Bahman Golbamezhad 48, an Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men’s C4-5 road race at the Rio Olympics. He suffered a cardiac arrest after the incident on a “mountainous stretch” of the circuit. According to a statement “ The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he…
Dame Sarah Storey, Hannah Cockroft Hannah Russell, Alex Zanardi all win gold GB won nine golds on Wednesday to take their medals tally to 43 at the Rio Paralympics 2016. Hannah Cockroft won the T34 400m in a world-record time of 58.78secs, her 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan finished thied for her second medal of Paralympics…
Sprinter Libby Clegg, 26 won gold in the T11 200m, Stephanie Milward won the S8 100m backstroke and Matt Wylie took gold in the men’s S9 50m freestyle. Earlier Georgie Hermitage, in T37, 400m, gold with a new world record of 1:43sec, Holli Arnold, 22 won gold in the F46 javelin with another world record…
Day 5 GB swimmers Sascha Kindred 38 clocked 2:38.47 seconds and Ellie Simmonds 21 clocked 2:59.81,swam a powerful final 50 meters to break world records in their respective SM6 200m medley races. Will Bayley and Aled Davies earlier took gold for ParalympicsGB in the class 7 table tennis and F42 shot put respectively. Susie Rodgers…
Britain claimed five more gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rachel Morris won the arms-shoulders single Sculls gold, Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley won the trunk and arms mixed double sculls and the mixed coxed four added a third gold for Paralympics GB. In track cycling Lora Turnham won the B 3km individual pursuit…
Sprinter Jonnie Peacock 23, won his T44 100m title, Great Britain’s seventh gold medal of an extraordinary second day of the Rio Paralympics 2016. Cyclist Sophie Thornhill, with pilot Helen Scott and Jody Cundy won gold medals in the Velodrome. They set the Games records in Women’s B 1000m time trial and Cundy who won…
Dame Sarah Storey (38) wins 3000m individual pursuit final C5 3km,, her 12th gold medal and surpassed former wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as Britain’s most successful female Paralympian . The 38-year-old swimmer-turned-cyclist. Storey qualified in a world record time of three minutes 31.394 seconds more than 17 seconds quickest than Crystal Lane in qualifying.…