Storey and Sandilands take GB to 38 golds in Paris

Sarah Storey and Ben Sandilands won quick-fire golden medals connected Friday greeting to return Great Britain’s tally to 38 golds astatine nan 2024 Paralympics successful Paris.

Storey, 46, won nan C4-5 women’s roadworthy race to declare her 19th profession Paralympic gold, edging retired France’s Heidi Gaugain astatine nan finish.

Sandilands, 21, group a caller world grounds successful nan men’s T20 1500m last to win connected his Paralympic debut.

Elsewhere successful Para-athletics, Marcus Perrineau Daley won metallic successful nan men’s T52 100m final.

In Para-table tennis, William Bayley booked a spot successful Friday night’s MS7 last to guarantee him astatine slightest a metallic medal.

Great Britain person won 87 medals truthful acold astatine nan Paralympics successful Paris, including 38 golds. Only China, pinch 74 golds and 167 medals successful total, are up of GB successful nan badge table.

On Wednesday morning, Storey won her 18th Paralympic golden badge successful nan women’s C5 clip trial, fending disconnected a situation from French teen Gaugain, 19.

The 2 did conflict again connected Friday, only this clip complete 71km alternatively than nan 14.1km and, again, Storey came retired connected apical against Gaugain.

Storey's French challenger was not calved erstwhile Storey claimed her 16th and last Paralympic badge astatine nan 2004 Paralympic games successful Athens, each of which were successful Para-swimming.

With conscionable 1 kilometre to go, Storey looked arsenic if she would person to settee for a metallic but fought backmost to fend disconnected Gaugain’s precocious onslaught and declare her 30th profession Paralympic medal.

Storey won by little than a 2nd pinch a clip of 1 hr 54 minutes 24 seconds.

Storey’s latest golden makes her only nan 4th Paralympian to triumph 19 profession golden medals.

In nan men’s C4-5 roadworthy title final, GB’s Archie Atkinson and Blaine Hunt started nan race, but did not finish.

Sandilands was nan first personnel of ParalympicsGB to declare a badge connected time 9 successful Paris.

The Scottish Paralympic debutant won nan men’s T20 1500m by much than 4 seconds. In doing so, he collapsed nan world record, antecedently held by Michael Brannigan of nan USA by a tenth of a second, successful a clip of 3:45.40.

ParalympicsGB’s 2nd badge connected nan way was won by Perrineau Daley, 35. Another Paralympic debutant, he crossed nan statement successful 17.27 seconds, conscionable complete half a 2nd down Belgian victor Maxime Carabin.

In nan women’s T20 1500m final, Hannah Taunton vanished successful 5th place, missing retired connected a badge by conscionable complete 9 seconds.

Jonathan Broom-Edwards missed retired connected a badge successful nan men's T64 precocious jump final, finishing successful 5th spot pinch a champion completed jump of 1.89m.

Transgender jock Valentina Petrillo is done to nan semi-finals of nan T12 200m aft finishing 3rd successful her heat.

The 51-year-old Italian vanished pinch a play champion clip of 25.95, conscionable complete half a 2nd down Simran of India, to suffice for nan semi-finals, which return spot astatine 18:42 BST connected Friday. The last is astatine 18:33 connected Saturday.

On Monday, Petrillo grounded to scope nan T12 400m last aft finishing 3rd successful her semi-final contempt signaling a individual champion clip of 57.58.

Bayley whitethorn not person a 2024 Paralympic badge astir his cervix conscionable yet, but a straight-game triumph complete Netherlands’ Jean Paul Montanus ensures he will extremity his MS7 men’s singles run pinch astatine slightest a metallic medal.

The 36-year-old, who has won 4 medals antecedently astatine nan Paralympics, won 11-7 11-6 11-2 against Montanus.

Bayley required only 20 minutes to group up a last against China’s Yan Shuo, who needed 5 sets to hit Charlempong Punpoo of Thailand.

That last is scheduled to commencement astatine 18:15 BST.

The British trio of Mark Tompsett, Louis Lawlor and William Ellard will each characteristic successful Friday’s men’s S14 100m backstroke last aft progressing done their heats.

Tompsett vanished 2nd fastest, pinch Australia’s Benjamin Hance faster by much than 2 and a half seconds, mounting a caller world grounds clip of 56.52 seconds. The last starts astatine 18:04.

Poppy Maskill and Megan Neave some won their heats successful nan women’s S14 100m backstroke to scope nan final, scheduled for 18:10.

Olivia Newman-Baronius will besides feature, finishing 2nd and wrong half a 2nd of Neave.

Maisie Summers-Newton is besides backmost successful action, competing successful nan women's S6 400m freestyle last astatine 16:51.

Bayley is not nan only personnel of ParalympicsGB guaranteed a metallic badge successful Para-table tennis. Robert Davies faces Cuba's Yunier Fernandez successful nan last of nan men's MS1 singles competition, group to commencement astatine 13:00.

In wheelchair tennis, nan British duo of Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are successful nan golden badge match, taking connected Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda of Japan.

Matthew Harding will beryllium portion of nan men's -80kg Para-powerlifting final, starting astatine 17:35.

The women's F46 javelin last takes spot connected Friday evening astatine 18:00, including GB's Hollie Arnold.