Tokyo Paralympics day 10: athletics, wheelchair basketball and more – as it happened

It has been another great day in Tokyo. Thanks for your company. We will be back tomorrow for what could be a very big day – perhaps even a Super Saturday – for ParalympicsGB.

Hannah Cockroft defends her 800m title and Kadeena Cox, Aled Davies and Libby Clegg will also be hoping to win medals. It could be a busy day for Amy Truesdale in the taekwondo. See you tomorrow

Wheelchair tennis: Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett won a silver medal for Great Britain earlier today, but they were devastated not to go one better. Here’s our full report:

Wheelchair basketball: Japan have beaten Great Britain 79-68 to book a place in the men’s wheelchair basketball final against USA, who beat Spain 66-52 in the other semi-final earlier today.

Japan started slowly – they were trailing by eight points after the first quarter – but battled back and slowly asserted their authority. It was comfortable in the end for the hosts, who have reached a wheelchair basketball final for the first time in their history.

Great Britain will play Spain in the bronze-medal match on Sunday.

Let’s have a look at the Paralympics medal table as we come towards the end of the 10th day of action in Tokyo.

China have won more gold medals, more silver medals and more bronze medals than any other team.

Wheelchair basketball: Japan have a 74-65 lead with two and a half minutes to play.

They look destined to reach the final. Great Britain are pushing forward in attack, which leaves them open to the counter from Japan, who are exploiting the space perfectly.

Wheelchair basketball: With seven minutes to play in the semi-final, Japan are 61-57 up against Great Britain.

This has been quite the comeback from the hosts. Great Britain were 23-15 up after the first quarter.

Universal relay: China, who finished the race in second behind USA, have been disqualified for making an infringement during one of their changeovers.

That means that Great Britain have been upgraded to a silver medal and Japan, who finished fourth, get the bronze.

Wheelchair basketball: With one quarter to go in the men’s semi-final, Japan are leading Great Britain 52-48.

That combination of numbers never bodes well for Great Britain.

Our favourite photos from Tokyo today. I’m particularly taken by the shot put snap.

Taekwondo: Beth Munro wins silver for Great Britain.

Munro was beaten 32-14 by Lisa Gjessing of Denmark, and has to settle for a silver medal.

She has become Great Britain’s first para-taekwondo medallist. Taekwondo was one of the two new sports introduced at these Games, along with badminton.

That medal is a significant one for Great Britain. The team has now won medals in 16 sports – more than any country has achieved in a single Games.

Wheelchair basketball: We’re into the second half – or the third quarter if you want to be precise – of the basketball semi-final between Japan and Great Britain.

Great Britain had a 23-15 lead not so long ago, but Japan have come roaring back into it and are now winning 44-40. The hosts are looking good. The winners of this semi-final will play USA in the final.

We’ve had the pleasure of being able to publish Ade Adepitan’s words during the Paralympics. This is his latest column.

I’ve just dropped Sarah Storey off at the airport. On the way, we had a really good chat in the back of the taxi. I’ve known Dame Sarah for 20 years; we competed at the Sydney Paralympics together and what she’s achieved since has been incredible. It was nice to have that time together as the Games heads towards the final stages, to get some nuggets of wisdom from her and see how much she’s absorbed of what has happened in the past two weeks.

When we were in the taxi, and everything was all done, Sarah was relaxed. She was giving me the latest on her family, her son, Charlie, and her husband, Barney, and her eyes lit up as she talked. Sarah is the warmest, kindest nicest person you’ll ever meet. But when we flew in to Tokyo on the same flight, the mood was different. I had a chat with her then too, but her guard was up. She was in sport mode.

People sometimes say that Sarah is a bit cold and a bit steely, and I get it. But that’s actually her defence mechanism. I understand it because I’ve been there too. Our sport is so much about mental capacity and mental energy affects you far more than your physicality. You can always dig down and find that little bit extra physically, and you know if you’re tired your opponents are tired. But if you’re worn down mentally by expectation or questions and that starts gnawing, activating that chimp on your shoulder, it will affect your chances. As a result, you have to protect yourself.

