Paralympics 2024: Alice Tai, Stephen Clegg and William Ellard win golds in Paris
Alice Tai won her first individual Paralympic title as Great Britain’s swimmers claimed three gold medals within 40 sensational minutes on Saturday.
Tai won the S8 100m backstroke shortly after Stephen Clegg and William Ellard set world records to triumph in their events.
The 25-year-old missed the Tokyo Games in 2021 because of injury and had her right leg amputated below the knee in 2022 because of increasing pain and discomfort.
Tai, who said the amputation had been “a great thing” for her, won in a Paralympic record time of one minute 09.06 seconds.
Clegg, 28, won his first Paralympic gold medal as he stormed to victory in the S12 100m backstroke final in 59.02 seconds.
Ellard, 18, won the S14 200m freestyle in one minute 51.30 seconds, more than a second faster than the previous record, which he shared with fellow Briton Reece Dunn.
It is Ellard’s second medal of the Games after he took silver in the S14 100m butterfly on Thursday.
And Poppy Maskill secured silver and Louise Fiddes bronze in the S14 women’s 200m freestyle.
That’s also a second medal for Maskill, who won over 100m on Thursday.
The youngest member of the ParalympicsGB squad in Paris, 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, goes in the SM7 individual medley at about 19:10 BST.
