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Hooked again at 90
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INETY-year-old Jean Sussock can’t believe her luck after thinking her fishing days were
well and truly behind her. Jean had been a keen angler until her sight began to fade, forcing her to hang up her rod. But then she heard about a newly-formed club for visually impaired anglers, signed up, and went on to win a special prize at the club’s monthly fishing trip. “I am overjoyed,” she said, receiving the Bobby Mooore Happy Days trophy. “I was really looking forward to the day, and it fulfilled all my expectations.” The club is a joint initiative by Liverpool blind charities Christopher Grange Rehabilitation Centre and Bradbury Fields. n Contact Mike Bailey, 0151 220 2525, email mikebailey@christophergrange.org or Jamal, 0151 221 0888, email jabdullah@bradburyfields.org.uk
TOKYO, HERE FISHING FOR FUN: Jean and friends at the waterside
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HOUSANDS of people are expected to line the streets of Manchester to honour Team GB’s awesome Paralympians and Olympians.
Prime Minister Theresa May revealed the city parade will take place on October 17. Among the long list of athletes expected to be showing off their medals will be Paralympian cyclists Dame Sarah Storey, Sophie Thornhill, swimmer Stephanie Millward and wheelchair tennis star Jamie Burdekin. The event will take place after 4pm to allow children to attend. The Prime Minister said: “In every discipline and at every stage, Team GB have shown the world what we’re made of: determination, dignity and true sportsmanship. “They haven’t just made history; by showing just how far talent and hard work can take you, they have inspired the next generation.”
GOLDS for cyclists Helen Scott (Halesowen) and Sophie Thornhill (Poynton). Bronze for swimmer Stephanie Millward, who trains in Manchester
Magical memories and golds galore
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aralympicsGB returned from Rio with 64 gold medals – the most golds and the most medals of any British Paralympic team since Seoul 1988 – and won 12% of all golds awarded at the Games.
A series of exceptional performances ensured the team comfortably passed the 121 medal target set by UK Sport, eventually finishing with 64 golds, 39 silvers and 44 bronzes, a total of 147 medals – a result which saw the team finish second in the table behind China.
In all, the team set 49 Paralympic and 27 World Records. Historic ParalympicsGB performances included: n Dame Sarah Storey surpassing Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson as Great Britain’s most successful female Paralympian. n Kadeena Cox becoming the first British athlete to win gold medals in two sports at the same Games since 1984. n Andy Lewis becoming the first ParalympicsGB athlete to win a medal in triathlon by taking gold in the PT2 class. n Piers Gilliver winning ParalympicsGB’s first wheelchair fencing medal since 1992 with individual epee silver. n ParalympicsGB’s women’s W1 archers completing a clean sweep.
n ParalympicsGB men’s wheelchair basketball clinching their third bronze medal in four Games, with the women’s team finishing fourth for their highest-ever finish at a Paralympic Games. n ParalympicsGB equestrian team winning 11 medals and seven golds. n Six medals for ParalympicsGB wheelchair tennis players, including gold for Gordon Reid after defeating teammate Alfie Hewett in an all-British men’s singles final, and bronze for Jamie Burdekin and Andy Lapthorne in the men’s quad doubles after the longest wheelchair tennis match in history (four-and-a-half hours), beating Israel’s Itai Erenlib and Shraga Weinburg.
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