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sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s austin halewood. good afternoon. well, it s been a golden second day of the paralympics for the brits in tokyo. they ve shot up the medals table with five more golds two of them came within the space of 20 minutes in the pool. maisie summers newton set a new world best time to win the sm6 200 meters individual medley, atjust 19 years old. great britain s flagbearer for the opening ceremony, ellie simmonds who was going for a third consecutive gold in the same race could only manage fifth. while tulley kearney made up for the disappointment of her narrow defeat in the 55 200m freestyle on wednesday, with victory in the 100m freestyle event in a world record time. former soldierjaco van gass, who was injured while serving in afghanistan in 2009, beat team mate fin graham in the final of the c3
he suffered life changing injuries. now here he was on one of sport s biggest stages chasing his team mate fin graham in the pursuit final. it proved some tussle but van gass edged clear and held his nerve. triumph for the 35 year old and another addition to his extraordinary cv. he s previously trekked to the south pole with prince harry. now alongside his team mate he can celebrate another famous feat. and there were two more silvers in the cycling forjody cundy who became the first british man to win medals at seven paralympics and for aileen mcglynn and her tandem pilot helen scott. and over at the pool there was soon even more to celebrate. maisie summers newton was inspired to swim by watching ellie simmonds in 2012. now she was racing against her hero and beating her. simmonds fifth in the individual medley, summers newton a glorious first.
heat and went head to head for the gold medal in the final 3000 metres individual pursuit. it was jaco van gass who took the gold and fin graham who is only 21 years old to the silver medal. jody cundy had to settle for silver because spain broke the world record and took the gold medal. flan broke the world record and took the gold medal- broke the world record and took the old medal. . , ., , ., , ., gold medal. can you update us on the covid-19 just a data son covid 19. yes, we have seen seven positive cases, there is a mixture of athletes, support staff and coaches, but we had andrew parsons, the president of the international paralympic the international pa ralympic committee, the international paralympic committee, say in the opening ceremony that they are making these games as safe as possible, they are in the athletes, they are in a controlled environment, they are testing every day, we are here on the ground, and we do feel safe, we are doing tests ourselves and we are
gb dominating in the pool today. absolutely. the world records were falling. maisie summers smashed the world record in the 200 metre individual medley. in the heat in the morning, ukraine broke the world record but in the final, she had to settle for silver. ellie simmonds who won the gold in rio finished in fifth place. also in the swimming pool fifth place. also in the swimming pool, tully kearney broke the world record, laid right from the start, but the gold medal because last night she lost by 0.12 of a second the silver. , night she lost by 0.12 of a second the silver. ~ ,., ., ., the silver. also dominating in the velodrome- the silver. also dominating in the velodrome. we the silver. also dominating in the velodrome. we saw the silver. also dominating in the velodrome. we saw world - the silver. also dominating in the| velodrome. we saw world records the silver. also dominating in the - velodrome. we saw world records this mornin: , velodrome. we saw world records thi
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