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Tokyo Paralympics medal tally: Every Australian athlete who won a medal at the Games

AUSTRALIA has finished competition at the Tokyo Paralympics, with a total of 80 medals, almost identical to the 81 medals won by the team in Rio de Janeiro five years ago. d Gold: 21 d Silver: 29 d Bronze: 30 d Total: 80

GOLD

d Paige Greco — Women's C1-3 3,000m individual cycling d Emily Petricola — Women's C4 3,000m individual cycling d Rowan Crothers — Men's 50m freestyle S10 d Ben Popham — Men's 100m freestyle S8 d William Martin — Men's 400m freestyle S9 d Lakeisha Patterson — Women's 400m freestyle S9 d Amanda Reid — Women's C1-3 500m Time Trial d Madison de Rozario — Women's 800m T53 d Rowan Crothers, Will Martin, Matt Levy, Ben Popham — Men's 4x100m freestyle relay 34 pts d Qian Yang — Women's Class 10 table tennis d Li Na Lei — Women's Class 9 table tennis d Darren Hicks — Men's C2 time trial d James Turner — Men's 400m T36 d Vanessa Low — Women's long jump T63 d Curtis McGrath — Men's kayak single 200m KL2 d Benjamin Hance — Men's 100m backstroke S4 d William Martin — Men's 100m butterfly S9 d Rachael Watson — Women's 50m freestyle S4 d Dylan Alcott — Men's Quad Singles, wheelchair tennis d Curtis McGrath — Men's Va'a Single 200m VL3 d Madison de Rozario - Women's marathon T54

SILVER

d Paige Leonhardt — Women's 100m butterfly S14 d Darren Hicks — Men's C2 3,000m individual pursuit d Isis Holt — Women's 100m T35 d Isis Holt — Women's 200m T35 d Alistair Donohoe — Men's C5 4,000m individual pursuit d Jaryd Clifford — Men's 5,000m T13 d Ahmed Kelly — Men's 150m individual medley SM3 d Rowan Crothers — Men's 100m freestyle S10 d Lin Ma — Men's class 9 table tennis d Ellie Cole, Isabella Vincent, Emily Beecroft, Ashleigh McConnell — Women's 4x100m freestyle relay 34 pts d Ricky Betar, Ben Hance, Ruby Storm, Madeleine McTernan — Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay S14 d Qian Yang, Li Na Lei, Melissa Tapper — Women's team table tennis classes 9-10 d Lin Ma, Joel Coughlan - Men's team table tennis classes 9-10 d Lauren Parker — Women's PTWC triathlon d Erik Horrie — PR1 men's single sculls

d Jake Michel — Men's 100m breaststroke SB14 d Samuel von Einem — Men's class 11 table tennis d Rheed McCracken — Men's 100m T34 d Michal Burian — Men's F64 javelin d Emily Petricola — Women's C4 time trial d Carol Cooke - Women's T1-2 time trial d Grant Patterson - Men's 50m breaststroke SB2 d Jasmine Greenwood - Women's 100m butterfly S10 d Timothy Hodge — Men's 200m individual medley SM9 d Grant Paterson — Men's 50m breaststroke SB2 d Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson — quad tennis doubles d Susan Seipel — Women's Va'a single 200m VL2 d James Turner — Men's 100m T36 d Jaryd Clifford — Men's Marathon T12

BRONZE

d Benjamin James Hance — Men's 100m butterfly S14 d Alexander Tuckfield — Men's 400m freestyle S9 d Ruby Storm — Women's 100m butterfly S14 d David Nicholas — Men's C3 3,000m individual pursuit d Katja Dedekind — Women's 100m backstroke S13 d Keira Stephens — Women's 100m breaststroke SB9 d Katja Dedekind — Women's 400m freestyle S13 d Matt Levy — Men's 100m breaststroke SB6 d Grant Patterson — Men's 150m individual medley SM3 d Evan O'Hanlon — Men's 100m T38 d Robyn Lambird — Women's 100m T34 d Sarah Edmiston — Women's discus F64 d Timothy Hodge — Men's 100m backstroke S9 d Jaryd Clifford — Men's 1,500m T13 d Paige Greco — Women's C1-3 time trial d Paige Greco — Women's C1-3 road race d Meg Lemon — Women's C4 time trial d Alistair Donohoe - Men's C5 time trial d Madison De Rozario - Women's 1,500m T54 d Col Pearse - Men's 100m butterfly d Daniel Michel — Individual boccia BC3 d Blake Cochrane — Men's 100m breaststroke SB7 d Thomas Gallagher — Men's 400m freestyle S10 d Tiffany Thomas Kane — Women's 100m breaststroke SB7 d Tiffany Thomas Kane — Women's 200m individual medley SM7 d Ellie Cole, Keira Stephens, Emily Beecroft, Isabella Vincent — Women's 4x100m medley relay 34 points d Maria Strong — Women's shot put F33 d Deon Kenzie — Men's 1,500m T38 d Nicholas Hum — Men's long jump T20 d Janine Watson — Women's K44 +58kg class Taekwondo

AFL 2021: Final four contenders revealed after thriller at Gabba

A thriller at the Gabba has ended one side’s season and handed the other a preliminary final date with the Port Adelaide Power.

A scrappy Laitham Vandermeer behind in the dying seconds handed the Western Bulldogs a stunning one-point victory over Brisbane in a thrilling and pulsating sudden-death semi-final at the Gabba on Saturday night.

The Lions have now gone out of the finals in straight sets for the second time in three years as tempers boiled over with police restraining one supporter who was abusing the match the match was in the balance, a brilliant left-foot goal to Bulldogs star Bailey Smith from 40 metres out broke the deadlock with two minutes left in the match.

