Yahoo Sports ParalympicsGB win 30th gold on day six in Paris
Faye Rogers edged team-mate Callie-Ann Warrington to deliver Great Britain's 30th gold medal on day six at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Rogers, 21, overhauled Warrington to touch the wall first in the women's S10 100m butterfly final as both swimmers claimed their first Paralympic medals.
GB won six medals in total on Tuesday, with wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn winning her second silver of the Games in the women's T54 1500m and wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver taking silver in the men's sabre A category.
Natasha Baker and Georgia Wilson added bronzes in the individual grade III and II Para-equestrian events at the Chateau de Versailles.
Elsewhere, British tennis stars Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid progressed to the men's wheelchair doubles semi-finals, while Para-table tennis player Will Bayley reached the last four of men's MS7 singles.
Great Britain's men beat Australia in the quarter-finals of the wheelchair basketball to set up a semi-final against Germany.
Briton Zac Shaw, who contested the men's T12 100m final on Saturday, was upgraded to a bronze medal after Turkey's winner Serkan Yildirim was retrospectively disqualified.
GB are up to 61 medals, including their 30 golds - second only to China (115 medals, including 53 golds), the table-toppers at the past five Paralympic Games.
From Olympic trials to Paralympic champion
Three years have passed since Rogers competed at the Olympic trials for the Tokyo Games.
Unable to qualify, that September, she was injured in a car accident which left her with permanent damage to her right arm and, at the age of 19, she was initially told she would not be able to compete again.
But, having won world Para-swimming gold last year, Rogers was crowned Paralympic champion in Paris.
"It's exactly three years as of now since my accident, so it's a bit emotional," Rogers said after clocking one minute 05.84 seconds to pip Warrington.
"It's a big full circle moment and I couldn't be prouder of how far I've come. I couldn't have asked for more from the last three years."
Warrington was equally delighted with her silver after producing a personal best 1:06.41 to finish close behind her good friend Rogers.
"To be able to race against Faye is just everything. We have been saying to each other the last couple of months, 'come on, we can get the one-two'.
"It was lovely to have her next to me. We are very good friends until we get to the blocks, then we are competitors, and it's nice to be able to separate that."
'Buzzing' Kinghorn targets treble in Paris
GB's Kinghorn will target a Paris 2024 treble on Wednesday after winning her second silver at the Stade de France.
The 28-year-old finished second in the women's T54 1500m behind Catherine Debrunner on Tuesday - two days after finishing runner-up to the Swiss athlete in the T53 800m event.
On both occasions Debrunner set a Paralympic record to deny Kinghorn gold, and the Briton will once again come up against the triple Paralympic champion - chasing a fourth title in Paris - in the T53 100m final.
Kinghorn, who has presented Countryfile, said she stopped momentarily with 200m to go because she thought the race was over, but still powered home in a time of three minutes 16.01 seconds.
"Who would have thought a sprinter would get a medal over 1500m, I certainly did not," Kinghorn said.
"I got a bit disorientated and stopped at 200m to go because I thought we were done - it’s so loud in here which we’re not used to. That noise is absolutely electric and I’m absolutely buzzing to come away with a medal."
Gilliver 'gutted' but golden opportunities await
Gilliver became Britain's first wheelchair fencing champion for 33 years by winning the men's epee category A event in Tokyo - a title he will aim to retain on Friday after winning Sabre silver in Paris.
Now a five-time Paralympic medallist, the British 29-year-old beat Italy's Matteo Dei Rossi 15-8 in the quarter-finals before setting up a shot at gold with a narrow 15-14 win over Ukraine's Artem Manko at the Grand Palais.
But, having led 8-7, Gilliver lost out 15-8 to Germany's Maurice Schmidt in the gold medal bout.
"I'm pretty gutted. I hoped to win the gold but it didn't work out on the day," said Gilliver, world silver medallist and European champion in the event.
"The competition days are always really tough and it's hard to process. Once the Games come to a close, you can look back and be proud of winning a medal."
Baker 'juggling being best mum and best athlete'
Baker took her impressive tally of Paralympic medals to nine in the individual grade III event at Chateau de Versailles.
The 34-year-old, who has now won medals at the past four games, returned to action after the birth of her son Joshua in April 2023.
"I'm not as fit as I was in Tokyo, I'm juggling being the best mum I can be and the best athlete I can be," said Baker, who scored 73.167 on Dawn Chorus.
"The juggle is real, you know on your computer when you have a million tabs open, that's my brain at all times, anyone who is a mum will understand."
Her success was mirrored by Wilson in the grade II competition, with the Tokyo medallist coming in third with a score of 73.414.
What's happening on day seven at Paris 2024?
There are 63 gold medals to be won on day seven at the Paris 2024 Paralympics - you can follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app from 12:30 BST, along with reports on all the action.
Among the highlights from a GB perspective, Britain's most successful Paralympian Sarah Storey, a 17-time gold medallist, starts her Paris 2024 campaign in the Para-cycling road C5 time trial (from 07:00).
The women's B time trial features Tokyo silver medallists Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall, and 2023 world silver medallists Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl.
Ben Watson, Jaco van Gass and Fin Graham will aim for a clean sweep in the men’s C3 time trial, while Archie Atkinson contests the C4 event.
Wheelchair racer Kinghorn will hope to become the first non-Chinese athlete to win Para-athletics T53 100m gold for 20 years (19:08).
In the pool, Stephen Clegg targets the podium in the S12 100m freestyle final (16:30) while Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius are the fastest two in the world this year in the SM14 200m IM (16:50).
Powerlifter Zoe Newson seeks a third Paralympic medal in the -45kg division (16:00), while Para-equestrian rider Sophie Wells aims to win her seventh individual medal in the Grade V grand prix test (11:55).
Read our full day-by-day guide here.
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games medal table
