Britain’s Blake wins his first Paralympic gold

Britain’s success in the velodrome continued on the road as Storey’s 13th Paralympic title and second of Rio 2016 was followed by gold for Karen Darke in the H1-2-3 event and for Steve Bate and his pilot Adam Duggleby in the men’s tandem event.

But they slumped to fourth place at London 2012 as Germany beat Australia in the final.

“I was aware we were on 49 gold medals, it’s incredible for us to get so many gold medals and for me to help out with that tally is great”.

“We now go in search of another cycle”.

This brings Britain’s medal total from the Paralympic Games to 11, with six individual golds, four individual silvers and team gold. “My goal is a gold medal, so I haven’t achieved it yet”, said the two-time singles Grand Slam champion.

The 26-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, led the race from the outset, fending off a hard chase from Poland’s Krzysztof Ciuksza to power over the finish line meters clear of his competitors and improve on the silver he won in the event at London 2012.

Team Nigeria is comfortably seated in the 10th position on the overall medals table with eight gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal.

“I was very good, very confident and very focused”. I thank the physiotherapists for it and for the good results.

The U.S. men’s wheelchair basketball team plays Spain in the gold-medal match on Saturday.

When 24 silver medals and 28 bronze medals are included, Paralympics GB now has 95 medals, leaving them streets ahead of Ukraine and the US.

The 29-year old investment banker and mathematics postgraduate from Sunningdale is good with numbers and her score of 78.217 on horse Athene Lindeberg was enough to beat ParalympicsGB team-mate Anne Dunham by almost four points.

Among the winners on day nine of the contest were archer John Walker; T34 800m wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft; and wheelchair tennis player Gordon Reid.

“After the explosion I lost all hope of continuing sport, since one leg had to be amputated and the other was wounded”.

Such dizzying heights have not been reached since the Seoul Paralympics in 1988, when Great Britain won 64 golds.