Henshaw and Sugar help GB end Games with 49 golds

Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar won Para-canoeing golden medals connected Sunday arsenic Great Britain ended their 2024 Paralympics successful Paris pinch 49 golds.

Henshaw, 37, won her 2nd golden badge successful arsenic galore days during nan KL2 women’s 200m kayak singles, pinch Emma Wiggs taking nan metallic medal.

Meanwhile, Sugar, 33, won nan aforesaid arena successful nan KL3 category. Both she and Henshaw group caller Paralympic records arsenic they successfully defended their respective titles from Tokyo.

Great Britain’s last badge of nan time came successful nan men’s VL3 Va’a 200m singles final, pinch Jack Eyers winning silver.

ParalympicsGB ended their 2024 Paralympics pinch a full of 124 medals, including those 49 golds. Only China, pinch 94 golds and 219 full medals, won much during nan 11-day event.

Great Britain’s ParalympicsGB squad tin consciousness incredibly proud of their achievements successful Paris.

They will return to location ungraded arsenic 1 of only 3 nations to triumph much than 100 medals and, pinch 49 golds, person their 2nd champion haul of golds since nan 1996 Games. Only 2016’s full of 64 golds successful Rio de Janeiro eclipses this summer’s occurrence successful Paris.

ParalympicsGB won astatine slightest 1 golden badge connected each 11 days, including 12 connected ‘Super Sunday’ a week ago.

Of those 124 medals for Great Britain, 54 came from a operation of Para-swimming and Para-cycling events, pinch 18 much added successful Para-athletics.

The second-place decorativeness - down China and up of nan USA for a seventh consecutive Paralympics - represents different Games to remember.

And arsenic good arsenic nan haul of medals, nan 11-day arena has created countless memories for ParalympicsGB.

It has been a successful play astatine Vaires-sur-Marne Stadium for Great Britain, who won 7 medals crossed Para-canoeing events connected Saturday and Sunday.

Four of those came connected Sunday and, for Henshaw, it was a 2nd successful nan abstraction of 24 hours, having won golden successful Saturday’s women’s 200m Va’a singles final.

In nan aforesaid event, Wiggs picked up her 2nd badge of nan weekend. The 44-year-old vanished 2 and a half seconds down Henshaw successful a ParalympicsGB gold-silver double.

After winning his power pinch a caller Paralympic record, debutant Eyers, who successful 2017 became nan first amputee to beryllium named Mr England, won nan last of GB’s 124 medals of nan Paralympics connected Sunday.

Jeanette Chippington featured successful nan first last of nan day, finishing seventh successful nan women’s KL1 kayak singles 200m final.

Edward Clifton was besides successful last action. He vanished seventh successful nan men’s VL2 Va’a 200m singles final.

Ahead of Sunday night’s Paralympics closing ceremony, Para-swimmer Poppy Maskill and Para-taekwondo’s Matt Bush person been named arsenic Great Britain’s emblem bearers.

Maskill, 19, has been 1 of nan stars of nan Games. From her 5 events, she has won 3 golden and 2 metallic medals, making her GB’s astir successful Paralympic athlete.

Bush, 35, won golden successful nan men’s +80kg K44 final, his first Paralympic medal, having missed some 2016 successful Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo 3 years agone owed to injury.

The duo some made their Paralympic debut successful this year’s Paris Games.

The closing ceremonial is astatine Stade de France, starting astatine 19:30 BST. It will characteristic 24 artists from nan French physics euphony scene.

David Weir called clip connected his profession representing ParalympicsGB pursuing nan conclusion of nan T54 men’s marathon connected Sunday morning.

Weir, 45, vanished 5th successful nan marathon, which was won by Switzerland’s Marcel Hug.

After Weir’s seventh Paralympics came to a close, he retired from GB competition that has included 10 Paralympic medals - six of them golden - aft making his Paralympic debut astatine Atlanta successful 1996.

Weir, who is besides a six-time world champion, cited nan T54 marathon being removed from nan World Championship schedule among his reasons for retiring from world competition.

“I knew earlier I came to Paris and I’ve been reasoning astir it each week... It’s nan correct decision,” said Weir.

“We don’t person marathons astatine Worlds immoderate more. That’s nan arena I want to do. I don’t want to title connected way immoderate more.”

In nan women’s T54 marathon, GB’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper did not finish, having completed much than half of nan 42.2km course. Switzerland’s Catherine Debrunner won nan title to return her sixth badge and 5th golden of nan Games.