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Tanisha Stanton and Jon Healy

Tokyo Paralympics updates: Gold for Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relay 34 points team; Li Na Lei, Qian Yang win gold medals in table tennis

The Australian men's 4x100m freestyle team went one better than the women's 34-point team that won silver on Sunday. (Getty Images: Lintao Zhang)

Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relay team has won gold in world record time, while Li Na Lei and Qian Yang won gold in the Class 9 and Class 10 table tennis within an hour of each other at the Tokyo Paralympics.

In the athletics, Michael Burian threw an F44 world record in the javelin to claim silver.

Earlier, Timothy Hodge got bronze in the men's 100m backstroke S9, and Rheed McCracken claimed silver on the track in the men's 100m T34.

Check out our dedicated Paralympics page to stay across more key moments.

For information on classifications, check out our sport-by-sport guide.

Look back at all the action from day six in our live blog.

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By Jon Healy

We'll call it a night

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Just to recap, there were three golds, a silver and a bronze for Australia in tonight's session.

The men's 4x100m freestyle 34 points team got that superb gold in the relay, and Qian Yang and Li Na Lei won table tennis gold medals less than an hour apart.

We also saw Michal Burian pick up an F44 javelin world record on his way to silver, and Timothy Hodge got himself bronze in the 100m backstroke S9.

Tomorrow we'll have so much more Paralympic action, but it'll have to be pretty special to beat today's effort. Make sure you join us then.

By Jon Healy

ATHLETICS: Madison de Rozario misses out on automatic qualification, but reaches 1,500m final

Fresh off her 800m gold yesterday, Madison de Rozario is back for the T53/54 1,500m heats. She finished fifth in this event at Rio 2016.

She was up in the top two for most of the race, but American Tatyana McFadden came past her heading into the last lap. That was fine, with the top three finishers automatically reaching the final, but right on the line two other racers - Zhaoqian Zhou and Merle Menje - passed her.

The top three from each of the two heats, then the next FOUR fastest racers get through, and De Rozario's 3:36.49 is only just fast enough to qualify, but she didn't look thrilled with her race after the fact.

She is the last qualifier, with fourth, fifth and sixth in the second heat all going faster than her.

But De Rozario will have a chance to show what she's got in the final at 9:56pm tomorrow.

By Jon Healy

The fruits of their labours

What a swim.

By Jon Healy

ATHLETICS: Scott Reardon finishes fifth in the 100m T63 final

The reigning T42 gold medallist finishes fifth. He jumped out to a hot start but was overrun.

Russian gold medallist Anton Prokhorov came home in a world record time of 12.04 seconds, Vinicius Goncalves Rodrigues got silver for Brazil and German Leon Schaefer nabbed bronze.

Reardon did run a season's best of 12.43, so that's nothing to sneeze at.

By Jon Healy

WHEELCHAIR TENNIS: Dylan Alcott tears through quad quarter-final after Heath Davidson's loss

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Dylan Alcott beats American Bryan Barten 6-0, 6-1. So his quest for the Golden Slam looks in flying form.

Earlier, his doubles partner Heath Davidson went down in his quarter-final to Duthman Sam Schroder 6-2, 6-1.

By Jon Healy

Wow!!!! What a relay swim by the Aussies...breathtaking!!!! Gold Gold Gold

-stumcin
woohoo! gold for australia, what a relay!!! my heart is beating so fast

-world record

Speaking of the 34-point relay, the women's team are just now getting their silver medals. It seems any protests from Team GB or the US against their disqualifications have been rejected.

By Jon Healy

Key Event

SWIMMING: Gold for Australia in the men's 4x100m freestyle 34 points

Rowan Crothers, Will Martin, Matt Levy and Ben Popham have broken the world record.

The women's team won silver in the corresponding event last night.

Crothers and Martin, as S10 and S9 swimmers, built an enormous lead over the field and it was on S7 swimmer Levy and S8 swimmer Popham to hold the advantage.

Italian S10 swimmer Stefano Raimondi was mowing down Popham in the first 75 metres of the final leg, but the 20-year-old Popham held him off and came home in a world record time of 3:44.31 to break Italy's mark.

By Jon Healy

Key Event

ATHLETICS: Javelin world record and a silver medal for Michal Burian!

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He's jumped up to silver with his last throw!

The F44 world record of 66.29 metres means he's still behind Indian F64 athlete Sumit Sumit, who keeps breaking his own world records up there in the gold medal position.

By Jon Healy

WHEELCHAIR TENNIS: Heath Davidson drops first set of quarter-final

Davidson playing now?

-Tennis nut

He sure is, and he's dropped the first set against Dutchman Sam Schroder 6-2.

By Jon Healy

ATLETICS: Michal Burian in the bronze spot in F64 javelin

The Aussie F44 athlete has a best throw of 63.15 metres, which is just holfing down third spot ahead of India's Sandeep Sandeep, with a 62.20m throw.

By Jon Healy

Key Event

TABLE TENNIS: More gold for Australia with Qian Yang

Qian Yang gets gold in the Class 10 to go with Li Na Lei's Class 9 win.

Yang wins it 3-1 and she really had to hold her nerve in that fourth game. She was up 7-2 and Brazilian Bruna Costa Alexandre got it back to 7-7, but the Aussie hit back to win the game 11-9.

By Jon Healy

BOCCIA: Aussies go down in pool play

Spencer Cotie lost 4-3 to Great Britain's Scott McCowan, while Daniel Michel was beaten 3-2 by Brazil's Evelyn de Oliveira.

By Jon Healy

EQUESTRIAN: Emma Booth bumped out of the medals

Denmark's Tobias Jorgensen has just moved into the gold medal spot, pushing Booth down to fourth.

By Jon Healy

TABLE TENNIS: 2-1 to the Aussie in the Class 10

After dropping the second game, Qian Yang hits back by winning the third and takes a 2-1 lead. It's another banger of a match.

By Jon Healy

TABLE TENNIS: Qian Yang wins the first game

She fought of a match point and came back to win the first frame of the Class 10 gold medal match 13-11.

Remarkable effort.

By Jon Healy

EQUESTRIAN: Aussie Emma Booth second in the Grade III freestyle test

Her score of 73.807 on Zidane is just behind Belgian Barbara Minneci's 73.840 with half of the eight riders gone.

By Jon Healy

TABLE TENNIS: Qian Yang going for Class 10 gold

She's up against Brazil's Bruna Costa Alexandre, hoping to build on the gold won by Li Na Lei earlier tonight.

By Jon Healy

ATHLETICS: Michal Burian is up in the F64 javelin

And Sumit Sumit of India has kicked us off with an F64 world record throw of 66.95 metres.

Burian, an F44 athlete, starts his final off with a throw of 60.11 metres.

By Jon Healy

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL: GB beats Aussie Rollers by one point!

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Rough for Australia's men's team, who led for most of that game and only surrendered the lead in the final two minutes.

It's Lauren Parker in the triathlon all over again!

So GB goes top of the group and Australia sits third. USA can leapfrog both of them, plus Germany to take top spot with a win over Algeria tonight though, pushing the Aussies down to fourth.

By Jon Healy

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL: Great Britain takes the lead for the first time with 84 seconds left

Gregg Warburton only managed to knock down one of two free throws for Great Britain and it was 67-66 with two minutes left.

But big Lee Manning knocked down a basket in the last seconds of GB's shot clock to give Great Britain a 68-67 lead with 1:24 on the clock.

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