19/09/2016 Newsround

The Paralympic Games in Rio have come to an end,

with a colourful and musical closing ceremony last night.

ParalympicsGB finished with a massive 147 medals,

putting them second in the medal table behind China.

Martin sent us this final round-up from Brazil.

The Paralympics finished how it started, with a closing ceremony

packed full of colour, music and dancing.

It has been a truly special Games for Great Britain,

who won 64 gold medals, the most won by a British

Kadeena Cox carried the British flag at the ceremony, capping off

a fantastic Paralympics, where she won gold in

After a rocky build-up to the games, organisers said the ceremony

was a final chance to celebrate Rio de Janeiro and Brazil's hosting

80,000 people inside Rio's famous Maracana Stadium also held

a minute's silence to remember the life of an Iranian cyclist

who passed away at the games during a race.

All that was left to do was hand over to Tokyo in Japan,

So there you have it, the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games has

come to an end and I've got to say, it has been amazing.

I've seen some great sporting moments, I've met some

of the world's best athletes, but for me the true star of these

They've really made it special and they've taken

So I suppose there's only one thing left to do and that's

And a short while before that fab closing ceremony,

Martin caught up with one of the biggest ParalympicsGB stars in Rio -

wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft, who won three golds.

No wonder she's nicknamed Hurricane Hannah!

Obviously, came for three gold medals.

I never wanted to aim for anything less than that.

I'm confident sprinter, so coming here to do a 400 and 800

as well was a little bit far out of my comfort zone,

We've had fantastic crowds, big crowds, lively crowds.

It's been so much fun that you just wanted to get out there and show

To be sharing the podium with a 15 and 16-year-old and being told that

you're old at 24 is a little worrying!

If you want to see proof of the London legacy,

One of the girls on that podium has beaten me,

the other has broken one of my world records this year,

and it just shows that I'm not unbeatable.

And that makes me feel even better about these three gold medals.

My friends and family know the work that goes into these and they know

that they're not easy to win and they know that it was going

to be harder than ever for me to come out here and actually do

what I've done, so, yeah, expecting a bit of a big welcome

Did that help you to go on and do what you did?

I think it took the crowd a little while to warm to me.

Obviously, I was in the race with an American,

If there was no Brazilian in the race, they'd

And for me, that was a strange feeling.

I'm so used to being the favourite on the line and suddenly I wasn't

So for the first 100 metres, I felt a little bit

But the last 100 metres of my 800 metres, I actually wanted to sit up

and look around because the whole of the home straight

I feel like Brazil have really taken me in a little bit

What advice would you give to anybody watching who fancies

getting into wheelchair racing or just becoming

My advice would be, go out and just take every opportunity you get.

Try everything, because I guarantee you will find something you fall

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Join us back here in half an hour, when we'll tell you all

about the other major sporting event in Rio.