Tokyo 2020 Paralympics LIVE: David Weir eliminated from 5000m T54 after swimming golds for Great Britain

27 Aug 2021

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Great Britain’s Kadeena Cox won gold with a stunning world-record ride in Tokyo on Friday. She went on to defend her Paralympic title in the C4-5 500m time trial.

Elsewhere, Jaco van Gass clinched his second medal of the Games with bronze in the C1-3 1000m time trial and both sprinter Maria Lyle and powerlifter Olivia Broome won bronze for Great Britain.

Meanwhile, Reece Dunn broke his own world record to win S14 200m freestyle backstroke gold, moments after GB teammate Hannah Russell retained her S12 100m backstroke title.

China gave some power packed performances with Xia Zhou finishing in world record time in women’s T35 and Dong Feixia winning gold in discus.

Great Britain has retained second place in the medal table as day three continues. British Paralympians have so far won 28 medals, only behind China’s 45 medal haul.

Paralympics 2021: Latest Day Three updates

Reece Dunn breaks own world record for backstroke gold
Hannah Russell also wins backstroke gold to retain title
Kadeena Cox wins time-trial gold in world record
Great Britain’s Maria Lyle wins bronze in 100m
Lee Pearson wins 12th Paralympic gold in dressage

Jawad wins ‘medal in life’ after inspirational journey to Tokyo 16:50 , Dylan Terry

The old Ali Jawad is dead and now comes a new life for the powerlifting king, whose next goal is to try to feel well again.

The 32-year-old was not at his fourth Paralympic Games for a medal, and he didn’t get one. He was in Tokyo to prove that he could conquer Crohn’s disease and reach the biggest stage in his sport.

Jawad did just that, successfully lifting 163kg and then 164kg, before trying and failing at 166kg and exiting the competition in sixth place.

“I’m very proud to have made it here because I was never supposed to make it,” he said. “I said all along my medal was to get here and I’ve done that. I don’t have to have a medal around my neck to represent the journey that I’ve been through.

“I’ve managed to take Crohn’s to the very limits of what anyone’s been able to take it before, and managed to survive and I’m here. I’m very proud.”

Ali Jawad wins ‘medal in life’ after inspirational journey to Tokyo

Cox on being first black Para-cyclist to win gold 16:10 , Dylan Terry

Kadeena Cox has opened up about becoming the first ever black Para-cyclist to win gold at the Paralympic Games.

The Brit said: “Just do everything you want to do, I set up the KC Academy to get more black people into cycling. You can’t be it if you can’t see it.

“I totally expect there to be a young boy or girl seeing me and going on to be better than me and that’s what I want to see.”

Butterworth targets more Paralympic success in snowboarding 15:30 , Dylan Terry

Four-time Paralympic medallist Jon-Allan Butterworth is relishing some danger and unpredictability after joining GB Snowsport’s Para Snowsport world class programme.

Butterworth, who won three silver medals at London 2012 and gold in Rio in 2016, retired from professional cycling in December last year and was initially looking forward to snowboarding simply for fun.

But the 35-year-old is now targeting success in the Para Snowboard discipline at the 2026 Games in Italy after instantly rediscovering his love for competitive sport.

He said: “I wanted to try to go to Tokyo and defend the team sprint title but going through two Paralympic cycles was quite mentally taxing.

“It got to the point where it was difficult to find the motivation to stay at the top. A bad day was a silver and you lost the initial new sport feeling. It felt like more of a slog trying to get back to your best.

“My first rehab event back in 2007 just after I lost my arm was snowboarding and I kind of classed myself as a recreational snowboarder. I had a real passion for it, but cycling always got in the way.

“It always clashed with the paracycling programme and there was always a risk of injury so I was looking forward to retiring so I could snowboard. I never thought of the possibility of switching over.

“The only other sport I was thinking about was taekwondo. I got offered triathlon and I thought that’s not my bag at all. I’d probably swim around in circles and my running’s not very good.

“So I got in touch with the (snowboard) coaches and expressed an interest and went back in the dome as soon as it reopened after Covid and it was instantaneous. I got that excitement back for a sport that I realised I had lost a little bit in cycling. I got that kid-like joy in doing something.”

Paralympics schedule for Saturday 28 August 15:10 , Dylan Terry

Saturday 28 August

1am-6.55am: Archery at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
1am-3.45am: Goalball at Makuhari Messe Hall C
1am-3.35am: Swimming at Tokyo Aquatics Centre
1am-7am: Table tennis at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
1am-5am: Wheelchair basketball at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza & Ariake Arena
1am-7am: Wheelchair basketball at Makuhari Messe Hall B
1.30am-4.50am: Athletics at Olympic Stadium
1.30am-6.20am: Boccia at Ariake Gymnastics Centre
1.30am-5.10am: Rowing at Sea Forest Waterway
2am-5.15am: Track cycling at Izu Velodrome
2am-3.30am: Sitting volleyball at Makuhari Messe Hall A
2.30am-5.30am: Judo at Nippon Budokan
3am-2pm: Wheelchair tennis at Ariake Tennis Park
3.30am-8am: Wheelchair rugby at Yoyogi National Stadium
5.15am-8am: Goalball at Makuhari Messe Hall C
6am-7.30am: Sitting volleyball at Makuhari Messe Hall A
6.45am-10.45am: Wheelchair basketball at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza & Ariake Arena
8am-12.50pm: Boccia at Ariake Gymnastics Centre
8am-10.40am: Judo at Nippon Budokan
8.30am-1.30pm: Table tennis at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
8.30am-1.15pm: Wheelchair fencing at Makuhari Messe Hall B
9am-2.10pm: Equestrian at Equestrian Park
9am-12.40pm: Swimming at Tokyo Aquatics Centre
9.30am-1.55pm: Archery at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
9.30am-1.45pm: Goalball at Makuhari Messe Hall C
9.30am-1.45pm: Wheelchair rugby at Makuhari Messe Hall C
10.30am-2pm: Sitting volleyball at Makuhari Messe Hall A
11am-2pm: Athletics at Olympic Stadium
12.30pm-2.15pm: Wheelchair basketball at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza & Ariake Arena
10.30pm-3.10pm: Triathlon at Odaiba Marine Park

Paralympics athletics codes explained: T12, T35, T38 and more 14:30 , Dylan Terry

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will play host to more moments of sporting drama when the Paralympic Games begin on 25 August following the opening ceremony.

The para athletics events will be held at the Olympic Stadium from 27 August with a packed schedule of heats and finals across both track and field events through until the final day of the Games on 3 September.

Like all sports at the Paralympics, para athletics uses classification to place athletes into categories based on the impact of their impairment. The codes used to display the classification are made up by a prefix and a number.

Find out all you need to know through our extensive article below.