Jacob Steinberg reports from a dramatic day in Rio
That's it for tonight
Quite a day and the Paralympics are just starting.
So how are @ParalympicsGB looking after an EPIC Day 2 at the #Paralympics... #Supercharge pic.twitter.com/0Slp6GR4k8
— ParalympicsGB (@ParalympicsGB) September 10, 2016
Peacock collecting his gold
They just held the medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium and Jonnie Peacock has been given his gold medal. After a quick conversation with his fellow medalists they wrapped their arms around each other. A phone was produced and selfies taken. It’s that kind of a night.
Surprise upset in women's 100m
China’s Wenjun Lu has beaten world record holder Tatyana McFadden in the women’s 100m T 54 final.
Another medal for Great Britain
Swimmer Stephanie Slater has won the silver in 100 m s8. Ukraine’s Kateryna Istomina won the gold and the US’s Jess Long took the bronze. This has been quite a night for Team GB.
India wins their first gold
Hello from the US... A very cool moment, tonight in track that does not involve Peacock. India’s Marlyappan Thingualu has won his country’s first gold in these Paralympics taking the T42 high jump at 1.89m.
After winning, he headed to the edge of the track where he met fellow countryman Varun Singh Bhati the bronze winner to celebrate. Each wrapped a flag around themselves. Given that India came into these Games with eight medals alltime this is a huge night for India.
Time to hand over the baton ...
Les Carpenter in our American bureau will be closing out tonight’s blog, so stay tuned for the follow-up to Jonnie Peacock’s win on what has been a stunningly successful night for Team GB.
Peacock retains his title ...
His start was fairly slow, but once he hit his stride he pulled away from the rest of the field to win at a canter and take his second Paralympic gold.
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Jonnie Peacock destroys the field ...
Jonnie Peacock is the Paralympic champion, winning in a time of 10.81 seconds. New Zealander Liam Malone finished second, while Germany’s Felix Streng was third. Peacock’s great American rival Jarryd Wallace finished out of the medals, but Peacock has annihilated this field. He was the only competitor to run a sub-11 second time.
They're under starter's orders ...
Well, technically they’re not, but the eight sprinters in the men’s T44 100m final are being introduced to the crowd at the Olympic Stadium. They’ll go under the gun very, very shortly.
Jonnie Peacock runs soon ...
But in the meantime we’ve news of another medal for Team GB in the swimming pool. THe younbgest man on the British team, 16-year-old Lewis White from Derby has won bronze in the S9 400m freestyle. Good on him.
Viva John Terry!
Talk about downplaying your role... Chris Clarke describes his involvement in the #gold as @LibbyClegg's guide. https://t.co/EuWZmWhi5s
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) September 9, 2016
This from our man in Rio ...
Ellie Robinson picks up her gold medal
A new star was born in the Paralympic swimming pool tonight, when 15-year-old Ellie Robinson won the 50m butterfly S6 for Team GB. She’s just been presented with her gold medal and is now standing for the British national anthem. I’m pleased slightly disappointed to report that she did not wear her scary anorak, which looks like something a cross between Arsene Wenger and Emperor Darth Sidius might wear, on to the podium.
Now THIS is how you make an entrance... 👏👏👏 to @EllieRobinsonGB pic.twitter.com/vyGkYx0ogt
— C4 Paralympics (@C4Paralympics) September 9, 2016
Tatyana McFadden wins silver for USA
Wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden, a byword for versatility who began life in a Soviet orphanage before being adopted by the American mums who adopted her, came into these Games targeting seven gold medals in events from 100m to the marathon. She has not got off to the perfect start, finishing second in her first event, the 100m. She’s far from downbeat in her post-race interview and says she’s looking forward to a rare day off tomorrow before tackling her next six disciplines.
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This comment below the line made me chuckle ...
“The Dude is a weightlifting judge?” asks Pagey. “Didn’t recognise him without the bathrobe.”
