Key events
These are always so good.
Fernando Rufino de Paulo of Brazil wins gold in the men’s VL2 200m Va’a single
Igor Tofalini of Brazil takes silver and Blake Haxton of USA bronze – between them was just 0.03 of a second.
De Paulo leads by miles and no one’s going to stop him today or any day.
Righto, here comes the men’s 200m VL2 final, Edward Clifton going for GB … but de Paulo of Brazil leads, Tofalini of Brazil behind him.
“I’m so proud of you, you’re amazing, well done.” We hear Henshaw and Wiggs share a moment, and isn’t that lovely? Henshaw absolutely annihilated the field there, though spare a thought for Katalin Varga, who lost the run of things mid-race and, in the process, a medal – probably silver.
Tayana Medeiros of Brazil wins gold in the women’s up to 86kg with a Paralympic record of 156kg powerlifting
Zheng Feifei of China takes silver and Marion Serrano Guajardo of Chile bronze.
Charlotte Henshaw of GB wins gold in the women’s KL2 200m kayak single
Emma Wiggs of GB takes solver and Aja Adler of Germany bronze.
Henshaw powers away from the field, Varga losing it and Wiggs second…
Back on the water, we’re away in the final, Henshaw zooming in front! Varaga is second, Wiggs third!
Now then! Medeiros attacks 156, a new Olympic record, if she bangs it she takes the gold-medal position … and she does! she’s overcome, her team mobbing her, and what an effort! i said the gold was almost decided and it was, but … it wasn’t!
Chippington tells Channel 4 she’d like to get to LA in four years; of course she would. Incredible behaviour.
Meantime, Feifei is trying to break her own world record of 159kg … and she cannot. But she and Medeiros will now go into the extra round of powerlifts wth the gold still not quite settled; the Brazilian is going for 156kg and if she nails it she wins!
Back to the women’s T12 marathon, El Idrissi finished time ago in a world-record time, and we can now confirm that Meryem En-Nourhi of Morocco takes siolver and Elena Congost of Spain bronze.
Henshaw, by the way, is the defending champion. But Wiggs is also an Olympic champ, and though Susan Seipel of Australia will have something to say, those two could easily contest the gold.
Back to the powerlifting, Zhang still leads on 155; I can’t see Medeiros, now on 142, bettering that, so the gold is almost decided.
Not long to go now! At 10.41, Wiggs and Henshaw will go in the final of the KL2 200m.
Katherinne Wollermann of Chile wins gold in the women’s KL1 200m kayak single
Maryna Mazhula of Ukraine takes silver and Edina Mueller of germany bronze. Chippington is seventh.
Mazhula of Ukrainie passes Wollermann who comes back at her!
They’re on the line … and off they go! Wollermann of Chile leads, Chippigton off it.
Just to give you a sense of her ridiculousness, Chippington won swimming golds in … 1996. I was 17 then, I’m 45 now, which I say just to give some scale to dedication and excellence that’s so immense it can be hard to grasp.
At 54, Jeanette Chippington is the oldest athlete in the GB team, and she will shortly go in the final of the KL1 canoeing – they’re scheduled to go off two minutes from now.
Fatima El Idrissi of Morocco wins the women’s T12 marathon in a world record time of 2:48.36
She has taken the field apart.
Fatima El Idrissi comes around the final corner on the verge of tears and rightly so. She’s going to win gold for Morocco and she’s going to devastate the world record too. She punches the air, and what a moment this is!
Also going on:
We’re just watching Jack Eyers go in the second semi of the men’s VL3 Va’a 200m sprint; he’s paddling like billy-o and he comes from behind to win in a Paralympic Games best of 48.59. The final is at 11.41.
Fatima El Idrissi will soon be the women’s T12 marathon champion. She’s eight or so minutes ahead of her teammate, Meryem En-Nourhi.
Back at the powerlifting, Zhang Feifei of China now leads with 150kg, ahead of Brazil’s Tayana Medeiros, on 137.
Then, in the KL2 final at 10.41, Charlotte Henshaw – the defending champ and VL3 200m champ – goes, likewise Emma Wiggs, who won the VL2 event. That should be a race.
Jeanette Chippington, the queen of the para-canoe, had a disappointment in yesterday’s VL2 200m, but she goes again in the KL1 final at 10.25am; stand by for that one.
Wajdi Boukhili of Tunisia wins gold on the T12 men’s marathon
Alberto Suarez Laso of Spain takes silver and El Amin Chentouf of Morocco the bronze.
Here comes Boukhili and he’s got a finger aloft, now a full arm! He’s going to win the T12 men’s marathon in fantastic style!
We’ve had almost two rounds of the 86kg powerlifting. Randa Mahmoud of Egypt leads on 128, miles ahead of Mayagozel Ekeyeva of Turkmenistan who managed 107.
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