Stilwell takes 400-m gold with record performance at Rio Paralympics

The 30-year-old from Sutton Coldfield won gold in the C1-5 mixed team sprint at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday with Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe.

Cundy already has five Paralympic golds, two as a cyclist and three in swimming, but this one will surely mean the most. One of my swimmers kept pushing me into it, she did kayaking as well and she influenced me to have a go.

“Nothing would be better than the two golds I got in Atlanta, I never expected to get those medals and for me that was a fantastic achievement”.

Butterfield awoke from surgery to remove a tumour on her spinal cord in January 2010 paralysed from the chest down, but four years on she is a Paralympic champion having won with a world record throw.

Ghazouani managed to lift the same weight however Nwosu took first place because of her lighter bodyweight.

Meanwhile, McSweeney won a bronze medal in the Men’s Javelin F44m.

“She is the champion and I didn’t how I would beat her”, said Nwosu. South Korea’s Lee Ju Hee grabs silver.

“I put everything I have done in training into that race”.

“The Paralympic movement as a whole is progressing so much”. Yang nearly secures victory with two rounds left with a lead of over four points.

“I’m not being greedy, but I just wanted that one gold”. She has four track gold medals, plus was a member of Canada’s wheelchair basketball team that claimed gold in 2000 in Sydney. The T12 was won by Cuba’s Omara Durand in 11.40, matching her earlier world record, while the T54 was claimed by China’s Wenjun Liu in 16.00.

Turnham and Hall finished with bronze at March’s Track World Championships, but finished first this time.

“I didn’t expect that”.

“I didn’t even make the finals in Beijing”.

Xu, who lost both arms after a auto crash when he was six, said he was unsure if he would compete at the Tokyo 2020 Games. “There haven’t been that many opportunities for people within my classification over the last 20 years to be able to compete in the Paralympic Games”.

“Now I feel the pressure is off”.

Souhad Ghazouani of France who had earlier set the new Paralympic Games record won the silver medal, while Egypt’s Amany Ali won the bronze.

The International Paralympic Committee is continuing to investigate after the five players and two coaches failed to fulfil matches with the United States on Friday evening and Israel a day later. China’s Pan Shiyun passes Levgenii Bogdaiko of Ukraine in the final push to finish first, breaking the world record in the process as Bogdaiko takes the silver.

Liang beat Canada’s Tristen Chernove by nearly three seconds in the final with a time of three minutes 44.55 seconds.

Michael McKillop claimed Ireland’s second gold and third medal in all with victory in the T37 1500m.

This was a personal best time for Pascoe.