More on Clegg's gold
She won her semi-final, was disqualified, reinstated, and now she’s triumphed in the final ... by the skin of her teeth. Libby Clegg wins gold, beating China’s Guonhua Zhou on the nod to win by two hundreths of a second. It’s her first Paralympic gold after winning silvers in Beijing and London. That’s three gold medals for Great Britain on the track so far this evening and Jonnie Peacock still has to line up in just under an hour.
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Libby Clegg wins gold for Team GB
Libby Clegg wins in a time of 11.96 seconds by just two one-hundreths of a second. That was tight!
Libby Clegg goes in T11 100m
It’s for visually impaired athletes who wear blindfolds and sprint with a guide. Clegg’s guide is Chris Clarke and the pair were disqualified after their semi-final, only to be reinstated on appeal.
There was a sad inevitability about this rick!
I was just reading through my entries from earlier this evening and realised I referred to Jody Cundy as “Jason”. Face-palm! My occasional colleague at Talksport, a former Chelsea footballer, will be pleased - he hasn’t seen his name up in lights for heroic sporting achievement for quite a while!
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Back in the velodrome ...
An overworked Team GB medal klaxon is sounded again, as Louis Rolfe, a 19-year-old Paralympic cyclist from Cambridge has just won the bronze medal race in the C2 3,000m pursuit. He beat Colombia’s Alvaro Becerra Galvis to make the podium.
Robinson wins gold for Team GB!
Ellie Robinson, who has a form of dwarfism, wins Team GB’s fourth gold medal of the night in a time of 34.58sec, beating Okshana Krul from Ukraine and Tiffany Thomas Kane from Australia into second and third. She’ll go again in the 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle.
Women's 50m Butterfly - S6
Ellie Robinson goes for Team GB in this one, while Nicole Turner represents Ireland. Robinson is 15, while Turner is 14.
China get a one-two-three in the men's 50m butterfly - S6
Xu Quing leads two of his compatriots home. He has half of one arm, while one of his compatriots has no arms whatsoever and appeared not to take a single breath during his swim. Crikey!
Coan takes gold!
McKenzie Coan wins the gold medal for the USA, while Susie Rodgers, who was born without a fully formed arm or leg on the left side of her body, wins bronze for Team GB to go with the three bronze medals she bagged at London 2012. Germany’s Denise Grahl finished second.
Over to the swimming pool ...
It’s time for the women’s 50m freestyle S7, where Americans Courtney Jordan and McKenzie Coan are the favourites for the gold medal.
Tonight's gold rush ...
Gold! Jody Cundy wins the men’s one kilomtre time trial C4-54
Gold! Georgie Hermitage wins the women’s 100m-T37
Gold! Sophie Hahn wins the 100m-T38
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Boom! Another gold for Team GB
Team GB win their third gold medal in what seems like as many minutes. Sophie Hahn, 19, has just won gold in the women’s 100m T38 with a time of 12.62sec. Her compatriot Kadeena Cox, who is also competing in cycling events at these Games, finished third. Team GB’s Olivia Breen finished third.
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Georgie Hermitage wins gold for Team GB
A latecomer to Paralympic sport after walking away from athletics 10 years ago, Georgie Hermitage has just set a new world record of 13.13 seconds in the women’s 100m T37 for athletes with cerebral palsy and similar mobility impairment. Hermitage decided to take up Paralympic sport after being dragged along to see Mo Farah compete at London 2012. At the time she was working in a brewery and barely kept fit. Now she’s in tears trackside giving her post-race interview.
Jody Cundy wins gold for Team GB!
Cundy wins gold with a new Paralympic record of 1min 02.473sec. He was ahead of Metelka from the gun, leading him at every split. Cundy wins gold for Team GB, Metelka takes silver and Cabello gets the bronze medal. After winning three silver medals at London 2012, Jon-Allan Butterworth finishes just off the podium tonight.
