Thu. Sep 19th, 2024
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Faye Rogers edged team-mate Callie-Ann Warrington to deliver Great Britain’s 30th gold medal on day six at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

Rogers, 21, overhauled Warrington to touch the wall first in the women’s S10 100m butterfly final as both swimmers claimed their first Paralympic medals.

GB won six medals in total on Tuesday, with wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn winning her second silver of the Games in the women’s T54 1500m and wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver taking silver in the men’s sabre A category.

Natasha Baker and Georgia Wilson added bronzes in the individual grade III and II Para-equestrian events at the Chateau de Versailles.

Elsewhere, British tennis stars Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid progressed to the men’s wheelchair doubles semi-finals, while Para-table tennis player Will Bayley reached the last four of men’s MS7 singles.

Great Britain’s men beat Australia in the quarter-finals of the wheelchair basketball to set up a semi-final against Germany.

Briton Zac Shaw, who contested the men’s T12 100m final on Saturday, was upgraded to a bronze medal after Turkey’s winner Serkan Yildirim was retrospectively disqualified.

GB are up to 61 medals, including their 30 golds – second only to China (115 medals, including 53 golds), the table-toppers at the past five Paralympic Games.

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