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Fantastic five on day five for ParalympicsGB

ParalympicsGB won seven medals in total on day five at the Games, including five glorious golds. There was a golden 38 minutes for Sascha Kindred, Ellie Simmonds and Susie Rodgers in the pool. While Will Bayley triumphed in the table tennis and Aled Davies won shot put gold.

It proved to be an exciting finish to day five in Rio as a quick-fire hat-trick of swimming victories took the tally to 28 gold medals.

The day began with Will Bayley winning the men’s table tennis singles (Class 7), and celebrating by climbing on the table, hugging the umpire and jumping on his coach’s shoulders.

Over in the Olympic Stadium Aled Davies won F42 shot put gold, while Jonathan Broom-Edwards took silver in the T44 high jump, and there was another silver in the mixed team compound archery for Jodie Grinham and John Stubbs.

But the other evening's action came in the pool as Sascha Kindred (200m individual medley SM6), Ellie Simmonds (200m indiviudal medley SM6) and Susie Rodgers (50m butterfly S7) were all victorious in 38 golden minutes for ParalympicsGB.

Paralympic swimmer Sascha Kindred Swimmer Sascha Kindred smashed the world record to claim his 13th Paralympic medal of his career - and seventh gold. Rio will be the 38-year old’s sixth and final Games and his victory in the 200m medley SM6 final was arguably his greatest yet. After being disqualified for an illegal kick during the morning heats, Sascha was reinstated after a team appeal. Sascha said:

“What a rollercoaster day this has been. To swim like that, it’s just amazing, I don’t know what more you can ask for.
“I thought about retirement after London but I wasn’t happy with how I performed there and I knew I had more in me and I didn't want that to be my last competitive swimming memory. The last four years have been just amazing and this is the perfect ending."

Ellie Simmonds claimed her fifth Paralympic gold and rewrote swimming history in the process. She became the first SM6 swimming to dip below three minutes in the 200m medley, as she clocked a world record 2:59.81. She said:

“This means so much, it was such a hard race and I’m so happy that I could finally go below three minutes.
“I just want to enjoy this but I’ve got the 400m freestyle tomorrow, so I can’t get too excited."

Simmonds will return to the pool in search of a third consecutive S6 400m S6 freestyle gold, as wheelchair racer David Weir looks to achieve the same feat in the T54 1500m on day six.

Joining Simmonds in the pool in the same event will be Ellie Robinson, while Alice Tai, Ollie Hynd and the Stephanies, Millward and Slater, are just some of the others in action.

While Weir looks to defend a title, Stephen Miller, Georgina Hermitage and Stephen Osborne also have shots at gold in the Olympic Stadium.

At the Olympic Tennis Centre there are two medal chances for ParalympicsGB with Andy Lapthorne and Jamie Burdekin going for bronze in the men’s quad doubles and Luke Shuker and Jordanne Whiley also doing likewise in the women’s doubles. Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett face men’s single quarter-finals, as well as a doubles semi-final together.

While at Riocentro, Robert Davies goes for gold in the men’s table tennis class one singles against Korea's Joo Young Dae.

Tuesday also sees the start of ParalympicsGB’s wheelchair fencing campaign as Dimitri Coutya goes in the men’s individual epee category B preliminary rounds, while Gemma Collis and Piers Gilliver also enter the fray.

In the boccia David Smith begins the BC1 mixed individual event, with Joshua Rowe and Nigel Murray in the BC2, while Kieran Steer and Stephen McGuire go in the BC4 event.

Natasha Baker completes ParalympicsGB’s first involvement in the equestrian Team Test after strong outings for Sophie Wells, Sophie Christiansen and Anne Dunham on Monday.

The women’s wheelchair basketball team has reached the quarter-final stage where they take on China, while recurve archer David Phillips begins his men’s individual campaign in the 1/16 elimination round.

From dry land to the Marina da Gloria and ParalympicsGB have sailors going in the one, two and three-person keelboat classes, with Helena Lucas well placed after Monday’s sailing.

And at the Olympic shooting range Karen Butler and Lorraine Lambert compete in the R8 women’s 50m rifle, three-position, competition, while James Bevis, Ryan Cockbill and Tim Jeffery start their R5 mixed 10m air rifle, prone, qualification campaign.