Key events
I’m also watching the men’s H3 and H4 para cycling individual time trial.
Back to the basketball, it’s now on Channel4 but way behind. The score is 16-16 with seven minutes left in the second quarter.
Coming up in the next bit:
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At 4pm, Zoe Newson goes for a third Paralympic medal in the powerlifting.
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At 4.30pm, Stephen Clegg goes in the S12 100m freestyle final.
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At 4.42pm, Rhys Darbey, Will Ellard and Cameron Vearncombe go in the men’s SM14 200m individual medley final.
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At 4.50pm, Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius go in the women’s SM14 200m individual medley final.
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At 5.24pm, Alice Tai and Brock Whiston go in the women’s S8 400m freestyle final.
And so on!
They’re not showing the basketball on the main channels but it’s on YouTube for anyone keen. With just over five minutes to go in the first quarter, USA ad GB are level at 4-4.
Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Linda Kelly of Ireland win gold in the Women’s B individual time trial
That’s Ireland’s first gold of the Games. Sophie Unwin of GB takes silver and Lora Fachie, also of GB, the bronze.
Thanks Yara and hi everyone. We’ve just joined our team of presenters at the pool, but GB women will shortly start their wheelchair basketball quarter against USA.
That is it for me today, thanks for joining me! Daniel Harris is here to take you through the rest of the day’s exciting action.
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Our picture desk has gathered the best images from today, including fencing, long jump, boccia and athletics.
My favourite is the only one not actually snapped in Paris. It is of the para taekwondo practitioner Palesha Goverdhan receiving a hero’s welcome at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal after winning her country’s first ever Paralympic medal.
Check out the rest of the snapshots here.
Wells wins bronze in equestrian freestyle grade V
Sophie Wells wins her ninth Paralympic medal, and her first bronze with a final score of 72.257. The medals are flying in for ParalympicsGB today.
Michele George of Belgium is the Paralympic champion, taking back to back golds after her Tokyo success. Her performance was very smooth and harmonious and takes her sixth Paralympic gold with a score of 76.692.
Germany’s Regine Mispelkamp takes silver with 73.231, bettering her bronze from Tokyo.
Equestrianism: Great Britain’s Sophie Wells, riding LJT Egebjerggards Samoa, scored 72.257% in her grade V individual test at Chateau de Versailles, putting the eight-time Paralympics medallist in bronze medal position. But there are still a few more riders to come.
ParalympicsGB’s Jeffery wins bronze in shooting, Ristic defends gold
Tim Jeffery of ParalympicsGB wins bronze in the mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 final, missing out on at least silver by 0.1 (less than a millimetre) in the shootoff. He looks relieved though, lifting his arm in the air and taking a big breath after leaving the range.
Serbia’s Dragan Ristic, 45, retains his title from Tokyo with a score of 250.2 and Vladimer Tchintcharauli of Georgia takes silver.
Shooting: Ryan Cockbill of Great Britain has just finished in fifth in the mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 final. It is his best showing at what is his fourth Games. Tim Jeffery of ParalympicsGB is still in contention for a possible podium finish.
Cycling: There may be no velodromes in Ghana but that has not stopped the country from sending a track cyclist to the Games. Frederick Assor and his pilot, Rudolf Mensah, loop the track on a brightly coloured tandem with spoked wheels and a Heath Robinson air.
Assor and Mensah finished last in the men’s B 4,000m individual pursuit on the first day at the track, their time of 6min 30.071sec, a Ghanaian and African record. They returned on Sunday, whooped along by the crowd, this time in the B 1,000m time trial, where they also finished last.
The huge gap isn’t much of a surprise: the bike Assor rides compared to the bikes of other nations is the difference between a pawing thoroughbred and a weary donkey.
Read more here on how Assor and Mensah hope their appearance in Paris can spark change despite their “very old bike”.
Wheelchair tennis: Earlier today, ParalympicsGB’s Alfie Hewett, the No 1 seed, breezed past the Netherlands’s Ruben Spaargaren 6-1, 6-4 in the men’s singles quarter-final.
Great Britain’s Gordon Reid will not join is compatriot in the semi-finals after falling to Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina 6-0, 7-6 (5).
The No 2 seed, Tokito Oda of Japan, qualified for the last four after winning 6-4, 6-1 against Tom Egberink of the Netherlands.
The final spot in the semis is being decided now, with Spain’s Martin de la Puente just taking the first set 6-2 against France’s Stephane Houdet.
Cui breaks Paralympic record and takes gold in powerlifting
Cui Zhe of China wins gold in the women’s up to 41kg at La Chapelle Arena, lifting a Paralympic record of 119. Esther Nworgu of Nigeria missies out by just 1kg, lifting 118 and takes silver while Brazil’s Lara Aparecida de Lima is the bronze winner with 109.
Abraham takes gold in men’s C5 individual time trial
Daniel Abraham of the Netherlands has just finished in the men’s C5 individual time trial results with the fastest time of 35:51.79 and will take his third Paralympic gold. Australia’s Alistair Donohoe finishes behind him by +26.87 and France’s Dorian Foulon takes bronze. Great Britain’s Blaine Hunt finished in 11th with a time of 42:22.07.
Goalball: Ukraine have just beat the defending champions Brazil in the men’s semi-final 6-4. Vasyl Oliinyk scored five times for the winners, who will meet one of China or Japan in the final.
Dame Sarah Storey continued her historic pursuit of gold upon gold, claiming her 18th Paralympic victory over nine Games as she won the women’s C5 time trial, but hit out at organisers for creating a course that was just half the length of the men’s.
Storey won the time trial by 4.69 seconds from Heidi Gaugain of France, having been seven seconds behind at the initial checkpoint at 5.8km. But that was the only check on the entire course, which ran just 14.2km in total, half the length of the race to be completed by male athletes later in the day. After the race, she said:
This is the shortest Paralympic time trial we’ve ever had and I think it’s a real shame because you don’t get to showcase parasport in the way that you want to. I’m very happy. I’m over the moon. But I know that there’s always ways to improve things.
Read Paul MacInnes’s full report from Clichy-sous-bois.
Preamble
Good afternoon, and welcome to day seven of coverage of action from Paris. As ever, a busy schedule, and plenty of gold, silver and bronze to go around.
It has already been an eventful day as Dame Sarah Storey picked up her 18th Paralympic gold after winning the women’s C5 individual time trial.
And more medals will be awarded today in wheelchair tennis, athletics, powerlifting.
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