In contrast to recent days, today wasn't one of the more successful for Team GB as they only picked up six medals. But that does take our tally to an impressive 114 with 32 of them shimmering in gold. It would be nice if that could be rounded up to 120 before Sunday's Closing Ceremony but either way these games have been an eye-opening and awe-inspiring event.
The day began with gold in the Women's Discus Final - F51/52/53 class. Josie Pearson scored a World Record for an F51 class athlete of 6.58m. The amassed a total score of 1122 points which was 242 points more than silver medallist Catherine O'Neill of Ireland.
There was compassion in Brands Hatch today when third and fourth finished at exactly the same time in the Women's Individual H1-3 Road Race. USA's Marianna Davis secured her second gold of the games before Monica Bascio, also of USA, took her second silver of the games. Then the British pairing, Rachel Morris and Karen Darke, held each other's hands whilst they crossed the line together. Despite their pleas of sharing bronze, the adjudicators had to award it one of them and they decided to give it to Morris.
The fab four returned to the pool in the Women's 4x100m Medley 34 points final to claim silver. They finished ahead of USA, who set an Americas record 4:54.13, but just 0.03 seconds behind Australia, who set an Oceanic record of 4:53.95. This means Heather Fredriksen walks away with her fourth medal of the games, her third silver, Claire Cashmore takes her third of the games, her second silver, Stephanie Millward now has an impressive collection of five medals, her fourth silver, and Louise Watkin also wins her fourth medal of the games, her second silver. Four fantastic Paralympians who have had a brilliant games in the pool along with Eleanor Simmonds.
Two bronzes were taken in today's Table Tennis events. The Men's Class 6-8 team took bronze after beating Germany. The match only needed three games after Ross Wilson beat Thorsten Schwinn, William Bayley beat Jochen Wollmert before Wilson then beat Wollmert all in three sets.
The Women's Class 1-3 team faced a tougher match against Italy in their bronze medal match. The match started with Michela Brunelli beating Jane Campbell in four sets 12-10, 8-11, 11-9, 11-3. That was then followed by Pamela Pezzutto also beating Sara Head in four sets 11-7, 17-15, 9-11, 12-10. But the girls weren't out and the comeback started with Head beating Brunelli in four sets 14-16, 11-9, 11-8, 11-7. The match was then levelled when Campbell beat Pezzutto in straight sets 11-7, 11-8, 11-7. The fifth and final game saw Pezzutto and Clara Podda take on Campbell and Head. After winning the first set 11-6, the Brits were 2-1 down after losing the second and third set 11-7. Once again the British girls gritted their teeth and roared back with an 11-3 fourth set win before taking the final set 11-4 to claim that much deserved bronze medal.
The final medal of the day came in the Women's Doubles in Tennis. Lucy Shuker and 20-year old Jordanne Whiley faced Thailand's Sakhorn Khanthasit and Ratana Techamaneewat in the bronze medal match. The Thai duo took the first set 7-6 before the Brits levelled with the second set by the same scoreline. The third set finished 6-3 to Shuker and Whiley to give the girls the bronze medal.
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