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Highlights from Day 3

Published 11 September 2016

Great Britain added three gold, two silver and three bronze medals to their tally yesterday in Rio, maintaining their second place position in the medal table behind China. 

Andy Lewis made history as the first ever para-triathlon gold medallist, while Hannah Cockcroft retained her 100m T34 title, one of five medals won at the Olympic Stadium.

Kadeena Cox completed a remarkable double in Rio as she added women's para-cycling C4-5 500m time trial gold to her 100m T38 bronze won just 24 hours earlier on the athletics track. 

She becomes the first British Paralympian to win medals in two different sports at the Games since Isabel Newstead won shooting bronze, and athletics silver and bronze, at the 1988 Games in Seoul.

More highlights from day three included:

Triathlon
It’s just over two years since Andy Lewis ran his first triathlon, and he's already won everything he can as world, European and now Paralympic Games champion.

Para-triathlon is making its Games debut in Rio and Lewis made history as he powered to an impressive victory in the men’s PT2 event, his winning time of 1:11.49 was nearly a minute quicker than silver medallist, Italy’s Michele Ferrarin. ParalympicsGB team-mate Ryan Taylor finished sixth over the demanding course around Rio's iconic Copacabana beach.

George Peasgood finished seventh in the PT4 race and ParalympicsGB team-mate David Hill came home tenth. Peasgood, the 20-year old former world bronze medallist, was leading after the swim and bike, but fell back on the run as German world champion Martin Schultz took gold.

Cycling
Megan Giglia continued her Rio 2016 campaign with a fifth-place finish in the women’s C1-2-3 500m time trial. Giglia, who claimed ParalympicsGB’s first medal in Rio on Thursday with gold in the 3000m individual pursuit, posted a time of 41.252 – a world record in the C3 category.

Athletics
Great Britain added three gold, two silver and three bronze medals to their tally yesterday in Rio, maintaining their second place position in the medal table behind China. Andy Lewis made history as the first ever para-triathlon gold medallist, while Hannah Cockcroft retained her 100m T34 title, one of five medals won at the Olympic Stadium.

Kadeena Cox completed a remarkable double in Rio as she added women's para-cycling C4-5 500m time trial gold to her 100m T38 bronze won just 24 hours earlier on the athletics track. She becomes the first British Paralympian to win medals in two different sports at the Games since Isabel Newstead won shooting bronze, and athletics silver and bronze, at the 1988 Games in Seoul.

Triathlon
It’s just over two years since Andy Lewis ran his first triathlon, and he's already won everything he can as world, European and now Paralympic Games champion. 

Para-triathlon is making its Games debut in Rio and Lewis made history as he powered to an impressive victory in the men’s PT2 event, his winning time of 1:11.49 was nearly a minute quicker than silver medallist, Italy’s Michele Ferrarin. ParalympicsGB team-mate Ryan Taylor finished sixth over the demanding course around Rio's iconic Copacabana beach.

George Peasgood finished seventh in the PT4 race and ParalympicsGB team-mate David Hill came home tenth. Peasgood, the 20-year old former world bronze medallist, was leading after the swim and bike, but fell back on the run as German world champion Martin Schultz took gold.

Cycling
Megan Giglia continued her Rio 2016 campaign with a fifth-place finish in the women’s C1-2-3 500m time trial. Giglia, who claimed ParalympicsGB’s first medal in Rio on Thursday with gold in the 3000m individual pursuit, posted a time of 41.252 – a world record in the C3 category.

Athletics
Sabrina Fortune marked her Paralympic Games debut with a bronze in the shot put F20, GB’s first athletics medal of the day. Fortune’s first effort of 12.33m kept her in third place for much of the competition before a huge final throw saw her break her personal best with 12.94m.

The team enjoyed another successful night with four more track and field medals won, including Hannah Cockcroft successfully defending her 100m T34 title. Cockcroft won her third Paralympic gold medal in a Paralympic record time of 17.42 seconds, with 15-year-old Kare Adenegan following her home to take silver in personal best time of 18.29.

Moments later that Paralympic debutants Toby Gold and Andrew Small won silver and bronze medals in the 100m T33 final in 17.84 and 17.96 seconds respectively.
Daniel Bramall also came fourth in 18.16 seconds in the final.

