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Anderson: Fourth medal
Great Britain's gold rush came to a halt on Monday, with silver the order of the day at the Beijing Paralympics.
Having surpassed UK Sport's pre-Games target by moving to 41 golds on day eight, the rush halted as throwers Stephen Miller and swimmers Jim Anderson, Robert Welbourn and Fran Williamson all finished second.
Meanwhile, another thrower, Daniel Greaves, and Natalie Jones, in the pool, won bronze.
The first day without a gold left Britain four short of the century mark and second in the medal table behind China, who have 80 golds and 187 in all.
However, with wheelchair racer David Weir still the only British athlete to triumph at the Bird's Nest Stadium, the athletics team are well adrift of their target of 30.
Greaves and Miller were expected to succeed in the defence of the titles claimed in Athens but fell short.
Miller had his 12-year unbeaten Paralympics run ended in his fourth Games, the 28-year-old Gateshead Harrier, who has cerebral palsy, finishing second in the men's F32/51 club throw with a best of 34.37 metres.
Tunisia's Mourad Idoudi took gold with a world record of 35.77m.
However, Miller was not too downbeat with his performance, saying: "Silver is better than fourth, but obviously I wanted to win.
"Overall I'm pleased with my performance."
Greaves had earlier won Britain's 10th athletics medal in the men's F44 discus.
However, Greaves eventually settled for third with a best throw of 53.04 metres, 2.08m behind gold medal winner Jeremy Campbell of the United States.
Defence
In the pool meanwhile, Anderson won his fourth medal, although his silver in the men's S2 50 metres backstroke meant he fell short in the defence of the four titles he won in Athens.
Competing in his fifth Paralympics, the 45-year-old from Broxburn finished behind Dmitry Kokarev, the 17-year-old Russian taking gold with a world record time of one minute 03.17 seconds.
Kokarev has proved to be the Scot's nemesis in Beijing after adding the backstroke to his 100m and 200m freestyle titles.
The duo were joined on the podium in each of the four finals by Greece's Georgios Kapellakis, who won the 50m freestyle.
Anderson therefore finishes the Games with two silvers and two bronze.
Meanwhile, Welbourn claimed another silver in the men's S10 400m freestyle final.
Welbourn, who reached the final as the fastest qualifier, finished behind Brazil's Andre Brasil, who won in a Paralympic record time of 4:05.84.
It was the 21-year-old's second medal of the Games after success in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay.
Williamson later won Britain's third silver of the final evening session at the Water Cube, the 23-year-old from Cambridge finishing second in the women's S3 50m backstroke.
Singapore's Yip Pin Xiu, the world record holder, took gold with a time of 58.75s, 7.32s ahead of the Briton.
Roberts denied
But David Roberts was denied a 12th Paralympic gold after Britain's men's team finished fifth in the 4x100m medley final.
The 28-year-old from Pontypridd, who won four golds earlier this week after taking three titles in Sydney and four in Athens, lined up alongside Sean Fraser, Sam Hynd and Welbourn.
Roberts swam the freestyle leg but could not bring the team back into contention as the Australian quartet won in a world record time of 4:11.90.
