New Zealand swimmer

Gold for Leslie in Paralympics pool

Leslie finished in a time of 2:23:12 minutes, breaking his own world record and beating the silver medal winner Zhipeng Jin from China by more than three seconds.

Denmark's Jonas Larsen won bronze.

Leslie's gold New Zealand's fifth of the Paralympics.

Swimmers Sophie Pascoe and Mary Fisher are competing shortly for medals in the pool.

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Pascoe takes gold, smashes another record

 Pascoe swam a time of 1 minute 2.65 seconds - almost two seconds faster than her heat time, where she had also broken the record.

The gold is Pascoe's third at Rio and comes came a day after smashing the record in the women's 200m individual medley SM10 event.

She has now equalled New Zealand record for the most Paralympic medals won by an individual athlete along with Eve Rimmer's 14 medals.

In other racing, Mary Fisher finished sixth in the women's 50m freestyle S11 final.