The second day of the Paralympics closes with Team GB on 20 medals, which has seen us slip down to fifth in the medals table. Two medals were claimed in today's Athletics events; 21-year old Aled Davies from Cardiff claimed bronze in the Men's Shot Put F42/44 class. Davies scored 961 points for his 13.78m throw, it wasn't enough to beat Darko Kralj from Croatia who threw 14.21m or Denmark's Jackie Christiansen who threw a Paralympic Record 18.16m to claim gold.
20-year old Hannah Cockroft was one of the stone wall favourites to win gold this Paralympics and she didn't disappoint. Cockroft set a Paralympic record of 18.06 to win the Women's 100m T34 class. She finished 1.43 seconds ahead of silver medallist Amy Siemons of the Netherlands and 1.89 seconds ahead of Australia's Rosemary Little who set a Regional Record.
Mark Colbourne added gold to his silver medal he won yesterday. Colbourne beat China's Li Zhang Yu in the Men's Individual C1 Pursuit final. There were two medals won in the Men's Individual C3 Pursuit; Shaun McKeown took silver after losing out to USA's Joseph Berenyi in the final, Darren Kenny took the bronze.
Two other medals were won in the Velodrome today; Jon-Allan Butterworth claimed silver in Men's Individual C4-5 1km Time Trial. Butterworth lost to Spain's Alfonso Cabello in the final with China's Liu Xinyang winning bronze. Aileen McGlynn, with pilot Helen Scott, also took silver in the Women's Individual B 1km Time Trial. Australia's Felicity Johnson, with guide Stephanie Morton, set a Paralympics Record with a time of 1:08.919, beating McGlynn who recorded a time of 1:09.469. New Zealand's Phillipa Gray, with pilot Laura Thompson, claimed bronze with a time of 1:11.245.
The Hynd brothers, Sam & Oliver, won silver and bronze in the Men's 440m Freestyle S8 class. China's Yinan Wang set an Asian Record to take bronze with a time of 4:27.11. Oliver Hynd beat his brother into second with of 4:27.88 with Sam claiming bronze in 4:32.93.
Silver would be the colour of the day in the pool; James Crisp finished 1.23 seconds behind Australia's Matthew Cowdrey, who set a Paralympics Record of 1:02.39, in the Men's 100m Backstroke S9 class. Aaron Moores finished 2.59 seconds behind Netherlands' Marc Evers, who set a World Record of 1:01.85, in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14 class. Heather Fredriksen finished a whole 18.22 seconds behind USA's Jessica Long, who set a World Record of 4:42.28, in the Women's 400m Freestyle S8 class. Stephanie Millward also took the silver medal after finishing 1.65 seconds behind Australia's Ellie Cole, who set an Oceania Record of 1:09.42, in the Women's 100m Backstroke S9 class.
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