Tokyo Paralympics day five: GB gold in wheelchair rugby, plus athletics – live! | Sport

Fencing: The men’s foil team gold medal match is under way, between Great Britain and China. Very early days in this one, but China are 3-1 up as I type.

Equestrian: It’s gold for Great Britain’s Lee Pearson, Natasha Baker and Sophie Wells in the Grade IV dressage team test to music. Denmark’s dream run didn’t happen – they ended up fourth – while it’s silver for the Netherlands and bronze for the USA.

Athletics: Another remarkable final, this time in the Men’s T54 400m. Athiwat Paeng-Nuea seems destined to take gold for Thailand, but in the final 50m Daniel Romanchuk of the USA makes up an entire wheelchair length to win it by a single hundredth of a second, or about a tyre’s width in a photo finish.

Equestrian: The Grade IV dressage is reaching it’s climax, and with the final horses now dancing Great Britain sits in gold medal position, with Denmark needing absolute horse dancing perfection if they are to snatch top spot.

Archery: Finals don’t come any closer than the mixed team compound event which just ended, with China needing a perfect 10 with their final arrow to steal victory from Turkey … and nailing it! A remarkable final thus ended 153-152. The nation that shall not be named had earlier beaten Iran 153-151 in the bronze medal match to take third place.

Athletics: Jason Smyth wins T13 100m gold again! The Beijing, London and Rio champion has done it again, by the tightest of margins: Algeria’s Skander Djamil Athmani was surging through, and would surely have won gold had the race been over 101m, but Smyth holds him off by a 0.01sec margin. Colombia’s Jean Mina Aponza comes third, while the British finalist, Zak Skinner, trails the field, coming in eighth.

Swimming: The final race of the night is the women’s 4x100m 34pts freestyle, and it ends in surprise, chaos and bemusement as the USA (who appeared to have won the race) and Great Britain (who were out of the medal places anyway) are both disqualified for reasons as-yet unknown and Italy thus vault to first, Australia to second and a delighted Canada to third.

Athletics: China’s Zhou Xia streaks to gold in the women’s T35 200m, overtaking Australia’s Isis Holt in the home straight to win by about five metres. Britain’s Maria Lyle finished a couple of seconds further back, but it was good enough for a bronze medal.

Wheelchair rugby: Absolute scenes.

Wheelchair rugby: Jim Roberts has a chat after Britain’s rugby success. He’s asked whether he still intends this to be his last Paralympics. “For the moment, yeah,” he answers, awkwardly. Also:

What an amazing shift that was. That was one to remember. I play to win every game I go into, so that’s what I wanted to come for. We knew there woul dbe some amazing teams here. USA are a class act, and it was just amazing to meet them in the final. They always beat us in the major tournaments and it was nice to put a nail in that one.

Gold for Great Britain in wheelchair rugby! They pull away in the final quarter to beat the USA 54-49, with Japan having sealed bronze by beating Australia earlier today.

Swimming: Just one race to go in the pool now. The women’s S11 50m freestyle has just ended with Ma Jia winning gold for China, Li Guizhi taking silver and the Cypriot Karolina Pelendritou finishing third. All three broke the previous world record, which had been held by Pelendritou – Ma took over half a second off it.

Athletics: The evening session is under way, and Madison de Rozario has taken gold for Australia in the women’s T53 800m, her first Paralympic gold in her fourth games, completing a nine-year climb of the ladder after bronze in this event in Rio and fourth place in London. Zhou Hongzhuan won silver for China an Catherine Debrunner bronze for Switzerland. Britain’s Sam Kinghorn finished 0.04sec outside the medals in fourth.

Wheelchair rugby: This final is on a knife-edge, with Team GB leading the USA 37-36 at the end of the third quarter. Paul MacInnes has sent another update:

This is some game. A hail mary try (sorry to mix sporting jargon there) gives the US a vital score in the last seconds of the first half to preserve the 1 point narrowing they achieved early on with a turn over on Stuart Robinson. US with the deep block and the over load, GB with the high press and the counter.

