Paralympians amaze me

So the Paralympics are into day 3 as I write this and team GB are not letting us down, in fact they are amazing us.

At this precise moment team GB have won 34 medals, thats 9 golds, 14 silvers &  11 bronze.

So are our paralympians excelling in the same sports as our able bodied olympians? it certainly seems so. We Brits are incredibly good at cycling, which has so far accumulated 11 of the total medals.

So who needs mentioning, here goes ...

Congratulations to Mark Lee Colbourne who has won a gold and silver in track cycling.

also to Neil Fachie and Barney Storey who have won track cycling tandem gold with a world record.

 

and to Sarah Storey who has picked up 2 golds in track cycling and broken a world record.

Along with Mark Lee Colbourne's silver in track cycling there have also been silvers for:

Aileen McGlynn, 2 for Jon-Allan Butterworth & Shaun McKeown.

Bronze medals have gone to Jody Cundy & Darren Kenny.

Well done so far to all our team GB cyclist.

Athletics has so far picked up 6 of the medal tally.

Congratulations to Richard Whitehead who ran an absolutely amazing 200m to break the world record and take the gold.

Congratulations also to Hannah Cockroft on winning the gold in the 100m

Bronze medals have gone to Claire Williams in the women's discus throw, to Gemma Prescott in the women's club throw, to Robin Womack in the men's shot put F54/55/56 & to Aled Davies F42/44 Men's shot put.

The equestrians have continued where our able bodied equestrians left off with gold medal going to Natasha Baker for the Mixed Individual Championship Test - Grade II congratulations Natasha.

and well done to Lee Pearson who has picked up a silver in the Mixed Individual Championship Test - Grade Ib.

Ben Quilter has picked up a bronze in the Judo -60kg, well done Ben.

Power lifting has given us a medal as well, well done Zoe Newson on winning bronze in the -40kg class.

We have gained a silver & a bronze in the shooting. Well done to Matthew Skelhon on his silver & well done to James Bevis on his bronze.

In the pool team GB are excelling again where 11 medals so far have been won.

Congratulations to Jonathan Fox on winning gold in the 200m backstroke - S7

Congratulations to Eleanor Simmonds on winning gold, Ellie produced an astonishing swim to win gold in the S6 400m freestyle after smashing her own world record in a time of 5:19.17 to successfully defend her Paralympics title.

 
Silvers have gone to Stephanie Millward in the 100m backstroke - S9, to Nyree Kindred in the 100m backstroke - S6, to Hannah Russell in the 400m freestyle S12, to Heather Frederiksen in the 400m freestyle S8 & to Aaron Moores in the men's 100m backstroke - S14. Well done to them all. 

But ... it hasn't stopped there.

James Crisp has won silver in the 100m backstroke - S9 and Oliver Hynd has won silver in the 400m freestyle - S8, closely followed by his brother, Sam Hynd

who picked up the bronze. Matthew Whorwood has won bronze in the 400m freestyle - S6

In the time it has taken me to write this 2 more medals were won in the swimming, hopefully there will be more edits to come.

Come on team GB - you're all amazing.

Update: 01/09/12 18:43

Well done, Claire Cashmore, on your silver medal for the 100m breaststroke SB8

Update: 01/09/12 20:15

Well done to Samuel Ingram on his silver medal in the Judo Men's -90 kg

Update: 02/09/12 11:44

Well done Sophie Wells on winning silver in the equsetrian Mixed Individual Championship Test - Grade IV

Update: 02/09/12 12:28

Congratulations to Team GB Rowing Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe &  Lily van den Broecke.

Well done to Stef Reid on winning silver in the Women's Long Jump - F42/44

Update: 02/09/12 12:58

Congratulations to Aled Davies on his 2nd medal of the tournament. First it was bronze now it's Gold in the Men's Discus Throw - F42

Update: 02/09/12 14:37

We have a definite gold & silver in the men's cycling individual pursuit as we have an all GB final between Fachie & Kappes. In the best of 3 final Anthony Kappes with pilot Craig MacLean came out top winning the gold whilst Niel Fachie won the silver.

Update: 02/09/12 21:49


Have been out to the theatre for the evening so my updates are late tonight, but here goes:

Well done to William Bayley on winning silver in the Men's Singles - Class 7 table tennis.

Well done to James Clegg on winning silver in the 100m butterfly.

Congratulations to Jessica Jane Applegate on winning gold in the 200m freestyle - S14

Well done to Hannah Russell on winning silver in the 400m freestyle - S12 & also winning bronze in the 100m butterfly - S12

Congratulations on winning Gold, Sophie Christiansen in the Equestrian Mixed Individual Championship Test - Grade Ia 

Well done to Equestrian, Deborah Criddle, on winning silver in the Mixed Individual Championship Test - Grade III  

Well done to Eileen McGuin on winning bronze in the track cycling.

