Johnboy Smith added to England's medal haul on the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Video games as he surged previous David Weir to assert gold.
Six-time Paralympic champion Weir suffered a puncture with round 10 kilometres to go, whereas within the lead of the race.
Smith took benefit of Weir's misfortune to win in a single hour, 41 minutes and 15 seconds, forward of Scotland’s Sean Body and England team-mate Simon Lawson.
However the 32-year-old – who gained T54 marathon silver on the Gold Coast in 2018 – paid tribute to Weir.
He stated: “I didn’t know he had an issue. I noticed him from about 50 yards. I shouted out, ‘what occurred?’. I cursed out loud a bit then so if it’s on digicam I apologise to everybody. I didn’t wish to win by default, however I’ve gained gold and I deserve gold.
“If he hadn’t have gotten that flat I don’t know what would have occurred. However I may have closed the hole. It might have been a dash end. I gained by good circumstances.
“Don't write off David Weir. He isn't an previous man, he's a supreme athlete.
“If Her Majesty the Queen is watching or listening, give him a knighthood. He deserves to be Sir David Weir.”
Scotland's Duncan Scott claimed revenge on England's Tom Dean by beating him to victory within the males’s 200 metres freestyle last on the Commonwealth Video games, as Adam Peaty saved on target for a 3rd consecutive gold within the 100m breaststroke.
Scott, swimming for Scotland on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, had missed out to Dean within the Olympic last in Tokyo final 12 months however triumphed on Saturday evening in a time of 1 minute 45.02 seconds, with Dean taking silver for England in 1:45.41.
Dean led at midway however Alloa swimmer Scott, who gained 4 medals in complete in Japan final summer time, got here roaring again to safe victory.
Scott additionally claimed a bronze within the 400m particular person medley.
Three-time Olympic champion Peaty, 27, later booked his place in Sunday evening’s 100m breaststroke last, profitable his semi-final in a time of 59.02 seconds.
Peaty’s look in Birmingham marked his return to motion after he missed final month’s World Championship with a fractured bone in his foot suffered in a freak coaching accident in Could.
Within the monitor biking, Jack Carlin gained males’s keirin silver for Scotland however solely after seeing his former housemate Joe Truman knocked unconscious in a daunting high-speed crash.
England’s Truman had nowhere to go when Australian Matthew Glaetzer touched wheels with Carlin within the second spherical of the occasion, with Glaetzer falling in entrance of Truman who went straight excessive and hit his head.
The 24-year-old initially lay immobile on the infield of the velodrome as medical employees rushed to his support, and was then helped away in a wheelchair receiving oxygen. He was then transferred to hospital with a suspected damaged collarbone.
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