Key events
That’s it from me. Thanks for reading, and for your emails. Check in tomorrow for another day of Paralympic action. Here is the latest medal table.
Our report on the various triathlons from earlier today.
USA’s Roderick Townsend is men’s high jump champion again!
With his hair colored in a design reminiscent of the eyes in a Picasso painting, Team USA athletics captain Roderick Townsend was ready to go for a three-peat at the Paralympics.
“I’m a showman,” Townsend said, explaining the hairstyle he had done at a salon in Paris. “Had they been out there booing me? I’d probably still be jumping.”
Instead of booing, the Stade de France crowd followed Townsend’s every command, sitting quiet or cheering, as he won the T47 high jump finals on Sunday night, notching a 2.12-meter (6 feet, 11.5 inches) jump and collecting his third straight gold medal in the event. The T47 category is for competitors who have either lost part of an arm, or have low to moderate movement problems in one arm.
Here are some of the best photos from Paris today.
Great Britain have beaten France in the men’s wheelchair basketball, the game finishing 85-50. Some of the shooting is absolutely astounding from the three-point line. That means GB finish unbeaten in the pool stage for the first time since 1968. They are one of the favourites for the gold, with the quarter-finals to come next.
Gold for Japan, who win the wheelchair rugby final!
Many of the Japanese fans are in tears as the players celebrate their 48-41 victory! Katsuya Hashimoto is an absolute superstar, surely the player of the match. Japan’s first ever gold medal in the wheelchair rugby.
This is the story of how USA reached the final of the wheelchair rugby final, although it looks like the Americans are going to have to settle for silver – they trail Japan 40-47 with just over a minute remaining.
That’s swimming done for the day
In the final swimming race of day five, Australia win gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay – 34 points final. Netherlands take silver, Spain bronze.
Hello everyone. The wheelchair rugby gold medal match between Japan and USA is on an absolute knife-edge. Japan are 33-30 ahead in the third quarter. The USA’s Lee Fredette has just hit the deck after a particularly brutal collision. Wow.
The USA have won a medal at every Paralympic Games since Sydney 2000.
Time to hand back to Michael for the rest of the evening’s action …
In the men’s F64 javelin final, India’s Sumit Antil has defended his Tokyo title with a Games record throw of 70.59m. That is India’s third gold medal of these Games, with Avani Lekhara (shooting) also defending her gold from 2021.
Sri Lanka’s Dulan Kodithuwakka, who won bronze in Tokyo, goes one better with silver – his country’s first-ever Paralympic silver medal. Australia’s Michal Burian, second in 2021, has to settle for bronze this time.
The penultimate medal in the pool has just been won – it’s gone to Brazil’s Gabriel Araújo in the men’s S2 200m freestyle final. It’s his third gold of the Games and takes Brazil’s gold medal tally at these Games to 11.
Jonnie Peacock tells Channel 4: “I was so happy with that first 60 metres, but then I just lost it … it’s a lack of practice, I think. I just needed to finish how I started. [My mindset] before the race wasn’t great … I’ve been trying to find my form for the last five years. It’s almost like this race has come too soon.”
Now this is interesting: Peacock saves his final words for the Diamond League, for not regularly including para-sprinters. He addresses Seb Coe straight down the lens: “put us in the Diamond League! We deserve to be there. Not when the cameras are off … people want to see us race.”
Gold for Costa Rica! Guity Guity is unstoppable, powering home in 10.65, a new Paralympic record! Manu dips to beat defending champion Streng on the line, with Johannes Floors in fourth and Peacock settling for fifth.
They’re away first time, Streng leading from Peacock, who starts to tire at 60m … and Costa Rica’s Sherman Guity Guity is coming through on the outside, alongside Italy’s Maxcel Manu …
No let up in the action here, as we’re off to the Stade de France for the 100m T64 final, with Jonnie Peacock part of an elite field led by Germany’s Felix Streng.
As Macqueen wipes away tears and Hadi Nori stares into the middle-distance, a nice moment as Iran’s Fatema Hemmati comes over to hug Jodie Grinham and offers a pat of her baby bump.
Grinham: “We trained hard, we knew we could do it.” Macqueen adds: “We’ve both got kids now, so there’s a lot of sacrifice. But this makes it all worth it.” Grinham adds: “We’re parents and we get to come here and do this and be this, it’s very special.”
Britain’s Macqueen and Grinham win archery gold
This is quite literally the business end, and the British pair land 10s, exchanging a fist-bump as the gold draws close. They’re left needing 17 points from their last two shots … Nathan Macqueen hits 10, so Jodie Grinham only needs seven … and she hits a 10. Why not! Great Britain win 155-151, and it’s an emotional moment for both gold medallists.
In the third end, Iran’s Nori looks to the skies after hitting only an eight – but Macqueen does the same. Grinham tidies things up with a 10, and Fatema Hemmati follows suit. It’s another eight for Nori, though, and Britain lead 115-113 with one end to go.
A quick update from the Stade de France, where Brazil’s Jerusa Geber dos Santos and her guide have set a world record in the women’s 100m T11 semi-final – racing home in a time of 11.80 seconds.
