Ireland’s Jason Smyth completed the sprint double at the Paralympic Athletics European Championships in Swansea yesterday, adding the T12 200m title to 100m crown he claimed earlier in the week.

Orla Barry has won silver in the women's discus final at the IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea.

It was a toasty 21 degrees when Orla Barry emerged into a rapidly filling Olympic Stadium on Tuesday evening for the T57/58 final. By the time she left, the great stadium was almost empty again and the thermometer had recorded a precipitous fall.