Nice Britain’s Poppy Maskill claimed her third gold medal of the Paralympics in Paris by successful the ladies’s S14 100m backstroke.
Maskill, 19, continued her great Video games by including to the 2 golds and two silvers gained earlier within the Video games.
She trailed Valeriia Shabalina on the midway mark, however fought again to win in a time of 1 minute 5.74 seconds, whereas fellow Briton Olivia Newman-Baronius took bronze.
Maskill’s victory took ParalympicsGB to 41 gold medals in Paris, equalling the tally achieved by the group in Tokyo three years in the past.
“I used to be just a little bit irritated as a result of it was not a private greatest nevertheless it was nonetheless a gold so I am unable to be too irritated,” stated Maskell.
“I am clearly pleased with my medals as they’re an amazing achievement however I am barely disillusioned in my time as a result of I do know I could be higher.”
Maskell’s 5 medals means she has gained essentially the most of any ParalympicsGB athlete.
“I’d have thought it could be Alice [Tai] or another person. It feels nice,” she stated.
This gold comes after Maskill claimed first place within the 100m S14 butterfly and the combined 4x100m S14 freestyle relay.
Maskill additionally gained silver in each the 200m freestyle S14 and the 200m particular person medley S14.
Earlier, Mark Tompsett, 17, gained bronze within the males’s S14 100m backstroke whereas Maisie Summers-Newton added a bronze within the ladies’s S6 400m freestyle to the 2 gold medals she had beforehand gained in Paris.