The British pair lead after the first of four ends, but Iran pull things back in the second – even with Grinham hitting a pair of 10s – and it’s 77-all at halfway. Truly, it could not be closer …
Up next: Jodie Grinham and Nathan Macqueen go for gold in the mixed team compound open archery, up against Iran’s Hadi Nori and Fatemeh Hemmati.
Grinham, who is seven months pregnant, has already made a piece of Paralympic history with bronze in the women’s event.
Here’s a selection of the best pictures from day five – and more will be added later.
Thanks, Michael. I bring you news of another gold in the pool – Dmitrii Cherniaev, who is Russian but competing here as a neutral athlete, has won the men’s 100m breaststroke S4, just failing to break his own world record in the process.
Going to hand over to Niall McVeigh for a bit. Enjoy!
Ukraine’s Ihor Tsvietov storms to T35 100m gold!
The 30-year-old comes home in 11.43 seconds, also a lifetime best! It took a while for Tsvietov to get into his groove, but he looked so relaxed as he crossed the line. Artem Kalashian, who won bronze at Tokyo, took silver (also in a lifetime best) and Dmitrii Safronov came third.
The athletics is underway at the Stade de France! And it starts with a bang. We’ll have the men’s T35 100m final now, and then Jonnie Peacock will go in the men’s T64 100m final at 6.50pm BST. Peacock has already heaped pressure onto himself, but only qualified for this final as the fifth quickest qualifier.
Nathan Macqueen and Jodie Grinham are through to the archery final of the mixed team compound open! They are guaranteed a silver at least and will face Iran in the final, which is due to take place in about 20 minutes from now.
British tennis player Alfie Hewitt, who earned a career grand slam with a Wimbledon wheelchair singles title earlier this summer, is through to the men’s singles quarter-final here, after a straight sets victory over Japan’s Daisuke Arai.
A reminder that Jodie Grinham became the first openly pregnant woman to win a Paralympic medal on Saturday after winning a shoot-off for bronze against fellow Briton and great friend Phoebe Paterson Pine in the women’s archery individual compound open. Grinham is seven months pregnant, what a story!
In the archery mixed team compound open, Great Britain’s Nathan Macqueen and Jodie Grinham are attempting to qualify for the final, which would guarantee them a silver medal at least. They are currently leading Italy pair Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonacina by five points with just one end to go.
GB’s Louise Fiddes shocks the field to win the women’s SB14 100m breaststroke final!
Wow, what a turn up for the books. Brazilian twins Débora Carneiro and Beatriz Carneiro were seen as the favourites here, and both had a strong opening 50m, but Fiddes was so strong off the turn, and pulled away in the final metres to secure another gold for GB.
Fiddes:
I genuinely can’t believe it. Ahhh … everything … there are so many years where I thought my dream was slipping away. I’m in great shape, but that was pure determination.
Fiddes was in tears of happiness for much of that interview. God, I’ve gone again.
Fiddes is roommates with Ellie Challis, what a party it is going to be tonight. The expression on Fiddes’ face when she finished that race and looked up to the screen at the result was absolutely priceless. She was open-mouthed and in complete shock.
That’s Canada’s first gold of the Paralympics, for Canada’s Nicholas Bennett in the men’s SB14 100m breaststroke final! Canada have had four silvers and six bronzes but Bennett is supreme here, beating Australia’s Jake Michel, while Japan’s Naohide Yamaguchi, the champion in Tokyo, has to settle for bronze.
The swimming finals are coming thick and fast. Britain’s Harry Stewart is next in the men’s SB14 100m breaststroke final but it’s a very competitive field.
Ellie Challis!
I was very confident. A PB is all I could ask for. But wow, that was a good swim. Para sport is so different, you never know what the year is going to hold. This has been the most amazing day ever. That was fun! I want to say a big thank you to my dad and my sister. I couldn’t have done it without my coach [Aled Davies], I couldn’t have done it without him.
Gold for Ellie Challis in the women’s S3 50m backstroke!
The world champion, the European champion is now the Paralympic champion! Challis sets a lifetime best, a British record, as she romps home in 53.56!
Zoya Shchurova of the Neutral Paralympic Athletes won silver and Marta Fernandez Infante takes the bronze.
Here comes Great Britain’s Ellie Challis! She speeds into the swimming area atop Whirly, her blue scooter, and she is the overwhelming favourite to take gold here the women’s S3 50m backstroke final after taking silver in Tokyo as a 17-year-old. She is all smiles and brimming with confidence.
USA swimmer Morgan Stickney is an absolute superstar and has won the women’s S7 400m freestyle final! Stickney broke the Paralympic record in the heats and has done it again in the final as she claimed gold in just 4mins, 53.88secs. The 27-year-old won two Paralympic golds at Tokyo and adds to her collection here.
That’s 26 gold medals for GB at this Paralympics and 50 medals in total!
Boccia gold for Great Britain’s Stephen McGuire!
The Scot, at his fourth Games, is Paralympic champion! Chica simply had too much to do, and despite the Colombian putting on a fine display in the final he can only add two in the final end, which sees McGuire crowned as the winner 8-5! The 40-year-old looks to the heavens in celebrations as his supporters go mad in the stands. McGuire embraces Chica in an immaculate show of sportsmanship. Tears in my eyes!
Back at the pool, the men’s 400m freestyle S7 final kicks off our swimming medals.