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Paralympics Paris 2024: Great Britain wins 30th gold on sixth day of Games
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Paralympics Paris 2024: Great Britain wins 30th gold on sixth day of Games

Faye Rogers defeated teammate Callie-Ann Warrington to win Great Britain’s 30th gold medal on the sixth day of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

Rogers, 21, overtook Warrington to touch the wall first in the final of the women’s 100m butterfly S10, giving both swimmers their first Paralympic medals.

GB won a total of six medals on Tuesday, with wheelchair Sammi Kinghorn won her second silver of the Games in the women’s 1500m T54 and wheelchair fencing Piers Gilliver He won silver in the men’s sabre A category.

Natasha Baker And Georgina Wilson In addition, there were bronze medals in the individual para-equestrian competitions of classes III and II in the Palace of Versailles.

Elsewhere: British tennis stars Alfie Hewett And Gordon Reid reached the semi-finals of the men’s wheelchair doubles, while para table tennis player Will Bayley reached the last four of the men’s MS7 singles.

The Great Britain men beat Australia in the quarter-finals of wheelchair basketball to advance to the semi-finals against Germany.

Brit Zac Shawwho competed in the men’s 100 m T12 final on Saturday, received a bronze medal after Turkish winner Serkan Yildirim was subsequently disqualified.

Great Britain now has 61 medals to its name, including 30 gold medals, putting it only behind China (115 medals, including 53 gold medals), the leader in the last five Paralympic Games.

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