In the Women’s 100m Butterfly S14 event, Poppy Maskill from Middlewich bagged a gold medal.
This was the young lady’s first Paralympic Games and she achieved this feat when she was only 19 years old, clocking 1.03.00.
Doing so, the former swimmer from Northwich Centurions and Winsford Swim Team became the first ParalympicsGB gold medalist.
Maskill came to the Paris games as a multiple world champion paraswimmer in the S14 category for swimmers with intellectual disabilities.
After winning a set of medals of each color in her first international outing at the Madeira 2022 world championships,
Maskill followed it up with another successful tournament in which she won a medal in all five events at the Manchester 2023 world championships, including gold in the Mixed S14 4x100m Freestyle Relay event.
In Thursday’s (August 29) final, she was competing against fellow teammates ParalympicsGB , Louise Fiddes and the previous record holder Olivia Newman-Baronius.
Almost a second clear by the half-way stage, it never really appeared that the former Middlewich Rose Queen would not triumph.
She touched the wall first with 1 second. 03. 00, which is a third of a second ahead of the old record in the world.