A running Zac Bailey goal levelled the scores with 78 seconds remaining before Vandermeer rushed a behind with a toe poke to put the visitors in front to break the hearts of Brisbane.

Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli left the field late with a knee issue and the club will sweat on his availability ahead of the preliminary final date with Port Adelaide in Adelaide.

Rohit Sharma scores first overseas century in 'sensational' fashion against England

CLINCHED with a six down the ground, Rohit Sharma's first overseas century swung the momentum of an oscillating fourth test India's way despite a late double intervention by England paceman Ollie Robinson on the third day at the Oval.

Bad light brought an early end to play on Saturday — to groans from the crowd, given the state of the match — with India closing on 2703 and with a lead of 171 runs.

The tourists hauled themselves back in front on the back of 127 by Sharma, the classy right-handed opener whose shot-making all around the ground lit up a sometimes-gloomy day in south London.

The way he brought up three figures — with a cleanly struck, straight six off spinner Moeen Ali — was classic Sharma, ending his eight-year wait for a hundred outside India. "He's gone big! That's going to be six runs. What a way to get to a hundred," a commentator remarked. "Here he has his first overseas hundred, and what a place to get it - England. "He's just been sensational."

By that stage, India had turned the game on its head after starting the day on 430, trailing by 56 runs after England eked out a 99-run lead after the first innings.

However, just as it looked like England was being batted out of the game, Robinson was handed the new ball and he took two wickets in the first over with it.

Ending a second-wicket partnership of 153 runs, Sharma was early on a loosener from Robinson and top-edged a pull straight to Chris Woakes at long leg.

That was from the first delivery with the new ball. Off the sixth, Cheteshwar Pujara (61) got an inside edge off a delivery that nipped back in, and it careered off his thigh pad and was caught by Ali at gully.

Given not out on the field, a review confirmed the inside edge and the atmosphere immediately changed inside the Oval.

That left India on 237-3 and with two new batsmen in the middle. The game was back on.

Virat Kohli (22) and Ravindra Jadeja (9), who was again sent in up the order, held firm and put on 33 for the fourth wicket until bad light forced England to bowl only spin, or go off.

After an over each of Joe Root and Ali, Root had enough and put the ball in the hands of Woakes, a seamer. That automatically resulted in the players walking off the field with about an hour left to play, just as things were building to a crescendo.

They didn't return.

India has the edge but a couple of early wickets on the fourth day will change that. "Anything around 250 will be a good target for us to aim at," said Pujara, who batted for much of his innings with a sore left ankle after rolling it while turning at the nonstriker's end.

The series is locked at 1-1 with one more test to come, at Old Trafford starting next week.

It couldn't be closer.

Much of that is down to Sharma, who shared an 83run stand with KL Rahul and then easily the biggest partnership of the match with Pujara.

A couple of highlights of Sharma's eighth test century was a textbook straight drive for four in the morning, and a paddle-sweep to the boundary after lunch. "He has been batting well throughout the series and it was time he converted the fifties into a big one," Pujara said. "It was a pleasure to watch from the non-striker's end."

Sharma was, though, dropped early on day three by Rory Burns, who got a hand to an edge off Woakes when diving to his right at second slip but couldn't hold it. Burns had also squandered a chance off Sharma in the cordon late Friday, not even getting a hand to the ball on that occasion because the sun was in his eyes.

The only wicket to fall before lunch was Rahul, who tickled an edge behind off Jimmy Anderson for 46. The umpire didn't give him out despite England's appeals, but Root reviewed and UltraEdge showed a small spike.

Rahul shook his head as he walked off the field, not believing he got a touch.

A Bollywood version of Muhammad Ali, Toofan (means storm, tempest, hurricane) is totally believable. This mainstream Hindi-language film (with English sub-titles) has the punches and jabs placed in the right spots — just so.

The elements of the boxing ring are familiar, done to perfection!

Aziz Ali (Farhan Akhtar, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Dil Chahta Hai), aka Ajju Bhai, is a small-time gangster known for his strong punches in street fights, but then he’s inspired to take up boxing after seeing Ali’s picture.

Now that his mind is made up, nothing is going to get in his way as he practises with commitment and convinces a much-favoured coach, Narayan Prabhu (Paresh Rawal) to take him on as a student. The demanding, cantankerous Prabhu then comes down hard on Aziz, believing in his ability to become high-quality boxer.

Thrown into the mix is an obvious storyline factor: there has to be some romance, which is provided by a pretty, lively, local doctor – in the shape of Ananya (Mrunal Thakur, Jersey, Batla House, Super 30).

Award-winning director Mehra (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Rang De Basanti) doesn’t recoil from intertwining elements of humanity and depicting prejudice among the cultural and social classes. In fact, he decorates them up with enough selfassurance and crispness so we, too, are in the same corner to cheer Aziz Ali.

With evident shades of Rocky … for a sports film, Mehra keeps the pace unexpectedly measured … with writers Vijay Maurya and Anjum Rajabali, intermittently adding spicy twists and turns to the dialogue.

Farhan Akhtar, who is also an accomplished director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer and television host, plays

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his role with great gall. His dedication to his craft is obvious. In a film where the standard story and unwarranted running time (three hours!) are downsides, it’s Akhtar’s commanding acting and some sincere moments that – kind of - bind the film together.

FILM TOOFAAN DIRECTOR RAkEYSH OMPRAkASH MEHRA, AMAZON PRIME award-winning dirEctor mEhra (bhaag milkha bhaag, rang dE basanti) doEsn’t rEcoil from intErtwining ElEmEnts of humanity and dEpicting prEjudicE among thE cultural and social classEs. in fact, hE dEcoratEs thEm up with Enough sElf-assurancE and crispnEss so wE, too, arE in thE samE cornEr to chEEr aziz ali.

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