I feel as if we’ve seen great mental strength from so many British athletes at these Paralympics. The performances have really been great. Yes, there’s been the odd anomaly here and there: the women’s wheelchair basketball team would have liked to have done better, Alfie Hewitt and Gordon Reid in the wheelchair tennis singles went out at the semi-final stage and lost the doubles final. They would have been disappointed because they’re up there as the best in the world. This is sport though. These things can happen on the day.

Wheelchair tennis: Jordanne Whiley has won a bronze medal for Great Britain after beating Aniek van Koot of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-7, 6-4.

She also won bronze medals in 2012 and 2016. On top of that, her father Keith Whiley also won a bronze medal at the Paralympics in New York in 1984.

Universal relay: USA win gold, beating favourites China into second. Great Britain picked up the bronze, with hosts Japan finishing fourth.

What a great event this is. USA were sensational, finishing with a world record time of 45.52 seconds.

4x100m universal relay: Japan, China, USA and Great Britain are ready to go in the universal relay, which brings together sprinters from different classifications.

Libby Clegg, Jonnie Peacock, Ali Smith and Nathan Maguire are competing for ParalympicsGB. China are the favourites.

Here’s something for the trivia enthusiasts among you.

Thanks Geoff and hello all. I’ll be here for the next hour, so please drop me a line to say hello.

You can email me at Paul.Campbell@theguardian.com or drop me a tweet.

And with that, my day with you comes to an end. Paul Campbell will get you through the final events of this Tokyo evening. See ya.

Wheelchair basketball: Time out with GB leading 32 to 24 over Japan. Five minutes left until half time.

Wheelchair basketball: The other men’s semifinal has started up, Great Britain leading Japan by 23 to 15 early in the second quarter.

Athletics: The men’s 100m T51, the category for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries or cerebral palsy. All about the shoulder and arm strength, and all about driving those arms through the wheels right from the start.

Belgium’s Peter Genyn holds the world record already, of 19.71. He doesn’t need to beat it to win gold tonight, in 20.33.

It’s a Belgian sandwich too, with Roger Habsch taking bronze. Toni Piispanen gets the silver for Norway.

Wheelchair tennis: Jordanne Whiley into a third set in the bronze singles match. She lost the second set to Aniek van Koot in a tiebreak. Currently up a break in the third, 3-1, but being challenged on serve.

Archery: Great Britain’s David Phillips is knocked out of the men’s recurve at the quarterfinal stage by China’s Zhao Lixue.

Javelin: Therrre she goes! Hollie Robinson strikes with a throw of 40.99 metres, into the gold medal spot. Hollie Arnold had even improved her 39.05 to a 39.73, but the New Zealander comes along and sweeps past the GB thrower.

Long jump: Karolina Kucharczyk does win the T20 women’s competition, her jump of 6.03 a Games record into the bargain. Gold for Poland, silver for the Russian Aleksandra Ruchkina, bronze for Croatia’s Mikela Ristoski.

That’s the end of the swimming for today.

Goalball: A much closer game in the men’s final. The score is 4-2 Brazil’s way early in the second half, before they score as I type to make it 5-2. Eight minutes left, still time for three scores if China have some luck. There’s a time out for a cleaning of the court and a mask check.

Athletics: How about a round of the field events. Great Britain’s Hollie Arnold is leading the F46 javelin after everyone has had three throws out of six, with 39.05 metres her best. The New Zealander Holly Robinson though is in this final too, and has a world record over six metres better than that.

India’s Soman Rana leads the men’s F54 seated shot put, with half the big field yet to come.

Algeria’s Nadjet Boucherf leads the women’s F51 club throw, but we’ve only completed three entrants out of eight.

And Poland’s Karolina Kucharczyk leads the T20 long jump after five attempts for the field, with 6.03 her best and over half a metre clear of second place.

Sitting volleyball: The USA women beat Brazil 3-0 to go into the gold medal final.

Swimming: It’s all about the double-ups now. Mexico with silver and bronze in the 200m freestyle S3, via Diego Lopez Diaz and Jesus Hernandez Hernandez. Gold for Ukraine’s Denys Ostapchenko, who now has one medal of each colour at his first Games.

