Cycling
Loughborough Lightning Cycling rider Jenny Holl piloted visually impaired Sophie Unwin to an incredible fourth 2024 Paralympics medal in the Women’s B road race.
Read more on Holl’s brilliant ride here: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2024/september/lakatos-and-holl-take-lboro-past-fifteen/
Para Powerlifting
Matthew Harding enjoyed a positive experience in his first Paralympic Games after finishing 5th in the Men's -80kg final.
Harding successfully recorded 200kg as gold medallist Roohallah Rostami took the title in a world record lift of 242kg.
Athletics
Loughborough University-based Brent Lakatos dominated the Men’s 800m T53 to add another medal to his personal Paris collection.
Read more on Brent’s podium-topping performance here: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2024/september/lakatos-and-holl-take-lboro-past-fifteen/
In the field, University-based Hollie Arnold won a superb bronze in the Women’s javelin F46. Read more on Arnold’s medal here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2024/september/lboro-bronze-and-silver-on-memorable-evening
Loughborough athletes also played a major role as Great Britain’s 4x100m Universal Relay team won silver. Read more on the above link.
Loughborough alumnus Jonathan Broom-Edwards finished 5th in the Men’s high jump T64 final. The Tokyo 2020 gold medallist recorded a best jump of 1.89m which sadly fell outside the podium places.
Wheelchair basketball
The Netherlands and Loughborough-linked Bo Kramer are guaranteed at least a silver medal in wheelchair basketball after beating Canada 72-61 in a thriller.
In an incredibly tight encounter, the Dutch finally pulled away during the third quarter to set up a mouth-watering gold medal shoot-out versus the USA on Sunday (8 September, 12:45 PM).