GB wheelchair curlers win against Sweden

Great Britain's wheelchair curlers beat Sweden 6-4 to secure their first win in the round-robin phase at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi.

The team led 5-4 going into the eighth and final end thanks to a superb steal by skip Aileen Neilson in the seventh.

And Neilson, whose team face South Korea at 11:30 GMT, held her nerve to wrap up the victory as Britain bounced back after Saturday's defeat by Canada.

Former British soldier Mick Brennan finished 10th in the men's Super-G.

Brennan, who lost both his legs at the knee in a suicide bomb attack while serving in Iraq in 2004 and came to the sport via the Battle Back programme, clocked one minute 30.48 seconds in very testing conditions.

"I had a plan and you always think you could have pushed a bit more in places, but at the beginning of the day I would have bitten your hand off for a top-10 finish so I have to be happy with that," he told BBC Sport.

Austria's Markus Salcher claimed his second gold in consecutive days

"The heat hasn't helped the course, it was bumpy in places and people are giving so much to be here so it's disappointing when they can't make it down, but I did and I want to build from here over the next four years."

Gold at Rosa Khutor went to Japan's defending champion Akira Kano (1:19.51), who also won Saturday's downhill, with team-mate Taiki Morii taking silver.

There was also a second gold for Austria's Markus Salcher, who won the Super-G standing class, while Slovakia's Jakub Krako, guided by Martin Motyka, was victorious in the visually impaired class after winning silver four years ago in Vancouver.

Neilson, meanwhile, said victory would build her side's confidence.

GB led 2-1 at the halfway point and had some anxious moments after Sweden scored three in the next end to go 4-2 up, but they rallied late on to win.

"We need to make sure we put more pressure on our opponents earlier in the games, but we are delighted with the win," she told BBC Radio 5 live.

"We knew we needed to make more of the opportunities. Getting the win on the board helps us all."

Elsewhere, wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden, who was born in Russia but adopted as a child by an American woman, finished fifth in the women's 12km seated cross-country race on her Winter Paralympic debut.

McFadden took a tumble during the race but recovered to finish one minute and 43 seconds behind Ukraine's gold medallist Lyudmyla Pavlenko . Silver went to McFadden's American team-mate Oksana Masters, who was born in Ukraine but also adopted by an American.

In the men's 15km seated event, Roman Petushkov led home a Russian clean sweep of medals with Irek Zaripov and Aleksandr Davidovich winning silver and bronze respectively.

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