Men’s sitting volleyball: Iran secure their eighth gold medal in this event and their fourth in five Games. Their star player was the world’s second tallest man, Morteza Mehrzad, who stands 8ft 1in and has a reach of 6ft 5in when sat down. Pretty hard to go against that. The Iranians were the better team even when Mehrzad took the occasional rest of the bench, and it was a thoroughly deserved win for a dominant team. Bosnia, champions in 2004 and 2012, settle for silver.
And with that, we shall bid you adieu. Here’s a roundup of Team GB’s day in case you missed it:
Chris Page writes in on the universal relay: “Tatyana McFadden is rightly lauded as a legend in Parasport - which makes GB’s Sammi Kinghorn’s win over her in the final leg even more significant, as she was metres ahead of McFadden, and McFadden was never going to catch up with her.”
