ParalympicsGB won a stunning five medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, with two golds, one silver and two bronze medals.

Dave Ellis and Guide Luke Pollard started the medal rush in the Men’s PTVI race taking gold by running clear of the competition. Megan Richter added the second gold medal with a stunning 5km run to win the women’s PTS4 race, with fellow Brit Hannah Moore taking the bronze. In the women’s PTS5 race Claire Cashmore took home the silver medal with Lauren Steadman winning bronze.

PTVI  

Ellis and Pollard claimed a gold medal, coming from third with the fastest run time of the race. Oscar Kelly and guide Charlie Harding were seventh in their Games debut.  

There was no hanging around for Ellis and Pollard, who despite starting 00:02:41 after the B1 paratriathletes, exited the water in fourth just 18 seconds off the lead. A further two places back Kelly and Harding headed into T1 a minute off the leader. Within the first lap of the 20km bike leg Ellis and Pollard had taken the lead from French duo Antoine Perel and his guide Yohan le Berre 

There was nothing to separate them at the halfway stage of the bike as the British and French pair stayed within two seconds of each other. Further back Kelly and Harding occupied seventh spot and falling to over a minute off their British teammates.  

By the end of the 20km bike leg it was a three-way battle at the front with American duo Owen Cravens and his guide Ben Hoffman taking the lead into T2 with Ellis and Pollard slipping to third.  

The British pair weren’t out of first place for long though and they kicked on in the early part of the run to regain the lead. No one in the field could match their pace and they put in the quickest run time to win the gold medal by over a minute back to Frenchman Thibaut Rigaudeau and his guide Cyril Viennot. On their debut, Kelly and Harding came across the line in seventh.  

In the women’s PTVI race Alison Peasgood and Guide Brooke Gillies were fourth. They came out of the water in sixth with Spain’s Susana Rodriguez leading the way. They gained a place on the bike leg and looked to close in on a podium place on the 5km run, crossing the line in fourth just a minute off third place German’s Anja Renner and her guide Maria Paulig 

PTS4  

Megan Richter claimed one of two British Medals in the women’s PTS4 race as she ran her way to gold, with Hannah Moore winning the bronze medal.  

Moore led the way from the off and was first out of the water following the 750m swim with Richter over two minutes back. The order remained the same across the 20km bike leg as the duo pulled away from the rest of the field. With 00:01:45 to make up Richter began closing in on her British teammate and took the lead at the half-way stage of the 5km run. She led from that moment and ran on to take the gold medal in her debut games. Behind her Spain’s Marta Gomez Frances took the silver with fellow Games debutant Moore crossing the line to complete the podium.  

In the men’s race Michael Taylor was sixth with Finley Jakes 11th. Taylor started the race strongly and was second out of the water to eventual race winner Alexis Hanquinquant. Michael dropped back on the bike to fourth and eventually crossed the line in sixth after the 5km run. Jakes was 12th across the first two legs of the race and gained one place on the run leg to come 11th.  

PTS5 

Claire Cashmore won silver in the women’s PTS5 race with Lauren Steadman wining bronze.  

American Grace Norman, who went on to win gold, led out of the water with Cashmore behind her and Steadman third. The trio then exchanged places across the bike leg with each of them leading at one point during the 20km. On the run leg Norman took the lead at the start of the run and finished 00:01:15 clear of Cashmore in second. Steadman was a further 50 seconds back. 

PTWC Women 

Mel Nicholls finished the Paris Paralympic Games in seventh place in the women’s PTWC race. 

Starting in the first group of the PTWC paratriathletes, with the PTWC 1 triathletes heading off first due to their increased impairment, Mel Nicholls came out of the water in fifth with Jessica Ferrera of Brazil for company. At this stage of the race, she was 00:01:47 off the race leader, Australia’s Lauren Parker. As the 20km bike leg unfolded Nicholls found herself in eighth place, dropping over five minutes behind Parker, who was still out in front.  

Nicholls headed into T2 in ninth place, with American Emilia Perry (eighth) in her sights. It was Brazilian Ferrerira she moved ahead of on the run leg though, as she moved up to eighth. A post-race disqualification for Mexico’s Brenda Alvarez Osnaya promoted Nicholls up to seventh in the standings. 

PTS3 Men  

Henry Urand put in the second fastest bike and run legs to finish fourth on his Paralympic Games debut in the men’s PTS3 race. He came out of the water in eighth, four minutes off leader Daniel Molina. He quickly made-up places in the early part of the 20km bike leg and was sixth at the half-way stage of the 20km leg. And while he didn’t gain any more places in the second half, he did gain on those ahead of him before getting a 10 second penalty for crossing the dismount line still on his bike. 

The penalty didn’t halt his charge, and he made up two places on the 5km run to finish just one minute off the podium places.