In the women’s 200m individual medley SM5 category, it’s a one-two for China: Lu Dong’s gold and Cheng Dao’s silver. Bronze to Monica Boggioni of Italia.

In the men’s 100m butterfly S11, it’s a Japanese double! Home town happiness. Kimura Keiichi and Tomita Uchu. Bronze to Wendell Belarmino Pereira of Brazil.

One last event to go, the men’s 4x100 medley relay.

Wheelchair basketball: Spain closed the gap a little by the end, but the USA wins through to the men’s gold medal match 52-66.

Wheelchair tennis: Jordanne Whiley wins the first set 6-4 in her bronze medal match.

Archery: Harvinder Singh wins through to the semifinals in the men’s individual recurve. He dropped the third set to Germany’s Maik Szarszewski but won the first, second, and finishes it off in the fourth.

Swimming: A similar story in the women’s 100m freestyle S11. The world record holder, Liesette Bruinsma of Netherlands, loses out to China’s Li Guizhi in a Games record of 1:05.87. Cai Liwen grabs bronze for China as well.

Wheelchair tennis: Great Britain’s Jordanne Whiteley has started her bronze medal match in the women’s singles, against Dutch player Aniek van Koot.

Table tennis: Lian Hao is on top here against Lin Ma. Wins the first two games 11-7, then 11-5. One last chance for Ma to save the gold.

Swimming: One-two for China in the women’s 50m backstroke S4: Liu Yu and Zhou Yanfei win gold and silver. And Liu has obliterated her own world record. Good grief. She’s taken 1.13 seconds off her previous best in a 50-metre race. Lowers the mark to 44.68 seconds. Alexandra Stamatopoulou wins bronze for Greece.

The Russian swimmer Roman Zhdanov has done the same in the men’s race, beating his own world record down to 40.99. Silver and bronze to Czechia and Mexico: Arnost Petracek and Angel de Jesus Camacho Ramirez.

Table tennis: Australia is playing for gold in the men’s team Class 9-10. They’ve lost the doubles match to China, so now Australia’s Lin Ma is up in the singles against Lian Hao to keep the final alive. Joel Coughlan will play Zhao Yi Qing in the third match if Ma can do so.

Wheelchair basketball: It’s half time in the men’s semifinal, and the USA are doing USA basketball things. Ahead of Spain 39-22.

Archery: Great Britain v India in the 1/8 eliminations of the recurve. David Phillips wins the fourth set handsomely, 29 to 22 as Chikara Vivek loses his radar to shoot an 8 and a 5. Phillips leads 2 sets to 1.

The final game, and Vivek slips even further. A complete miss, 0 points. He comes back for an 8 and a 10, but you can’t survive a miss at this level. Phillips is through to the quarters.

Table tennis: Gold for France in the men’s team Class 1-2, with Fabien Lamirault and Stephane Molliens winning the doubles against Korea before Lamirault wins his singles match against Cha Soo Yong. Cha wins silver with Park Jin Cheol.

Goalball: Sevda has time to score one more, all nine in the match for Turkey today, and then she is substituted off to great applause. Her replacement is her sister, Sevtap.

Goalball: Turkey’s Sevda Altunoluk has dominated not just this match, but this competition. She has scored something like 45 goals at these Games. Twice more to take her Turkish team to an 8-1 lead over the USA. Five more minutes until they get their gold medal.

Archery: India’s Harvinder Singh is through to the quarterfinals of the men’s individual recurve.

Goalball: Not going so well for the USA in the women’s goalball gold match. They’re down 6-1 to Turkey at half time.

Swimming: Three gold in a row for the USA. Evan Austin gets lucky in the 50m butterfly though. Andrii Trusov is the favourite, but he mistimes his race. He’s ahead approaching the wall but he’s in between strokes. Has to take an extra rotation of the arms to touch, while Austin is able to touch at full stretch. Those are the margins that count in the shortest races. Silver for Ukraine, bronze for Colombia’s Carlos Serrano Zarate.

