Paralympics 2020 LIVE updates Australias boccia bronze breakthrough controversial DNS rulings in shot put
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In the space of just half an hour - Australia has now claimed three bronze medals.
The third medal has come from Thomas Gallagher who has just claimed bronze in the 400m freestyle S10 final.
Ukraine’s Maksym Krypak claimed gold in the race with the Netherlands’ Bas Takken taking silver.
What an evening it has already been for Australia.
Next up in the pool is Timothy Hodge in men’s SM9 200m individual medley. His race is at 7.31pm AEST.
Aussie Tiffany Thomas Kane has taken the bronze medal in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB7!
Kane was one of our most successful swimmer at Rio, where she won a gold and three bronze medals.
The RPC’s Mariia Pavlova took gold with USA’s Jessica Long in silver.
Tiffany Thomas-Kane in her heat earlier today, where she qualified second fastest. Credit:Getty
Next up for the Aussies is Thomas Gallagher in the men’s S10 400m freestyle final. His race is at 6.21pm AEST.
Australian swimmer Blake Cochrane has won bronze in the men’s 100m breaststroke SB7 final with a time of 1.16.97. Cochrane is a seasoned Paralympic swimmer - having already a gold and silver medal from London and Rio.
Colombia’s Carlos Serrano Zarate claimed the gold, with Russian Egor Efrosinin taking the silver spot.
Australian counterpart Jesse Aungles narrowly missed out - coming in fourth place.
At 6pm AEST, the swimming will kick off for tonight with five medal chances for Australia.
Aussie duo Jesse Aungles and Blake Cochrane are up first in the men’s SB7 100m breaststroke final at 6pm AEST.
Then we have Tiffany Thomas Kane in the women’s SB7 100m breaststroke final at 6.07pm AEST.
Thomas Gallagher will then later swim in the men’s S10 400m freestyle final at 6.21pm with Timothy Hodge in the men’s SM9 200m medley a bit later at 7.31pm AEST.
Timothy Hodge completes the heat on day eight of the Games. Credit:Getty
There are nearly eight billion people in the world. The second tallest of them all is an Iranian man in Tokyo spending most of his time sitting on a Paralympic volleyball court.
Meet Morteza Mehrzad, whose sitting volleyball team will play in their semi-final against Bosnia Herzegovina on Thursday.
Mehrzad is a whopping 246 centimetres tall, equivalent to eight feet one inch.
Read more about his incredible story here.
Australia para-table tennis star Ma Lin, who has one of the best backstories of the Australian team, has defeated Nigeria’s Tajudeen Agunbiade in a thrilling five-match game to secure his team a spot in the gold medal match.
The men’s class 9-10 team will now take on China for the gold on September 3 at 7.30pm AEST.
We will see the Aussie women’s team face China in their semi-final at 8:30pm AEST tonight.
Just spoke to our man on the ground Tom Decent to get a sense as to when Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson will be in the gold medal mixed quad doubles match - which at the moment is TBC.
The Aussie duo are scheduled in as the fifth match of the day on centre court at the Ariake Tennis park. They’re up against the Netherlands pairing of Niels Vink and Sam Schroder.
At the moment, the first match of the day, the men’s singles quarter-final between Japan and France, is currently underway.
After that, there is the men’s singles quarter-final, the women’s doubles semi-final and the quad doubles bronze medal match before Alcott and Davidson will take to the court.
Tom is estimating between 5.30pm-7.30pm, but we will hopefully be able to bring you a more accurate estimation closer to the match.
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