Day 8 of the swimming saw a morning of heats with:

• Iona Winnifirth qualifying with a time of 1:32:36,
• Faye Rodgerd qualifying for the 400m Freestyle with a time of 4:43:22,
• Scarlett Humphrey qualifying with a time of 1:31:90 in the 100m Breaststroke,
• Toni Shaw qualified in the 200m individual medley,
• Rebecca Redfern qualified with a time of 1:16:40 in the SB13 100m Breaststroke.
• Alice Tai qualified in the 50m freestyle S8 heats

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Matthew Redfern failed to qualify coming in 13th in the mens SB13 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:12:90. At the end of his race Matthew talked about his Paralympic experience, “It has been quite magical. Swimming takes you places you never thought you would go before. I never thought I would be swimming in front of 15,000 people so it has been a brilliant experience.”

The evening started at the Paris La Defense Arena:

• The womens SB7 100m breakstroke saw a silver medal and a new personal best for Iona Winnifrith in . Becoming the youngst British Paralympic simming medalist this centrury. “I’m really happy with that performance. As much as I wanted that gold, I knew I had to keep fighting and that’s what I did so I’m really happy. Getting a silver medal at 13 is really cool. It’s a lifetime best, so I’m as proud as I could have been.”
  Speaking about her inspirations, Iona said, “Ellie (Simmonds) has influenced me so much. I’ve met her a few times and she is very good at talking to us and inspiring us. As much as I wanted a gold, a silver is… what more could I want?
  One of my old clubmates, Callie-Ann Warrington, got silver a few nights ago so to join her is a really cool experience.”

• Faye Rodgers took 5th place in the S10 400m Freestyle final, behind gold winner Canada's Aurelie Rivard and USA's Alexandra Truwit in silver position. Discussing her swim and time, Faye said, “It’s really nice to see the class is getting more competitive, it’s looking really good. I couldn’t be prouder to swim in a race that competitive, it’s insane, and it’s making me faster. I’m a little bit disappointed with the time, I’ve been training a lot better than that, but you can’t change it and I gave it my all.”

• Scarlett Humphrey came in 6th place in the Women's 100m Breaststoke SB11 finals. After the race Scarlett talked about being an inspiration to others with a Visual Impairment, “Having VI swimmers at a Paralympics shows what VI people can do in sport and gives the next generation role models to look up to. It shows they cannot just compete but succeed, but also that sport is accessible if people want to take part recreationally.”

• Toni Shaw narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in theWomen's SM9 200m individual medley coming behind Spain's Anastasiya Dmytriv Dmytriv

• Rebecca Redfern won Gold in the Womens 100m Breaststroke SB13 Final with a time of 1:16:02 USA's Olivia Chambers and Colleen Young got Silver and Broze retrospectivly. On discussing her win Rebecca said, “It’s something I’ve worked really hard for. To win two silvers at my first two Paralympics and now gold, it means the world. It feels really surreal, I was half expecting someone to come out of lane one and beat me. A gold medal is just crazy. We’ve had a hell of a journey to get here.”

• Alice Tai Won gold in the Womens S8 50m Freestyle with a time of 29:91 Speaking about winning gold Alice said "I knew it was going to be a close race and I thought someone might duck under 30 (seconds) but I didn’t think it would be me. My starts have been affected since my amputation so this was a shot in the dark, I don’t have that power off the start any more. I didn’t know I’d won until the girl next to me told me, I couldn’t see.”

        Alice raced the 400m yesterday, discussing going from that race to today, Alice said "“Going from 400 yesterday to 50                      today is a real change in system, my whole stroke is different. I’m just in shock.
        “That was a 0.6 PB post amputation, which is insane on a 50m – over half a second."