Silver medal also went to Team GB in the mixed cycling track

 

Well done to Graeme Ballard on winning silver in the Men's 100m - T36 

Another silver was picked in the Women's 100m T12, well done to Libby Clegg

And the final medal for 2nd September goes to, David Weir on winning gold in the men's 5000m T54 final, Congratulation.

Update: 03/09/12 14:32

Well done to Paul Davies on winning bronze in the Men's Singles Table Tennis - Class 1
  
Congratulations to Natasha Baker on winning her 2nd gold in the Equestrian Mixed Individual Freestyle Test - Grade II

 Update: 03/09/12 17:21

Well done to Lee Pearson on winning the bronze (he has now collected all 3 medals in this paralympics & has the set) in the Equestrian Freestyle Dressage.

Update: 03/09/12 17:38

Well done to Sascha Kindred on winning silver in the mens 200m individual medley SM6

Ellie Simmonds breaks the world record again to win her 2nd gold in the Women's 200m individual medley SM6. Congratulations Ellie. And well done to Natalie Jones on winning bronze also in the Women's 200m individual medley SM6.

Another medal in the pool. Bronze for Susie Rodgers well done

Update: 03/09/12 19:23

Congratulations to Micky Bushell wins gold in the men's T53 100m final. 

Update: 03/09/12 20:57

Well done to the Great Britain swimmers who won bronze in the women's 4x100m freestyle 34pts final.

Update: 04/09/12 11:20

Well done to Sophie Wells for winning silver in the Grade 4 freestyle dressage

Update: 04/09/12 12:19

The GB boccia BC1/2 team secure bronze medal. Well done to the the team of David Smith, Nigel Murray, Dan Bentley and Zoe Robinson.

Update: 04/09/12 12:40

Sophie Wells managed a personal best in the freestyle dressage but had to settle for silver. Well done Sophie

Update: 04/09/12 13:45

Well done to Matt Skelhon, who has claimed his second medal of the Paralympics Games, a bronze in the R6 50m Rifle Prone SH1 final

Update: 04/09/12 15:45

Deb Criddle has claimed the silver medal in the grade 3 freestyle dressage test, well done Deb 

Update: 04/09/12 16:35

Gold medal went to Dani Brown in the compound archery final after she beat fellow GB Paralympian Mel Clarke, who took the silver. Congratulations to them both.  

Update: 04/09/12 17:44

Well done to Ollie Hynd who has won a bronze medal in the S8 100m backstroke and Congratulations to Heather Frederickson on winning Gold in womens 100m backstroke - S8

Update: 04/09/12 18:01

Another medal for Ellie Simmonds, bronze in the 50m freestyle. Well done.  

Update: 04/09/12 18:20

Well done Stephanie Millward on winning silver in the womens 400m freestyle

And ... Congratulations to Sophie Christiansen for winning her 3rd Equestrian Gold medal in her freestyle 1a grade test.  

Update: 04/09/12 19:21

David Devine takes the bronze in 1500m, well done.

Update: 04/09/12 20:17

Well done Matt Walker on winning bronze in the 50m freestyle.

Update: 04/09/12 20:47

Paul Blake gets silver in the 400m - T36, well done Paul.

Update: 04/09/12 21:41

Once again David Weir finishes the night with a gold, this time in the 1500m - T54. Absolutely amazing. 

 

Update: 04/09/12 21:51

Bronze for GB 4 x 100m women's relay, shame about the mess up with the last baton change over, could have been silver or gold without that. But ... well done girls.

So it's now a week into the Paralympic Competition and this is how the medals are adding up. 

That looks pretty good considering GB is the smallest nation in that list.

And in which sports are team GB excelling?

So here we go for day 7's updates.

Update: 05/09/12 12:28

Great Britain's Mark Colbourne wins his third medal of the Games with silver in the Road Cycling C1 time trial

Update: 05/09/12 13:51

Sarah Storey has won her third gold medal of the Games with victory in the Road Cycling C5 Time Trial. Congratulations Sarah.

Update: 05/09/12 17:34

Well done to team GB,  'The Quadfather' Peter Norfolk and his partner Andy Lapthorne, on winning silver in the Wheelchair tennis mixed quad doubles final.

Update: 05/09/12 17:43

Congratulations to Oliver Hynd who wins gold in the SM8 200m individual medley.    

Well done to Karen Darke on winning the silver in the Road Cycling H1-2 Time trial.

