Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Best stats, GB win medals in 18 of 19 sports

Great Britain equalled the total number of medals it won in Tokyo three years ago, but won eight times more gold in Paris.

In fact, 49 gold medals is the highest total for the British Paralympic Games since Rio 2016, when they won 64 gold medals, and the second highest total since Seoul 1988, when they won 65 gold medals.

Great Britain has finished second in the medal table at every Summer Paralympic Games this century, except London 2012, where they finished third.

More than half of the team’s 215 athletes stood on the podium at some point during the Paris Olympics.

Briscoe said GB were “outperforming our potential”, adding: “We have a comfortable lead over the chasing pack but we are not complacent. We have to do our best to find new talent.”