Wheelchair rugby: The final is in progress, with Great Britain leading the USA 19-16 as I type, inside the second quarter. Paul MacInnes is there, and here’s his end-of-first-quarter mini report:

Strong first quarter from Great Britain with Jim Roberts to the fore. He has one steal and seven tries to his name and is both finding space in attack and closing it down in defence. I really think he looks like Kevin de Bruyne but no one agrees with me. Also some excellent timewasting by the Brits in that quarter. Is that … shithousery?

Swimming: Hannah Russell could only finish sixth in the women’s S13 50m freestyle final, won by Maria Gomes Santiago of Brazil, with Anna Krivshina of the nation that shall not be named in second, and Carlotta Gilli winning yet another medal for Italy, finishing as she did in third.

Judo: It’s gold for Britain’s Chris Skelley in the men’s 100kg judo! Ben Goodrich of the USA can’t stop him in the gold final, and as I type he and his coach are embracing on the floor, wrapped in a union flag. And then come the tears!

Swimming: Another silver for Britain in the pool, this time for Ellie Challis, who seems entirely delighted with the result. Ariola Trimi of Italy comfortably won gold by a margin of nearly four seconds, with Iulia Shishova of the nation that cannot be named came third.

Swimming: Another world record in the women’s SB14 100m breaststroke, this time from Spain’s Michelle Alonso. Louise Fiddes trails in nearly four seconds behind her but it’s still enough to claim silver for Britain – she was fifth at the halfway mark, whereupon she ignited the afterburners – and Beatriz Carneiro comes third, two hundredths of a second ahead of her twin sister Débora, who comes fourth.

Swimming: It’s gold and a world record for Naohide Yamaguchi of Japan in the men’s SB14 100m breaststroke final, with Australia’s Jake Michel second and Scott Quin snaffling bronze for Britain.

Swimming: A quick guide to Britain’s medal hopes in the pool today, with BST times on this occasion (add eight for Tokyo times):

9.22am: The men’s 100m breaststroke SB14 final, featuring Conner Morrison and Scott Quin, is about to go.
9.28am: The women’s event features Louise Fiddes
9.35am: Simone Barlaam goes in the 50m freestyle S9 final
10.17am: The women’s S13 50m freestyle final includes Hannah Russell and Rebecca Redfern
11.34am: Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay 34pts final

Judo: The first of the Judo medal matches have finished, deciding the men’s -90kg category, and in the gold final Iran’s Vahid Nouri has beaten Britain’s Elliot Stewart to maximum glory.

Table tennis: Zhang Bian has beaten Pan Jiamin in a marathon see-saw women’s Class 5 table tennis final, coming back from two games down to win her fourth successive Paralympic gold.

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Medals incoming: There’s an absolute load of titles still to be decided today: table tennis, where the women’s Class 5 singles final is ongoing (China are guaranteed both gold and silver there) with the Class 3 final to follow (In which a Slovakian might beat China to gold), with men’s Class 11 (featuring Australia’s Samuel Von Einem) and Class 10 gold medal matches to follow. There have been delays in the fencing, but men’s and women’s team foil medal matches should start shortly, and there is a mixed wheelchair rugby gold medal match, between the USA and Great Britain, scheduled for 6pm local time.

Then there’s another flood of swimming and athletics medals to be decided, with the evening session in the pool starting at 5pm local time, and on track and in field from 7pm. A panoply of judo finals get under way in about 20 minutes, and there are powerlifting finals in both women’s -79kg and men’s -97kg, mixed team compound archery medal matches scheduled for about 7.30pm, and dressage about 15 minutes earlier.

And in terms of medal events, that’s yer lot.

I’m going to hand you over to Simon Burnton now, who will take you below the action and much, much more. Ciao for now.

There is still plenty of action to come on the busiest single day of these Games. Seventeen sports sports are in action and 62 gold medals on offer. Big night for the swimming with 13 golds up for grabs at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, more athletics finals at the Olympic Stadium and the sitting volleyball and table tennis medal matches. The wheelchair tennis has also got away on time after delays the past couple of days due to the heat.

Wheelchair basketball: The United States are making a statement against Australia in the men’s preliminary round, leading 45-28 in the third quarter. GB lead Group B but Australia and the US – second and third place respectively – have this game in hand. At this rate, the Americans will leapfrog both.