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Rhiannon Henry and Tracey Hinton both struck gold for Britain on the third day of the International Blind Sports Association Championships in Quebec.
Henry added the B3 800m freestyle to the B2 100m butterfly title she won on Tuesday, clocking a new world-record time of 10 minutes five seconds.
Hinton triumphed in the combined B1/B2 400m. A very close finish saw her edge out her Russian challenger by just eight one hundredths of a second in a time of 60.06sec
Andy Curtis (B1) finished third in a very fast heat to qualify for the quarter-final as a fastest loser.
Ralph Sample also claimed gold in the 90kg Master2 power lifting - his 120kg in the bench press and 240kg in the dead lift were world records, as was his overall total of 535kg.
There were mixed fortunes for the goalball team who beat Chinese Taipei 11-6 but lost 8-6 to Belgium.
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