Loughborough at the Paralympic Games – Day Seven

the Eiffel tower in Paris

Holl and Newson claim superb double silver success in cycling and Para powerlifting respectively.

Cycling

Jenny Holl completed a hat-trick of Paris 2024 medals after winning silver in the Women's B Individual Time Trial.

Read more on another podium place for Holl here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2024/september/holl-and-newson-claim-double-silver-success

Para Powerlifting

Loughborough-linked Zoe Newson secured silver in the Women’s -45kg category after a thrilling finish. More information on Zoe’s success can be found on the above link.

Athletics

Loughborough University alumnus Karim Chan missed out on a medal by 1cm in the Men’s T38 long jump.

Appearing in his first Paralympic Games, Chan recorded a best jump of 6.39m but sadly finished agonisingly in fourth place.

Wheelchair Basketball

Great Britain Women’s Paralympic medal hopes unfortunately came to an end after losing 59-52 to the USA in the quarter-finals. The Loughborough contingent of Lucy Robinson, Robyn Love, Amy Conroy and Laurie Williams all competed in a thrilling match which was often too close to call.

GB will now face Japan tomorrow (Thursday 5 September, 09:30 am) as they compete for places 5-8.

Elsewhere, the Netherlands and Lightning’s Bo Kramer cruised through to the semi-finals after a convincing 61-43 victory over Spain. Kramer contributed 21 points for the Dutch and looked razor-sharp throughout.

The Netherlands will contest a place in the final on the 6th of September with their opponent yet to be finalised.