It's been another big day for Australia at the Paris Paralympics, with medals in para cycling, para athletics, para table tennis and para swimming.

At the velodrome it was another success for Amanda Reid, who showed her class to clinch back-to-back golds in the C1-3 500m time trial, to go with her total of 12 para cycling world titles on road and track.

Reid is one of four Indigenous athletes on the Australian team in Paris. In Tokyo the Wemba Wemba and Guring-gai woman became the first Indigenous athlete to win a cycling gold medal at the Paralympics, and now she's backed it up in Paris with more events to go. Chapeau, Amanda.

We will be back later this afternoon to bring you day four of competition in Paris, beginning with the men's and women's para triathlons. It will be interesting to see what conditions are like for those events.

In the meantime, on behalf of everyone who has helped bring you today's events on the blog, I'm Andrew McGarry, thanking you for joining us and wishing you a very good morning!  

Here are some of the images from across the Paralympic venues on day three of competition in Paris:

We have a story updating the medal tally after day three of competition in Paris.

Check below to see Australia's performance on day three and where that puts them in the overall tally: 

On day two Australia's Emily Petricola showed her emotions after a brilliant win in the women's C4 3000m pursuit event.

But as ABC's Charles Brice writes from Paris, Petricola says she wouldn't have made it to the starting line to successfully defend her title from Tokyo if it was not for some serious medical support.

The two-time Paralympian was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2007 at the age of just 27.

Preparing to defend the para cycling C4 3,000m pursuit that she won in Tokyo, a flare-up in Petricola's condition threatened to take her out of the Paris Games.

Petricola worked with the Victorian Institute of Sport and other medical staff to give herself the best opportunity to race on the world's biggest stage.

"I just woke up one day and my back was in full spasm, which went into my left leg … it hasn't settled," she said.

"The medical support on the ground since we left Australia and prior to that, I wouldn't have been on the start line without those people."

You can read more in Charles' story below:

If you were here with us earlier, you would have seen that Australia has won a table tennis gold on day three, with Li Na Lei and Qian Yang beating Tzu Yu Lin and Shiau Wen Tian of Chinese Taipei in the women's doubles WD 20 final.

The Aussies won 11-7, 11-6, 2-11, 12-10.

The win added to both players' impressive Paralympic resume.

Yang played for China at the London and Rio de Janeiro Games, winning a gold and three silver medals. She then moved to Australia and has now won two gold and one silver in two Paralympics.

Lei represented China at four Paralympics, winning five gold and three silver before moving to Australia. In two Paralympics, she has also now won two gold and one silver as part of the Australian team. 

The final event of the day has seen a brilliant contest at the men's wheelchair basketball, with Germany taking on the hosts France.

Roared on by a big crowd at the  Bercy Arena, the French team — led by the scoring power of Nicolas Jouanserre — and Germany were both looking for their first win at the Paralympics.

The French took a lead 19-17 after the opening quarter, but the Germans hit back through the scoring, assists and rebounds of Matthias Guntner.

They were back in front by two at the half, 36-34.

Both teams were ice cold from beyond the arc, with not a single three-point shot landing.

The French did not go away, getting the edge in the third period to lead 51-50 with a quarter to play.

The atmosphere was charged in the final term as both sides tried to get the win.

The French held until the final three minutes when the German team hit the front and pulled away. The French were in foul trouble and were forced to chase the game.

Jouanserre was fouled out on a second unsportsmanlike foul with 20 seconds left, but by then the damage was done.

Jouanserre finished with  22 points and six rebounds, while Guntner matched him with 22 for Germany, with support from Thomas Boehme (15) and Nico Dreimuller (14).

The result puts Germany up to second place behind the unbeaten Great Britain team with one game to play in Group A.

All eight teams go through to the quarterfinals, with group action determining rankings and the crossover.

Australia's Rollers are bottom of Group B after two matches, and they will need to upset the US in their final game to avoid a likely matchup with Great Britain in the quarters.   

Aside from the Australian results at the cycling, the other big moment at the velodrome came in the men's C4 4000m individual pursuit.

World champion Archie Atkinson of Great Britain, who had finished fifth behind Australia's Korey Boddington in the men's C4-5 1000m time trial, broke the world record in qualifying and was favourite to dethrone two-time Paralympic champion Jozef Metelka of Slovakia.

In the gold medal final, Atkinson looked too strong and too fast, and was out to a lead of more than six seconds over Metelka, came close to catching him — which would have ended the event — and he looked destined for gold.

He had gone out too fast and started to come back, although there wasn't time for Metelka to turn things around.

With a lap and a half left, however, a quickly tiring Atkinson crashed going round a turn, as the crowd gasped.

Metelka rode around the last couple of laps and took gold for the third straight Games, as Atkinson was helped up by officials, with his family in tears in the stands.

Thankfully he was not seriously injured, and he was smiling again for the medal ceremony.

Metelka acknowledged Atkinson's great performance and his own luck.

"I won with massive luck, come on. I was five seconds behind and I won because Archie fell. I was incredibly lucky. I mean, when was the last time something like this happened? When T-Rex was around?" Metelka said. 

We had five para swimmers contest finals on day three in Paris.

A massive crowd at the La Defense Arena watch Aussie Jack Ireland win a bronze medal.

You can read the recap of Australia's performances in the finals on day three here:

We have just had the final race of the day at the Stade de France, the second heat of the women's 200m T36.

It was a faster heat than the previous one, with New Zealand's Danielle Aitchison  — who broke the world record in May this year with a time of 27.47 — stretched away from the field to win by two seconds.

Aitchison set a new Paralympic record of 28.09, ahead of Argentina's Araceli Rotela in 20.08.

Aitchison is now favourite for the final, which will take place at 6pm AEST tonight.

Second-fastest is China's Shi Yiting in 28.87, with Argentina's Rotela and Australia's Mali Lovell in the mix for a medal with identical heat times of 30.08.  

A big thank you to Michael Doyle for taking us through the early hours on a big day three.

I'm Andrew McGarry and I will bring some of the stories of the day and remaining events as we wind things down as far as competition goes in Paris.