Paralympic swim star Sophie Pascoe stands two medals shy of a New Zealand record at the Rio Games. After dominating the 200m individual medley in the SM10 final today, Pascoe has won 13 Paralympic medals over three Games, with eight of them gold. Today's win was achieved in a world record time of 2min 24s. She was an immensely versatile athlete, winning Paralympic medals in javelin, shot put, discus, swimming, archery, and modern pentathlon from 1968 to 1980. In London she equalled the individual Games record of six medals, established by Duane Kale at Atlanta in 1996.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 12, 2016 06:11 UTC