GB's Pritchard takes skulls gold at Paralympics

Great Britain's Ben Pritchard won Paralympic golden successful nan PR1 men's singles skulls pinch a sensational comeback triumph successful Paris.

The Welshman trailed Italy's Giacomo Perini during nan first 1500m of nan 2,000m event.

But Pritchard started his complaint pinch 500m to spell and eased to triumph successful nan location straight, finishing pinch a clip of 9 minutes 03.84 seconds.

Ukraine's Roman Polianskyi pipped Perini astatine nan decorativeness to return silver, finishing much than 10 seconds down Pritchard.

Pritchard's triumph was Britain's first successful nan section since Tom Aggar's golden astatine nan 2008 Games successful Beijing.