Jonnie Peacock starts 100m campaign with 11 medals on the board for ParalympicsGB - Paralympics 2016 schedule Friday September 9

Jonnie Peacock will aim to strut his stuff in the T44 100m final
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Matt McGeehan9 September 2016

Dame Sarah Storey clinched her 12th Paralympic title on a golden opening day of the XV Games in Rio for Great Britain. ParalympicsGB won five gold medals - three in track cycling and two in swimming - plus three silvers and three bronze medals for a total of 11 from day one.

Here’a how Thursday played out for ParalympicsGB...

Dame Sarah Storey was unusually emotional after winning her 12th Paralympic gold medal in Rio - a total that took her past Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as Britain's most successful female Paralympian. The 38-year-old, in her seventh Games, won the C5 three-kilometres individual pursuit as team-mate Crystal Lane took silver. Storey cried on the podium after claiming her first Paralympic title as a mum. Her daughter Louisa is three and congratulated Storey by telling her of grazes suffered in a fall earlier in the day.

The honour of Britain's first medal of the Games went to Megan Giglia, who claimed gold in the C1-2-3 3km individual pursuit, three-and-a-half years after a brain haemorrhage. After Storey's win, Steve Bate and his tandem pilot Adam Duggleby won the 4km pursuit title. The success saw Britain claim three gold medals in 70 minutes on the cycling track.

Ollie Hynd led the way in the pool with victory in the S8 400m freestyle - claiming the title his brother Sam won in 2008 and which proved elusive as he took silver at London 2012. Hynd clocked a world record in "inspiring" the British team, according to Bethany Firth, who claimed gold herself in the S14 100m backstroke on a night when Brazil's Daniel Dias claimed his 11th Paralympic gold in front of a partisan crowd. Firth won the same event as a 16-year-old for Ireland before switching allegiance.

Jonathan Fox had to settle for silver in defence of the S7 100m backstroke title he won at London 2012, Harriet Lee took silver in the SB9 100m breaststroke and Lane second to Storey. Stephanie Millward took bronze in the S8 400m freestyle, Jessica-Jane Applegate was third behind Firth and Andrew Mullen claimed third in the S5 200m freestyle behind Dias.

Britain must wait until day two for a first athletics medal. Jonnie Peacock will be looking to defend his T44 100m title in arguably the Games' blue riband event as he qualified quickest for the T44 100m final. Britain's seven-a-side footballers lost 2-1 to Brazil, the women's wheelchair basketball squad lost to Canada, but the men beat Algeria.

Coming up on Friday…

  • The speed demons are in action on the athletics track. Jonnie Peacock will aim to strut his stuff in the T44 100m final after qualifying quickest in a Paralympic record. The final is at 12:00am (Saturday). Ireland's Jason Smyth, the fastest Paralympian, will go for his fifth gold in the T13 100m (3:09pm).
     
  • It could be a strong day of track and field for Britain. Wheelchair racer Mickey Bushell will hope to successfully defend his T53 100m final (at 11:12pm), Libby Clegg goes for glory in the T11 100m (at 10:52pm), Georgina Hermitage in the T37 100m (at 9:36pm), which is immediately followed by the T38 event which features Sophie Hahn, Kadeena Cox and Olivia Breen.
     
  • Jody Cundy will bid to put the disappointment of London 2012 behind him - and his explosive reaction - in the C4/C5 one-kilometres time-trial. Team-mate Jon-Allan Butterworth also has a good chance of a medal. They race at 8:30pm.
     
  • Stephanie Slater will hope to be in contention to add the S8 100m butterfly Paralympic gold to the world title she won in Glasgow last year on what could be another profitable evening in the pool.
     
  • Two-time world champion powerlifter Ali Jawad will go for gold in the -59kg group at Riocentro (at 8pm).

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