Paralympics 2024: Australian para cyclists Meg Lemon and Alana Forster win medals on day seven in Paris


2h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 4:53am

Day seven: Aussies in action and medallists

It’s another massive day in Paris for the Australians — we’ll update the schedule when finals are confirmed (AEST).

Australian medallists:

Para cycling road: Women’s C4 individual time trial — Meg Lemon 🥈Para cycling road: Women’s C5 individual time trial —Alana Forster🥉

Live and upcoming events:

Para cycling road

4:27pm: Men’s C2 individual time trial — Darren Hicks🏅5:02pm: Women’s C1-3 individual time trial — Amanda Reid🏅6:03pm: Women’s H1-3 individual time trial — Lauren Parker🏅9:51pm: Men’s C5 individual time trial — Alistair Donohoe🏅

Para swimming

5:37pm: Women’s 100m freestyle S12 heats — Jenna Jones5:45pm: Men’s 200m individual medley SM14 heats — Ricky Betar5:54pm: Women’s 200m individual medley SM14 heats — Paige Leonhardt6:05pm: Men’s 400m S8 heats — Callum Simpson6:20pm: Men’s 400m freestyle S8 heats — Ella Jones6:37pm: Men’s 50m breaststroke SB2 — Grant Patterson7:04pm: Women’s 100m freestyle S7 heats — Chloe Osborn and Holly Warn7:12pm: Women’s 100m freestyle S9 heats — Emily Beecroft, Alexa Leary and Lakeisha Patterson

Para equestrian

6pm: Individual event Grade IV — Dianne Barnes🏅8:55pm: Individual event Grade V — Lisa Martin🏅

Wheelchair basketball

6:30pm: Men’s classification qualifying 5-8 — Australia vs Spain

Para athletics

7:52pm: Men’s 100m T54 heats — Luke Bailey8:26pm: Women’s 100m T36 heats — Abby Craswell and Mali Lovell3am: Women’s shot put F32 final — Sarah Clifton-Bligh and Rosemary Little🏅

Para archery

8:54pm: Men’s individual recurve open 1/16 elimination — Taymon Kento-Smith

Boccia

9:40pm: Mixed pairs BC quarterfinal — Jamieson Leeson and Dan Michel

Para table tennis

9:45pm: Women’s singles WS10 gold medal match — Qian Yang🏅1am: Men’s singles MS11 quarterfinal — Samuel von Einem

Just nowWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:57am

Para cycling road: Darren Hicks in 2nd at 5.8km

Australia’s Darren Hicks time of 6:58.90 was the second fastest at 5.8km mark in the men’s C2 time trial.

He was 3.05 off the race’s leader, Belgium’s Ewoud Vromant.

Hicks, the reigning gold medallist, was the last to enter the race – so this one will go down to the wire.

13m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:44am

Para cycling: MEG LEMON TAKES SILVER

Australia’s Meg Lemon has taken silver in the women’s C4 time trial with a time of 21:44.16!

It was a great back end of the race from her.

Emily Petricola also put in a solid ride but fell just short of the podium.

The track gold medallist’s time of 21:48.44 was about four seconds off Switzerland’s Franziska Matile-Doerig in third.

American Samantha Bosco took gold with a time of 21:39.24.

16m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:41am

Para cycling road: Petricola in first

Emily Petricola has finished her race and, for the moment anyway, sits on top of the standings!

Still quite a few cyclists to finish, but that was a great ride from Petricola.

Her time was 21:48.44.

18m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:39am

Para cycling: Hicks begins C2 time trial

Australian Darren Hicks is the final athlete to enter the race.

The reigning gold medallist is a red-hot favourite for this one.

Go Darren!

22m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:35am

Para cycling road: Petricola 3rd, Lemon 4th at 5.8km

Australia’s Emily Petricola and Meg Lemon have both made strong starts to the C4 time trial.

Petricola’s time of 7:47.97 is good enough for 3rd, about 14 seconds off leader Franziska Matile-Doerig of Switzerland.

29m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:28am

Para cycling road: BRONZE FOR FORSTER!

Australia’s Alana Forster has finished in third in the women’s time trial C5!

Great ride from Forster, finishing with a time of 21:00.48.

The two cyclists ahead of her were absolutely scorching.

Great Britain’s Sarah Storey won gold with a time of 20:22.15, just 4.69 seconds in front of Heidi Gaugain of France.

Storey is a true titan of the sport. It’s her thirteenth gold medal in para cycling.

32m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:25am

Para cycling road: Gaugain in front

France’s Heidi Gaugain has really thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the field.

She finishes her road race with a time of 20:26.84.

Gaugain is a time trial monster. This will be a very hard time for anyone to beat.

Australia’s Alana Forster is one of two riders left to finish.

35m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:22am

Para cycling road: Lemon off as well

Australia’s other rider in the C4 time trial, Meg Lemon has begun joined Petricola on the road.

The last athlete to enter, USA’s Shawn Morelli is about to begin.

38m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:19am

Para cycling road: Petricola off in C4 time trial

Fresh off her stunning gold at the velodrome, Australia’s Emily Petricola begins her road cycling campaign in the C4 individual time trial.

She’s fourth to get underway and is a real contender in this event.

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40m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:17am

Para cycling road: Forster 3rd after 5.8km

Solid position for Forster at 5.8km.

She sits in third with 7:38.57.

She has some time to make up though.

France’s Heidi Gaugain leads with a time of 7:15.17.

44m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:13am

Para cycling road: Classifications

Australia’s Alana Forster looks to have made a solid start in her C5 time trial.

The C5 race is for athletes with the lowest level of impairment of any of the cycling classes at a Paralympics.

The C stands for cycling, with the C1 class being the highest level of impairment for athletes who compete on standard bikes.

50m agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 6:07am

Para cycling road: Forster cycling in C5 time trial

Australia’s Alana Forster is off and away in the first time trial even of the day and the first road cycling event of Paris 2024.

She was 7th to begin, with only Sarah Storey of Great Britain left to take off.

1h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 5:57am

Para cycling road: 19 gold medals up for grab

Woah.

To say the road cycling is beginning in earnest might be an understatement.

14.2km separates our Aussie competitors with one of the 19 gold medals being awarded today.

Alana Forster is a up 7th in the C5 and Meg Lemon is 6th and Emily Petricola 4th in the C4.

Not long now…

1h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 5:50am

Para cycling road: Massive Parisian morning for Australia

G’day everyone, what a pleasure it is to be back for another bumper day of Paralympic action!

First up, our Aussie cyclists take the road for a massive morning of time trials.

Alana Forster is only ten minutes away.

She’ll be racing for gold in the C5 individual time trial.

1h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 5:44am

ICYMI: What happened on day six in Paris?

If you want to catch up on all the action from day six, have a read of our comprehensive blog:

1h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 5:37am

How does the medal tally look ahead of day seven?

Day six was another productive outing for Australia in Paris.

Here’s the medal tally before competition starts on day seven:

1h agoWed 4 Sep 2024 at 5:25am

Welcome!

G’day and thanks for joining ABC Sport’s digital coverage of the Paris Paralympic Games as day seven gets underway.

I’m Luke Pentony and I’ll be joined by Henry Hanson and Amanda Shalala to take you through the early stages of the upcoming action.

Australia’s impressive para cycling road squad will be chasing gold, while the competition in the pool continues with Australia a strong chance of claiming more medals.

Among the highlights later tonight will be para table tennis player Qian Yang’s appearance in the women’s singles WS10 gold medal match.

Make sure to stay with us as we take you through what promises to be an engrossing day of competition.



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