Charlotte Henshaw and Laura Sugar won Para- canoeing gold medals on Sunday as Great Britain finished their 2024 Paralympics in Paris with 49 golds.
Henshaw, 37, won her 2nd gold medal in as lots of days throughout the KL2 females’s 200m kayak songs, with Emma Wiggs taking the silver medal.
Meanwhile, Sugar, 33, won the very same occasion in the KL3 classification. Both she and Henshaw set new Paralympic records as they efficiently safeguarded their corresponding titles from Tokyo.
Great Britain’s last medal of the day can be found in the guys’s VL3 Va’ a 200m songs last, with Jack Eyers winning silver.
Paralympics GB finished their 2024 Paralympics with a total amount of 124 medals, consisting of those 49 golds. Only China, with 94 golds and 219 overall medals, won much more throughout the 11-day occasion.
Eleven days and 124 GB medals later on …
Great Britain’s Paralympics GB team can really feel extremely pleased with their accomplishments in Paris.
They will certainly go back to home dirt as one of just 3 countries to win greater than 100 medals and, with 49 golds, have their second-rate haul of golds because the 1996Games Only 2016’s total amount of 64 golds in Rio de Janeiro overshadows this summertime’s success in Paris.
Paralympics GB won at the very least one gold medal on all 11 days, consisting of 12 on ‘Super Sunday’ a week earlier.
Of those 124 medals for Great Britain, 54 originated from a mix of Para- swimming and Para- biking occasions, with 18 even more included Para- sports.
The second-place coating – behind China and in advance of the United States for a 7th straight Paralympics – stands for one more Games to bear in mind.
And along with the haul of medals, the 11-day occasion has actually produced many memories for Paralympics GB.
GB cap it off with Para- canoeing golds
It has actually been an effective weekend break at Vaires- sur-Marne Stadium for Great Britain, that won 7 medals throughout Para- canoeing occasions on Saturday and Sunday.
Four of those began Sunday and, for Henshaw, it was a 2nd in the room of 24-hour, having actually won gold in Saturday’s females’s 200m Va’ a songs last.
In the very same occasion, Wiggs grabbed her 2nd medal of the weekend break. The 44-year-old ended up 2 and a fifty percent secs behind Henshaw in a Paralympics GB gold-silver double.
After winning his warm with a brand-new Paralympic document, debutant Eyers, that in 2017 ended up being the very first amputee to be called Mr England, won the last of GB’s 124 medals of the Paralympics on Sunday.
Jeanette Chippington included in the very first last of the day, ending up 7th in the females’s KL1 kayak songs 200m last.
Edward Clifton was additionally in last activity. He ended up 7th in the guys’s VL2 Va’ a 200m songs last.
Maskill and Bush called GB’s flagbearers
Ahead of Sunday evening’s Paralympics shutting event, Para- swimmer Poppy Maskill and Para- taekwondo’s Matt Bush have been named as Great Britain’s flag bearers.
Maskill, 19, has actually been just one of the celebrities of theGames From her 5 occasions, she has actually won 3 gold and 2 silver medals, making her GB’s most effective Paralympic professional athlete.
Bush, 35, won gold in the guys’s +80 kg K44 last, his very first Paralympic medal, having actually missed out on both 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo 3 years ago because of injury.
The duo both made their Paralympic launching in this year’s Paris Games.
The shutting event goes to Stade de France, beginning at 19:30 BST. It will certainly include 24 musicians from the French digital songs scene.
Weir calls time on Great Britain job
David Weir called time on his job standing for Paralympics GB complying with the verdict of the T54 guys’s marathon on Sunday early morning.
Weir, 45, ended up fifth in the marathon, which was won by Switzerland’s Marcel Hug.
After Weir’s 7th Paralympics ended, he retired from GB competition that has actually consisted of 10 Paralympic medals – 6 of them gold – after making his Paralympic launching at Atlanta in 1996.
Weir, that is additionally a six-time globe champ, mentioned the T54 marathon being eliminated from the World Championship routine amongst his factors for relinquishing worldwide competitors.
“I knew before I came to Paris and I’ve been thinking about it all week… It’s the right decision,” claimed Weir.
“We don’t have marathons at Worlds any more. That’s the event I want to do. I don’t want to race on track any more.”
In the females’s T54 marathon, GB’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper did not end up, having actually finished majority of the 42.2 kilometres program. Switzerland’s Catherine Debrunner won the race to take her 6th medal and 5th gold of the Games.
The last Paralympic medal table
