Day 3: Saturday 1st Sept

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Day 3: Saturday 1st Sept

 

Team GB's golden girl Ellie Simmonds makes her first appearance in the Aquatics Centre while the first 100m and 200m titles are raced in the Olympic Stadium.

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Day 3 Sporting Events

Saturday 1st September

 

South Africa's 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius has decided not to defend his T44 200m title in the Olympic Stadium, but there's still some top Athletics activity on Day Three with two men's 100m finals featuring Australian Evan O'Hanlon (T38) and Ireland's Jason Smyth (T13). The 25-year-old from Derry broke both world records in the 100m and 200m in Beijing and it'll be thrilling to see if the Irishman can do the double again. In the Aquatics Centre, Beijing 2008 Paralympic Swimming starlet Ellie Simmonds makes her first appearance of the 2012 Games in the S6 400m freestyle at 5.56pm. Aged just 13, Simmonds won gold medals in both the 100m and 400m freestyle in Beijing to become Britain's youngest ever Paralympic medallist. Watch out for Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias who is also in action. At 4pm at the Royal Artillery Barracks Matt Skelhon defends the R3 10m air rifle prone (mixed) SH1 Shooting title he won in Beijing – but will face competition from Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, the most successful Paralympian ever. In Judo, Britain's Paralympic equivalent of the Brownlee brothers compete as Sam Ingrams features in the -90kg category and older brother Joe takes a bow in the +100kg event, which is expected to be dominated by Brazil's Antonio Tenorio. Team GB begin their 2012 Football 7-a-side campaign with a side that includes former Everton Academy player Michael Barker, top scorer at the 2011 World Championships. In Track Cycling, watch out for Britain's Anthony Kappes who, at 9.30am, aims to repeat his Beijing gold in the B 1km time trial, and for New Zealand's Paula Tesoriero, who broke the women's 500m time trial world record at the Games four years ago.

Medal events: Cycling Track, Athletics, Equestrian, Judo, Shooting, Powerlifting, Swimming

 
 
 

Non sporting events on Day 3 around London

Saturday 1st September

 

Liberty, London's disability festival, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and to mark the event - which coincides with the opening weekend of the Paralympics - there are three days of special events, starting today, in venues across London. Today's events include a one day disability film festival, Liberty at the BFI Southbank, Liberty at the National Theatre's Watch This Space Festival, with many free performances from 1pm to 10.30pm on the Riverside Terrace; and the 10th anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre which finish with an evening of cabaret in the Clore Ballroom compered by Liz Carr and featuring Ruby Wax, Laurence Clark and Jonny Crescendo. The Southbank Centre also presents the provocative In Water I’m Weightless at 4pm and 7.30pm today as part of the 11-day Unlimited festival, a showcase for disabled artists. In the morning, at 10.45am, head to the London Wonderground spiegeltent for the Royal Family of Strange People who give a "21st-century twist" to the famous Coney Island show. This is one of only 18 shows hosted by The Space Cowboy, an Australian showman who has the Guinness World Record for swallowing 18 swords in one go - gulp; catch them while you can. Following the private view on Friday 31st August, Blisters The Directors Cut opens to members of the public today, offering prints and posters by forty artists for £40 a pop, displayed in Dalston's MC Motors warehouse. Cameron Capenter, the American performer who puts the razzmatazz into organ recitals, is appearing at The Proms this afternoon, playing the first of two Bach recitals - see his matinee performances at the Royal Albert Hall today and tomorrow from 4pm. The Leipzig Gewandhaus plays the evening concert, paying tribute to Mendelssohn, the composer-conductor who, from the mid-1830s, cemented its reputation.

Last chance: Sir Peter Blake: Things I Love comes to an end at the Fine Art Society gallery in Mayfair

 
 
 
 
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