Day seven: Aussies in motion and medallists
It is one other large day in Paris for the Australians — we’ll replace the schedule when finals are confirmed (AEST).
Australian medallists:
Para biking highway: Ladies’s C5 particular person time trial —Alana Forster🥉
Dwell and upcoming occasions:
Para biking highway
- 4:14pm: Ladies’s C4 particular person time trial — Meg Lemon and Emily Petricola🏅
- 4:27pm: Males’s C2 particular person time trial — Darren Hicks🏅
- 5:02pm: Ladies’s C1-3 particular person time trial — Amanda Reid🏅
- 6:03pm: Ladies’s H1-3 particular person time trial — Lauren Parker🏅
- 9:51pm: Males’s C5 particular person time trial — Alistair Donohoe🏅
Para swimming
- 5:37pm: Ladies’s 100m freestyle S12 heats — Jenna Jones
- 5:45pm: Males’s 200m particular person medley SM14 heats — Ricky Betar
- 5:54pm: Ladies’s 200m particular person medley SM14 heats — Paige Leonhardt
- 6:05pm: Males’s 400m S8 heats — Callum Simpson
- 6:20pm: Males’s 400m freestyle S8 heats — Ella Jones
- 6:37pm: Males’s 50m breaststroke SB2 — Grant Patterson
- 7:04pm: Ladies’s 100m freestyle S7 heats — Chloe Osborn and Holly Warn
- 7:12pm: Ladies’s 100m freestyle S9 heats — Emily Beecroft, Alexa Leary and Lakeisha Patterson
Para equestrian
- 6pm: Particular person occasion Grade IV — Dianne Barnes🏅
- 8:55pm: Particular person occasion Grade V — Lisa Martin🏅
Wheelchair basketball
- 6:30pm: Males’s classification qualifying 5-8 — Australia vs Spain
Para athletics
- 7:52pm: Males’s 100m T54 heats — Luke Bailey
- 8:26pm: Ladies’s 100m T36 heats — Abby Craswell and Mali Lovell
- 3am: Ladies’s shot put F32 ultimate — Sarah Clifton-Bligh and Rosemary Little🏅
Para archery
- 8:54pm: Males’s particular person recurve open 1/16 elimination — Taymon Kento-Smith
Boccia
- 9:40pm: Blended pairs BC quarterfinal — Jamieson Leeson and Dan Michel
Para desk tennis
- 9:45pm: Ladies’s singles WS10 gold medal match — Qian Yang🏅
- 1am: Males’s singles MS11 quarterfinal — Samuel von Einem
Para biking: MEG LEMON TAKES SILVER
Australia’s Meg Lemon has taken silver within the girls’s C4 time trial with a time of 21:44.16!
Para biking highway: Petricola in first
Emily Petricola has completed her race and, for the second anyway, sits on high of the standings!
Nonetheless fairly a number of cyclists to complete, however that was an important trip from Petricola.
Her time was 21:48.44.
Para biking: Hicks begins C2 time trial
Australian Darren Hicks is the ultimate athlete to enter the race.
The reigning gold medallist is a red-hot favorite for this one.
Go Darren!
Para biking highway: Petricola third, Lemon 4th at 5.8km
Australia’s Emily Petricola and Meg Lemon have each made robust begins to the C4 time trial.
Petricola’s time of 7:47.97 is nice sufficient for third, about 14 seconds off chief Franziska Matile-Doerig of Switzerland.
Para biking highway: BRONZE FOR FORSTER!
Australia’s Alana Forster has completed in third within the girls’s time trial C5!
Nice trip from Forster, ending with a time of 21:00.48.
The 2 cyclists forward of her had been completely scorching.
Nice Britain’s Sarah Storey gained gold with a time of 20:22.15, simply 4.69 seconds in entrance of Heidi Gaugain of France.
Storey is a real titan of the game. It is her thirteenth gold medal in para biking.
Para biking highway:
France’s Heidi Gaugain has actually thrown down the gauntlet to the remainder of the sector.
She finishes her highway race with a time of 20:26.84.
Gaugain is a time trial monster. This can be a really arduous time for anybody to beat.
Australia’s Alana Forster is one among two riders left to complete.
Para biking highway: Lemon off as properly
Australia’s different rider within the C4 time trial, Meg Lemon has begun joined Petricola on the highway.
The final athlete to enter, USA’s Shawn Morelli is about to start.
Para biking highway: Petricola off in C4 time trial
Recent off her beautiful gold on the velodrome, Australia’s Emily Petricola begins her highway biking marketing campaign within the C4 particular person time trial.
She’s fourth to get underway and is an actual contender on this occasion.
Para biking highway: Forster third after 5.8km
Stable place for Forster at 5.8km.
She sits in third with 7:38.57.
She has a while to make up although.
France’s Heidi Gaugain leads with a time of 7:15.17.
Para biking highway: Classifications
Australia’s Alana Forster appears to be like to have made a strong begin in her C5 time trial.
The C5 race is for athletes with the bottom stage of impairment of any of the biking lessons at a Paralympics.
The C stands for biking, with the C1 class being the very best stage of impairment for athletes who compete on normal bikes.
Para biking highway: Forster biking in C5 time trial
Australia’s Alana Forster is off and away within the first time trial even of the day and the primary highway biking occasion of Paris 2024.
She was seventh to start, with solely Sarah Storey of Nice Britain left to take off.
Para biking highway: 19 gold medals up for seize
Woah.
To say the highway biking is starting in earnest may be an understatement.
14.2km separates our Aussie opponents with one of many 19 gold medals being awarded in the present day.
Alana Forster is a up seventh within the C5 and Meg Lemon is sixth and Emily Petricola 4th within the C4.
Not lengthy now…
Para biking highway: Large Parisian morning for Australia
G’day everybody, what a pleasure it’s to be again for one more bumper day of Paralympic motion!
First up, our Aussie cyclists take the highway for a large morning of time trials.
Alana Forster is simply ten minutes away.
She’ll be racing for gold within the C5 particular person time trial.
ICYMI: What occurred on day six in Paris?
If you wish to atone for all of the motion from day six, have a learn of our complete weblog:
How does the medal tally look forward of day seven?
Day six was one other productive outing for Australia in Paris.
This is the medal tally earlier than competitors begins on day seven:
Welcome!
G’day and thanks for becoming a member of ABC Sport’s digital protection of the Paris Paralympic Video games as day seven will get underway.
I am Luke Pentony and I will be joined by Henry Hanson and Amanda Shalala to take you thru the early levels of the upcoming motion.
Australia’s spectacular para biking highway squad can be chasing gold, whereas the competitors within the pool continues with Australia a robust probability of claiming extra medals.
Among the many highlights later tonight can be para desk tennis participant Qian Yang’s look within the girls’s singles WS10 gold medal match.
Ensure that to stick with us as we take you thru what guarantees to be an engrossing day of competitors.
