{"id":596061,"date":"2024-09-07T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=596061"},"modified":"2024-09-07T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T03:01:22","slug":"paralympics-day-10-jessica-long-adds-epic-100-fly-gold-jiang-yuyan-captures-7th-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paralympics-day-10-jessica-long-adds-epic-100-fly-gold-jiang-yuyan-captures-7th-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics, Day 10: Jessica Long Adds Epic 100 Fly Gold; Jiang Yuyan Captures 7th Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paralympics, Day 10: Jessica Long Adds Epic 100 Fly Gold; Jiang Yuyan Captures 7th Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

China began the final day of swimming at the Paris Paralympics atop the medal table and poised to add more. With a brief interlude from Jessica Long<\/strong> in an epic performance, that\u2019s how the final day at Paris La Defense Arena has generally played out.<\/p>\n

China started with wins in three of the first four events, and Long won her 18th career Paralympic gold medal in the S8 100 fly in bringing the competition to a close.<\/p>\n

A dominant final session helped China finish atop the medal table with 22 gold medals and 54 total accolades. Great Britain was second with 18 goals, while Ukraine finished second with 40 total medals. With 10 gold medals and 30 total, the U.S. was fourth and fifth respectively, with the men\u2019s performance the millstone: Noah Jaffe\u2019s<\/strong> silver medal in the men\u2019s S8 100 freestyle the only male medal of the Games. Thirty-six nations won medals in the pool.<\/p>\n

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