Ellie Simmonds, Sascha Kindred, Aled Davies, Susie Rodgers and Will Bayley win gold on day five of Paralympics
By Andy Charles
Last Updated: 13/09/16 7:26am
Paralympics GB took their gold medal tally to 28 with victories for Ellie Simmonds, Sascha Kindred and Susie Rodgers in the pool on Monday night.
Simmonds and Kindred produced world-record performances to win their 200m individual medley races after successes in the men's F42 shot put for Aled Davies and men's Class 7 table tennis for Will Bayley earlier in the day.
Team GB's final gold of the day then arrived via Rodgers as she added a third pool gold in the S7 50m butterfly in a European record of 35.07.
It was the 31-year-old from London's first Paralympic gold at her second Games.
Simmonds, who now has five gold medals - seven total - from the last three Paralympic Games, became the first SM6 swimmer to break the three-minute barrier in her race a matter of moments after Kindred had won the equivalent men's race.
Her closest challenge came from Ukraine's Yelyzaveta Mereshko, but the runner-up was disqualified from the silver-medal position.
China's Lingling Song was moved up to silver ahead of Tiffany Thomas Kane from Australia, with Simmonds clocking 2:59.81 in taking the gold.
Kindred produced a sensational swim to win the men's SM6 200m race and a 13th Paralympic Games medal with a brilliant comeback over the breaststroke and freestyle legs.
Kindred, 38, had to fight to even get into the final, being reinstated after a disqualification in the heats over an apparent technical infringement during the butterfly leg.
He was fifth at the halfway stage, with backstroke his weakest leg, but Kindred made up all the ground and more on the breaststroke to turn for the last 50m in the lead.
And he held off the challenge of China's Hongguang Jia to claim the title in 2:38.47, setting a new Paralympic and world record and winning by exactly a second.
Earlier, Davies had won Great Britain's 25th gold in Brazil in the men's F42 shot put after Bayley had celebrated winning the men's Class 7 table tennis tournament.
Welshman Davies won the discus title at London 2012 but was dominant in winning the shot, breaking the Paralympic record with his winning throw of 15.97m.
He finished more than a metre ahead of Iran's Sajad Mohammadian with South Africa's Tyrone Pillay claiming the bronze.
Bayley went one better than four summers ago, overcoming a fiercely patriotic crowd in beating Brazil's Israel Pereira Stroh in four games.
Bayley celebrated by jumping on to the table and he said afterwards: "This is for everyone who's supported me every step of the way.
"If it wasn't for getting cancer as a kid, and being given a table tennis set to give me something to play with when I was recovering, then I would never have been here."
John Stubbs and Jodie Grinham also secured a medal on Monday, winning silver in the mixed team compound open archery competition.
They were beaten 151-143 by China's Xinliang Ai and Jiamin Zhou in the final.
