I do enjoy watching the Paralympics if I have time as The Paralympics take place every 4 or in this case 5 years a couple of weeks after the Olympics and these Games are for athletes who have a physical disability, so for example they could have just one arm or one leg or in some cases no limbs at all, or in a wheelchair, but they still manage to compete at the highest level which is the Paralympic Games.
Team GB did a great job as they medalled in 18 different sports and won gold in 12 sports and here’s a roundup of all our winners:
Gold – 41
Aled Davies
Para-athletics – men’s F63 shot put
Laura Sugar
Para-canoe women’s KL3 200m
Charlotte Henshaw
Para-canoe women’s KL2 200m
Hannah Cockroft
Para-athletics – women’s T34 800m
Emma Wiggs
Para-canoe women’s VL2 200m
Jonathan Broom-Edwards
Para-athletics – men’s high jump
Owen Miller
Para-athletics men’s T20 1500m
Dan Pembroke
Para-athletics – men’s F13 javelin
Bethany Firth
Para-swimming – women’s S14 100m backstroke
Sarah Storey
Para-cycling – women’s C4-5 road race
Ben Watson
Para-cycling – men’s C1-3 road race
David Smith
Boccia – BC1 individual
Reece Dunn
Para-swimming – men’s SM14 200m individual medley
Ben Watson
Para-cycling – men’s C3 time trial (road)
Sarah Storey
Para-cycling – women’s C5 time trial (road)
Lee Pearson
Para-equestrian – individual freestyle grade II
Andrew Small
Para-athletics – men’s T33 – 100m
Phoebe Paterson Pine
Archery – women’s individual compound
Lee Pearson, Natasha Baker and Sophie Wells
Para-equestrian – team test
Great Britain
Wheelchair rugby – mixed
Chris Skelley
Judo – men’s 100kg
James Fox, Ellen Buttrick, Giedre Rakauskaite, Oliver Stanhope, Erin Kennedy
Para-rowing – mixed PR3 coxed four
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley
Para-rowing – mixed PR2 double sculls
Hannah Cockroft
Para-athletics – women’s T34 100m
Lauren Steadman
Para-triathlon – women’s PTS5
Sophie Hahn
Para-athletics – women’s T38 – 100m
Reece Dunn, Bethany Firth, Jessica-Jane Applegate and Jordan Catchpole
Para-swimming – mixed S14 – 4x100m freestyle relay
Thomas Young
Para-athletics – men’s T38 – 100m
Maisie Summers-Newton
Para-swimming – women’s SB6 100m breaststroke
Kadeena Cox, Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy
Para-cycling – mixed C1-5 750m team sprint
Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall
Para-cycling – women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit
Neil Fachie and Matt Rotherham
Para-cycling – men’s B 1000m time trial
Reece Dunn
Para-swimming – men’s S14 200m freestyle
Hannah Russell
Para-swimming – women’s S12 100m backstroke
Kadeena Cox
Para-cycling – women’s C4-5 500m time trial
Piers Gilliver
Wheelchair fencing – men’s epee individual
Lee Pearson
Para-equestrian – individual test Grade II
Maisie Summers-Newton
Para-swimming – women’s SM6 200m individual medley
Tully Kearney
Para-swimming – women’s S5 100m freestyle
Jaco van Gass
Para-cycling – men’s C3 3,000m individual pursuit
Sarah Storey
Para-cycling – women’s C5 3,000m individual pursuit
Silver – 38
Daniel Bethell
Para-badminton – men’s SL3 singles
Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley
Wheelchair tennis – women’s doubles
Emma Wiggs
Para-canoe women’s KL2 200m
Kare Adenegan
Para-athletics – women’s T34 800m
Beth Munro
Taekwondo – women’s K44 -58kg
Libby Clegg, Jonnie Peacock, Ali Smith & Nathan Maguire
4x100m – universal relay
Richard Whitehead
Para-athletics – men’s T61 200m
Stephen Clegg
Para-swimming – men’s S12 100m butterfly
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid
Wheelchair tennis – men’s doubles
Will Bayley and Paul Karabardak
Table tennis – men’s doubles – class 7
Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl
Para-cycling – women’s B road race
Sammi Kinghorn
Para-athletics – women’s T53 400m
Crystal Lane-Wright
Para-cycling – women’s C4-5 road race
Fin Graham
Para-cycling – men’s C1-3 road race
Rebecca Redfern
Para-swimming – women’s SB13 100m breaststroke
Bethany Firth
Para-swimming – women’s SM14 200m individual medley
Lora Fachie
Para-cycling – women’s B time trial (road)
Crystal Lane-Wright
Para-cycling – women’s C5 time trial (road)
Natasha Baker
Para-equestrian – individual freestyle grade III
Piers Gilliver, Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson
