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PARIS (AFP)
Great Britain's swimmers pulled off a gold medal heist at the Paralympics in Paris on Friday to draw level with powerhouse China in the overall medals table.
There were also a host of medals on offer on the first day of the track and field at the Stade de France while the wheelchair tennis players commenced battle at Roland Garros on day two of competition.
Tully Kearney and Maisie Summers-Newton stormed to gold medals for Britain in the pool, both defending their titles from the Tokyo Paralympics three years ago.
Kearney won the women's 100m freestyle in the S5 category while Summers-Newton, who was born with achondroplasia, a condition that affects bone development, came home first in the women's 200m individual medley SM6.
"I was really nervous, it's something that's come from Tokyo," Summers-Newton, a qualified primary school teacher, told reporters.
"There's a lot of pressure being Paralympic champion."
Hong Yang added a third swimming medal of the Games for China as he won the 200m individual medley SM6.
Earlier, Zhou Xia won China's first gold medal of the athletics events when she sprinted to the women's T35 100m title, for people with impaired coordination, in a time of 13.58sec.
