It was a successful Sunday for athletes who are based in Manchester at the Paralympics in Paris, writes Oliver Jones.
In the pool, Manchester’s National Performance Centre claimed their second gold medal of the games, with Grace Harvey winning in the 100m breaststroke in the SB5 class.
Poppy Maskill, who also trains out of Manchester, then won her second gold of the games in the mixed 4x100m S14 relay later on in the day.
The golds kept coming in the velodrome.
Kadeena Cox, who trains at the Manchester’s National Cycling Centre, managed to get over a fall the day previous, and was part of the mixed 750m sprint team which won gold in the C1-5 class.
The team also included Manchester based and paralympic legend Jody Cundy, who made it nine gold medals across both swimming and cycling sports.
Elsewhere in the cycling for Manchester based athletes, James Bell won gold in the men’s 1000m time trial B, and it was a happy day in the Fachie household.
Neil Fachie made it a team GB one-two in the 1000m time trial B, whilst wife Lora Fachie won bronze in the Women’s purist B.
The couple both train in Altrincham, Greater Manchester.
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