Then a world record for Danielle Dorris in the women’s race. The Canadian swam 33.51 in qualifying only this morning, then takes over half a second off that time in the final! She’s the first woman under 33 seconds, by a hundredth. Seemed to swim about half the race underwater, she had a great start, then is a body length in front of Mallory Weggeman - a great champion herself - at the wall. Giulia Terzi wins bronze for Italy.

Swimming: More world records, this time to Elizabeth Marks in the 100m backstroke S6. A fifth Paralympic medal for the USA swimmer. Jiang Yuyan takes silver for China, Verena Schott bronze for Germany.

In the men’s event, medals to to China, Argentina and Croatia. Jia Hongguang wins ahead of Matias de Andrade and Dino Sinovcic. Haven’t seen Argentina’s name come up much: four silver and two bronze at these games.

Wheelchair tennis: A quick win on serve for Hewett, 5-3, but then Houdet scorches a forehand past him to make it 6-3. On the brink!

Wheelchair tennis: Unforced error, into the net! The arms must be burning right now, all this racing around the court before taking shots. France’s lead increases 5-2.

Wheelchair tennis: There’s one point back for Hewett and Reid, taking the tiebreak score to 4-2. France serving. Gold on the line.

Wheelchair tennis: France takes the early lead in the tie-break, then consolidates it. They’re up 4-1. GB has to respond again.

Wheelchair tennis: A winner with the forehand this time, Hewett breaks serve, and we’re heading to a tie break at 6-6 in the third set. What a match.

Wheelchair tennis: The Brits have broken France’s serve in so many games tonight, but now they have to do it or concede a gold medal. A volley into the net loses the first point, but Hewett gets one back with a fierce backhand winner down the line that gets behind the wheels of his opponent. That gets them on a roll, and in two much shorter points they’re suddenly up 15-40.

Wheelchair tennis: The French break! A brilliant return from Reid, one he has no right to reach, but by then Houdet has positioned himself at the net and his opponents wide enough that he can drop across court at too sharp an angle to be saved. France up 6-5.

Wheelchair tennis: Three break points for the French! A powerful shot down the middle that can only be skied off the racquet frame in return and lands long.

Wheelchair tennis: Now the French have an eye on a break, they’re the ones 0-30 against serve as Hewett puts a smash long.

Wheelchair tennis: But the French hold their nerve, and their serve, to win the game. It’s 5-5 in the deciding set.

Wheelchair tennis: Reid responds to his error with a very clever touch at the net, deftness this time to slice unreturnably low and wide. It’s 30-30.

Wheelchair tennis: Reid has a chance at the net to put away a smash and reach 0-30 against serve, but he blasts it long. Then a skewed return has the French up 30-15.

Wheelchair tennis: Hewett and Reid win their fifth game on serve. Houdet and Peifer will now serve to stay in the match. Very vocal support for both pairs from other athletes who are in the seats.

Wheelchair tennis: The French have broken back again! They’ve levelled up the third set at 4-4. This is some match for the men’s doubles gold.

Wheelchair tennis: The Brits bounce back to save three break points. Alfie Hewett with three winners in a row. They hold their break lead, and it’s 4-2 in the decider.

Wheelchair tennis: Hold on a second! The French break back. Houdet and Peifer are 3-2 and serving in the third set.

Wheelchair tennis: The British run continues, winning the first three games of the deciding set, before the French finally get a game back. Their first in the last ten games! It’s 3-1 in the third, Hewett serving for Great Britain. He’s produced a few stunning shots today.

Wheelchair tennis: Second set to Great Britain! The score says 6-0, but it wasn’t anywhere near that easy. Could somebody please go back and count how many shots were played in that last set? It would have to be off the charts. One set all, now they have to start again. Doubles gold on the line.

Wheelchair tennis: Twelve deuces, a long rally that ends with a GB shot hitting the net cord and falling back.

Wheelchair tennis: Eleven deuces, GB with a fierce forehand winner down the line. Then an unforced error gives GB the advantage.

