Lucky 13 medals for GB on Paralympics Day Seven
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Another day, another load of medals for ParalympicsGB in Paris, as the team picked up 13 more medals!
Of course, Britain's most successful Paralympian Sarah Storey got in on the action as she won her 18th gold medal.
A further two golds came from wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn and wheelchair fencer Dimitri Coutya.
It keeps ParalympicsGB in second place on the medal table, behind China, so keep reading to find out more about what happened on Wednesday.
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Who won gold for ParalympicsGB on Wednesday?
Dame Sarah Storey picked up gold in the C5 time trial, that's the fifth Paralympics in a row that she's claimed the top prize in the event.
Sammi Kinghorn won gold in the women's T53 100m final, crossing the finish line with a Paralympic record time of 15.64 seconds.
She was 0.13 seconds quicker than Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner, who had already beat Sammi twice in this Games in longer distance events.
Dimitri Coutya claimed his first gold medal in the wheelchair fencing foil category B.
He won bronze in the Tokyo Games, but this time managed to beat China's defending Paralympic champion Feng Yanke 15-7 at the Grand Palais.
What other medals did ParalympicsGB win on Wednesday?
Fran Brown bounced back from an injury to win silver for ParalympicsGB
Dame Sarah Storey wasn't Britain's only Para-cycling success on Wednesday, Fran Brown picked up silver in the women's C1-3 individual time trial and she revealed she did that three days after dislocating her shoulder - ouch!
Meanwhile Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl won silver in the women's B individual time trial, with Ireland's Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Linda Kelly claiming their country's first gold of the Games.
Great Britain made a splash in the pool too, they won a total of three silver medals through Poppy Maskill, Rhys Darbey and Alice Tai.
Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade won silver in quad doubles wheelchair tennis, while there was also powerlifting silver for Zoe Newson in the women's -45kg event.
Britain's Sophie Wells took bronze in the Para-equestrian grade V individual test and Tim Jeffery won shooting Para sport bronze in the mixed 50m rifle prone SH2.
ParalympicsGB finished the day on 74 medals - with 33 golds, 25 silvers and 16 bronzes.