Seven of the best stories from a brilliant Paralympics

The 2024 Paralympics successful Paris person travel to an extremity aft 11 days of thrilling sporting action.

For Great Britain, it was a Games to remember. ParalympicsGB won 49 golden medals arsenic portion of a full badge haul of 124.

In and retired of nan sporting action, location were galore moments that will unrecorded agelong successful nan memory, some for those successful action and those spectating.

Here are a action of those moments from nan past week and a half successful Paris.

In wheelchair tennis, GB’s Alfie Hewett earned a golden and metallic badge double successful nan last days of nan Paralympics.

Hewett, 26, won his men’s doubles last pinch Gordon Reid connected Friday - having mislaid 3 Paralympic finals crossed nan erstwhile 2 Games successful Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Upon victory, he waved his racquet successful nan aerial and embraced Reid pursuing a triumph he described arsenic nan "stuff of dreams".

He was backmost successful singles action connected Saturday and having suffered a groin wounded successful nan opening game, and past mislaid nan first group 6-2, came backmost to return Japan’s Tokito Oda to 3 sets.

Hewett, who only needed a men’s singles golden to complete a profession group of accomplishments, won nan 2nd group 6-4, and past had a lucifer constituent successful nan decider - but Oda came from 5-3 down to triumph it 7-5.

While Hewett would person hoped for 2 golds, his back-to-back medals and doubles golden are reward for a subordinate who has now featured successful 5 Paralympic finals.

The first of 2 Sundays astatine nan Paralympics produced 18 medals for ParalympicsGB, including 12 golds.

Not only was it their most successful time of nan Games, but nan astir successful this century.

There was an moreover divided crossed sports, pinch Para-rowing, Para-cycling, Para-athletics and Para-swimming each producing aggregate medals, including a first of nan Games for Hannah Cockroft successful nan women’s T34 100m final.

It was not conscionable individuals who stood out, pinch GB’s aureate Sunday including mixed double sculls, mixed coxed four, mixed squad sprint and mixed freestyle triumphs.

Great Britain started time 4 pinch 11 golds and 26 medals, ending it pinch 23 golds and 44 medals.

More than a 3rd of ParalympicsGB’s golden medals - 18 retired of 49 - came successful nan pool.

Great Britain’s young squad of swimmers included nan duo of Poppy Maskill, 19, and Alice Tai, 25, who won 5 medals each.

For debutant Maskill successful particular, it was a Games to remember. She entered 5 events and won 3 golds and 2 silvers crossed S14 individual events, arsenic good arsenic nan mixed squad freestyle relay.

There were 2 S12 golds for Stephen Clegg successful 100m events - nan backstroke and butterfly finals - adding to nan 3 medals he won successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

William Ellard, 18, won 2 golds and a silver, while Maisie Summers-Newton, 22, and Tully Kearney, 27, besides provided Great Britain pinch a brace of golden medals each.

Britain won swimming medals connected each 10 afloat days of nan Paralympics, each but 1 of which included astatine slightest 1 gold.

The opening time of nan Games successful Paris bought heartbreak from Kadeena Cox, 1 of ParalympicsGB's prima names heading into this summer.

In nan women’s C1-5 500m clip trial, wherever Cox was among nan favourites, she struggled to get hit connected nan motorcycle and fell disconnected wrong seconds of her start, incapable to decorativeness nan race.

Cox was helped disconnected nan way successful tears pursuing nan crash, which she described arsenic a “nightmare”.

Keen to dress up for her singles disappointment successful nan squad arena 3 days later, she helped GB triumph golden connected Super Sunday alongside Jody Cundy and Jaco van Gass successful nan mixed C1-5 750m squad sprint final.

Cox's golden was her seventh profession Paralympic medal.

ParalympicsGB's squad consisted of a wide scope of knowledgeable competitors, arsenic good arsenic a look astatine nan adjacent generation, who delivered plentifulness of medals.

Sarah Storey extended her tally arsenic Great Britain's most-decorated Paralympian. At 46, she won golds successful nan women’s C4-5 roadworthy title and C5 clip trial, taking her to 19 Paralympic golds and 30 medals successful total.

Hannah Cockroft, 32, competing astatine her 4th profession Games, continued her cleanable grounds of T34 golden medals, winning complete 100 and 800 metres. All 9 of her medals person been gold.

While Storey and Cockroft were among nan acquainted faces to triumph medals, location was besides a look to nan future.

On nan aforesaid day, location were metallic medals for nan teenage duo of Iona Winnifrith and Bly Twomey. Winnifrith vanished 2nd successful nan women’s SB7 100m breaststroke final, while Twomey took Para-table tennis bronzes successful nan women's singles and doubles events, nan second alongside Felicity Pickard.

Winnifrith, aged 13, and Twomey, 14, were among those to show that ParalympicsGB has a agleam future.

Jodie Grinham won golden and bronze badge successful Para-shooting while 7 months pregnant.

She was first Paralympian known to person been pregnant while competing astatine a Games.

"As agelong arsenic I'm patient and baby's healthy, I knew we could compete,” Grinham said.

Tracy Otto of nan United States had a summertime successful Paris to remember.

Midway done nan Games, she announced that not only she had exchanged rings to partner Ricky Riessl nether nan Eiffel Tower, but that she, for illustration Grinham, was besides expecting her first child.

The 28-year-old confirmed nan news connected Instagram, captioning nan photograph "may not person won a badge coming but I americium going location pinch thing shiny".