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Great Britain won two swimming gold medals in 15 magical minutes in the pool at the Paris Paralympics on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n
World champion Ellie Challis first put in a dominant performance to win the women’s S3 50m backstroke final.<\/p>\n
Then Louise Fiddes, 23, held off Brazilian favourites Debora and Beatriz Carneiro to take the S14m 100m breaststroke final.<\/p>\n
The two Britons are room-mates in Paris and both improved on the silver medals they won three years ago in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Fiddes told Channel 4 before her race she was “on the edge of her seat” watching Challis, who she labelled a “queen”.<\/p>\n
“If she can do it, I can do it,” she added.<\/p>\n
Challis, 20, swam a lifetime best of 53.56 seconds, almost five seconds clear of second-placed Russian Zoia Shchurova, with Spain’s Marta Fernandez Infante taking bronze.<\/p>\n
She will now look to back up Monday’s dominant performance in the S3 100m freestyle heats on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Fiddes, who took bronze in the S14 200m freestyle two days ago, finished 0.55 seconds clear of second-placed Debora Carneiro, with twin Beatriz Carneiro winning bronze.<\/p>\n
“There were so many years when I felt like my dream was slipping away,” a tearful Fiddes added afterwards. “Only in this year, I started getting back to it.”<\/p>\n
After five days in the pool in Paris, ParalympicsGB have won 18 medals, 13 of them gold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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