayley won gold at Rio 2016.
Well, this is something. In the S11 women’s 200m individual medley we’ll see twin sisters: Eliza Humphrey and Scarlett Humphrey of ParalympicsGB. This category, in case you’re not aware, is for those who are blind or nearly blind. The sisters are next to each other in lanes one and two, and Scarlett is third at the 50m mark, Eliza seventh. But Scarlett drops to fifth after 100m … and gold glory goes to Daria Lukianenko with a world-record time! She trumps her previous world-best of 2:38.47 with a new time of 2:37.77.
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Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have wrapped up a rather straightforward win against Ruben Spaargaren and Maarten ter Hofte in the men’s wheelchair tennis doubles quarter-finals: 6-2, 6-1. They’ll take on the French pair of Frederic Cattaneo and Stephane Houdet in the semis. Houdet was victorious when he faced Hewett and Reid in the finals at Tokyo and Rio, then partnered up with Nicolas Peifer.
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There’s a GB representative in the S5 women’s 50m backstroke, Tully Kearney. China’s Lu Dong is the world-record holder, though, and wins gold with a time of 37.51! It’s a China 1-2-3, with He Shenggao second and Liu Yu third. Kearney finishes fifth.
Now to a look at the MS1 men’s table tennis quarter-finals, with ParalympicsGB’s Robert Davies and South Korea’s Kim Hakjin into a deciding set. Davies is 5-0 down before winning five points in a row … the Welshman ends up moving into a 7-6 lead. Davies has two match points at 10-8 … and he raises a hand into the air after securing victory! He won gold in Rio and he’s still on for it in Paris.
Ah, nice of Channel 4’s YouTube swimming stream to finally rock up. Time for the S6 women’s 50m butterfly final, won by world-record holder Jiang Yuyan rather comfortably, her time of 35.03 more than two seconds ahead of the second-placed Liu Daomin. That’s her third gold of these Games; that’s some week.
The USA’s Christie Raleigh Crossley wanted to compete at the Olympics before car accidents in 2007 and 2008, and brain surgery a decade later. After all that adversity, she’s just won gold in the S9 women’s 100m backstroke with a Paralympic record time of 1:07.92.
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In the S9 men’s 100m backstroke … there’s gold for the NPA athlete who hails from Belarus, Yahor Shchalkanau. He won silver in the same event three years ago at the Tokyo Games. France’s Ugo Didier has to settle for second this time round. Frustratingly, Channel 4’s YouTube swimming stream is down. Ugh.
Off we go to the pool, first up with the S7 men’s 100m backstroke … with the world-record holder Andrii Trusov in action. But its his compatriot, Yurii Shenhur who triumphs, with a time of 1:09.51. Trusov takes silver for a Ukrainian one-two!
In the men’s wheelchair tennis quarter-finals, Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are cruising against the Dutch pair of Ruben Spaargaren and Maarten ter Hofte, up 5-0 in the first set. The GB pair will serve for a bagel.
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Hello, wonderful people. What have we got going here? There’s plenty of swimming around the corner, beginning at 4.30pm BST with the S7 men’s 100m backstroke. Please drop me a line with your thoughts, queries and anything I’ve potentially missed – there’s plenty to keep tabs on.
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That leaves it to me to hand over to Taha Hashim for the next session.
Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop wins the 50m shooting
More drama! Hiltrop steals back the gold, denying Vadovičová with China’s Zhang in third.
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Hewlett and Read are on the Roland-Garros turf and they’re knocking up.
In the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1, Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop is leading. The men’s event saw Park Jin-ho win gold for South Korea. But, there’s drama as Veronika Vadovičová goes into the lead.
We wait for those, and the tennis, which sees Alfie Hewlett and Gordon Reid can do a Jack Draper. They’re up against a tough Dutch pairing.
How about a gallery from Monday’s action?
After a slow early afternoon, the pool beckons. As does the track later this evening.
Germany beat Spain in the basketball semi-finals
It’s their first semi since 1996, and that’s a huge win for the Germans, 59-47. They will play the winner of GB v Australia, and that’s going be a big, big game.
An Ortega throw means the gap is down to ten, Germany 53-43 Spain, with tensions beginning to show. Though the clock is running right down…
Some quotes from GB’s Sammi Kinghorn after she won silver on the track in the 1500m:
Who would have thought a sprinter would get a medal over 1500m? I certainly did not. I thought I’d be jostling for fourth, maybe squeeze a third. It was all pretty exciting. I kinda got a bit disorientated and I stopped at 200 metres to go because I thought we were done - it’s so loud in here which we’re not used to. So I learned I need to count laps. But that noise is absolutely electric and I’m absolutely buzzing to come away with a medal.
