Tokyo Paralympics: Great Britain win three golds and pass 100-medal mark - BBC Sport

Venue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8
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Great Britain won three more gold medals as they passed the 100-medal mark on day 10 of the Tokyo Paralympics.
The golds went to canoeist Emma Wiggs and athletes Jonathan Broom-Edwards and Owen Miller.
Friday's successes mean that GB has now won medals across 16 different sports in Japan - the first time the feat has been achieved by any nation in one single Games.
Wiggs was victorious in the VL2 200m event - the first time that the Va'a boat, which is an outrigger canoe with a support float and is used with a single-bladed paddle - has been raced at the Paralympics.
She will aim to defend her KL2 kayak title on Saturday.
World champion Broom-Edwards, a silver medallist in Rio, went one better this time in the T64 category by clearing 2.10m with his second attempt for gold after he needed three efforts at 2.07m.
Miller, making his Paralympic debut, put in a strong final lap to win the T20 1500m in three minutes 54.57 seconds, ahead of Russian Alexander Rabotnitskii.
However, Richard Whitehead had to settle for silver in his bid to win a third 200m title in row, losing out to South African 19-year-old Ntando Mahlangu in the T61 category. And defending champion Hollie Arnold could only take bronze in the F46 javelin.
Arnold led going into the final round with 39.05m but was overhauled by both world record holder Hollie Robinson from New Zealand...



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