rio, lauren steadman nearly retired. she will be glad she didn t. triumph in the triathlon and the biggest smile in tokyo. but there was british delight everywhere. at the rowing lake, lawrence whiteley celebrated his 30th birthday by retaining his double sculls title with lauren rowles, and the mixed coxed four also took gold. in thejudo, world number one chris skelly lived up to his billing as he took gold, as did britain s equestrian team, a title they ve won at every games since 1996. but among the glut of golds today, one was particularly special. britain had never won a medal in wheelchair rugby until now. few paralympic sports make quite such an impact. it s been described by one former player as chess with violence, and in the final against usa,
it s become one of british sport s most gloriously familiar sights. hannah cockroft has never lost at the paralympics and once again she did what she always does. a new world record! a sixth paralympic title for her, who prepared the heat of tokyo in a plastic greenhouse at her home in cheshire. we got up to 45 degrees one day, our hottest day here has been 44, so it worked pretty well. at times it felt stupid, it felt so silly to be doing it, but here we are and it has worked, so maybe that s the secret! others were on the road to redemption. after a mistake cost her gold in rio, lauren steadman nearly retired. she will be glad she didn t. triumph in the triathlon and the biggest smile in tokyo. but there was british delight everywhere. at the rowing lake, lawrence whiteley celebrated his 30th birthday by retaining his double sculls title with lauren rolls, and the mixed coxed four also took gold.
the hundred metres back in may and shaved more off it in tokyo today to win her third consecutive paralympic title in the distance. she finished three lengths ahead of fellow briton kare adenegan who took silver. next up for cockroft is the 800m metres which she describes as her comfort event. there was success for laura steadman in the ptss triathlon. she ended up a stunning 41 seconds ahead of defending champion grace norman of the united states. britain s claire cashmore took bronze and it was silver for george peasgood behind rio champion martin shulz in the men s race. there have been two rowing golds. gb pair laurence whitley and lauren rowles won the pr2 mixed double sculls and paralympics gb also triumphed in the pr3 mixed coxed fours. the quartet, which included rio gold medallist james fox finished over 11 seconds clear of closest challengers france, the medal count has gone up by 129 with a bronze in the swimming pool.
redemption. after a mistake cost her gold in rio, lauren steadman nearly retired. she will be glad she didn t. triumph in the triathlon and the biggest smile in tokyo. but there was british delight everywhere. at the rowing lake, lawrence whiteley celebrated his 30th birthday by retaining his double sculls title with lauren rolls, and the mixed coxed four also took gold. in the judo, world rolls, and the mixed coxed four also took gold. in thejudo, world number one chris skelly lived up to his billing as he took gold, as did britain s equestrian team, a title they won at every games since 1996. but among the glut of gold is today one was particularly special. britain had never won a medal in wheelchair rugby until now. few paralympic sports may quite such an impact. it s been described by one former player is chess with violence, and in the final british there were britain powered their way to victory and history. a golden
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