Wheelchair tennis: Ten deuces. This is unbelievable. The four chairs circling the court like sharks. I think that rally was about 35 shots, as the French take advantage once more.

Wheelchair tennis: Eight times. Now the Brits take advantage after a long rally, ended with an angled winner from close to the net. But an unforced error takes it back to nine deuces.

Wheelchair tennis: We’ve been to deuce seven times now as the French pair try to save the second set.

Wheelchair tennis: Cracker of a match in the men’s doubles final. The French pair of Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer won a close firs set 7-5. Since then, Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have won five games straight in the second set, and have the Frenchmen at deuce in the sixth. Great Britain should take this into a third set at any minute.

Shooting: Gold for the UAE shooter Abdulla Sultan Alaryania, in the men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1. Silver for Serbia’s Laslo Suranji, bronze for Korea’s Shing Youngjip.

The women’s event went China, Germany, India, won by Zhang Cuiping from Natascha Hiltrop and Avani Lekhara.

That’s all from me. Geoff Lemon is here to take you through the end of the men’s road race B, and the wheelchair tennis doubles final out on centre court. And of course, plenty more. Enjoy!

Wheelchair tennis: First set to the French, 7-5. Nicolas Peifer lets out a big roar as the British return falls short of the net on set point. A much more assured service game from Peifer, and excellent play from him and Stefane Houdet throughout that game. They muscled up to the British pair, but were also impenetrable – a good mix of defence and aggressive groundstrokes.

Wheelchair tennis: Take two for the French, who are trying to serve out the set again, this time at 6-5.

Wheelchair tennis: Massive. It’s five-all. The French had their chances, but seemed to tighten up at crucial moments as the game dragged on and on. At yet another break point, Alfie Hewett slaps a fierce backhand cross-court, and it’s too good for a lunging Stefane Houdet.

Wheelchair tennis: Back to centre court. The French pair have really turned the screws in the business end of this set. At 5-4 to France, with Houdet serving, the Brits find something to save two set points. If the Brits can break back here, it feels like a big momentum shifter.

Road cycling: I can bring you an update from the women’s B road race. The lead pack of Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy, Great Britain’s Sophie Unwin and Louise Jannering of Sweden have just crossed the start and have one lap to go. A bit behind them is a second grouping of Lora Fachie (Great Britain) and Justyna Kiryla. In the lead pack, there were some nice scenes of what appeared to be a jovial conversation between the Irish and British tandem teams. Both seem likely to take a medal, now, save for a disaster, and it will probably come down to a final sprint.

Sarah Rigby has a good question below the line:

Any chance of updates on how the cycling road races are doing atm? Or how they went, if already over?

The men’s C4-5 road race is down and dusted, and you can find a post on that a little further down the page.

In the women’s C1-3 road race, Keiko Sugiura of Japan took the gold, but it was a thrilling photo finish for the minor medals. Anna Beck (Sweden) snuck in for silver, ahead of Paige Greco of Australia. China’s Wang Xiaomei was very unlucky to miss the medals. Twenty-six kilometres, and it finished like this:

Edit: I’ll bring you the results of the men’s B and women’s B road races when they come through.

Goalball: USA and Lithuania have begun their men’s bronze clash. Lithuania have an early lead at 1-0.

Wheelchair tennis: This is great stuff. The French break back. It’s 3-2.

Wheelchair tennis: Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid get the break and lead 3-1 against the French pair of Stephane Houdet and Nicholas Peifer. The British just worked them further and further back in back in the court, and then exploited the angle, forcing a long error from a lunging return.

Wheelchair tennis: Big early moment there, with the French duo facing a break point at 2-1 to Brits. The British force a weak lob from the French, but the subsequent smash lands just wide of the line.

Gold medallist Emma Wiggs of Great Britain became emotional as she spoke about her win in the canoe sprint earlier today.

“I’m trying to get a grip. I apologise,” she said.

It does feel just incredibly emotional. Just because of the struggle that everyone’s had across the globe, and also to get these Games on. I’m just so overwhelmingly grateful to the Japanese people and the organising committee to get these Games on. It was so important for the continued progression of Paralympic sport that we were here.

