Tai, Clegg and Ellard all win gold within 40 minutes
Alice Tai wins her first individual Paralympic title as Great Britain’s swimmers claim three gold medals within 40 sensational minutes on Saturday.
Great Britain’s Stephen Clegg won his first Paralympic gold medal and set a world record as he stormed to victory in the S12 100m backstroke final.
The 28-year-old clocked 59.02 seconds at La Defense Arena.
Clegg secured a silver and two bronzes in Tokyo in 2021 and before these Games said that winning a Paralympic gold was “unfinished business” for him.
He is the third member of his family to win a medal for ParalympicsGB with elder sister Libby accumulating two golds and three silvers as an athlete across three Games and brother James claiming bronze in the pool at 2012.
There could be more success to come for GB swimmers on Saturday with William Ellard, Poppy Maskill, Olivia Newman-Baronius and Alice Tai all with excellent chances of winning medals.
The youngest member of the ParalympicsGB squad in Paris, 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, goes in the SM7 individual medley at 19:10 BST.
More to follow.
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