Great Britain's swimmers continued to pile up the medals at the Paralympics, taking three golds, three silvers and a bronze at the Aquatic Centre. Jim Anderson set the team on their way, before Nyree Lewis took the S6 100m backstroke on her 24th birthday.
Lewis' partner Sascha Kindred doubled the celebrations racing to his second gold of the Games.
Danielle Watts, Anthony Stephens and James Crisp added silvers while Sarah Bailey took bronze.
Anderson, competing at his fourth Paralympic Games, left American Curtis Lovejoy trailing by six seconds as he raced to gold.
The 41-year-old from Fife had been in great shape leading up to Athens and proved it by clinching his third Paralympic gold.
Lewis went into the backstroke as world number and overwhelming favourite.
But the Welsh athlete shook off her nerves to power home in a record time of 1:32.03 while team-mate Natalie Jones finished sixth. Kindred then followed Lewis' lead powering to gold in the men's 100m breaststroke in a Paralympic record time of 1:23.28.
The 26-year-old defending champion had already struck gold in the SB7 200m individual medley on Sunday.
"This was the one I wanted," said Kindred.
"I knew it would be the hard one as all the finalists had taken time off their personal best but I just managed to hold on."
 Crisp took silver in the breaststroke after a disqualification |
Watts was unlucky to miss out on a medal at the Sydney Games but the 23-year-old grabbed silver behind Spain's Sara Carracelas. "It was very hard work but I knew I was high in the rankings and had a good chance," Watts told BBC Sport.
"I'm just ecstatic."
Stephens, who took S5 100m freestyle bronze, claimed silver at double the distance in 2:45.84.
The 18-year-old had smashed the Paralympic record in the heats but could not hold off rival Spain's Sebastian Rodriguez, who set a new world record of 2:41.87 to snatch gold.
"I knew he would go out fast and he's very strong," said Stephens.
In the men's SB8 100m breaststroke, Crisp was upgraded to silver after Poland's Krzysztof Paterka, who finished a close second to Andriy Kalyna, was disqualified.
Bailey picked up a medal in her fourth Paralympics, taking bronze in the women's S10 100m freestyle in 1.05.14.
The Manchester athlete chased down the field over the last 50m and she still has her stronger events to come.
"I've been working hard on freestyle and it's the second fastest time I've ever done - so it's brilliant," Bailey said.
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