Jozef Metelka takes the lead!
Exciting stuff here, as Slovakia’s Jozef Metelka beats Cabello, relegating the Spaniard to the silver medal position and Butterworth to bronze. Jody Cundy is next up, looking to win the kilo gold he feels he was robbed of at London 2012.
Cabello breaks Butterworth's record!
Benefitting from a standing start that Butterworth didn’t have, Cabello beats Butterworth’s time and record at the earliest opportunity. He completes his time trial in 1min 04.494sec, two-tenths of a second quicker than Butterworth, to go into the gold medal position with just two riders left to compete. Jozef Metelka of Slovakia is next up. He has a prosthetic right leg.
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Butterworth sets a Paralympic record
Team GB’s Jon-Allan Butterworth pedals his way into the lead, setting a new Paralympic record of 1min 04.733sec for his four laps of the velodrome. He’s knocked over a second off his PB there. World champion Alfonso Cabello Llamas of Spain is next up.
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At the velodrome ...
We’re well into the men’s one kilometre time trial C4-5. Fifteen of the 20 riders have completed their laps, but Team GB’s Jody Cundy and Jon-Allan Butterworth are yet to go out. Having peen present at the velodrome for pretty much every single race during the Olympicas a few weeks ago, I am rather envious of those lucky enough to be there tonight. It was a real blast. Butterworth is next up - let’s see how he gets on. He lost his left arm in a rocket attack while serving in Iraq in 2007.
Team GB medal klaxon!
Congratulations to Ali Jawad, who has just won a silver medal in the men’s 56kg powerlifting. He hoisted a Paralympic record of 190kg, almost two of me and I’m carrying a fair bit of surplus timber, with his first lift, but was beaten by Egypt’s Sherif Osman, who immediately broke that record by lifting 203kg. Osman subsequently came out to lift a world record 211kg to take his third consecutive Paralympic gold. Jawad won’t mind - he suffered heartbreak at London 2012 when he finished fourth after having two crucial lifts dismissed.
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Effing and jeffing's Jody Cundy rides tonight ...
The English cyclist and former swimmer has amassed 21 Paralympic medals across six different Games is participating in the c4-5 one kilometre time trial in about 20 minutes, alongside fellow Team GB cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth. Four years ago, Cundy suffered a mishap at the start of this event and put on a spectacular exhibition of swearing when the commisaires refused to give a second opportunity to try his luck. Warning: the video below contains impressively entertaining potty-mouthedness.
Kiwi sprinter Liam Malone is quite the character ...
New Zealand Paralympic sprinter Liam Malone, a double amputee, qualified for the T44 110m final in fine style with a new personal best time of 10.90sec and said afterwards that he was unsurprised to have done so well and said it was “kill or be killed” out on the track. Asked how confident he was that he could win the final, his answer was interesting. “I’m not confident at all,” he said.
On Channel 4's The Last Leg
British long jumper Stef Reid, who won a silver medal today, is being interviewed on the Channel 4 Paralympics show and has just revealed she has six different prosthetic legs, including one with a high heel. When she was being fitted for it, she was asked if she wanted hair on it. She didn’t.
Good news on the ticket sales front
It has been revealed that the Rio 2016 Paralympics have become the second biggest Games ever in terms of tickets sold, overtaking Beijing 2008. More than 1.8m tickets have been sold. London 2012 currently holds the record, having sold 2.7m tickets. More than 144,000 tickets have been sold for various venues at Barra Olympic Park and the excellent news is that tonight and tomorrow night’s evening session of track and field have both sold out.
“Rio 2016 is quickly living up to its billing as the people’s Games,” said Craig Spence, the IPC’s Director of Media and Communications. “With Friday night promising some outstanding competition in athletics the sell-out crowd will certainly be in for some superb Paralympic sport. These Games have quickly gathered momentum and it is fantastic to hear the noise level the Cariocas are creating in each venue.”
