Breen misses out on Paris medal despite dead heat

Great Britain's Olivia Breen missed retired connected a Paralympic badge by nan tightest of margins successful nan women's T38 agelong jump.

Breen's champion jump was 4.99 metres, level pinch bronze badge victor Karen Palomeque Moreno of Colombia. But because Palomeque Moreno's 2nd champion jump of 4.89m was longer than Breen's 4.79m, nan South American made it connected to nan podium.

There was amended news for ParalympicsGB team-mate Anna Nicholson, who said she was "over nan moon" to triumph bronze successful nan women's F35 changeable put successful abysmal upwind conditions successful Paris.

In a very bedewed greeting session, Nathan Maguire progressed from nan heats of nan men's T54 800m to Thursday night's final, but team-mate Daniel Sidbury withdrew from nan arena because of illness., external

Melanie Woods qualified for nan women's T54 400m last this evening, while Funmi Oduwaiye vanished 5th successful nan women's F64 changeable put final.

Breen, a three-time Paralympian, won agelong jump bronze successful Tokyo 3 years agone and had looked group to lucifer that aft mounting her champion jump pinch her first effort successful Paris.

But erstwhile Palomeque Moreno matched her pinch her 5th effort of six, it near Breen conscionable 1 chance to overhaul nan Colombian and move backmost into 3rd - and, stretching for nan other centimetre, she no-jumped and missed out.

"Obviously it's reliable coming fourth, but I did everything I could," she said. "It's conscionable a reliable 1 to swallow.

"I realised aft nan 5th round, I went up to my coach and was for illustration 'right, what tin I do?' Obviously I ended up being conscionable complete [the people connected her last jump]. But there's thing you tin do but conscionable dream for nan best, it is what it is, nan reality of agelong jump."

It is different disappointment successful Paris for Breen, who besides competed successful nan T38 100m.

The 28-year-old Welsh jock conscionable missed retired connected a spot successful nan last after finishing 4th successful her power and ninth overall.

Heavy rainfall fell passim Thursday greeting successful nan French capital, pinch opinionated h2o coming connected nan way successful Stade de France.

But Nicholson made ray of nan conditions arsenic she threw 9.44 metres - conscionable 0.03m short of her individual champion - to declare 3rd place.

Mariia Pomazan of Ukraine and China's Wang Jun were good up of nan section successful first and second, throwing 12.75m and 11.94 m respectively.

Bronze represents nan culmination of a beardown 3 years for Nicholson, since she vanished sixth successful 2021 astatine nan erstwhile Paralympics successful Tokyo.

The 29-year-old from Cumbria precocious group a caller PB astatine nan World Para Athletics Grand Prix successful Paris, adding 35cm to her erstwhile best, and each but matched that people erstwhile it counted successful nan Paralympic final.

"It's perfectly amazing. Honestly, nan difficult activity complete nan past 10 years has been wholly worthy it," she said.

"This has been specified a bully year, individual bests galore, truthful we knew if I went retired and did my champion past we stood a chance of a medal."

Thursday evening successful Paris will spot GB spell for respective golden medals.

Sammi Kinghorn, who won golden successful nan T53 100m connected Wednesday and 2 silvers earlier successful nan Games, intends for a 4th 2024 badge successful nan 400m.

Daniel Pembroke defends his men's F13 javelin title and 41-year-old Dan Greaves competes successful his seventh Paralympics successful nan men's F64 discus, while Maguire and Woods spell successful their finals.