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Roberts: Aiming high
Britain continue their bid for Paralympic success in Beijing with impressive performances in the cycling, swimming and wheelchair racing.
The youngest member of the Paralympic team, 13-year-old Eleanor Simmonds won a shock gold in the women's S6 100m freestyle final with a time of 1min 18.75 seconds.
Also in the Watercube, seven-time gold medalist David Roberts began his bid to overtake Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson as Britain's most successful Paralympian.
Record
Having set a Paralympic record in his heat for the S7 100m freestyle in 1min 00.82 seconds, Roberts then did the same in the final winning in 1:00.35. Fellow Briton Matt Walker won bronze in 1:04.17, while Jon Fox was
fifth.
Roberts is aiming for five golds at the Water Cube, having won seven titles at
the last two Paralympics.
Louise Watkin won a silver medal in the women's S9 100m freestyle final behind South Africa's Natalie Du Toit, with a time of 1:03.85 seconds.
Heather Frederiksen came second in the S8 100m freestyle final with a 1:08.48 finish, 1.57 seconds behind USA's Jessica Long.
Victory
Anthony Kappes and Barney Storey won Britain's fourth cycling gold medal of the games when they completed the B&VI one-kilometre time-trial in a world record-breaking time of 2.864 seconds.
The pair beat Australians Ben Demery and Shaun Hopkins to claim victory in the Velodrome.
British team-mates Simon Richardson, Darren Kenny, Aileen McGlynn and tandem pilot rider Ellen Richardson also won gold in their events.
But five-time Paralympian Sarah Storey did not manage to add to the string of cycling gold medals as she finished fifth in the LC1-2/CP4 500m time-trial.
Elsewhere, world record holder David Weir won his heats in both the men's T54 400m wheelchair race and the qualified with a personal best in the 5000m.
Libby Clegg is through to the next round of the women's T11 100m with a qualifying time of 12.721 seconds, a season's best for the athlete.
The athletics team were edged out of first-place positions as Shelly
Woods and Chris Martin each claimed silver medals at the Birds Nest.
Woods was second in the women's T54 5000m, 0.26 seconds behind Canada's Dianne Roy.
Martin only managed a silver in the men's F33/34/52 discuss despite a Paralympic record throw of 28.37 metres.
A factoring system based on the level of disability meant the 36-year-old from
Mansfield was pushed out of the gold medal position by Aigars Apinis, who threw a world record for the F52 class of 20.47m.
Disappoinment
Meanwhile, Felicity Coulthard finished sixth in the equestrian individual test in Hong Kong and Hollie Arnold finished 11th in the F42-46 women's javelin final.
Shooters Nathan Milgate and Matt Skelhon were also faced disappointment as they failed to win medals in the men's R1 10m standing air rifle.
Britian now lie in second place in the medal table with 12 medals, behind leaders the United States' 16.
