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Super Breen takes Commonwealth gold for Team Wales

Olivia Breen became Commonwealth Games champion in the T38 long jump on day four, in a new record. Swimmer Tai takes S8/9 100m Freestyle silver in the pool.

Welsh para-athlete Breen overcame two fouls from her opening efforts to comfortably win the women’s T38 long jump final. Her third round jump measured 4.56m, which she bettered to 4.86m with her sixth and final attempt.

It was a new personal best and Commonwealth Games record, winning ahead of Australia’s Erin Cleaver and Taylor Doyle. Molly Kingsbury was sixth for England in a season’s best 3.85m with Scotland’s Amy Carr seventh with 3.65m.

Breen, 21, is still to take part in Thursday’s T38 100m.

“It is a dream come true, when I got off the plane from Rio, the Commonwealth Games were my aim and I’ve done it. With the last jump I just went for it after three no-jumps and I hit it.
“I’m over the moon, I’m so happy. I did the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow four years ago and came fourth ago so I can’t ask for any more.
“I probably won’t be able to stop smiling for a while, my cheeks will probably start hurting but I am really happy. I have got the 100m on Thursday, which is really exciting, I will enjoy this and then quickly get my head down for that.”

Team England’s Alice Tai is enjoying her Commonwealth Games success. It continued today as she claimed her second Commonwealth medal in the pool after taking 100m backstroke gold on Friday. 

The women’s S8/S9 100m freestyle final was a close finish, with 19-year-old Tai touching second in 1:03.07. She was only five hundredths of a second slower than gold medallist Lakeisha Patterson of Australia. Scotland’s Toni Shaw came home fifth in 1:04.19.

“It was really good. I would be disappointed with a silver but it was a massive PB so I’m really happy with that. The past four months I’ve really been getting back into training and it’s been going well. Last year freestyle wasn’t an event I was really considering as everyone was really fast but I think I’m going to start training it more.”

Follow the action of our Home nation stars on the Gold Coast 2018 website. The Games take place from 4-15 April 2018. 

Photo credit: ParalympicsGB