Paralympic Games 2024: Britain secures 30th gold on day six in Paris

Great Britain's Georgia Wilson waves whilst riding Sakura and Samantha Kinghorn after finishing second in the Women's 1500m. Credit: PA

ParalympicsGB have secured more medals on day six of the games after top performances in the equestrian, athletics and swimming.

Faye Rogers won the country's 30th gold in the women's S10 100m butterfly final. She beat out her team-mate and silver medallist Callie-Ann Warrington.

Earlier, six-time Paralympic champion Natasha Baker likened her horse to fictional nanny Mary Poppins after returning from pregnancy to win bronze in rain-soaked Versailles.

Team mate Georgia Wilson added another bronze in the class two category, emulating her achievement from Tokyo.

While wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn secured her second silver of the Paris Paralympics in the women’s T54 1500 metres.

Kinghorn previously claimed Great Britain’s first athletics medal of the Games by finishing second in the T53 800m on Sunday.

She said: “Who would have thought a sprinter would get a medal over 1500m? I certainly did not.

“I thought I’d be jostling for fourth, maybe squeeze a third."

The team took home six gold medals on day five of the Games, adding to the record-breaking 12 they secured on Sunday.

The wins place them firmly in second place on the medal table, behind China, with 30 golds, 18 silvers and 13 bronzes.

There are some 50 gold medals up for grabs on day six of the Paralympic Games in Paris, including the first in para-equestrian and wheelchair fencing.

Here, ITV News takes a look at who could bring home medals from ParalympicsGB on day six of the Games.

Swimming

Ellie Challis will be looking to follow up the gold she took in the women's S3 50m backstroke with a second medal in two days as she competes in the S3 100m freestyle.

Teammate Tully Kearney finished fifth in the women’s S5 50m backstroke. She said "It was a new event for me the backstroke isn't my strongest event, but I am happy with my performance".

She has already won gold in the 100m and 200m S5 freestyle.

Great Britain's Ellie Challis with her gold medal following the Women's 50m Backstroke S3 Final. Credit: PA

Grace Harvey was the only Briton not to progress from the heats this morning having missed out on the S6 50m butterfly but she will go home with a gold medal from the SB5 100m breaststroke, which she won on Sunday.

Faye Rogers and Callie-Ann Warrington took home gold and silver respectively in the women's S10 100m butterfly final.

Identical twins Eliza and Scarlett Humphrey competed in the 200m SM11 individual medley finishing sixth and seventh.

Para-equestrian

It was the first three finals in the para equestrian on Tuesday, with the individual dressage event finals in the Grades I-III classifications.

Natasha Baker fell short of securing her seventh Paralympic gold, instead picking up the bronze, after competing in the Grade III final.

Baker, who has golds in the individual event from London and Rio, as well as a silver from Tokyo, rode Dawn Chorus.

Tokyo bronze medallist Georgia Wilson rode Sakura in the Grade II final at 10.45am, as she secured her second podium in as many Games, claiming bronze.

Wheelchair-fencing

ParalympicsGB were chasing three wheelchair fencing golds on Tuesday.

Piers Gilliver is through to the men’s sabre A semi finals and is favored to win gold again like he did in Tokyo.

Gilliver, who has a World Championship silver and two bronzes in sabre, as well as two European golds.

Dimitri Coutya, who has individual bronzes in epee and foil from Tokyo, will go in the men’s sabre B competition from 12.30pm, ahead of the final at 19.50pm.

Gemma Collis is competing at her third Paralympics and looking to add her first Paralympic medal to her 18 World Cup medals.

Athletics

Sammi Kinghorn, who has a T53 800m silver to her name already in Paris, secured another silver medal in the women's TS4 800m final.

David Weir, who has Paralympic golds in this event from Beijing and London, will be joined by Nathan Maguire and Daniel Sidbury in tonight’s qualifying session.

Elsewhere, boccia, para table tennis, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball all continue.


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