Britain’s Stephen Clegg won his first Paralympic gold medal and set a world record when he won the 100m backstroke final in the S12 event.

The 28-year-old clocked 59.02 seconds at the La Defense Arena.

Clegg won silver and two bronze medals in Tokyo in 2021 and before the Games he said winning gold at the Paralympics was “unfinished business” for him.

He is the third member of his family to win a medal at the ParalympicsGB. His older sister Libby won two golds and three silvers as an athlete at three Games, and his brother James won bronze in the swimming pool in 2012.

There could be more success to come for British swimmers on Saturday, with William Ellard, Poppy Maskill, Olivia Newman-Baronius and Alice Tai all in excellent shape to win medals.

The youngest member of the ParalympicsGB squad in Paris, 13-year-old Iona Winnifrith, will start in the SM7 individual medley at 19:10 BST.