Five things To know: Lots of records at the Rio Paralympics

Richard Whitehead, a crowd-favourite from London 2012, set a Paralympic record of 23.07 seconds, qualifying for Sunday’s T42 200m final.

Louis Rolfe and Jody Cundy of Britain celebrate.

“I really wanted to go back to where I was from, so I chose cross-country skiing and it was quite a ride”, said the 27-year-old McFadden, who was born in St. Petersburg but moved to the US after being adopted.

Competing at an elite level in multiple sports, Mitchell said, is a manifestation of Paralympians’ daily lives.

On Sunday three gold medals, one each from Team captain Lucy Ejike and fellow Power-lifter, Paul Kehinde as well as Onye Lauritta in Women’s shot put had increased Team Nigeria gold medals to four.

“Now we see people looking for specific athletes and scheduled duels”.

In the Women’s Class 1 Final between Ukraine’s Natalia Kosmina and Poland’s Krystyna Siemieniecka, it was the 33-year-old Ukrainian who overpowered the 2004 Paralympic Champion 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-5).

“I am so pleased to have made that cut and to have got on the podium”, said Aggar. Penn State and Georgia are partnering with The Associated Press to supplement coverage of the 2016 Paralympics.

Jayne Kavanagh, performance pathway manager at Help for Heroes, said: “To come back from London 2012 with a performance like that was incredible and just shows what hard work and dedication can achieve”. “They actually kind of work against each other”.

To secure the bronze medal, her coach Chen Ying-te (陳穎德) chose to increase the weight for Lin’s third attempt from 130 kg to 131 kg, and this forced Barcenas to push her third attempt from 131 kg to 132 kg.

Nwosu who weighs 71.1kg, claimed the gold with a lift of 140kg.

Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley also took gold in the double sculls event, while the mixed coxed four team were also victorious on the water.

And away from the water, Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall claimed Britain’s seventh gold at the velodrome with victory in the tandem three-kilometres pursuit, with British team-mates Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott taking bronze. The 35-year-old, who had her left arm amputated after falling off a wall at the age of eight, took bronze in the T47 100m, finishing behind Poland’s Alicja Fiodorow in second and the USA’s Deja Young who took the gold.