Five swimming silvers and a bronze for ParalympicsGB
Great Britain win five silvers and a bronze in the men and women’s swimming on a busy evening in the Aquatics Centre.
Despite promising times in the heats, the Hynd brothers Sam and Oliver missed out on swimming gold in the S8 400m freestyle. In the women’s race Heather Frederiksen won silver behind the USA’s Jessica Long, who broke the world record.
They were followed by James Crisp and Stephanie Millward, who both came second in the men and women’s S9 100m backstroke final, and Aaron Moores, who won a silver in the men’s S14 100m backstroke final.
The Hynds, as well as team-mate Thomas Young, were the three fastest competitors in the heats this morning – boosting hopes of a ParalympicsGB medal haul in the final.
However Chinese swimmer Wang Yinan was too fast for the ParaGB swimmers, claiming gold ahead of Oliver, 19, in silver medal position and Sam, 21, in bronze. Young finished in fourth.
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@paralympicsgb…3 medals already and lots more opportunities!!!#BOOM— Liz Johnson (@lizjohnson_gb) August 31, 2012
Sam Hynd said: “Unfortunately the Chinese guy beat us both. But that’s what the sport’s about. I can tell the crowd enjoyed it and I certainly enjoyed it.”
In the women’s race the USA’s Jessica Long out-classed the rest of the field, winning 18 seconds ahead of her nearest competitors.
In the men’s 50m butterfly in the S7 classification, Matthew Walker finished seventh in the final. Susannah Rodgers finished fourth in the women’s version of the same event.
