GB's Wiggs retains Paralympics canoe title

Britain's Emma Wiggs retained her canoeing VL2 (va'a) title for her 3rd Paralympic golden badge overall.

The 44-year-old came location successful 58.88 seconds complete nan 200-metre people astatine Vaires-sur-Marne.

Jeanette Chippington, nan oldest personnel of nan ParalympicsGB squad successful Paris astatine 54, was 4th successful 1 infinitesimal 2.41 seconds.

Wiggs and Chippington, competing successful her eighth Games having made her debut arsenic a swimmer successful 1988 successful Seoul, are owed to characteristic successful kayak events connected Sunday.

Wiggs has 4 Paralympic medals, having taken golden successful nan KL2 (kayak) astatine Rio 2016 earlier a metallic successful Tokyo successful 2021.

Dave Phillipson secured metallic successful nan men's KL2 race, clocking 42.43 seconds, conscionable complete a 2nd down Australia's Curtis McGrath, who won his 3rd consecutive title.

Phillipson, 35, was competing successful his 2nd Paralympics arsenic a canoeist aft 3 arsenic a wheelchair tennis player.