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Great Britain’s Ben Sandilands set a new world record to claim T20 1500m Paralympic gold as defending champion Jonathan Broom-Edwards failed to win a medal in his high jump event.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sandilands, 21, put in a storming last lap in the T20 race for athletes with intellectual impairments to finish in three minutes 45.40 seconds – beating the old mark held by American Mikey Brannigan by 0.10secs.<\/p>\n
It is Britain’s fifth gold of the Para-athletics programme in Paris.<\/p>\n
Broom-Edwards, who finished fifth in his T64 event with 1.89m, revealed after his T64 competition he had sustained a fractured ankle and torn ligaments in training six weeks ago, which needed surgery and he had intense rehab to be able to compete.<\/p>\n
“Just to be on the start line, to be amongst it all, to be amongst the crowd, I’m truly blessed,” he said. <\/p>\n
“It’s been the hardest I’ve had to work in my life.”<\/p>\n
There was a silver for wheelchair racer Marcus Perrineau-Daley in the T52 100m event on his Paralympic debut.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Londoner, who was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 2014, led Belgian Maxime Carabin at the halfway mark before the world-record holder came through strongly to win.<\/p>\n
Two more medals followed for ParalympicsGB in Friday’s evening session at Stade de France.<\/p>\n
Hollie Arnold took bronze in the women’s F46 javelin before the 4x100m universal relay team of Jonnie Peacock, Sammi Kinghorn, Ali Smith and Zac Shaw finished second behind China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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