EACH day SunSport brings you right up-to-date with Great Britain medal winners at the London 2012 Paralympics.
DAY FOUR
GREAT BRITAIN'S LTA mixed coxed fours beat chief rivals Germany in a thrilling sprint for the line to win Paralympic gold.
David Smith, James Roe, Naomi Riches, Pam Relph and cox Lily van den Broecke added the Paralympic crown to the world title they won in Bled last year.
STEF REID set two new Paralympic records as she leapt to long jump silver at the Olympic Stadium today.
The 27-year-old, who lost her right leg below the knee in a boating accident aged 16, launched herself out to 5.28 metres only to be denied F42/44 gold by a whisker.
Reid, who competed for Canada at the Beijing Games, actually recorded a distance 90cm further than gold medallist Kelly Cartwright of Australia.
But with points rather than distances determining the final standings in the combined class event, she finished an agonising seven points adrift.
SOPHIE WELLS won Great Britain's third equestrian medal of the Paralympics at Greenwich Park today.
But the 22-year-old could not emulate her fellow Paralympic debutant Natasha Baker, who landed the Grade II individual title yesterday, in taking gold.
Wells, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, had to settle for silver behind Belgium's Michele George, a Grade IV result that was reversed from the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.
Wells, who was born with amniotic band syndrome that affects her joints, is such an outstanding dressage talent that she has also competed at non-disabled international level.
DAY THREE
RICHARD WHITEHEAD continued to push the boundaries of human achievement by racing to Paralympic gold in a new world record over 200 metres.
The Brit, who has completed 24 marathons since 2004, turned to the sprints after being denied the chance to race over the longest distance on the streets of London.
Whitehead, greeted by a huge roar from a packed Olympic Stadium, conquered the challenge in style by clocking 24.38 seconds to take the T42 category title by a huge margin.
SARAH STOREY claimed her second Paralympic gold medal of London 2012 in the women's C4/5 500m time-trial.
The swimmer-turned-cyclist clocked 36.997 seconds to triumph in the Velodrome in arguably the weakest of her four events.
The Manchester girl successfully defended her C5 3km individual pursuit title on Thursday’s opening day and today's gong was her ninth Paralympic gold of her distinguished career.
Storey is now set to turn her attention to the road race and road time-trial at Brands Hatch next week, where double gold would see her equal Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson’s British female record of 11 Paralympic gold medals.
JODY CUNDY bounced back from disappointment in his favoured event to claim bronze in the men’s C4 4km individual pursuit.
Cundy clocked 1:05.317 after 1km — a time which would have been good enough to win 1km time-trial gold on day two when officials ruled he could not restart — before catching Colombia’s Diego Duenas little more than a lap later.
NATASHA BAKER won Great Britain’s first equestrian gold medal of the 2012 Paralympic Games at Greenwich Park.
The 22-year-old, who is making her Paralympic debut, triumphed in the Grade II individual championship.
Baker, from Uxbridge in Middlesex, built superbly on her success at last year’s European Championships, when she took the individual and freestyle titles.
She scored a Paralympic Grade II record 76.857 per cent on Cabral to claim the title, but only after a powerful twin German challenge fell just short.
NEIL FACHIE and Barney Storey claimed ParalympicGB’s third track cycling gold of London 2012.
Fachie and Storey, the husband of Paralympic champion Sarah, set a new world record to storm to victory in the blind and visually impaired 1km tandem time-trial.
But there was mechanical heartache for Great Britain's Anthony Kappes and Craig MacLean who suffered two mishaps and were denied a third opportunity to start by race officials.
The duo, world champions in February, had been scheduled to start last but two chain failures saw their competition come to a premature end.
JON-ALLAN BUTTERWORTH claimed a silver medal in the men's individual C5 pursuit, finishing second behind Australia's Michael Gallagher in the final.
GEMMA PRESCOTT won a bronze medal in the F31/32/51 club throw.
The 28-year-old threw a new European record of 20.50 metres, equating to 1015 points.
JAMES BEVIS finished third in the final of the Mixed R5-10m Air Rifle Prone-SH2 with a score of 705.9 to take a bronze medal.
He lost his shoot-out for the silver medal with France's Raphael Voltz.
ROBIN WOMACK took a bronze medal in the men's shot put F54/55/56.
CLAIRE WILLIAMS won bronze in the women's discus F11/12.
MATT SKELHON claimed a silver medal in mixed R3 10m air rifle prone SH1.
ELLIE SIMMONDS claimed ParalympicsGB’s second gold medal in the pool of London 2012 when she triumphed in her S6 400 metres freestyle shoot-out against Victoria Arlen.
Simmonds demolished the American’s world record by more than five seconds.
She said: "I just went out there and gave it my all. I'm exhausted, I can't believe I did that. It was so tough."
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