London Paralympics 2012 ? day nine: live blog

Welcome to day nine of the Paralympics.

Great news this morning. After the rush of golds yesterday from Jonnie Peacock, Hannah Cockroft, David Weir, Sarah Storey, Josef Craig and Helena Lucas, Britain are back in their rightful place at No 2 in the medal table, with 31 golds and 108 medals altogether. GB have now exceeded their pre-Games target of recording ?more medals in more sports? than in Beijing, where they won 102. Britain?s greatest enemy, like Mitt Romney?s, is Russia, who also have 31 golds and are third in the table. It will take a lot of true Brit grit to hold them off ?

China are still top of the table and have loads more medals than anyone else.

Coming up today:

8.30am onwards: wheelchair basketball

It?s the women?s finals tonight, with the US playing Holland for the bronze medal at 7pm, and Australia playing Germany for gold at 9.15pm. Britain are in a classification play-off with Mexico at 8.30am.

9.30am onwards: swimming

There are fifteen events today, including GB?s Sascha Kindred in the 50m butterfly S6 (heats 10.23am, final 6.23pm), compatriot Natalie Jones in the women?s version of the same event (heats 10.29am, final 6.30pm), Paralympic veteran medal-winner James Anderson in the men?s 50m freestyle S2 (heats 10.36am, final 6.51pm), and the women?s 4x100m medley relay 34 points at 8.47pm.

10am onwards: athletics

After their defeat by Jonnie Peacock in the 100m last night, Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and Alan Oliveira of Brazil will race again tonight at 9.45pm in the T44 400m heats. The final is tomorrow. Meanwhile Britain?s Mickey Bushell races in the men?s 200m T53 (heats 11.51am, final 8.31pm), and GB?s Shelly Woods and Jade Jones are in the T54 1500m final at 9.08pm. Britain?s Sophia Warner runs in the T35 200m at 7.33pm ? when she returns from the Games, Warner, who has cerebral palsy, will become UK Athletics? commercial director. And Richard Whitehead of GB starts things off on the track at 10.15am with the first heat of the T42 100m. The final's tonight at 9.25pm.

10am onwards: table tennis

It?s France v Slovakia in the men?s class 1-2 team final and China v Germany in the men?s class 3 team final at 12.30pm, and Spain v Poland in the men?s class 6-8 team final and China v South Korea in the women?s team class 1-3 final at 5pm. Germany play Britain for bronze at 5pm in men?s class 6-8, and Italy play GB in the women?s 1-3 class for bronze, both at 5pm.

10am onwards: wheelchair rugby

The pool phase continues as Britain play Japan at 3pm, in a game that will decide whether GB will progress from Pool A after a tight 57-50 victory over France yesterday.

10.30am onwards: cycling

There are five medal races today at Brands Hatch, with Britain?s Karen Darke and Rachel Morris in the H1-3 road race at 10.30am, and former F1 driver Alex Zanardi of Italy, who has won himself a whole new legion of fans this week as well as the H4 time trial gold medal, competes in the H4 road race at 4.30pm. In Paralympic cycling, H1-4 athletes use a handcycle. The lower the number, the greater the impact of their disability.

11am onwards: wheelchair fencing

Britain play Hong Kong at 11am in the quarter-finals of the women?s team open category. The final?s at 3pm if they get there.

Midday onwards: wheelchair tennis

Holland?s Esther Vergeer has won her last 469 games in a row, and faces her countrywoman Aniek van Koot in the women?s singles final today. Vergeer last lost a match in January 2003. "I'm hoping that someday, somebody will beat me," she said wistfully at the beginning of this tournament. Van Koot will be hoping so too. Also this afternoon the British pair Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley play Thailand?s Ratana Techamaneewat and Sakhorn Khanthasit for bronze in the women?s doubles.

1.30pm onwards: goalball

It?s the finals today, with China?s women playing Japan at 3pm and Finland's men playing Brazil at 8pm.

2pm onwards: sitting volleyball

The US play China for gold at 9pm.

Stay tuned here for all this and more throughout the day.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/sep/07/london-paralympics-2012-day-nine-live-blog

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