Paralympics 2024: Ben Sandilands wins T20 1500m gold

Great Britain’s Ben Sandilands set a new world record to claim T20 1500m Paralympic gold as defending champion Jonathan Broom-Edwards failed to win a medal in his high jump event.

Sandilands, 21, put in a storming last lap in the T20 race for athletes with intellectual impairments to finish in three minutes 45.40 seconds – beating the old mark held by American Mikey Brannigan by 0.10secs.

It is Britain’s fifth gold of the Para-athletics programme in Paris.

Broom-Edwards, who finished fifth in his T64 event with 1.89m, revealed after his T64 competition he had sustained a fractured ankle and torn ligaments in training six weeks ago, which needed surgery and he had intense rehab to be able to compete.

“Just to be on the start line, to be amongst it all, to be amongst the crowd, I’m truly blessed,” he said.

“It’s been the hardest I’ve had to work in my life.”

There was a silver for wheelchair racer Marcus Perrineau-Daley in the T52 100m event on his Paralympic debut.

The 35-year-old Londoner, who was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 2014, led Belgian Maxime Carabin at the halfway mark before the world-record holder came through strongly to win.

Two more medals followed for ParalympicsGB in Friday’s evening session at Stade de France.

Hollie Arnold took bronze in the women’s F46 javelin before the 4x100m universal relay team of Jonnie Peacock, Sammi Kinghorn, Ali Smith and Zac Shaw finished second behind China.