Ryan Cowling #24, Stuart Robinson #3 and Ayaz Bhuta #10 of Team Great Britain celebrate after defeating Team United States during the gold medal wheelchair rugby match on day 5 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Yoyogi National Stadium on August 29, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: Getty Images)   

Great Britain have secured their first ever Paralympic medal in wheelchair rugby after beating the United States 54-49 at Yoyogi National Stadium on August 29.

It was the first time a European nation had even made the gold medal match with only Australia, United States, Canada and New Zealand having done so before.

For Great Britain, while they had made bronze medal matches at Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, they had never won a medal, finishing fourth on all four occasions.

Judo

Brazilian judoka star Alana Maldonado can now add a gold medal in her trophy cabinet. After winning silver in her home Games at Rio 2016, Maldonado brought her prowess back in the mat at Tokyo 2020 during the gold medal match against Georgia's Ina Kaldani in the women's -70kg - B2 class finishing off with a waza-ari. This is Maldonado's second Paralympic Games.

Swimming

USA’s Mckenzie Coan blasted through the women's 400m freestyle S7 and touched the wall first at 5:05.84 followed by Giulia Terzi of Italy and Julia Gafney of USA.

Yan Shuo of China celebrates his gold medal against Will Bayley of Team Great Britain in the men’s singles class 7 final. (Photo: Getty Images)

The Chinese gold medallists included Yan Shuo in the men’s singles class 7, Xue Juan in the women’s singles class 3, Zhou Ying in the women’s singles class 4, Zhang Bian in the women’s singles class 5, and Mao Jingdian in the women’s singles class 8.

Others title winners were Valentin Baus (Germany) - men's singles class 5, Patryk Chosnowski (Poland) - men's singles - class 10, and Peter Palos (Hungary) - men's singles class 11.

Archery

It was a hard-fought all the way through but China hit their golden target after winning against Turkey by one point 153-152 in the mixed team compound final.

Source: Tokyo 2020