Winnifrith, 13, and Twomey, 14, star for GB in Paris

Teenager Iona Winnifrith won silver in the women's SB7 100m breaststroke final on a day of medals for Great Britain's young athletes at the Paralympics in Paris.

Winnifrith, 13, claimed her first Paralympic medal after Bly Twomey, 14, won her second Para-table tennis medal of the Games with bronze in the women’s WS7 singles.

Anna Nicholson and Olivia Broome won bronze medals for Great Britain on Thursday morning.

Nicholson was third in the women’s S35 shot put and Broome took bronze in the women's -50kg powerlifting.

Britain have won 78 medals, including 33 gold. Only China, who have 68 golds and 155 in total, have more.

Winnifrith finished behind Mariia Pavlova in the first of Great Britain’s six swimming finals on Thursday.

Winnifrith finished just over three and a half seconds behind Pavlova, who is part of the Neutral Paralympic Athletes and won gold with a world record time of 1min 26.09secs.

In the women’s S10 400m freestyle final, Faye Rogers, 21, finished in fifth place.

Scarlett Humphrey, 19, in her fourth Paralympic final at these Games, finished sixth in the women’s SB11 100m breaststroke final.

Later on Thursday evening, Toni Shaw will feature in the SM9 200m individual medley final, scheduled to start at 17:55 BST.

Rebecca Redfern is in the women’s SB13 100m breaststroke final, scheduled for 18:33, after finishing fastest in her heat. Alice Tai is also in action at 18:56 in the women’s S8 50m freestyle final.

Twomey was in semi-final action and was already guaranteed at least a bronze medal, knowing that victory over Turkey’s Kubra Korkut would have promoted her to at least a silver.

The teenager got off to the perfect start, winning the first two sets 11-9 and 11-7.

Korkut, 30, more than twice Twomey’s age, fought back in the later sets to win the semi-final 3-2. She won the third set 11-6 and the fourth 11-5.

In the fifth and deciding set, Korkut took a 6-0 lead before taking it with an 11-5 victory following a fightback from Twomey.

Earlier in the Games, Twomey won bronze in the WD14 women’s doubles alongside Felicity Pickard.

Broome said she was going to treat herself to pizza after winning her second consecutive Paralympic powerlifting bronze with a lift of 119kg.

Having competed in the up to 55kg division this year, she needed to drop weight for Paris.

"This is probably one of my easier weight cuts. I haven't struggled with it as much and have done it right so it has been a lot easier," said Broome.

"The first thing I will eat now is pizza. On Wednesday after the weigh-in I was delighted because I could have pasta.

"I’ve had food scales with me at the food hall in the athletes' village and weighing everything I eat, so after weigh-in was done, I could put those away."

In the women's -55kg powerlifting, Great Britain's Charlotte McGuiness finished fourth.

Britain's first medal on Thursday came inside the Stade de France as Nicholson claimed bronze in the women’s F35 shot put final, winning her first career Paralympic medal.

Nicholson, 29, sealed her medal with the second of her six throws, an effort of 9.44m.

In the women's T38 long jump final Olivia Breen fractionally missed out on winning a bronze of her own.

Breen’s best jump of 4.99m was enough to put her in third place but she was beaten by Colombia’s Karen Tatiana Palomeque Moreno, who matched Breen’s best jump but won by having a better second best jump.

Maddie Down finished sixth with a personal best of 4.81m.

In the women's F64 shot put, Funmi Oduwaiye finished fifth with a best throw of 11.27m, 50cm shy of the medal places.

Great Britain are guaranteed at least a silver medal in the wheelchair fencing men's team foil.

The trio of Piers Gilliver, Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson have set up a final with China, scheduled for 20:15, following wins over Brazil and France earlier on Thursday.

GB's men's wheelchair basketball team have also guaranteed themselves at least a silver medal after a 71-43 semi-final win over Germany.

They will face either the United States or Canada in the gold medal match on Saturday night.