ParalympicsGB beat their London 2012 gold medal haul at Rio Games
ParalympicsGB beat their London 2012 gold medal haul at Rio Games :Great Britain’s Paralympians have bettered their tally of 34 gold medals from London 2012 after Dame Sarah Storey won the C5 road time-trial to clinch the team’s 35th gold on day seven of the Games in Rio.
Storey completed the 20km course in 27min 22.42sec, beating Poland’s Anna Harwoska into second by over a minute and a half. USA’s Samantha Bosco won bronze with Great Britain’s Crystal Lane in fourth. It is Storey’s second gold of the Games after she won the 3km track pursuit, a victory which made her Britain’s most successful Paralympian. Her latest gold is her 13th and her 24th Paralympic medal since her first Games in 1992 when she competed as a swimmer. Colin Lynch claimed Ireland’s fourth medal of the Paralympics, with silver in the men’s C2 road time-trial.
On Tuesday evening, the sprinter Libby Clegg clinched the T11 200m crown. Stephanie Millward and Matt Wylie won gold in the pool after Georgie Hermitage, Hollie Arnold and Rob Davies claimed golds on the track, in the javelin and in the table tennis.
Storey’s gold takes ParalympicsGB’s total medal haul to 35 as they close in on their target of 121 medals in Rio. The team won 42 gold medals in Beijing in 2008 and will aim to break that tally in the coming days.
Great Britain’s biggest successes have come in the athletics stadium and in the pool. The team have won 11 track and field gold medals, four silvers and six bronzes, while the swimmers have won nine golds, seven silvers and 10 bronzes. ParalympicsGB have now clinched cycling gold on nine occasions at this Games, also winning a pair of silvers and bronzes.
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ParalympicsGB’s gold medallists so far
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Dame Sarah Storey – women’s C5 time-trial (road cycling)
Hollie Arnold – women’s F46 javelin (athletics)
Steve Bate (with pilot Adam Duggleby) – men’s B 4,000m individual pursuit final (track cycling)
Will Bayley – class 7 (table tennis)
Jo Butterfield – women’s F51 club throw (athletics)
Libby Clegg – women’s T11 100m and T11 200m gold (athletics)
Grace Clough, Daniel Brown, Pamela Relph, James Fox and cox James Oliver – mixed coxed four (rowing)
Hannah Cockroft – women’s T34 100m (athletics)
Kadeena Cox – women’s C4-5 time trial (track cycling)
Jody Cundy – men’s C4-5 1km time trial (track cycling)
Jody Cundy, Jon Allan-Butterworth and Louis Rolfe – men’s mixed C1-5 sprint team (track cycling)
Aled Davies – men’s F42 shot put (athletics)
Rob Davies – men’s table tennis class 1
Bethany Firth – women’s S14 100m backstroke and women’s 200m freestyle S14 final (swimming)
Megan Giglia – women’s C1-3 3,000m individual pursuit (track cycling)
Sophie Hahn – women’s 100m T38 (athletics)
Georgie Hermitage – women’s 100m T37 and Women’s T37 400m (athletics)
Ollie Hynd – men’s S8 400m freestyle (swimming)
Sascha Kindred – men’s SM6 200m individual medley (swimming)
Andy Lewis – men’s PT2 race (triathlon)
Stephanie Millward – women’s 100m backstroke S8 (swimming)
Rachel Morris – women’s single sculls (rowing)
Jonnie Peacock – men’s T44 100m (athletics)
Ellie Robinson – women’s S6 butterfly (swimming)
Susie Rodgers – women’s S7 50m butterfly (swimming)
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley – mixed double sculls (rowing)
Ellie Simmonds – women’s SM6 200m medley (swimming)
Dame Sarah Storey– women’s C5 3,000m individual pursuit (track cycling)
Sophie Thornhill (with pilot Helen Scott) – women’s B 1,000m time trial (track cycling)
Lora Turnham and pilot Corinne Hall – women’s tandem B 3km pursuit (track cycling)
Richard Whitehead – men’s 200m T42 (athletics)
Matt Wylie – men’s S9 50m freestyle (swimming)
Source : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/14/paralympics-gb-beat-london-2012-gold-medal-rio-games-sarah-storey
