British athletes enjoy podium places at the Paralympics as the action continues in Tokyo

Sammi Kinghorn, Olivia Breen and Columba Blango are the latest Britons to win medals at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Kinghorn won the T53 women’s 100m bronze and there were similar medals for Breen in the women’s T38 long jump and Blango in the men’s T20 400m.

For Kinghorn it was her first Paralympic medal as she was fourth in the T53 800m earlier in the Games. She clocked 16.53 behind Chinese athletes Gao Fang and Zhou Hongzhuan.

“I am absolutely ecstatic,” she said. “I was fifth in Rio and third now. I am learning every time I’m going out on the track. I know I made some errors there but I came away with the bronze medal so I am very happy.

“Obviously that fourth in the 800m was hard, so I wasn’t going to come fourth again, I was going to get on the podium.”

The 25-year-old competes again on Thursday in the T53 400m.

Blango, meanwhile, won his first Paralympic medal at his first Games. He produced a strong finish in his one-lap race to clock 47.71 behind winner Charles-Antoine Kouakou of France (47.63) and Venezuela’s Luis Felipe Rodriguez Bolivar.

Elsewhere Markus Rehm of Germany – known as the Blade Jumper – won his third successive long jump title with 8.18m in the men’s T64 final.