Into this final quarter between Germany and Spain in the basketball. They lead 43-39 from Spain. This is expected to go to the wire.
Some news from the Boccia, with a win for Australia.
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At the break, Germany have taken a 26-16 over Spain in the basketball.
Natasha Baker won equestrian bronze for ParalympicsGB. Here’s the PA Media take.
Six-time Paralympic champion Natasha Baker likened her horse to fictional nanny Mary Poppins after returning from pregnancy to win bronze in rain-soaked Versailles.
The 34-year-old blew a kiss to son Joshua at the end of her performance in the grade three individual dressage event, having given birth last year and spending 12 months out of the saddle.
American Rebecca Hart subsequently grabbed gold, with Rixt van der Horst of the Netherlands snatching the silver Baker won three years ago in Tokyo.
The British rider, who was competing on Keystone Dawn Chorus - also known as Lottie, said: “If you’d told me that I was going to even be selected for the Paris Games over Christmas, I would have absolutely laughed in your face.“I was very naive going into the whole pregnancy, coming back from it and everything. I don’t think you really know what’s gonna happen until you’re in that situation. And my pregnancy was harder than I imagined it would be. I knew it would be a challenge physically. But obviously it’s such an unknown.”
Baker posted a score of 73.167 on a grey morning in the grounds of the former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV to win the ninth medal of a Paralympic career which began at London 2012.
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The current focus is the wheelchair basketball quarter-final between Germany and Spain, with Germany leading 17-13. Make that 17-15. This is keenly fought, and with one hell of an atmosphere.
And some morning news from the track.
First up, we need your help.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to day six of coverage of action from Paris. As ever, a busy schedule, and plenty of medals to go around.
Here’s what to look out from today’s daily briefing:
Dressage storm goes on for GB At the Olympics, the British team started under a cloud after a video emerged of Charlotte Dujardin, Team GB’s most decorated Olympic equestrian, whipping a horse. The ParalympicsGB equestrian team has similarly been left reeling after it emerged Sir Lee Pearson – Britain’s third most successful Paralympian – had been suspended amid an ongoing investigation into his conduct. Those who are in Paris will look to put a happier spin on the narrative with successes today: Natasha Baker, Georgia Wilson and Mari Durward-Akhurst all have medal hopes.
Rogers makes a splash in pool At her international debut in the world championships in Manchester last year, British swimmer Faye Rogers burst on to the scene to take butterfly gold and two bronze medals. The 21-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees is also currently studying biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen. In 2021, on the day she was due to travel to Scotland, Rogers was in a car accident which left her with permanent damage to her right arm. ‘The consultant sat me down and I was told they could save my arm but I wouldn’t be able to compete again,’ Rogers said. ‘I turned to my mum and just said: “Watch me”.’ Rogers is going for gold in the S10 100m butterfly in Paris.
En garde: fencing gets under way For the Olympics, the Grand Palais began as the home of fencing and was then transformed for taekwondo. At the Paralympics, it is the other way round as one of Paris’s most spectacular venues is rearranged for wheelchair fencing. Britain’s Piers Gilliver is defending his Category A épée gold from Tokyo, while Dimitri Coutya and Gemma Collis are among their other medal hopefuls.
Trusov carries nation’s hopes Ukraine are traditionally a Paralympic powerhouse – in Tokyo they picked up 24 golds among a haul of 98 medals, finishing sixth in the medal table. Understandably, the influx of silverware has not been quite as great this time around but Andrii Trusov could bring some cheer today. The 24-year-old has had to prepare for the Games in Kamianske, the base for Ukrainian Paralympic swimmers from territories occupied or under the biggest threat from Russia. Today, Trusov goes in the S7 100m backstroke looking to retain the gold he won in Tokyo.
Frech seeks Hollywood reframing Then just 16 years old, Ezra Frech missed out on the high jump medals by one place in Tokyo. Finishing fourth was a bitter pill to swallow and Frech used the image of the three medallists as motivation, using their pictures as his phone screensaver with the caption ‘never again’. Now 19 and with a world title to his name, Frech is expected to get a coveted medal in the men’s T63 event in Paris. Frech is a Los Angeles native and his mum, actor Bahar Soomekh, appeared in the Oscar-winning film Crash and the Saw franchise. He is likely to be a star name at his home Games in 2028.
