Paralympics

PHOTOS | Highlights from Monday at the Paralympics

Scroll through to see some of the top photos from Monday's action at the Rio Paralympic Games.

Plenty of swimming in the the top 5 from Rio

Are you as fired up as Colombia's Sonia Sirley Luna, right, and her guide Wilmar Cabrera? They're pretty hard to top.

(Mauro Pimentel/The Associated Press)

United States wheelchair basketball player Trevon Jenifer, left, goes horizontal in an attempt to block Great Britain's Abdi Jama, centre, during a preliminary game in Rio.

(Leo Correa/The Associated Press)

An underwater look at Brazilian swimmer Talisson Glock during the men's 200-metre individual medley SM6 preliminaries.

(Simon Lodge/OIS/IOC viaThe Associated Press)

Excellent sportsmanship was on display after Canadian wheelchair fencer Pierre Mainville, left, lost his quarter-final bout to Greece's Panagiotis Triatafyllou.

(Dave Holland/Canadian Paralympic Committee)

Britain's William John Bayley was hoisted into the air after winning gold in men's table tennis - class 7.

(Thomas Lovelock/OIS/IOC via The Associated Press)