- Tully Kearney beaten in final strokes of 200m freestyle S5
- Toni Shaw picks up bronze in women’s 400m freestyle S9
Tully Kearney and Reece Dunn led the way for ParalympicsGB on the first day in the pool in Tokyo, winning silver medals in the women’s 200m freestyle S5 and men’s 100m butterfly S14 respectively, after the 18-year-old Toni Shaw had taken bronze in the women’s 400m freestyle S9.
Both Kearney and Dunn were the fastest qualifiers for their finals and Kearney, the winner of three gold medals at the 2019 world championships, went down to an agonising defeat after leading for all but the final few yards of her first Paralympic final.