Despite helping Great Britain end a run of six successive semi-final defeats at the Paralympics in the men's wheelchair basketball, the competition ended with silver for a Swindon player and his teammates as they came agonisingly close to victory in the final.

Ben Fox helped ParalympicsGB to a 71-43 win over Germany in Paris, bringing to an end a run of losses stretching back 24 years to Sydney 2000.

Captain Phil Pratt said: "I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thinking about [the run of losses] and it was in the back of my mind coming into this game.

"My first Paralympics was at Rio in 2016, we lost against Spain in the semi-final and we should have won that game. I was like, man, I don’t want that to happen again.

"It feels so good and a bit of a relief to get over the line and it’s all to play for now in the final."

However, the competition ended with a silver medal for Great Britain as they narrowly lost 73-69 against the USA.

It saw the Americans become the first ever side to three-peat in the competition, having won in Tokyo and Rio.

Before the match, Pratt said: "Some of my idols are in the US team and they're the most successful team in history."

ParalympicsGB dominated Group A, easing past Canada and France, before beating Australia 84-64 in the quarter-finals.

They were favourites for the semi-final, having beaten Germany by 21 points in the group stage, but only opened a four point lead by the midway point, with Germany trailing 28-24.

Great Britain pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring Germany 20 points to eight.

Mancunian Gregg Warburton was the star man, scoring 35 points, with the team congratulated on their victory by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.