Team GB at the 2024 Paralympics - Day 7

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Day 7 - 3rd September 2024

 

07:00 - Road Cycling - Women's C5 Time Trial - Final - Sarah Storey (GOLD)

07:27  - Road Cycling - Men's C2 Time Trial - Final - Matthew Robertson (5th)

08:02 - Road Cycling - Women's C1-3 Time Trial - Final - Dafne Schrager, Frances Brown (SILVER)

08:30 - Swimming - Men's 100m Freestyle S12 - Heats - Stephen Clegg (Q1)

08:45 - Swimming - Men's 200m IM SM14 - Heats - Will Ellard (Q5), Rhys Darbey (Q4), Cameron Vearncombe (Q6)

08:54 - Swimming - Women's 200m IM SM14 - Heats - Poppy Maskill (Q5), Louise Fiddes (Q6), Olivia Newman-Baronius (Q1)

09:00 - Table Tennis - Women's Singles WS6 - Quarterfinal -  Pickard vs  Ciripan

09:20 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S8 - Heats - Alice Tai, Brock Whiston

09:40 - Fencing - Men's Foil A - Round of 16 -  Lam-Watson vs  Sun

09:45 - Table Tennis - Women's Singles WS4 - Quarterfinal -  Shackleton vs  Peric-Rankovic

10:12 - Swimming - Women's 100m Freestyle S9 - Heats - Toni Shaw

10:30 - Boccia - Mixed Team BC1/BC2 - Quarterfinal -  vs 

10:40 - Fencing - Men's Foil B - Quarterfinal -  Coutya vs TBD

10:57 - Athletics - Men's Long Jump T38 - Final - Karim Chan

11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Quarterfinal -  Reid vs  Fernandez

11:00 - Tennis - Quad Doubles - Final -  vs 

11:00 - Tennis - Men's Doubles - Semifinal -  vs 

11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Quarterfinal -  Hewett vs  Spaargaren

11:15 - Table Tennis - Women's Singles WS7 - Quarterfinal -  Twomey vs  Sand

11:15 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS9 - Quarterfinal -  Stacey vs  Ma

11:55 - Equestrian - Women's Individual Grade 5 - Sophie Wells

12:30 - Road Cycling - Men's B Time Trial - Final - Steve Bate

12:51 - Road Cycling - Men's C5 Time Trial - Final - Blaine Hunt

13:11 - Road Cycling - Men's C4 Time Trial - Final - Archie Atkinson

13:25 - Road Cycling - Men's C3 Time Trial - Final - Finlay Graham, Ben Watson, Jaco van Gass

13:44 - Road Cycling - Women's B Time Trial - Final - Elizabeth Jordan, Lora Fachie, Sophie Unwin

15:00 - Basketball - Women's Tournament - Quarterfinal -  vs 

16:00 - Powerlifting - Women's -45kg - Final - Zoe Newson

16:00 - Boccia - Mixed Team BC1/BC2 - Semifinal - (P)

16:30 - Swimming - Men's 100m Freestyle S12 - Final - Stephen Clegg 

16:42 - Swimming - Men's 200m IM SM14 - Final - Will Ellard, Rhys Darbey, Cameron Vearncombe 

16:50 - Swimming - Women's 200m IM SM14 - Final - Poppy Maskill, Louise Fiddes, Olivia Newman-Baronius 

17:24 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S8 - Final - Alice Tai, Brock Whiston (P)

18:00 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS8 - Quarterfinal -  McKibbin vs  Zhao

18:00 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS1 - Table Tennis -  Major vs  Davies

18:35 - Swimming - Women's 100m Freestyle S9 - Final - Toni Shaw (P)

18:58 - Swimming - Mixed 4x100m Freestyle 49 Points - Final

19:08 - Athletics - Women's 100m T53 - Final - Sammi Kinghorn

 

 

Summary

 

Daily Medals - 1G 1S 0B - 2

Total Medals - 31G 19S 13B - 63

 

Tokyo Daily Medals - 3G 3S 6B - 12

Tokyo Total Medals - 29G 23S 28B - 80

 

GB Gold Medal events - 21

 

With Cycling back the gold chances seem much more plentiful, I predict 5 golds

Edited September 4 by TeamGB

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Sarah Storey safely on her way in her last race - leading at the first split according to the comms.

 

No, 7 seconds down!  

Edited September 4 by Grassmarket

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Takes it by 4 seconds!! 

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Dafne Schrager into Gold in the C1-C3 - mixed groups so a factored time.

 

Faith Brown beats it.....

 

just silver in the end.

 

Edited September 4 by Grassmarket

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Not such a great afternoon, but silver for Sophie Unwin & bronze for Laura Fachie in the Blind tandem TT.  

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1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Not such a great afternoon, but silver for Sophie Unwin & bronze for Laura Fachie in the Blind tandem TT.  

Not a single male medal in the road time trials. Suspect they may do  a little better in the road races. The factored C1-2-3 racing was a little unfortunate here for GBR, as the individual C1, C2 and C3s was a better scenario for them. Results pretty much in line with 2023 World otherwise, including Katie George Dunlevey getting a gold on the board for Ireland.

 

Beginning to wonder if the 100 target will be reached; the equestrians, cyclists are simply not the dominant forces of old, and Athletics is in a funk by the look of it. The Swimmers have performed wonders, but the remaining  timetable feels a bit light - that said, what's already been won is a perfectly respectable haul, just feels like the Olympic vibe is repeating itself - fast start, some near misses, lots of strong attempts, but maybe a bit of a fade coming at the end.

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17 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Not a single male medal in the road time trials. Suspect they may do  a little better in the road races. The factored C1-2-3 racing was a little unfortunate here for GBR, as the individual C1, C2 and C3s was a better scenario for them. Results pretty much in line with 2023 World otherwise, including Katie George Dunlevey getting a gold on the board for Ireland.

 

Beginning to wonder if the 100 target will be reached; the equestrians, cyclists are simply not the dominant forces of old, and Athletics is in a funk by the look of it. The Swimmers have performed wonders, but the remaining  timetable feels a bit light - that said, what's already been won is a perfectly respectable haul, just feels like the Olympic vibe is repeating itself - fast start, some near misses, lots of strong attempts, but maybe a bit of a fade coming at the end.

Canoeing is our last strong suit I think.

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Silver medal out of nothing for Rhys Darbey in the 200m IM.  

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Well, that's unblocked the sink a bit!  

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3 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Well, that's unblocked the sink a bit!  

Great result for Sammi, and great effort from Chan in the LJ - feeling much better about the athletics suddenly. And swimming has already pulled its weight, all these lovely silvers are gravy. Very happy with the Fencing, we have a decent shot at the gold in MC1 in the table tennis. I still think we might struggle to hit 100, but I'm oddly not that bothered - we're still doing brilliantly despite a fair few tough luck stories and a bit of a transitional feel in some sports (athletics, cycling and triathlon). WE've finished 2nd overall in every games for ages bar, bizarrely enough, London where we went as low as 3rd - I can't see us finishing below 3rd here at worst.

 

And perhaps as importantly, as a big fan of this event, the actual 'sport' has been better than ever - so many genuinely competitive events, so much sklll upgrade - some of the archery was simply astonishing, for example. Almost all the team sports comps have been really good -  wheelchair rugby was fantastic, as is the men's basketball, the goalball and the ever eccentric yet utterly wonderful blind football, where the close control skills would put many an able bodied sighted player to shame - the 'fat ronaldo' argentinian in particular is a god. so many track races have been close, so many swim races have had competition to the final metres, the track and road racing. The women's C4 triathlon was absolutely fantastic.