Paralympics Gold rush!!

Day 2 in Rio has seen the medals stacking up! Seven golds where won for team GB. Jonnie Peacock, Sophie Thornhill, Helen Scott, Jody Cundy, Georgie Hermitage, Sophie Hann, libby Clegg and Ellie Robinson all won Golds, Steph Slater, Steph Reid and Ali Jarwad won silver and Gemma Prescott, Zoe Newson, Susannah Rodgers and Lewis White won Bronze. Looking forward to watching more golds come rolling in!!

Day 4:- Well the medals tally keeps going up and up and after day 4 team G.B are riding sky high in Second with another 21 medals taking tally to 56 medals!! And by the end of day four medals where collected by:- Richard Whitehead, Beth Firth and Jo Butterfield who won golds. Jessica Apple-gate, Rebecca Redfurn and Thomas Hammer won Silver. And Dave Henson, Amy Marren, Josef Craig and Stephanie Millward won Bronze. Another great day for Team G.B!!

Well the medals keep coming thick and fast and on day 7 there where even more!! Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft both won their second golds of the Rio Paralympics, as GB surpassed their London 2012 total.

Paralympics GB's nine golds on Wednesday took their tally to 43, improving on their 34 four years ago.
In a prolific evening session, they won 10 medals in the space of an hour in swimming and athletics.

Cockroft won the T34 400m in a world-record time while Storey was victorious earlier in the C5 cycling time trial. She was one of three time-trial gold medallists for Britain, along with Karen Darke and Steve Bate.

Kadeena Cox set a world record of one minute 0.71 seconds to win the T38 400m in athletics, and Sophie Wells was victorious in the Grade IV dressage individual championship.

Britain had an excellent night in the pool with Aaron Moores pipping team-mate Scott Quin to gold for a one-two in the men's SB14 100m breaststroke and Michael Jones and Jonathan Fox taking first and second respectively in the men's S7 400m freestyle final.Hannah Russell added to the haul with gold and knocked nine tenths of a second off her own world record in the women's S12 100m backstroke.

Cockroft triumphed in the T34 400m on the track in a world record of 58.78secs, while her 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan finished third for her second medal of the Paralympics.

Day 8 brought more medals for Team G.B, sitting strong in 2nd place on the medal table with 107 medals total they are only 13 short of equalling the London 2012 total.

They are assured of reaching 50 gold medals on Friday when Wimbledon wheelchair tennis champion Gordon Reid plays compatriot Alfie Hewett in the singles final and the dressage mixed team have their title confirmed.
Reid and Hewett were beaten by France's Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer 6-2 4-6 6-1 in Thursday's doubles final.

Former swimmer Jeanette Chippington, who returned to the Paralympics after a 12-year absence, led a trio of successes in the canoeing.
Success was not long in coming on day eight, with Chippington clinching the KL1 canoe title on her return to the Games and team-mates Emma Wiggs (KL2) and Anne Dickins (KL3) also winning at Lagoa.

Ian Marsden (KL1) and Nick Beighton (KL2) picked up bronze medals to mark a successful conclusion to the Rio regatta for GB.

Well it's nearly the end of what has been an amazing Paralympics which has seen so many amazing moments and has everyone talking. So here's what happened on day 9.
The team have now won 126 medals, including nine more golds on Friday. Gordon Reid won the wheelchair tennis final, Hannah Cockroft clinched the T34 800m, there was swimming relay gold and Sophie Christiansen,Lee Pearson and Natasha Baker won in the dressage. Paul Blake took T36 400m gold, there was boccia success for David Smith, and John Walker landed archery gold.

Sophie Wells, 26, and 67-year-old Anne Dunham both won silver in the dressage, and silvers also went to T1-2 road cyclist David Stone and Andrew Marren, in the S5 50m backstroke. There was British medal success in the table tennis as Will Bayley, Aaron McKibbin and Ross Wilson won class 6-8 bronze in the team event.

