Ukraine already wins 49 medals at Paralympics in Rio

Meanwhile China maintained her lead on the overall medals table with 41gold, 33silver and 24bronze while Britain with 24 gold is second, Ukraine is third with 19 gold and US remains fourth with 13 gold. “I’ve missed connections in the past, and you usually get there within 24 hours”.

The Briton, who had a stroke aged 23 which led to her being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), won athletics bronze in the T38 100m and gold in cycling’s C4-5 time trial.

The tally, after just four full days of competition according to Newsweek, is already more than half of the West African nation’s haul of 13 medals at the London 2012 Paralympics, and there are still seven days to go in Rio.

The 21-year-old finished two places behind team mate Ellie Robinson in the final of the S6 50m freestyle, but has her two main events to come this week.

Four medals in athletics within six minutes.

The two gold medals won so far at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is the best achievement by the National Sports Council (NSC) since implementing a high performance programme for athletes with disabilities in 2007.

Andy Lewis brings home a gold medal. He becomes the second athlete after Roland Ezuruike who on Friday won Nigeria’s first gold in Rio, also in powerlifting.

“To date I think it’s been a cultural problem – much like we’ve seen traditionally in swimming, which is dominated by white athletes”.

Bronze for Britain in the backstroke.

It was Onye fourth throw of 8.40 metre that set a new world record for her ahead of Tunisia’s Rima Abdelli (7.37m) and Netherlands’ Lara Baars (7.12m) that both claimed silver and bronze medals respectively.