After guide Guilherme Soares de Santana (pictured above, right) hit the deck (pictured below) just 30 metres from the line in the 400m final, the Brazilian who holds the world records for the 100, 200 and 400m ran on a few steps before lying prostrate on the track herself in dismay.

Guilerminha (pictured above and below, left) picked herself up, however, and jogged through to the finish before offering her distraught guide a forgiving hug after the finish.

Tonight their mood turned from desolation to jubilation as Guilhermina negotiated the shorter sprint without mishap to finish clear of her fellow Brazilians Jerusa Santos, who clocked 12.75, and Jhulia Santos, who completed a clean sweep for the nation that will hold the next Paralympics with a time of 12.76.

It was very important to run again today," she said.

"Today I showed the whole world how strong I am and how well I can do.

"It's like a present, a miracle to get the gold. It's very special after what happened yesterday.

"I will go back to Brazil, happy and laughing. God knows how good it is to get in this place."


Britain's Bethany Woodward (pictured below) secured silver in women's T37 200m, in 29.65, finishing behind Johanna Benson of Namibia, who took gold in an area record of 29.26sec.

And home runner David Devine won his second Paralympic medal in the space of two days as he added a further bronze in the men's T12 800m race to the one he had won on Tuesday night over 1500m.

The 20-year-old Liverpool athlete, who has a visual impairment, looked out of contention as he reached the straight, but overhauled Lazaro Rashid on the line to take third place in 1min 58.72sec, 0.04sec ahead of the Cuban.

"I had to go up to an official to find out where I'd come," Devine said. "When he told me, I was made up.

"My legs felt heavy.


"I couldn't get going at all, so to have won a medal, I'm made up.

"I would have gone faster if I'd had just another day to prepare.

"I didn't do enough speedwork to expect to be so successful in the 800m, so I was delighted to get a medal.

Gold went to Tunisia's Abderrahhim Zhiou, winner of the 1500m, who clocked 1:56.42 after overhauling Russia's Egor Sharov – who took silver in 1:56.65 – over the final 40 metres.

Richard Colman (pictured below, front) won Australia's third wheelchair gold of the Games as he won a massed sprint to take the men's T53 800m title in 1:41.13, with Canada's Brent Lakatos taking his second silver of the Games in a personal best of 1:41.24.


Zhou Hongzhuan of China won her second successive gold medal in the T53 women's 800m, setting a Paralympic record of 1:52.85 after holding off team-mate Lisha Huang and Jessica Galli of the United States, eventual silver and bronze medallists, in a long sprint.

Barbara Niewiedzial of Poland lived up to her position as favourite in the F20 women's 1500m, surging clear of the field to win in 4:35.26.

Leonardo Díaz of Cuba defended his F54/55/56 men's discus title with a world record of 44.63m which converted into 1,019 points in the combined classification competition.

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