Venue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8 |
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Great Britain won three more gold medals as they passed the 100-medal mark on day 10 of the Tokyo Paralympics.
The golds went to canoeist Emma Wiggs and athletes Jonathan Broom-Edwards and Owen Miller.
Wiggs was victorious in the VL2 200m event – the first time that the Va’a boat, which is an outrigger canoe with a support float and is used with a single-bladed paddle – has been raced at the Paralympics.
She will aim to defend her KL2 kayak title on Saturday.
World champion Broom-Edwards, a silver medallist in Rio, went one better this time in the T64 category by clearing 2.10m with his second attempt for gold after he needed three efforts at 2.07m.
Miller, making his Paralympic debut, put in a strong final lap to win the T20 1500m in three minutes 54.57 seconds, ahead of Russian Alexander Rabotnitskii.
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