Isis Holt wins SILVER in Rio

Competing in the final of the T35 100m for athletes with cerebral palsy, 15-year-old Holt, a high school student from Melbourne, clocked 13.95 to deliver her medal winning result on Paralympic debut, with competition in the 200m to come.

Holt is coached by Nick Wall, who recognised the talent of the young equestrienne as athletics coach at Melbourne Girls Grammar. She has since won double gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships and bettered the world record for her class across both short sprint distances.

Brianna Coop (Qld) joined Holt on the start line, crossing 4th in a time of 15.56.

Adding a second medal to his Rio 2016 trophy cabinet, McCracken lined up in the T34 wheelchair 800m final and clocked 1:41.25 to deliver a podium finish.

Impressively, the result is McCracken’s fourth Paralympic medal despite being aged only 19. He has also won four medals at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

Taking to the runway for the T37 long jump for athletes with cerebral palsy, Elkington-Jones jumped 4.30m to deliver Australia’s third medal of the day. Elkington-Jones’ series also included leaps of 4.27m, 3.60m and three fouls.

Elkington-Jones made her Paralympic Games debut in 2012, competing in the 400m and 4x100m relay, before turning her attention to long jump and winning gold in the ambulant long jump at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

In other green and gold results on Day 7:

• Torita Isaac (Qld) stopped the clock at 1:04.47 to narrowly miss a medal in the final of the women’s T38 400m for athletes with cerebral palsy. Isaac is Australian athletics’ only indigenous starter at Rio 2016, and she is also visually impaired.
• Storming home to clock a Paralympic Record of 12.26, Scott Reardon (ACT), a training partner of Chad Perris and Evan O’Hanlon, progressed as fastest for the final of the T42 leg amputee 100m. The final is 7:17am tomorrow morning AEST.
• Rosemary Little (NSW) placed 4th in the women’s T34 wheelchair 400m final in a time of 1:01.91, with gold won by Hannah Cockroft (GBR) in a world record time of 58.78.
• Madison de Rozario (WA) progressed to the final of the T54 wheelchair 5000m on time after placing 4th in her heat. Competing in the other first round race, Christie Dawes (NSW) also crossed just outside the top-three but will not compete in the last round.
• Competing in the women’s T53 wheelchair 800m, Richard Colman (Vic) placed 6th in his heat in 1:43.79 and will not progress to the final.

Competition at the Paralympic Games continues late this evening AEST, with Reardon’s start in the final his leg amputee sprint class headlining the action alongside the women’s T53-54 wheelchair 4x400m relay and the women’s T35-38 4x100m relay for athletes with cerebral palsy.

Australia has now won 15 medals in athletics at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, including one gold, five silver and nine bronze. Three days of athletics remain.

For more information on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, please visit the Rio Rumba hub at athletics.com.au.