Five golds among 10 GB medals on sensational Saturday

Great Britain's Para-swimmers won three golds among five medals in a sensational 40-minute spell at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games while Amy Truesdale and Matt Bush claimed Para-taekwondo titles on day three.

Stephen Clegg, William Ellard and then Alice Tai each topped the podium at La Defense Arena - with Clegg and Ellard doing so with world-record performances.

Truesdale won women's K44 +65kg gold in dramatic circumstances, avoiding disqualification after a kick inadvertently caught Uzbekistan's Guljonoy Naimova in the face and left her opponent unable to continue.

Bush then added ParalympicsGB's fifth gold of the day - and 11th of the Games - to take the team's medal total to 25.

Further medals were won in the pool by Poppy Maskill, who won silver ahead of bronze medal-winning team-mate Louise Fiddes.

There was also silver for Archie Atkinson at the velodrome, although the 20-year-old world record holder suffered gold-medal heartbreak as he fell just two laps from clinching a dominant victory in the men's C4 4,000m individual pursuit.

Para-archer Jodie Grinham, who is seven months pregnant, beat compatriot and defending champion Phoebe Paterson Pine in the women's individual compound bronze medal match.

Bronze was also secured by table tennis players Paul Karabardak and Billy Shilton in the men's doubles MD14.

Great Britain's swimmers put on a superb display for their supporters inside La Defense Arena on Saturday as golds were captured and records tumbled in a frantic 40-minute medal rush.

That began when Tokyo bronze medallist Clegg, 28, broke a 12-year world record in winning the men's S12 100m backstroke final, finishing ahead of Azerbaijan's Raman Salei and Ukraine's Yaroslav Denysenko in 59.02 seconds to win his first Paralympic title.

Teenager Ellard celebrated his second medal of the Games in style with a S14 200m freestyle world record in one minute 51.30 secs, the 18-year-old beating Canada's Nicholas Bennett and Australia's Jack Ireland to add to his men's S14 100m butterfly silver.

Seven-time world champion Tai, 25, then earned her first individual Paralympic gold with a dominant display in the women's S8 100m backstroke, taking victory by six seconds to set a Paralympic record of 1:09.06.

Tai, who finished ahead of Neutral Paralympic Athlete Viktoriia Ishchiulova and China's Zheng Tingting, missed the Tokyo Games because of injury and later chose to have her leg amputated.

Maskill claimed her second medal of the Games, the 19-year-old adding women's S14 200m freestyle silver to her S14 100m butterfly gold, as team-mate Fiddes also made the podium in third - but Olivia Newman-Baronius missed out in fourth.

There was a dramatic conclusion to GB's medal-filled Saturday at the spectacular Grand Palais.

Truesdale, 35, led her gold medal contest 8-2 against Tokyo champion Naimova before accidentally catching her opponent in the face.

There were tense moments as the referee reviewed the incident while Naimova received treatment - but the Briton was eventually shown only a yellow card to avoid disqualification and be declared the champion with her opponent unable to continue.

"I didn't know what to do for a celebration. It's the last medal I needed to complete my Para-taekwondo career," said Truesdale, who did a cartwheel and the splits after her gold was confirmed.

"I just need to cry on my own for 20 minutes after the medal ceremony. People who know me after Tokyo, the hardest fight is the one that I have every day in my mind and I smashed that today, so I'm grateful that was the fight that I won."

Not long after those celebrations, Bush produced another golden moment for GB by beating Neutral Paralympic Athlete (NPA) Aliaskhab Ramazanov 5-0 in the men's K44 +80kg final.

Those inside the velodrome were left stunned when Atkinson fell as he closed on men's C4 4,000m individual pursuit gold, having opened up a significant lead on Jozef Metelka.

Staff raced to Atkinson's aid and assisted him off the track, but the Briton raised his arms to acknowledge the support of the crowd and celebrate silver on his Paralympic debut as the Slovakian finished the race and took the title.

Atkinson, favourite for gold after smashing the world record by five seconds in the heats, said: "I dug as deep as I ever have and it showed. I just ran out of energy and went down.

"I'm so proud, so happy. A world record and a silver medal, I wouldn't have believed that in my wildest dreams."

Men's C3 3,000m individual pursuit champion Jaco van Gass had a second gold in his sights after setting a C3 world record in qualifying for the C1-3 1,000m time trial, but finished fourth behind C1 riders Li Zhangyu (C1) and Liang Weicong (C1) of China, and France's Alexandre Leaute (C2).

Blaine Hunt also missed out on a medal in the men's C5 4,000m individual pursuit by finishing seventh, a day after he claimed silver in the men’s 4-5 1,000m time trial.

Known as the 'Silver Bullet' because of his eye-catching silver helmet, Switzerland's Marcel Hug won four Paralympic titles in Tokyo three years ago - but his hopes of repeating that quadruple in Paris were ended by American Daniel Romanchuk in the men's T54 5,000m final.

Romanchuk timed his sprint for the line to perfection to deny Hug, as GB's six-time Paralympic champion David Weir faded in the closing stages to finish eighth.

ParalympicsGB still await their first Para-athletics medal of the Games, after two-time defending champion Sophie Hahn finished sixth in a high-quality women's T38 final won by Colombia's Karen Palomeque - who ran 12.26 secs to break Hahn's world record. Fellow Briton Maddie Down, 16, was eighth on her debut.

Tokyo champion Thomas Young missed out on the podium in the men's T38 100m final by an agonising 0.01 as American Jaydin Blackwell clocked a world record 10.64 for gold.

There was also a fourth-place finish for Zac Shaw in the men's T12 100m final, won by Turkey's Serkan Yildirim.

Earlier in the day, Eden Rainbow-Cooper's medal hopes were ended by a collision at the start of the women's T54 5,000m final, won by Switzerland's Paralympic and world champion Catherine DeBrunner in a Games record of 10:43.62.

There are 64 gold medals to be won in Paris on Sunday and you can follow live text coverage of the action from 12:30 BST on the BBC Sport website and app.

In the final day of track cycling at the velodrome, husband and wife Neil and Lora Fachie will aim to retain their Tokyo golds.

World champions Neil and pilot Matt Rotherham contest the B 1,000m time trial (final 12:51), while Lora and Corrine Hall will chase gold in the B 3,000m individual pursuit (final 13:31) against team-mates Lizzi Jordan and Danni Khan - the reigning world champions - and 2023 world champions Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl.

The GB team sprint team, expected to include Jaco van Gass, Jody Cundy and Kadeena Cox, will contest the final event of the programme (14:30).

Team-mates Lauren Steadman and Claire Cashmore, winners of gold and bronze in Tokyo, race in the PTS5 triathlon event (11:35). Dave Ellis and guide Luke Pollard are in the men's PTVI event (11:00) and the women's PTVI features Alison Peasgood (11:05).

Rower Lauren Rowles and Gregg Stevenson are favourites in the mixed double sculls (10:50) while the PR3 mixed coxed four also compete for gold (11:30).

At the pool, Maisie Summers-Newton will hope to defend her SB6 breaststroke title (16:37) while Grace Harvey will be in action in the SB5 event (18:51).

Brock Whiston should feature in the SM8 200m medley final (17:07) while the mixed S14 4x100m freestyle team will seek to retain their title (19:13).

Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft goes for her fourth consecutive T34 100m title (19:33), while world champion Sabrina Fortune goes in the F20 shot put (18:00).

Boccia player Claire Taggart will be aiming to win the first women's BC2 Paralympic title (18:35).