ParalympicsGB rounded off a glittering Video games in Paris with two gold medals on the ultimate day of competitors, cementing their second-place end within the medal desk for the third consecutive Paralympics.
They took their total tally to 124 medals – 49 gold, 44 silver and 31 bronze – to complete solely behind China within the total desk, with ParalympicsGB securing eight extra golds than they gained in Tokyo.
The British staff additionally equalled one other document set then in Tokyo by successful medals throughout 18 of the 19 sports activities the staff competed in, the best of any nation ever, with greater than half of the 215 athletes within the staff additionally reaching the rostrum.
Penny Briscoe OBE, ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission at Paris 2024, mentioned: “ParalympicsGB have achieved so many milestones at these Games. I could not be more proud of every single team member for their fantastic performances across 11 thrilling days of competition here in Paris.
“To complete these Video games with 49 gold medals and 124 total – surpassing what we achieved in Tokyo – is testomony to our unbelievable athletes, coaches and assist workers and the years and months of devoted laborious work all of them put in.
“Every Paralympic Games we see competition from around the world getting tougher and tougher, so to return home with so many fantastic performances from across the entire team really is so special.”
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Who impressed for Paralympics GB?
The gold medal rush started within the pool with Video games’ debutant Poppy Maskill within the 100m butterfly S14 and continued all through the eleven days of competitors. Day 4 was a notable spotlight as ParalympicsGB gained 12 gold medals – the best quantity in a single day this century.
Day 9 noticed the staff declare their forty second gold medal – surpassing the quantity gained in Tokyo with two extra days of competitors nonetheless to go.
Poppy Maskill gained three gold and two silver medals throughout the Paralympics in Paris
Maskill’s medal haul of three gold and two silver medals made her essentially the most profitable athlete within the staff, whereas ParalympicsGB’s youngest athlete, 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, gained her first Paralympic medal after securing a silver within the 100m breaststroke SB7.
One other identify for the long run is undoubtedly 14-year-old Bly Twomey who claimed two Para desk tennis bronze medals, within the ladies’s singles WS7 in addition to doubles WS14 with Fliss Pickard.
Dame Sarah Storey already had 18 Paralympic medals to her identify by the point Winnifrith was born – with ParalympicsGB’s most adorned Paralympian ever including to her unbelievable tally her ninth Video games, with two additional Para biking gold medals across the roads of the French capital.
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Dame Sarah Storey says her nineteenth Paralympic gold medal ‘means simply as a lot’ as her first
ParalympicsGB’s Para triathlon and Para canoe squads loved their most profitable Video games up to now, whereas the swimming squad claimed no fewer than 18 golds – their highest quantity this century.
Each member of ParalympicsGB’s 10-strong rowing squad gained medals in Paris, together with 26-year-old Lauren Rowles – who made historical past by turning into the primary Para rower to assert consecutive gold medals at three Video games.
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Lauren Rowles shares the way it feels to win three successive Paralympic rowing gold medals
Triathlon’s Clare Cashmore and equestrian’s Natasha Baker each reached double-digits by way of Paralympic medals with 10 apiece throughout six and 4 Video games respectively – taking the full variety of ParalympicsGB athletes with 10 or extra medals as much as 40.
On the Stade de France, house of the Para athletics occasions, Hannah Cockroft notched up her ninth Paralympic gold, a successful document that started at London 2012.
Hannah Cockcroft impressed for ParalympicsGB to proceed her spectacular Paralympics profession
There was additionally golden glory for vision-impaired javelin thrower Dan Pembroke, who retained his Paralympic title with a world document as well.
Para archer Jodie Grinham arrived in Paris seven months pregnant, decided to point out the world that competing whereas pregnant was no hurdle to success and returned house with Paralympic gold and bronze medals to her identify.
Briscoe added: “The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have been memorable for so many reasons beyond the amazing performances we have seen on the field of play.
“The Paris 2024 organisers have supplied us with experiences that can stay in our hearts without end – from spectacular venues to wonderful volunteers, our hosts have made these a Video games to recollect.”
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