Great Britain Celebrates Its Biggest Paralympic Wins in Over a Century

Great Britain Celebrates Its Biggest Paralympic Wins in Over a Century

Great Britain Paralympic Wins: Great Britain are on a roll, praising probably their best day at any Paralympic Games in a hundred years on Sunday.

The ParalympicsGB was awarded 12 gold medals—a record-breaking number of champions winning gold on a single day.

They had set a team record for golds in a day at the Games at nine at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2008.

The great victories placed Great Britain in the second rank in the medal tally with 23 gold medals all together in Paris and China is one rank ahead of Great Britain with the total of 33 gold medals.

Who won gold for Paralympics GB on Super Sunday?

Who won gold for Paralympics GB on Super Sunday?

Three rowing medals were secured in the day for Great Britain, in the form of gold medals by Lauren Rowles and Gregg Stevenson in the mixed double sculls and Ben Pritchard not just in the men’s single sculls categories but in the mixed coxed four as well.

Hannah Cockroft retained her women’s T34 100m crown, with Kare Adenegan finishing second to secure Great Britain’s first para-athletics gold of the games before Sabrina Fortune threw a new world record in the women’s F20 shot put at the Stade de France.

Maisie Summers-Newton won them in 50 and 200 breaststroke, Brock Whiston in 100 and 200 metre backstroke and Grace Harvey in 100 metre breaststroke. Britain’s added gold in the mixed S14 4x100m relay.

The last events of Para-track cycling competing in the velodrome yielded three more golds for Great Britain: the men’s B 1,000m time trial with James Ball and Steffan Lloyd.

In the women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit, Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl emerged as winners, while there was victory in the mixed team sprint in Jody Cundy, Jaco van Gass, and Kadeena Cox.

There was also silver for Sammi Kinghorn in the para-athletic women’s T53 800m and Annie Caddick and Sam Murray in the mixed PR3 double sculls.

Rick Adams