Two personal best times and two medals in the pool for Paralympics GB on day six

Eliza Humphrey describes a ‘dream come true’ after a personal best in Paris as Paralympics GB collect a further two swimming medals.

After starting another race alongside her twin sister Scarlett at these Games, Eliza put on a fantastic performance in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley SM11 final to go under the three-minute mark for the first time.

She recorded a time of 2:59.51 on her way to finishing seventh, with Scarlett finishing one place ahead in sixth with a time of 2:49.59.

Just as they did in the 400m Freestyle S11 final earlier in the competition, the Northampton duo were able to improve on their times from the heats.

Reflecting on the swim, Eliza said: “It was nice, that felt good as well.

“We had some things we wanted to work on from the heats, I worked on them and it obviously worked, so I got under three minutes which is something I’ve been aiming to do for a while.

“To do that here was quite nice!

“Missing out on the World Championships in Manchester last year was a bit gutting because I was watching everyone race and thinking, ‘oh, I want to be back there again!’

“So I worked really hard in the lead-up to the Paralympic trials and then to make the team was really nice.

“Then to finally race here is a dream come true. It’s great to be back on the world stage and racing world-class athletes as well.”

The second personal best time came from Callie-Ann Warrington in the final event of the day, which also saw a double medal swoop for Great Britain.

As Faye Rogers stormed to the wall to win gold in the Women’s 100m Butterfly S10 final, Warrington was just over half a second behind as she recorded a new best of 1:06.41.

She said: “I had a chat with the coaches [after the heats] and we were happy with the pace that I went out on and they just said you just need to come back a bit quicker and I delivered that.

“It was a PB and to be able to race against Faye – it’s just everything.”

Earlier in the finals session, Tully Kearney got the British action underway on day six with a solid swim in the Women’s 50m Backstroke S5 final.

The 27-year-old rounded off a great Games as she added a fifth place finish to her two golden triumphs in the freestyle events.

Kearney, who felt she could have been amongst the medals had she been on her personal best time, finished just outside of that with a time of 43.40.

Despite that, she finished less than a second behind the bronze medal winner, Yu Liu of China.

Similarly to Kearney, Ellie Challis was another Paralympics GB athlete coming off the back of gold medal success.

Just a day after clinching the Women’s 50m Backstroke S3 title, Challis was back in action competing in the 100m Freestyle S3 final.

The 20-year-old equalled her result from Tokyo in this event as she made it back-to-back fourth place finishes, albeit with a significant improvement on her time from three years ago.

At the previous Games, Challis set a time of 1:54.84 but this time around, she went more than 12 seconds quicker to clock in at 1:42.75.