China strengthened their stranglehold on the 2016 Paralympics medal table on Sunday (11 September) with a string of successes across multiple sports

China strengthened their stranglehold on the 2016 Paralympics medal table on Sunday (11 September) with a string of successes across multiple sports

Gold-medal wins in athletics, swimming, shooting and archery saw the Chinese team up their medal count to 92 after just four days of competition at Rio

China’s medal haul includes a staggering 39 golds, plus 30 silvers and 23 bronzes. Great Britain remain second in the table with 56 medals, including 23 golds

China have now won a total of 23 track and field medals, including the latest gold picked up by Hongzhuan Zhou when she set a new world record time in the women’s 400m T53

Her success was one of the stand-out stories of the day at the Olympic Stadium where, earlier in the day, Brazil’s teenage sensation Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos had got the home crowd roaring as he smashed the world record to take gold in the men’s 100m T47

Chinese success continued in the shooting competition, where Xing Huang survived a tense P3 battle with Sweden’s “silver bullet” Joackim Norberg to claim his country’s third gold medal in four days

And China were also victorious in the archery where they claimed the first ever mixed team recurve open Paralympic event gold medal following a four-set win over Iran in the final