Henshaw and Sugar retain Paralympic titles

Britain's Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar some retained their Paralympic titles successful awesome style arsenic nan Para-canoe events reached their climax successful Paris.

Former swimmer Henshaw claimed her 2nd Paris title arsenic she held connected to her kayak KL2 crown up of team-mate Emma Wiggs astatine a blustery Vaires-sur-Marne.

Sugar, a erstwhile sprinter, added to nan GB golden badge haul arsenic she secured back-to-back KL3 titles pinch chap Briton Hope Gordon fifth.

And erstwhile Mr England Jack Eyers clinched va'a VL3 metallic aft being edged retired by Ukraine's Vladyslav Yepifanov.

Henshaw, 37, who underwent elbow room a twelvemonth ago, had powered to a Paralympic grounds successful her triumph successful nan VL3 last connected Saturday.

And she was beardown from nan commencement successful Sunday's race, quickly building an advantage complete Katalin Varga of Hungary and transverse nan statement successful different Games champion of 49.07 seconds.

Varga momentarily stopped paddling mid-race allowing Wiggs to overtake her and decorativeness successful 51.56 to adhd metallic to her VL2 title.

"I raced past summertime pinch a really unhappy elbow and it was that flip up betwixt 'do I do it now and dream that I'll beryllium backmost successful shape for nan Games?' aliases 'do we consequence it and consequence not being present astatine all?'" Henshaw told Channel 4.

"I'm truthful grateful that group advised maine to do it erstwhile we could and erstwhile we did.

"I was a one-eventer successful swimming truthful I only ever sewage nan opportunity to title for 1 badge and erstwhile it came to this Games, I thought 'isn't it going to beryllium bully to get 2 bites of nan cherry?'

"The 2 golds was nan eventual icing connected nan barroom and to execute that is conscionable unbelievable, I'm conscionable immensely grateful."

Sugar was progressive successful a conflict early connected against location favourite and Tokyo metallic medallist Nelia Barbosa but erstwhile nan 33-year-old sewage up of her rival she was not going to beryllium stopped.

Her clip of 46.66 seconds - 1.25secs up of nan Frenchwoman - was a caller Paralympic best.