ParalympicsGB historical past maker Rachel Choong, the primary feminine to characterize Nice Britain in Para-badminton at a Paralympic Video games, received her opening girls’s singles SH6 group match at La Chapelle Area.
Choong, 30, got here again from a recreation right down to beat Peru’s Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas in a decider to place herself on the right track for a spot within the quarter-finals.
Elsewhere, British Para-rower Benjamin Pritchard, fifth in Tokyo, set a Paralympics Video games finest time within the PR1 males’s single sculls heats in 8:51.26 to achieve the ultimate. There was additionally a world finest for Frankie Allen, Josh O’Brien, Giedre Rakauskaite, Ed Fuller and cox Erin Kennedy within the PR3 blended coxed 4, shaving greater than three seconds off their very own earlier report.
GB’s wheelchair rugby workforce adopted up victory over Australia with a slim 55-53 win over Denmark of their preliminary-round Group B match , whereas Para-archer Phoebe Paterson Pine beat Ecuador’s Diana Gonzabay Guaman to progress.
Zakia Khudadadi, from Afghanistan, turned the primary member of the Paralympic Refugee workforce to win a medal in Paris with bronze within the K44 -47kg Para-taekwondo class.
The 25-year-old, one in all eight members of the Paralympic Refugee Workforce, stated she hopes her achievement “sends a message for all of the refugees on the planet to observe hope, observe freedom and observe peace”.
