Sport in Short: Paralympics

Monday 14 September 1992 23:02 BST

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BRITAIN finished third in the medals table at the Paralympics in Barcelona - a repeat of their 1988 performance. Two more gold medals - from Mark Farnell and Steve Brunt in partially-sighted classes of the marathon - took the team's total to 40. The team finished behind the United and Germany. Tanni Grey, a 23-year-old politics graduate from Cardiff, was Britain's track athlete of the Games. She took four golds in the wheelchair 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m.

PARALYMPICS - LEADING MEDAL WINNERS

G S B

United States 76 52 48

Germany 61 50 60

Great Britain 40 47 41

Spain 34 31 42

France 36 36 33

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