Faye Rogers completed her journey from Olympic hopeful to Paralympic swimming champion by winning gold in Paris three years after the car accident that changed her life.

The 21-year-old beat her ParalympicsGB teammate Callie-Ann Warrington to take the S10 100m butterfly crown in a British one-two at La Défense Arena.

Rogers competed in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic selection trials before seriously injuring her right arm while driving to training on the day she was scheduled to transfer to Aberdeen University in September of that year.

Because she had suffered several open bone fractures, a dislocated elbow and a severed ulnar nerve, doctors told her that her career as a competitive swimmer was over.

“The last three years have been a whirlwind,” Rogers said. “It’s been a tremendous journey. I couldn’t be more proud of where I came from and how I got here. As someone whose life revolved around swimming, to be told you’ll never compete again was really, really hard.”

“Getting into paraswimming was amazing. It really was a lifesaver for me. I don’t think I would have been able to cope with the accident and my disability if I couldn’t swim. I couldn’t be more grateful.”

World champion Rogers was 1.31 seconds faster than Warrington in the heats but fell behind her compatriot halfway through Tuesday night’s final. The biochemistry student from Stockton-on-Tees fought back and touched the wall in 1 minute 5.84 seconds – taking the title by just 0.57 seconds. “I could see Callie next to me,” she said. “I got a little nervous but I was relatively confident. Callie put up a really good fight in the second 50 (metres) and pushed me hard. I couldn’t be happier with the result.”

Maidstone-born Warrington clocked a personal best of 1 minute 6.41 seconds to fend off a challenge from Canadian bronze medallist Katie Cosgriffe.

“Being able to race against Faye is everything,” said the 24-year-old.

“We’ve been saying to each other over the last few months: ‘Come on, we can get the one-two.’ It was wonderful to have her next to me.”

It was a memorable day for wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn, who secured her second silver medal of the Games in the women’s 1500m (T54). The 28-year-old Scot ran 3 minutes 16.1 seconds at the Stade de France, 2.91 seconds slower than the Paralympic record set by Swiss gold medallist Catherine Debrunner. Kinghorn claimed Britain’s first athletics medal of the Games with her second place in the T53 800m on Sunday.

“Who would have thought that a sprinter would win a medal in the 1500m? I certainly didn’t,” she said. “I thought I would be fighting for fourth place, maybe even third.

“It was all quite exciting. I was a bit disorientated and stopped 200m from the finish because I thought we were finished – it’s so loud here, we’re not used to it. So I learned that I have to count the laps. But this noise is absolutely electrifying and I’m so happy to win a medal.”

The men of Great Britain secured a semi-final in wheelchair basketball against Germany with an 84-64 victory against Australia.

Ben Fox top-scored the Tokyo bronze medallists with 26 points in the quarter-finals at the Bercy Arena, while Gregg Warburton and Lee Manning added 22 and 21 points respectively. Great Britain beat Germany, who they face on Thursday, 76-55 in their first group match.

Fox said: “We have to forget a lot of things from the first game. We can remember the things that went well, but it’s a new game. We expect a real fight.”

Great Britain last reached the final in Atlanta in 1996, when they lost to Australia. “It’s time we got back there,” Fox said.

“British wheelchair basketball has a long history and we need to give something back to the people who paved the way for us.”

British wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver won silver late in the evening after suffering a defeat in the men’s sabre Category A final. Gilliver, the reigning épée A champion, was beaten 15-8 by Germany’s Maurice Schmidt at the Grand Palais. The 29-year-old defeated Italy’s Matteo Dei Rossi 15-8 and Ukraine’s Artem Manko 15-14 to reach the gold medal match on the opening day of fencing in France.

Meanwhile, Zac Shaw was awarded the bronze medal in the men’s 100m T12 after a subsequent disqualification. The British sprinter finished fourth in Saturday evening’s race with a time of 10.94 seconds. The last podium place went to Turkey’s Serkan Yildirim.