Para-swimmer Thomas Gallagher has delivered the first gold medal of his career and Australia's first of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Australia's Thomas Gallagher with the gold medal and compatriot Rowan Crothers with the bronze after the Men's 50m Freestyle — S10 Final.Thomas Gallagher has won Australia's first gold medal of the Paris Paralympics , claiming the men's S10 50m freestyle final.
Brenden Hall and Lakeisha Patterson began Australia's medal haul with bronze and silver in the first two swimming finals of the Games.Hall clinched his seventh Paralympic medal with bronze in the men's S9 400m freestyle on Friday morning, AEST, at a packed-out La Defense Arena in Paris. "I certainly can't complain, it's my third Paralympics now and I've podiumed at all three Games and that's a special feeling."The 31-year-old's race was made all the more dramatic by French local Ugo Didier surging past Italy's Simone Barlaam on the final stretch to claim gold.
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