In what was the Paralympics' response to "Super Saturday" at the London 2012 Olympics; Weir, Cockroft and Peacock evoked the spirit of their Olympic counterparts Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah to make it another electric night at the Olympic Stadium.

It was Weir who claimed the most dramatic win on the incredible evening as the 33-year-old Londoner produced his trademark sprint finish to claim his third victory of the Games in 1min 37.63sec as he edged Switzerland's Marcel Hug and Thailand's Saichon Konjen into silver and bronze respectively.

"That was hard work tonight," said Weir.

"I had to dig deep.

"I'm tired.

"I probably seem like I'm not enjoying it but I am tired now.

"I need to recover now for the next two days before the marathon."


The win came shortly before Jonnie Peacock, the 19-year-old from Cambridge, bought the house down with a stunning win in the men's 100m T44 ahead of silver medallist Richard Brown of the United States and bronze medallist Arnu Fourie of South Africa.

South Africa's defending champion Oscar Pistorius finished only fourth in a race that belonged to Peacock.

"This will live with me forever, I could not have wished for better," he said

"It is such a relief because the last year has just been one huge build up."

The wins followed a tremendous start to the evening from Cockroft, who completed a sprint double by adding the 200 metre T34 title to the gold she won in the 100m at the Olympic Stadium last week.

As she did with the 100m, the 20-year-old wheelchair sprint specialist from Halifax completely destroyed her rivals as she cruised home in a Paralympic record of 31.90 seconds, with Dutch pair Amy Siemons and Desiree Vranken taking silver and bronze.


"I train really hard," she said.

"I don't know how much the other girls train and I've been on a special diet for 18 months and that's been a killer so that's getting broken tonight.

"I've pretty much given up my life for two gold medals but it's worth it."

Cockroft's win gave ParalympicsGB their 104th medal, meaning that they surpassed their target of 103 set by Government agency UK Sport with three days of the Games remaining.

"To win at least 103 medals is a fantastic achievement particularly when you consider Paralympic sport is becoming hugely competitive with more nations investing significant resources in success," said UK sport chief executive Liz Nicholl.

The evening also saw discus silver for British four-time Paralympian Dan Greaves claim discuss F44 silver behind American Jeremy Campbell.

In addition, there were three bronzes for Britain.


Paul Blake (pictured) claimed one in the 800m T36 behind Russian duo Evegenii Shvetcov and Artem Arefyev respectively while Ben Rushgrove took his in the 200m T36 behind gold medallist Roman Pavlyk of the Ukraine and silver medallist Wa Wai So of Hong Kong and Ola Abidogun his own bronze in the 100m T46 behind China's Xu Zhao and Cuba's Raciel Gonzalez Isidoria respectively.

It meant Britain ended the night at the Olympic Stadium with seven medals, three of which were gold, in an unforgettable fashion.

"This has been most amazing night of athletics I have witnessed," said Britain's 11-time Paralympic wheelchair champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

"I have been to a number of Olympics and Paralympics but the number of people shouting Peacock just did it for me.

"For David Weir and Jonnie Peacock this was just incredible."

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