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Roberts equals Grey-Thompson gold haul

Published 14 September 2008

Britain are second in the medal table behind China with 41 golds, exceeding the pre-Games target with three days still to go

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Roberts touches 11th heaven: David Roberts’ fourth gold in the pool took ParalympicsGB past its target. Roberts won Britain’s 41st gold in Beijing as he equalled track legend Dame Tanni-Grey Thompson’s record of 11 Paralympic titles.

Quad father still the boss: Peter ‘Quad father’ Norfolk retained his Paralympic Games quad singles tennis title with a convincing win to confirm his status as the world’s number one.

GB medals today: 8      Gold: 3(+1)    Silver: 2       Bronze: 3

GB medals overall: 90   Gold: 41        Silver: 23     Bronze: 26


Sport by Sport round-up

Archery: John Cavanagh hit the mark to win silver in the open compound (W1) losing by five points to Czech bowman David Drahoninsky. Cavanagh was the 2004 champion but had to be satisfied with second this time after losing 108-103 in the final.

Athletics: John McFall clinched a bronze on a dramatic morning at the Bird’s Nest in which Rebecca Chin won then lost a silver in the discus when judges removed her performance from the results following re-classification. But David Weir’s 800m gold was reinstated this morning after the Australians withdrew their protest.

Basketball: Britain’s men lost a hard fought semi against Australia by 13 points and will now play USA in the bronze medal match. The women lost to Holland and will now play for seventh against China.

Fencing: Lee Fawcett won one of his six bouts in the foil event against a former Paralympic bronze medallist Piotr Czop 5-4. Fawcett fights in his best event, the sabre, on Wednesday.

Football: Jordan Raynes put up another valiant display in goal against the Netherlands but Britain’s seven-a-side team lost their classification game 4-2 to leave them fighting for pride and seventh place in the last game against China.

Powerlifting: An injury-affected Ali Jawad was ninth in the under-75kg contest after lifting 185kg. Jawad was the last ParalympicsGB lifter to compete in the 2008 Games.

Rugby: Britain went down fighting against Australia in their last group game to finish second in the pool. They play group A winners USA in the semi-finals tomorrow.

Swimming: David Roberts and Ellie Simmonds lived up their billing winning 50m freestyle and 400m freestyle golds respectively. Simmonds won her second and Roberts his fourth of the Games to take Britain’s tally past 40 – the pre-Games target.

Table tennis: Britain’s surviving table tennis teams lost to top ranked opposition France and Italy and will now play in classification games to determine minor places.

Tennis: Peter Norfolk retained his Paralympic Games quad singles title with a commanding 6-2, 6-2 victory against Sweden’s Johan Andersson.

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