Paris 2024: Day Six Preview

There are 50 gold medals to be won on day six of the Paralympic Games in Paris, with the first para equestrian and wheelchair fencing medals to be won.

Medal action also continues in the pool and on the track.

Para Swimming

Ellie Challis is looking to follow up her women’s S3 50m backstroke gold this evening with a second medal in two days as she competes in the S3 100m freestyle.

Challis, a two-time world silver medallist in the 100m freestyle, will go in qualifying at 10:51 CET ahead of the final at 19:30.

Tully Kearney is going for her third gold of the Games in the women’s S5 50m backstroke.

She will hoping to follow up on her 100m and 200m S5 freestyle golds in the final at 18:33, with qualifying at 10:34.

Grace Harvey is also bidding to become a multiple gold medallist as she looks to add to her gold in the women’s 100m SB5 breaststroke with a medal in the S6 50m butterfly.

Harvey, who was also fourth in the women’s 200m SM6 individual medley, will go in qualifying at 10:18ahead of the final at 18:05.

Faye Rogers and Callie-Ann Warrington will both be targeting gold in the women’s S10 100m butterfly.

Rogers is the world champion and European record holder, but will face competition from her teammate, the European champion.

Qualifying is at 11:37, ahead of the final at 20:35.

Identical twins Eliza and Scarlett Humphrey compete in the 200m SM11 individual medley, with qualifying at 10:38, ahead of the final at 19:05.

Para Equestrian

It’s the first three finals in the para equestrian on Tuesday, with the individual dressage event finals in the Grades I-III classifications.

Natasha Baker is going for her seventh Paralympic gold when she competes in the Grade III final at 9:00.

Baker, who has golds in the individual event from London and Rio, as well as a silver from Tokyo, will be riding Dawn Chorus, who she also rode in Tokyo.

Tokyo bronze medallist Georgia Wilson will be riding Sakura in the Grade II final at 11:45, as she aims to be on the podium for the second straight Games.

Mari Durward-Akhurst makes her Paralympics debut riding Athene Lindebjerg in the Grade I final at 13:35.

Wheelchair fencing

ParalympicsGB are chasing three wheelchair fencing golds on Tuesday.

Piers Gilliver will look to add a men’s sabre A medal to the epee gold he won in Tokyo.

Gilliver, who has a World Championship silver and two bronzes in sabre, as well as two European golds, will compete in his quarter-final from 15:30, with the gold medal bout at 21:40.

Dimitri Coutya, who has individual bronzes in epee and foil from Tokyo, will go in the men’s sabre B competition from 13:30, ahead of the final at 20:50.

Gemma Collis is competing at her third Paralympics and looking to add her first Paralympic medal to her 18 World Cup medals.

She goes in the women’s sabre A competition from 14:30, with the gold medal bout at 22:05.

Para Athletics

There are two T54 1500m finals tomorrow, with the women competing at 12:19 and the men’s final at 21:09.

Sammi Kinghorn, who has a T53 800m silver to her name already in Paris, cruised through her heat in second, while Melanie Woods and Eden Rainbow-Cooper came through the other heat.

David Weir, who has Paralympic golds in this event from Beijing and London, will be joined by Nathan Maguire and Daniel Sidbury in tonight’s qualifying session.

Elsewhere, boccia, para table tennis, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball all continue.