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Paralympics 2024: Maskill, Darbey and Tai all win silvers for Great Britain

Maskill put in strong butterfly and backstroke legs to hold a narrow advantage over Shabalina but the Russian athlete came through to win in two minutes 22.40 seconds with Maskill 1.53secs back.

“I just tried to push on the fly and back because my breaststroke isn’t great and I was just trying not to die too much,” she said.

“It felt horrible after the breaststroke so I just had to put my head down and try hard. I didn’t think coming here that I could win four medals.”

The teenager has another good medal chance in the 100m backstroke on Friday.

Darbey, a silver medallist in the men’s SM14 medley at last year’s World Championships in Manchester, was also pleased with his efforts in the same event on Wednesday.

Gold went to Canada’s Nicholas Bennett in a new Paralympic record of 2:06.05 with Darbey clocking 2:06.61 – 0.07 ahead of Beter.

“I knew we had a good chance in the relay but to get an individual medal means a lot to me,” said the Welsh swimmer.

“I’ve put in a lot of work over the last two years and trained hard and I’ve worked on my touch so I’m glad to see that it paid off.”


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