Swimmer Poppy Maskill has claimed ParalympicsGB’s first gold medal of the Paris Games as she broke a world record in the women’s S14 100m butterfly final.

Her time of one minute and three seconds broke the world record by a third of a second, winning the race by seven-tenths of a second.

There was more medal success for Great Britain in the pool after William Ellard took silver in the men’s S14 butterfly final.

Elsewhere, tandem pair Steve Bate and Chris Latham took silver in men’s B 4000m individual pursuit, while Daphne Schrager won silver in the women’s C1-3 3000m individual pursuit – which was the first medal for ParalympicsGB in Paris.

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