Here are the top moments featuring Aussies at the Paralympics on Day 7.
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Wednesday 4th September (All times are in AEST)
🚴♂️ 4:00pm: Para Cycling, Road: Time Trial (Medal Event 🥇)
Seven Aussies are racing in the time trial, beginning with Alana Forster at 4:00pm and concluding with Alistair Donohoe, who will take off at 9:51pm.
🏊♂️ 5:37pm: Para Swimming (Heats)
Jenna Jones will swim in the heat of the Women’s 100m Freestyle S12 at 5:37pm. Ricky Betar is set to race in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM14 at 5:45pm and Paige Leonhardt in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley SM14 at 5:54pm. Callum Simpson will contest the heats of the Men’s 400m Freestyle S8 at 6:05pm and Ella Jones will do the same in the Women’s 400m Freestyle S8 at 6:20pm. Grant ‘Scooter’ Patterson is back in the pool for the Men’s 50m Breastroke SB2 at 6:37pm. Chloe Osborn and Holly Warn are racing in the Women’s 100m Freestyle S7 at 7:04pm. Finally, Alexa Leary, Lucky Patterson, and Emily Beecroft will set a marker down in the Women’s 100m Freestyle at 7:12pm.
🏃♂️ 6:00pm: Para Athletics (Rounds and Finals 🥇)
26-year-old Luke Bailey is racing in Round 1 of the Men’s 100m T54 at 7:52pm. Mali Lovell and Abby Craswell are racing in Round 1 of the Women’s 100m T36 Round 1 at 8:26pm. Lovell is looking to add to her tally after winning bronze in the 200m and Craswell is making her debut.
🏹 8:54pm: Para Archery, Men’s Individual Recurve Open (1/16 Elimination)
Taymon Kenton-Smith, at his second Paralympics, takes on China’s Gan Jun in an elimination round for a spot in the final eight.
🏐 9:40pm: Boccia, Mixed Pairs BC3 (Quarter-Final)
The world’s no.1 ranked team of Jamieson Leeson and Daniel Michel won two from two in the pool stages. They take on South Korea in the quarter-final at 9:40pm.
🏓 9:45pm: Para Table Tennis, Women’s Singles WS10 (Gold Medal Match🥇)
Qian Yang is playing Poland’s Natalia Partyka for the gold medal. Yang is the favourite, having already picked up a gold medal in Paris in the women’s doubles WD20 event. Later, Australia’s Samuel Von Einem takes on Japan’s Takemori Takeshi in the Men’s Singles MS11 quarter-final at 1:00am.
Thursday 5th September
🏊♂️ 1:30am: Para Swimming (Finals 🥇)
Expect to see some of the Aussies from the morning session racing in these finals later on.
🏃♂️ 3:00am: Para Athletics (Finals 🥇)
Rosemary Little and Sarah Clifton-Bligh will go for gold in the final of the Women’s Shot Put F32 Final.