Well done to David Stone on winning bronze in the Road Cyc;ling Mixed Time Trial

Well done to the Men's Team - Class 6-8 table tennis who've won the bronze medal.

Update: 05/09/12 19:10

Well done on winning bronze, in the100m backstroke S12, Hannah Russell.

Update: 05/09/12 19:37

Well done to David Devine who gets bronze in the 800m T12

Update: 05/09/12 19:48

Well done to Charlotte Henshaw on winning silver & Elizabeth Johnson on winning bronze in the 100m breaststroke SB6 

05/09/12 20:44

Silver medal in the 50m freestyle S9 for Louise Watkin. Well done Louise.

05/09/12 20:59

Well done to Bethany Woodward who won the silver in the  200m T37

Update: 06/09/12 18:13

And the medals they just keep on coming ...

Well done to Beverley Jones who has won bronze in the women's F37 discus

Congratulations to Helena Lucas - the only woman in her class - who has won 2.4 Metre one-person keelboat gold ...

... and to Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell who have won bronze in the SKUD two-person keelboat.

Congratulations to Sarah Storey who has won gold in the women's individual road race. 

The Women's SM9 200m individual medley saw Stephanie Millward win silver and team-mate Louise Watkin take the bronze. Well done girls.

Congratulations to 15-year-old Josef Craig, who wins S7 400m freestyle Gold and smashes the world record for the second time today.

Update: 06/09/12 18:37

Well done to Susie Rodgers who has won GB's 100th medal of the Paralympics - and set a new British record - in claiming bronze in the women's S7 400m Freestyle.

Update: 06/09/12 19:14

Well done to Ben Rushgrove on winning the bronze medal in the 200m T36

Update: 06/09/12 19:33

Well done to Paul Blake for taking the bronze in the 800m T36

Update: 06/09/12 19:38

Well done to Heather Frederiksen on winning her 2nd silver of these games in the 100m Freestyle

Update: 06/09/12 19:48

Congratulations to Hannah Cockroft who has won Gold in the women's T34 200m 

 

Update: 06/09/12 20:16

Well done to Ola Abidogun on winning bronze in the 100m T46 

Update: 06/09/12 21:18

Congratulations to David Weir in the 800m T54 final. 3rd of the tournament. Amazing yet again.

Update: 06/09/12 21:31

Absolutely fabulous race. Congratulations to Jonnie Peacock on winning the GOLD in the men's T44 100m final.

Update: 06/09/12 22:04

Well done to Dan Greaves who wins silver in the discus.

What  an amazing night to watch the track events, three gold medals for team GB on the trot. Six gold medals in total today. Brilliant.

Update: 07/09/12 19:48

Well done to Rachel Morris on winning a dramatic bronze in the H1-3 handcycle road race.

Well done to Great Britain men's team,  Ross Wilson & Will Bayley who secured table tennis bronze in the 6-8 class with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Germany. 

  

Well done to team GB 's women's wheelchair tennis doubles on winning bronze medal.

  

Congratulations to Josie Pearson who has won Britain's 10th athletics gold with victory in the F51/52/53 discus with a world record breaking performance. 

Update: 07/09/12 21:00

What an amazing 4 x 100m swimming medley for team GB winning silver medal. Well done to Heather Ferderiksen, Stephanie Millward, Claire Cashmore & Louise Watkin.

Update: 08/09/12 11:33

Congratulations to cyclist David Stone who won gold in the Mixed T 1-2 Road Race

 Update: 08/09/12 14:37

Well done to David Smith on winning silver in the Boccia BC1.

Update: 08/09/12 17:42

Well done to Harriett Lee on winning bronze in the 100m breaststroke.

Update: 08/09/12 17:51

Well done to Ellie Simmonds who has won silver in 100m freestyle.  Ellie finishes the 2012 Games with two gold medals, a silver and a bronze - a fantastic achievement. 

Update: 09/09/12  13:00

Congratulations to David Weir who has just won his fourth gold medal at the 2012 Paralympics, winning the T54 wheelchair marathon. 

Update: 09/09/12  13:20

Well done to Shelly Woods as she takes the silver medal in the women's T54 marathon.

So the end of the Paralympics is here ...

Team GB finished with 120 medals. 34 Golds, 43 Silvers & 43 Bronze.

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Well done to every single athlete who qualified to take part in the Paralympics London 2012. 

Many world records were broken, many personal best were achieved.

And congratulations to every single athlete who won a medal. 

This has been an absolutely amazing 11 days, watching so many people succeed who have overcome such immense obstacles.

London 2012 has been an amazing achievement & I am extremely proud that these most successful games have been held in my country. 

Now what am I gonna do ..........................

Roll on Rio 2016!