OLYMPIC 1,500m champion Matthew Centrowitz’s time would only have been good enough for FIFTH PLACE in the Paralympic race at the same distance. In one of the most incredible moments in Paralympic history, Algerian runner Abdellatif Baka led FOUR other runners who ran faster that Centrowitz. In fact, Baka’s time was a mammoth 1.71seconds better than the […]
THIS goal scored at the Rio Paralympics is one Lionel Messi would be proud of. Iran 5-a-side blind footballer Behzad Zadaliasghari dribbled around the entire Morocco team before firing past the keeper for the goal of the tournament so far. Picking up the ball at the side of the pitch, Zadaliasghari regains his balance by putting a […]
SWIMMING SUPERSTAR Ellie Simmonds last night produced another golden Paralympic moment. The 21-year-old became a legend of the sport by storming to victory in the women’s SM6 200m individual medley in Rio. Simmonds retained her Paralympic title in a time of 2min 59.81sec at a raucous Olympic Aquatics Stadium. This was Simmonds’ fifth gold medal […]
RICHARD WHITEHEAD helped make it a great eight for Britain last night on a Super Sunday at the Paralympics. The amputee sprinter stormed to victory in the T42 200m final to win GB’s seventh gold medal yesterday. And it was quickly followed by Joanna Butterfield, 37, who won Britain’s final medal of an epic day […]
ANDY LEWIS won gold for Team GB in the men’s PT2 Para-triathlon at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. Lewis secured Britain’s 13th gold of the games so far as he finished in 1 hour 11 minutes and 49 seconds in what is the first time the Para-triathlon has featured at a Paralympics. Lewis was over whelmed […]