Britain’s Emma Wiggs successfully defended her VL2 (va’a) canoeing title, earning her third Paralympic gold medal overall.
The 44-year-old finished the 200-meter course at Vaires-sur-Marne in 58.88 seconds. Jeanette Chippington, the oldest member of the ParalympicsGB team in Paris at 54, came in fourth with a time of 1 minute 2.41 seconds.
Wiggs and Chippington, who is competing in her eighth Games after starting her journey as a swimmer in Seoul in 1988, are set to participate in kayak events on Sunday.
Wiggs has a total of four Paralympic medals, having won gold in the KL2 (kayak) at Rio 2016 and a silver in Tokyo 2021.
In the men’s KL2 race, Briton Dave Phillipson claimed silver with a time of 42.43 seconds, finishing just over a second behind Australia’s Curtis McGrath, who secured his third consecutive title.
Phillipson, 35, is competing in his second Paralympics as a canoeist after previously participating in three as a wheelchair tennis player.
Robert Oliver, 36, finished sixth in the KL3 final, where Algeria’s Brahim Guendouz took home the gold.