Wheelchair Fencing – men’s foil team
Ellie Challis
Para-swimming – women’s S3 50m backstroke
Louise Fiddes
Para-swimming – women’s SB14 100m breaststroke
Elliot Stewart
Judo – men’s 90kg
Will Bayley
Para-table tennis – men’s class 7 singles
Kare Adenegan
Para-athletics – women’s T34 100m
George Peasgood
Para-triathlon – men’s PTS5
Grace Harvey
Para-swimming – women’s SB5 100m breaststroke
James Ball and Lewis Stewart
Para-cycling – men’s B 1000m time trial
Natasha Baker
Para-equestrian – individual test – Grade III
Bethany Firth
Para-swimming – women’s S14 200m freestyle
Sophie Wells
Para-equestrian – individual test Grade V
Fin Graham
Para-cycling – men’s C3 3,000m individual pursuit
Jody Cundy
Para-cycling – men’s C4 1000m time trial
Aileen McGlynn and Helen Scott
Para-cycling – women’s B 1000m time trial
Tully Kearney
Para-swimming – women’s S5 200m freestyle
Reece Dunn
Para-swimming – men’s S14 100m butterfly
Crystal Lane-Wright
Para-cycling – women’s C5 3,000m individual pursuit
Steve Bate and Adam Duggleby
Para-cycling – men’s B 4,000m individual pursuit
Bronze – 45
Krysten Coombs
Para-badminton – men’s SH6 singles
Great Britain
Wheelchair basketball – men’s
Amy Truesdale
Para-taekwondo – women’s K44 +58kg
Gordon Reid
Wheelchair tennis – men’s singles
Stuart Wood
Para-canoe men’s VL3 200m
Jordanne Whiley
Wheelchair tennis – women’s singles
Hollie Arnold
Para-athletics – women’s F46 javelin
Hannah Taunton
Para-athletics – Women’s T20 1500m
Robert Oliver
Para-canoe – men’s KL3 200m
Jeanette Chippington
Para-canoe – women’s VL2 200m
Dan Greaves
Para-athletics – men’s F64 discus
Jessica-Jane Applegate
Para-swimming – women’s S14 100m backstroke
Reece Dunn
Para-swimming – men’s S14 100m backstroke
Sammi Kinghorn
Para-athletics – women’s T53 100m
Sue Bailey and Megan Shackleton
Table Tennis – women’s team class 4
Aaron McKibbin, Billy Shilton and Ross Wilson
Table Tennis – men’s team class 8
Victoria Rumary
Para-archery – women’s W1 individual
Olivia Breen
Para-athletics – women’s T38 long jump
Columba Blango
Para-athletics – men’s T20 400m
Louise Fiddes
Para-swimming – women’s SM14 200m individual medley
Hannah Russell
Para-swimming – women’s S12 100m freestyle
Stephen Clegg
Para-swimming – men’s S12 100m freestyle
George Peasgood
Para-cycling – men’s C4 time trial (road)
Georgia Wilson
Dressage individual freestyle – Grade II
Jonnie Peacock
Para-athletics – men’s T64 – 100m
Harri Jenkins
Para-athletics – men’s T33 – 100m
Louise Sugden
Powerlifting – women’s -86kg
Maria Lyle
Para-athletics – women’s T35 – 200m
Scott Quin
Para-swimming – men’s SB14 100m breaststroke
Claire Cashmore
Para-triathlon – women’s PTS5
Dimitri Coutya
Wheelchair fencing – men’s foil B individual
Jack Hunter-Spivey
Table tennis – men’s class 5 singles
Thomas Matthews
Table tennis – men’s class 1 singles
Paul Karabardak
Table tennis – men’s class 6 singles
Micky Yule
Powerlifting – -72kg
Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl
Para-cycling – women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit
Piers Gilliver, Dimitri Coutya, Oliver Lam-Watson
Wheelchair fencing – men’s epee team
Jessica-Jane Applegate
Para-swimming women’s S14 200m Freestyle
Stephen Clegg
Para-swimming – men’s S12 100m Backstroke
Jaco van Gass
Para-cycling – men’s C1-3 1000m time trial
Olivia Broome
Powerlifting -50kg
Maria Lyle
Para-athletics – women’s T35 100m
Dimitri Coutya
Wheelchair fencing – men’s epee B individual
Georgia Wilson
Para-equestrian – Individual test Grade II
Toni Shaw
Para-swimming – women’s S9 400m freestyle
It meant Team GB finished 2nd in the overall medal table with a total of 124 medals.
It was also announced that Ellie Simmonds one of GB’S most successful swimmers thought this could be her last Paralympics at the age of 26.
I didn’t get chance to watch much of these Paralympic Games but from what I did watch it was very good and I think all of the athletes not just GB’s athletes should be applauded for their efforts in front of no fans again as it was still in Tokyo where there were high covid cases.
There were 5 Yorkshire athletes involved:
Jamie Stead as part of the Wheelchair rugby from Normanton
Kadeena Cox from Leeds
Hannah Cockroft from Halifax wheelchair racing
Claire Cashmore MBE from Leeds
Cyclist David Stone MBE
