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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 20 SIMMONDS and Kindred pro- duced world-record performanc- es to win their 200m individual medley races after successes in the men's F42 shot put for Aled Davies and men's Class 7 table tennis for Will Bayley earlier in the day. Simmonds became the first SM6 swimmer to break the three-min- ute barrier in her race a matter of moments after Kindred had won the equivalent men's race. Simmonds had won the event in London four summers ago, and now has five gold medals - seven total - from the last three Para- lympic Games. Her closest challenge came from Ukraine's Yelyzaveta Mereshko, but the runner-up was disquali- fied from the silver-medal posi- tion. China's Lingling Song was moved up to silver ahead of Tiffa- ny Thomas Kane from Australia, with Simmonds clocking 2:59.81 in taking the gold. Kindred produced a sensational swim to win the men's SM6 200m race and a 13th Paralympic Games medal with a brilliant comeback over the breaststroke and freestyle legs. Kindred, 38, had to fight to even get into the final, being reinstat- ed after a disqualification in the heats over an apparent technical infringement during the butterfly leg. He was fifth at the halfway stage, with backstroke his weakest leg, but Kindred made up all the ground and more on the breast- stroke to turn for the last 50m in the lead. And he held off the challenge of China's Hongguang Jia to claim the title in 2:38.47, setting a new Paralympic and world record and winning by exactly a second. Sport SPORTTODAY OLYMPICS Wada says systems hacked by Russian cyber espionage group THE World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Tuesday that con- fidential athlete data relating to the Rio Olympics had been hacked by a Russian cyber espionage group that had published some of it and was threatening to release more. "WADA condemns these ongo- ing cyber-attacks that are being carried out in an attempt to under- mine WADA and the global anti- doping system," said director gen- eral Olivier Niggli in a statement. "WADA has been informed by law enforcement authorities that these attacks are originating out of Russia." Russia's track and field team, with the exception of one athlete based in the United States, were banned from the Rio Games in August over what WADA said was a state- backed doping programme. The head office for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Gold for Simmonds and Kindred at Rio Paralympics GB have taken their gold medal tally to 27 with victories for Ellie Simmonds and Sascha Kindred in the pool Ellie Simmonds set a new world record as she swam to her fifth Paralympics gold medal Goldie Sayers upgraded to bronze GREAT Britain's javelin thrower Goldie Sayers and their 4x400 me- tres relay team will be upgraded to bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics following official con- firmation that their Russian rivals have retrospectively failed drug tests. The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday confirmed that javelin silver medallist Maria Abakumova and 400m runner Denis Alexeev, a member of the bronze medal-winning relay team, had tested positive for banned substances at the Games and as a result been disqualified and or- dered to return their medals. The entire Russian relay team have been disqualified as a result of Alexeev's doping, meaning the British squad of Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Michael Bingham and Martyn Rooney will move up from fourth place. Former world champion Aba- kumova, whose positive retest was first reported in the Russian media back in May, and Alexeev, who failed to make it past the first round of the individual 400m, both tested positive for dehy- drochlormethyltestosterone (tu- rinabol). The IOC also announced that Inga Abitova, who finished sixth in the 10,000m in Beijing, had also failed a retrospective drugs test, as had cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko, who finished eighth in the Keirin at London 2012. The IOC has been retesting stored doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics using the latest technology as part of the fight against drug cheats. Goldie Sayers: Now a bronze medallist