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Brock Whiston stormed to her first Paralympic title as Great Britain enjoyed another superb night in the pool with four golds in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n
Whiston, 27, came from more than 10 seconds behind at the halfway point to overhaul Alice Tai and secure a much-coveted gold in the SM8 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n
Maisie Summers-Newton won her second title of the 2024 Games in the SB6 100m breaststroke, while Grace Harvey upgraded her silver from Tokyo 2020 in the SB5 event.<\/p>\n
And to close the evening, the S14 mixed 4x100m freestyle squad were in a class of their own to add to the tally.<\/p>\n
Britain now have 16 medals in the pool so far at La Defense Arena, 11 of them gold.<\/p>\n
In the 200m individual medley, Tai’s 10-second lead was all but wiped out on the third breaststroke leg with Whiston just edging out Viktoriia Ishchiulova in a thrilling freestyle finish, clocking two minutes 40.37 seconds. <\/p>\n
British team-mate Tai, who took 100m backstroke gold on Saturday, got the bronze behind the Neutral Paralympic Athlete in 2:41.29 with American 16-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long fourth.<\/p>\n
Summers-Newton, 22, led all the way as she retained her 100m breaststroke title in one minute 31.30 seconds, a Paralympic record.<\/p>\n
She had already secured gold in the SM6 200m individual medley on Friday.<\/p>\n
Harvey, 26, was nearly a second down at 50 metres in her race but fought past China’s Zhang Li and Ukrainian Anna Hontar to win in one minute 42.33 seconds.<\/p>\n
Of Britain’s astounding success, Harvey said: “We are kings and queens in the pool. The team is amazing. Every single individual brings their own uniqueness to the sport, their character, their personality – and the one thing that unites us is our drive.”<\/p>\n
In the relay, the quartet of William Ellard, Rhys Darbey, Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius – all teenagers – brought GB home ahead of Australia and Brazil.<\/p>\n
It was also the second gold of these Paralympics for Ellard and Maskill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n