Streng crossed the line in 10.76sec, holding off Sherman Isidro Guity Guity, who gave Costa Rica a first medal of the Games with a silver in 10.78.

Britain's Jonnie Peacock and T62 German athlete Johannes Floors waited more than three minutes for the decision for bronze, which went to a photo finish, but officials determined both would get the medal with a time of 10.79.

Floors broke his classification's Paralympic record in the process.

The Russian Paralympic Committee's (RPC) Anton Prokhorov held off a late hunt from Brazilian Vinicius Goncalves Rodrigues to win the men's T63 100m final in a time of 12.04, a new T42 world record.

The Brazilian set a new T63 classification Paralympic record back at 12.05 back for silver and Germany's Leon Schaefer won bronze.

Dinesh Priyantha Herath won Sri Lanka's first gold medal at a Paralympic Games in the men's F54 javelin, breaking the world record with a throw of 67.79 metres.

At Rio 2016, he won only his country’s second medal when he finished third in the same event

Herath's effort improved the previous world best set by Devendra of India, who set a new personal best in second.

Devendra’s team mate Sundar Singh Gurjar completed the podium for bronze, meaning all three athletes were from the Indian subcontinent.

More success came for those nations in the men's F64 javelin, as India's Sumit Sumit won gold by breaking the F64 world record with a mark of 68.55m.

Michal Burian gave Australia a silver medal with a last-round effort of 66.29m to move up from bronze for a new F44 world record.

Dulan Kodithuwakku won Sri Lanka the bronze, doubling the nation's all-time medal total in just one day.

Monica Olivia Rodriguez of Mexico broke the women's T11 1500 metres world record in 4min 37.40sec ahead of Louzanne Coetzee of South Africa who broke the African record for silver and bronze medallist Nancy Chelangat Koech of Kenya.

Following her victory, Rodriguez and guide Kevin Aguilar Perez donned luchador masks to celebrate her new world best.

Chile's Francisca Mardones Sepulveda won gold in the women's F54 shot put with a world record of 8.33m.

Gloria Zarza Guadarrama of Mexico took silver and Nurkhon Kurbanova of Uzbekistan claimed bronze.

Brazilian world record-holder Claudiney Batista dos Santos set a new Paralympic record to retain his men's F56 discus gold medal with a best of 45.59 metres; Yogesh Kathuniya of India and Cuba's Leonardo Diaz Aldana completed the podium.

Uzbekistan's Bobirjon Omonov set a new Paralympic record of 14.06m in the men's F41 shot put for gold.

Hagan Landry of the United States set a new North American record of 13.88m for second and Germany's Niko Kappel was third.

Iranian Amir Khosravani needed a new personal best of 7.21m to win the men's T12 long jump gold medal, seeing off Leinier Savon Pineda of Cuba, who broke the North American record in second with a best of 7.16m, and bronze medallist Said Najafzade of Azerbaijan.

Tunisia's Walid Ktila broke the Paralympic record to retain his men's T34 100 metres gold for a third Games in a row in a time of 15.01.

Rheed McCracken of Australia was second and Mohamed Alhammadi of the United Arab Emirates took bronze.

Andrew Small of Britain claimed gold in the men's T33 100m in 17.73, a tenth of a second in front of Kuwait's silver medallist Ahmad Almutairi.

Small's compatriot Harri Jenkins claimed bronze.

The RPC's Dmitrii Safronov took the gold medal in the men's T35 100m, breaking the world record in a time of 11.39.

Ihor Tsvietov of Ukraine stopped an RPC 1-2-3 by setting a new personal best close behind; while Artem Kalashian won the bronze in front of team mate David Dzhatiev.

Iranian Mahdi Olad threw a best of 14.43 metres for gold in the men's F11 shot put, holding off Brazilian Alessandro Rodrigo da Silva and Oney Tapia of Italy, who won silver and bronze.

The RPC's Evgenii Torsunov broke the Paralympic record in the men's T36 long jump with a best of 5.76 metres - just 16 centimetres short of his world record.

Torsunov won gold in front of New Zealand's William Stedman, who broke the Oceania record in 5.64m, while Ukrainian Roman Pavlyk was a centimetre back for bronze.

The final gold medal of the night went to Brazil's Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes in the women's F53 discus, with a world record of 17.62m.

Joining her on the podium were Ukrainians Iana Lebiedieva and Zoia Ovsii.