Wheelchair tennis: A great start to this match. It’s 1-1. Some very deft use of spin and angle from all four players so far.

Wheelchair tennis: The men’s doubles gold medal match between Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid and Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer of France has just gotten underway. I’ll bring you updates from centre court throughout the match.

Here’s what that flawless Japan performance in the goalball looked like.

Goalball: Japan wins 6-1. The hosts are bronze medallists. Touching scenes, as the whole team rushes off the bench to embrace the three players who were on court at the final whistle. Brazil are also heartily applauded by the crowd.

Goalball: Safe to say it’s curtains in this women’s bronze medal match between Japan and Brazil. Japan leads 6-0, with three minutes to play.

Staying with Donohoe, he’s given an emotional interview post-race, revealing that he was riding for his friend Will, who died by suicide two months ago.

He said on Australian broadcaster Channel Seven:

Today wasn’t my day. I mean, you can’t control it. I love racing and this is it. I spent the last lap fighting back tears. This race for my mate Will.

I’ve been holding it together up to the Games. I wanted to dedicate this one to him, and to my housemates back home.

An incredibly tough day at the track for Donohoe, but he leaves with silver from the individual pursuit and bronze in the time trial.

• In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org.

Road cycling: The men’s C4-5 roadrace has been run and one. Like yesterday, the weather at the Fuji speedway is atrocious, and like yesterday, there have been plenty of collisions and falls. Gold here went to France’s Kevin le Cunff, ahead of Yehor Ukrdementyev of Ukraine and Daniel Nedabraham of the Netherlands. Australia’s Alistair Donohoe fell twice in the slip, but battled on bravely to finish fifth. It was more bad luck for Donohoe after a crash in the latter stages of the same event in Rio robbed him of gold.

Goalball: Long way back for Brazil from here. Kakehata Eiko’s shot, hard and with plenty of bounce, carves a path right between two outstretched Brazilians defenders. It’s 5-0 Japan. On the stroke of half-time, Brazil give away another penalty, but it’s well-saved. And that’s the break.

Goalball: Trouble for Brazil. Victoria Amorim gives away a long ball penalty, which means she’s left to defend the next Japanese shot without her teammates. The Brazil camp are not happy at all with that decision. And, no, there is no VAR here. Japan’s star player Norika Hagiwara launches a skidding shot to Amorim’s right. Amorim stretches out to her right, but is just too late, and the ball thunders into the net. 4-0 Japan.

Goalball: After that housekeeping, let’s get into the live sport (which is why you’re here, after all!). First, we’ll go to the goalball. Japan and Brazil are battling it out for bronze. Devoted blog readers will know the hosts had a heartbreaking loss to Rio gold medallists Turkey yesterday. Japan have started brightly today, and with four minutes to play in the first half, they have a 3-0 lead.

Great Britain have also remained dominant on day 10, already winning gold at Tokyo Stadium and at Sea Forest Waterway.

Emma Wiggs claimed gold in the women’s VL2 canoe sprint, while Jeanette Chippington took bronze in the same event. In the men’s KL3 canoe sprint, Robert Oliver also won bronze.

Over at the national stadium, Owen Miller took the gold in the 1500 T20, a great feat in his first Paralympics. Jonathan Broom-Edwards soared to a season’s best in the T64 high jump – which was also good enough for gold.

Australian readers will be pleased to know it’s been a very strong to day 10 action in Tokyo for the green and gold.

In the Men’s KL2 canoe sprint, Curtis McGrath defended his title from Rio in a closely fought race. It was a magnificent triumph for McGrath, whose legs were amputated in a mine blast while her served with the Australian defence forces in Afghanistan. Also on the water, Susan Siepel took silver in the women’s VL2 canoe sprint.

Australia continued its unprecedented success in table tennis, with another silver, after coming up short in the gold medal final in the women’s teams event.

And at the Fuji speedway, cyclist Paige Greco added to her gold medal from the velodrome and road time trial bronze with another bronze in the road race C1-3.

I’ll wrap up what’s happened so far in today’s action shortly, but first, here’s a look at day nine in a stunning collection of photos.