The Briton finished behind Brazilian swimming superstar Daniel Dias, who won his third gold and seventh medal of the Games. The 28-year-old has now amassed 21 Paralympic medals in his career.
And discus thrower Dan Greaves maintained his record of having won a medal at every Games, by winning his fifth in his fifth Paralympics. This time it was bronze for the Leicestershire-born 33-year-old in the F44 final.
Britain have a total of 58 gold medals from these Games and reached the 50 mark when Blake won his T36 race in a time of 54.49 seconds - nearly a second clear of Ukraine's Roman Pavlyk and New Zealander William Stedman.

UK Sport set ParalympicsGB a target of 121 medals, which was achieved when Cockroft blitzed the field to win in the Olympic Stadium and team-mate Kare Adenegan took bronze.The team have also surpassed the 122 medals won at Atlanta 1996.

Today the Paralympics closes on what has been the most successful games since Seoul 1988.
However, the death of Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad overshadowed the action on Saturday. The 48-year-old suffered fatal injuries during a crash in the men's C4-5 road race.The Iranian Paralympic Committee said 'The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be inscribed in the proud history of Iranian Paralympics.' The Iran flag is flying at half mast at the Athletes village and a minutes silence will be held for Bahman at the closing Ceremony tonight.

Britain now have 147 medals - surpassing the 131 at Sydney 2000 - with six more golds won on day 10.

Cyclist Dame Sarah Storey led the way as ParalympicsGB achieved their best medal haul since Seoul 1988 on the final full day of action in Rio. Storey, Britain's most decorated female Paralympian, won her third Rio gold with victory in the women's C4-5 road race. She was one of six Britons to win on day 10 as ParalympicsGB's gold medal tally moved up to 64.Storey who finished the 75km in two hours, 15 minutes and 42 seconds, struck out alone to finish three and a half minutes before China's Jianping Ruan.

Her GB team-mate Crystal Lane, 31, took bronze which was her first medal of the Games.
Kadeena Cox, who became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics in Rio, pulled out of the race before the start, citing a hamstring injury.

Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby, who both won gold in the velodrome earlier this week, took bronze in the men's B road race (for the visually impaired).
There was a ParalympicsGB 1-2-3 in the W1 individual archery as Jess Stretton defeated Jo Frith in the final and Vicky Jenkins took bronze.

Sixteen-year-old Stretton beat 55-year-old Frith 137-124 in their final, and Jenkins defeated Kim Ok-geum of Korea 125-124 in the bronze medal match.

Frith had her starring moment later when both she and John Walker won the mixed team archery event with a 139-129 win over South Korea.

It was Walker's second gold of the Games after claiming the W1 individual title on Friday.

Britain excelled again at the Aquatics Stadium on the final day of competition
Northern Ireland's Bethany Firth, 20, blew away the field to win the SM14 200m individual medley and secure her third gold medal of the Games. Team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate took silver.

Mansfield's Ollie Hynd, 21, won his second gold by taking the SM8 200m medley title in a world record time of two minutes 20.01 seconds. And Hannah Russell also won her second title with victory in the women's S12 50m freestyle final.

Another double gold medallist, Stephanie Millward, took silver in the women's 200m individual medley with 18-year-old Tom Hamer powering to silver in the men's version.
Ellie Robinson, 15, won bronze in the S6 100m freestyle. Andrew Mullen, 19, added to his S5 50m backstroke silver and 200m freestyle bronze with third place in the 100m freestyle. Brazil's Daniel Dias won the race and his fourth gold of the Games.

But, from a British perspective, it was a swimmer two years younger than Robinson who stole the show. Scot Abby Kane, who turned 13 in August, produced a sensational performance to clinch silver in the women's S13 100m backstroke.

Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team won bronze by beating Turkey 82-76 in a thrilling finish.

Briton Maria Lyle, 16, won bronze in the women's T35 200m, to match her 100m run and add to her silver from the T35-38 4x100m relay.
Battling in lane six, she ran a superb bend to record a season's best 29.35 seconds, but saw the two competitors outside her vie for the gold, with China's Zhou Xia (28.22secs) pipping Isis Holt of Australia (28.79secs) in a new world record time.

In the sailing, Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell won bronze in the two-person keelboat and Helena Lucas repeated the feat in the one-person keelboat 2.4mR.