ParalympicsGB's Reece Dunn wins his THIRD gold of the Tokyo Games

Great Britain’s medal rush in Tokyo continued on Tuesday with swimmer Reece Dunn claiming his third gold of the rescheduled Paralympic Games.

Dame Sarah Storey got day seven off to the best possible start with a dominant victory in the C5 time trial in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The cyclist equalled Mike Kenny’s British record of a staggering 16 Paralympic gold medals while fellow GB rider Crystal Lane-Wright snatched silver in the same discipline.

Swimmer Reece Dunn claimed his third gold of the rescheduled Paralympic Games

Dunn celebrates winning gold in the SM14 200m individual medley in Tokyo on Tuesday

The 25-year-old had already claimed two golds in the 200m freestyle and in the 4x100m relay

Dunn, who had already claimed two golds in the 200m freestyle and in the 4x100m relay as well as silver in the 100m butterfly, followed up Storey’s success with victory in the SM14 200m individual medley.

The 25-year-old won in a world-record time of 2:08.02, 0.14 seconds faster than the previous global best, to claim ParalympicsGB’s 29th gold of the Games.

Last weekend Dunn broke his own world record to win gold in the S14 200m freestyle and swore live on television as he failed to control his excitement after the race.

Games debutant Ben Watson claimed GB’s second gold of Tuesday, just over two months after a high-speed crash into a house while competing in Portugal.

Dame Sarah Storey equalled Mike Kenny’s British record of 16 Paralympic golds earlier in day

The 32-year-old, who was working as a chartered surveyor https://situs-togel-terpercaya.learnyst.com/ at the time of Rio 2016 and weighed around 14 stone due to a party lifestyle, finished the men’s C3 time trial in 35:00.82.

‘The worst bit about the house was there was a chain link fence about a metre and half down the road and if I’d hit that that would probably mean I wasn’t here because it was about a 15 foot drop on to concrete,’ he said.

‘Fortunately, the house was fine; I wasn’t.

I cut and lacerated all my arms, all my shoulders and back, the inside of my leg and my groin.

‘But I managed to get up and to now be Paralympic champion it’s an amazing feeling and one I honestly didn’t think I’d get. It’s mental.’

Great Britain’s Lora Fachie (left) and pilot Corrine Hall celebrate with their silver medals

Watson finished ahead of German duo Steffen Warias and Matthias Schindler, with team-mates Fin Graham and Jaco Van Gass fourth and sixth respectively.

Cyclist Lora Fachie and pilot Corrine Hall won silver in the women’s B time trial in 48:32.06, while dual-sport athlete George Peasgood crossed the line in 46:08.93 to add C4 time trial bronze to the PTS5 triathlon silver he picked up on Sunday.

Peasgood’s medal was the 1,000th won by ParalympicGB and TeamGB combined since National Lottery funding began in 1997.

Swimmers Stephen Clegg and Hannah Russell claimed bronze medals in their respective S12 100m freestyle finals while Bethany Firth and Louise Fiddes won silver and bronze respectively in the SM14 200m individual medley.

At the Olympic Stadium, British runner Columba Blango and long jumper Olivia Breen each won bronze.

Londoner Blango, appearing at his first Paralympics, ran a personal best of 47.81secs, to finish third in the T20 400m

The 29-year-old crossed the line 0.18secs behind French gold medallist Charles-Antoine Kouakou, with Venezuela’s Luis Felipe Rodriguez Bolivar clinching silver.

Breen’s best jump in the T38 classification was 4.91m, while her fellow Briton Hetty Bartlett was sixth with a leap of 4.05m.