half a second

Another Paralympic debutant, he crossed the line in 17.27 seconds, just over half a second behind Belgian winner Maxime Carabin.

The 51-year-old Italian finished with a season best time of 25.95, just over half a second behind Simran of India, to qualify for the semi-finals, which take place at 18:42 BST on Friday.

Olivia Newman-Baronius will also feature, finishing second and within half a second of Neave.

Each boat can produce more than 3,000 data points within half a second and send them to engineers onshore for analysis in real time.

But they were overhauled by Ball and his pilot Steffan Lloyd, who started slower in the finaland trailed their team-mates by half a second after 125m, but gradually reeled in Fachie and Rotherham with a time of 58.964s.