Jonnie Peacock gets the Donald McRae treatment
Tonight’s star turn sat down with arch-interrogator Donald McRae in March for a fascinating interview.
Comments are on ...
Anyone who wishes to chip in below the line is now welcome to do so, as I’ve just been reminded to yank the lever that opens the comments floodgates. Perusing the comments section of the opening ceremony, I noticed a lot of our readers seemed to be labouring under the delusion that we would not be doing a liveblog during the Paralympics and were frothing at the mouth accordingly. tonight’s rolling report is dedicated to them.
Table tennis news
Sue Gilroy has beaten Pi-Chun Lu in her table tennis preliminaries. Barnsley born Gilroy, who is 44 and a full time primary school teacher, has Ehlers Danlos, a degenerative muscle and ligament disease, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome and players her table tennis in a wheelchair and was awarded an MBE several years ago in the Queens Birthday Honours List.
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Britwatch: today's medals so far
Great Britain are second in the medals table, behind China, going into today’s evening session. We’ve already told you about Sophie Thornhill and her guide Helen Scott winning gold in the B 1,000m time trial and Stef Reid taking silver in the the T44 long jump. THere were also bronze medals for Zoe Newson in the powerlifting and Gemma Prescott in the F32 club throw.
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This is what a Paralympic medal can mean - well done @zoenewson92 👍 👍 https://t.co/tjRqf1NFDA
— C4 Paralympics (@C4Paralympics) September 9, 2016
Peacock goes for glory at 9pm (BST)
Johnnie Peacock provided one of the highlights of the Paralympics at London 2012 when he won the T44 100m in front of a packed Olympic Stadium. He will attempt to defend his title at 11.53pm (BST). Despite the absence of his main rival Richard Browne, from America, Peacock will face stiff opposition in the form of Browne’s compatriot Jarryd Wallace, home favourite Alan Oliveira, South Africa’s Arnu Fourie and Germany’s Felix Streng.
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Reid wins long jump silver
Stef Reid has won her second Paralympic silver medal in the T44 long jump. Also a runner-up in 2012, Reid jumped 5.64m to finish second behind France’s Marie-Amelie Le Fur, who won with a world record leap of 5.83m. Marlene Van Gansewinkel of the Netherlands was third.
Gallagher adds summer bronze to winter haul
Sport-hopping Paralympian Jessica Gallagher has become Australia’s first athlete to win a medal at both a summer and winter Games. The para-cyclist, who had already claimed bronze at the past two winter Paralympics in the slalom, won her third in the women’s B3 1km time trial on day two of competition in Rio.
“I still can’t believe it. It seems like a long time coming after being banned from Beijing for not being blind enough,” she said. The Melbourne-based rider, who has a vision impairment, was selected for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games but was declared ineligible on the eve of competition, as her right eye was deemed 0.1 of a degree too sighted to legally compete. “It was so bizarre and just completely ironic. At the time it was just complete devastation,” she said.
Gallagher and her tandem bicycle pilot Maddie Janssen set a paralympic record on Friday (Saturday AEST) that was quickly eclipsed by British gold medal winners Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott.
Jason Smyth wins gold for Ireland
Jason Smyth won Ireland’s first medal of the Paralympics with gold in the T13 100m at the athletics stadium. Smyth is the fastest Paralympian in history after his win in 10.46sec at London 2012 and claimed a third straight title in the event he also won in Beijing. It was a fifth Paralympic gold for the 29-year-old from Londonderry, who has Stargardt’s disease, which causes progressive vision loss.
Sophie Thornhill wins velodrome gold
My life is complete!!! Wow! Thank you so much!! https://t.co/pgZSoHSBX2
— sophie thornhill (@SophieThornhill) September 9, 2016
@SophieThornhill Now it must definitely be complete! Congratulations on an amazing achievement, Sophie.
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 9, 2016
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