After 1192 Days, Brazil Mega-Event Run Ends at Paralympics

Dame Sarah’s win was one of 21 medals for Britain on Saturday.

Jessica Stretton beat team-mate Jo Frith in the women’s wheelchair final 137-124 to take ParalympicsGB’s overall medal tally to 129. The next best nation was Britain with 64 gold followed by Ukraine (41), the United States (40) and Australia (22).

The Great Britain unseated Russian Federation as it placed second with a total of 147 medals, 64 of which are gold, 39 are silver and 44 are bronze. On a day full of Paralympic records another was set in the 100m T42 heats as Italian Martina Caironi ran 14.80 for the new mark.

Tatyana McFadden, the US track and field star of the Rio Paralympics, was shockingly beaten in a photo finish in her final event, the T54 marathon, on Sunday.

“It’s been a tough week, maybe it was a Paralympics too far”, Weir told the BBC.

Only the tally of 107 golds from the NY andStoke Mandeville Games of 1984 seems beyond this team.

Although he refused to name names, the wheelchair racer cryptically revealed after his final Paralympics appearance that he been let down by a member of the GB team, essentially over broken promises.

Chris Game, director of Sport at the school, said; “We are absolutely thrilled James and Lee are representing Great Britain at the Rio Paralympic games in their respective sports”.

She is now two gold medals behind swimmer Mike Kenny, who won 16 gold medals in his career. We’ve had a podium like this at the Europeans and it’s just the most wonderful feeling ever to do it at the Paralympics.

“To be a part of a team that’s broken so many records and won all the medals that we’ve got is just incredible”.

“People say it’s no different for mums than for dads but I think it is”.

“Hats off to everyone within the team”.

“Anyway I’ve applied. I’m in great shape, I can be a super domestique, I don’t need to be out there for my own benefit, I can do a really good job and sit in the wind”.

Samuel won the first of the Israeli delegation’s three medals in Rio, all of them bronze.

9. Robert Davies took gold in the class 1 men’s singles table tennis.

There were two sailing bronze medals – for Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell in the two-person keelboat and for Helena Lucas in the one-person keelboat.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, said this edition will “forever remain in the history of world sport”. Some 17 gold medals came in team events, compared to just three in London four years ago.

A South Korean athlete brings in their flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. Pre-race favourite Lauren Steadman from Sawtry took silver in the triathlon.

Having previously won gold in the track time trial and bronze in the time trial on the road, the pair came into this road race full of confidence.

And Noelle Lenihan claimed a bronze medal in the F38 discus.