Reigning champion Richard Whitehead set a new Paralympic record in the 200m T42 heats as he safely progressed through to the final, with David Henson also making it safely through to join Whitehead after finishing third in his heat.

Swimming
Teenager Tai stunned with 100m backstroke S10 bronze. Alice herself didn’t even expect to make the ParalympicsGB team, but is now leaving Rio with a bronze medal after a storming swim in the 100m backstroke S10 final with a time of 1:09.39

Andrew Mullen secured a new personal best and European record, but missed out on a medal at the Olympic Aquatic Centre. The Scot, who won bronze in the 200m freestyle S5, clocked 36.32, three tenths of second behind Brazilian bronze medallist Daniel Dias.

Robinson didn’t add to her 50m butterfly S6 gold from 24 hours previously after finishing fourth in the 50m freestyle S6 final. The 15-year-old clocked 35.25 while four-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds, whose focus will be on the longer distances later in the Games, finished sixth in 35.54.

Rowing
Tom Aggar made it a full house of GB boats in Sunday’s rowing finals in Rio. He finished second in his men’s singles sculls heat on Friday, meaning he needed to progress through the second chance repechage. He won the race in style, ahead of rivals from the USA and Netherlands, putting him into today’s final.

Women’s single sculler Rachel Morris, a silver and bronze medallist in cycling at the Beijing and London Games, won her heat on Friday to progress straight to Sunday’s finals. Great Britain’s mixed double sculls and mixed coxed four crews were also confident winners, underlining medal hopes.

Shooting
ParalympicsGB marksman Matt Skelhon admitted it was back to the drawing board after failing to add to his medal tally in Rio. The three-time Paralympian won gold in the mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 event in Beijing and silver four years ago in London. But he was off the pace in qualifying in Rio, finishing 11th, with only the top eight progressing to the final.

Table Tennis
Kim Daybell made it two wins from two to top Group B and progress into the class 10 knockout stages, with Sara Head and Paul Davies also keeping their own singles campaigns alive. Two-time Paralympian Davies beat Dutch player Bas Hergelink 3-2 to add to his victory over Indonesia’s David Mickael Jacobs on Friday.

London 2012 singles bronze medalist Paul Davies is into the class 1 knockout stages after an impressive performance against Aloisio Lima from Brazil, which saw him save seven match points in the fifth game to triumph 3-2.

Wheelchair Tennis
Andy Lapthorne is looking ahead to a crunch semi-final clash with six-time Paralympic medallist David Wagner in the wheelchair tennis in Rio. The fourth seed progressed through his quad singles quarter-final with Australia’s Heath Davidson 6-1, 6-2 and American Wagner, a four-time Grand Slam champion, now awaits.

David Phillipson insists he and partner Marc McCarroll have nothing to fear ahead their second round wheelchair tennis men’s doubles match in Rio. They pair face France’s Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer, the top seeds in and red-hot favourites for gold, following a 6-4, 7-6 win over Chinese pair Shunjiang Dong and Zujun Wei.

Meanwhile, Lucy Shuker was a confident 6-2, 6-0 winner over Chile’s Francisca Mardones in the women’s singles. Shuker will now face top seed, Holland’s Jiske Griffioen, who won this year’s Australian Open and Wimbledon, for a place in the quarter-finals.

Powerlifting
There were sixth-place finishes for both Micky Yule and Natalie Blake in the men's -65kg and women’s -55kg powerlifting competitions respectively. Yule, competing in his first Paralympic Games, recorded a best lift of 180kg first up before failures at 184kg and 187kg. Gold went to Nigeria’s Paul Kehinde with a world record lift of 218kg.

Table Tennis
Sue Gilroy was the stand-out performer as four Brits progressed in their knock-out games on Sunday. Gilroy reached the semi-finals of the women’s class 4 singles for the first time with a win over the world number five from Germany, Sandra Mikolaschek. She will now play Borislava Peric-Rankovic from Serbia in Sunday's semi-final in a repeat of their 2014 World Championships semi-final which Gilroy won 3-2.

Basketball
The British men’s team made it three wins out of three in the wheelchair basketball competition with a 73-55 win over hosts Brazil at the Carioca Arena 1, while in the women’s competition, a strong third quarter performance helped them complete a 50-45 win over reigning Paralympic champions Germany.

Take a look ahead to Day 4 here.


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