BARTON on Sea’s Alice Tai took her Paralympic medal tally to three yesterday as she won silver in the S8 400m freestyle and is set to go for gold again this evening.
The Poole-born swimmer finished runner-up in the final, after qualifying fourth fastest in the morning’s heats, with a time of 5.08.82.
But Tai flew through the water in the final, finishing with a time of 4 minutes, 52.24 seconds, 3.5 seconds behind the winner, Jessica Long from the United States of America.
The silver medal adds to her gold and bronze from earlier in the games in, the 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley respectively.
Tai is not finished there – she enters the 50m freestyle final this evening having qualified fastest in this morning’s heats.
She is also the current world record holder in the event too, in a time of 28.97 seconds, a marker she set in 2019 in Berlin.
The final is at 6.50pm this evening.
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