Jonnie Peacock and David Weir go without medals as ParalympicsGB chief says team is ‘in transition’

ParalympicsGB stars Jonnie Peacock and David Weir have gone without medals at Paris 2024, as team chiefs admitted that certain sports, including athletics, are going through “a transition period”.

At the Stade de France on Monday night, Peacock, 31, who won gold in the men’s T64 100m race in London and Rio, and bronze in Tokyo, finished in fifth place after losing momentum in the final 40 metres.

Costa Rica’s Sherman Isidro Guity Guity raced to gold and secured a new Paralympic record of 10.65 seconds, Italy’s Maxcel Amo Manu finished in second place, while Germany’s Felix Streng clinched bronze.

Weir, competing in the men’s T54 1500m which he won in Beijing and London, failed to qualify for the final on Monday night. He finished in sixth place, alongside GB team-mate Daniel Sidbury in seventh.

In the earlier heat, Nathan Maguire, partner of gold medallist track racer Hannah Cockroft, finished in third place and qualified for the final on Tuesday.

Speaking to Telegraph Sport earlier on Monday, Penny Briscoe, ParalympicsGB chef de mission, said that “there are elements of the ParalympicsGB team in transition, as we were after London”.

Briscoe added: “We are a very successful team but talent ID is going to be extremely important going forward.”

Earlier in the tournament, wheelchair racing legend Weir, now 45, finished eighth in the men’s T54 5000m final. He has not won a medal since his legendary quadruple gold-winning feat in London.

Weir is aiming for a spot on the podium in the marathon, in what is likely to be his final Games. He made his debut as a 17-year-old in Atlanta in 1996.

Peacock, meanwhile, is adamant that he will compete in Los Angeles in 2028, and even called on Lord Sebastian Coe, World Athletics president, and Michael Johnson, former sprint legend turned presenter, to include leading amputee sprinters in the Diamond League.

He said: “Absolutely [they are paying us lip service].

“There’s enough events in the Paralympics that are so stacked, you know, and it’s good sport. And I think that’s what I want to see.

“I want to see the Diamond Leagues actually put us in. When I talk to you guys in four years’ time, because I will be back in four years, and I will be better than this, I want to see us in the Diamond Leagues. We need to be racing each other week in, week out.”

Peacock refused to give up and claimed he will still have the fitness and power to finish on the podium again at Los Angeles 2028, aged 35.

He said: “I’m definitely not [giving up]. That’s what I mean. I know it’s there. My body isn’t tired yet.

“I want the Los Angeles Games. And we still have the relay here – hopefully we’re not coming back empty handed.”

Finishing just behind Peacock in the men’s 100m T64 race was US rival Hunter Woodhall, who witnessed his wife Tara Davis-Woodhall become Olympic long jump champion just two weeks ago.

The pair met at a high school track and field competition in 2017 and married five years later.