Australia has continued to shine at the 2016 Paralympics, with cyclist David Nicholas winning gold in the C3 3000m individual pursuit.

"I have worked very hard since London with every aspect of my training so I was hoping to improve on that but I never thought it would be a gold medal and a Paralympic Record," Nicholas told the Australian Paralympics website after beating 2016 World Champion Joseph Berenyi in the final.

"I am just speechless."

"My favourite memory of today is riding around the velodrome with the Australian flag," he said.

In the 400m freestyle S9, Brendan Hall defended his Paralympic title, winning gold again.

Hall blitzed the field, winning the race by almost five seconds.

by three body lengths in a time of 4.12.73, just outside his own world record.

"I'm pretty stoked to be able to hold onto my title for another four years. That was the main goal for me," Hall said.

"To know that I can still lead the pack and keep pushing further and further, as I'm getting older, makes me really happy and I just want to see how much faster I can get in the next four years."

"I have held onto this title for about seven years now, in between Paralympics and World Championships, so a little bit of confidence helps me, but to hold onto it on this stage, I was really happy with that."

Cancer survivor Ellie Cole continued Australia's success in the pool, claiming silver in the 400m freestyle S9. Cole missed out on the gold medal by just two one hundredths of a second.

Jessica Gallagher claimed the bronze medal with pilot Madison Janssen in the tandem kilometre time trial on the velodrome in Rio to become the first Australian to win a medal at both a winter and summer Paralympic Games.

She picked up a bronze in the women's slalom in Vancouver in 2010.

Earlier Tiffany Thomas Kane won bronze in the S6 50m butterfly and shot putter Claire Keefer improved her personal best by 50cm to win a surprise bronze medal for women of short stature.

Keefer was hoping for a top five finish and said she was still waiting for her achievement to sink in.

Sprinter Chad Perris, known as 'The White Tiger', took out bronze T13 men's 100m final behind legendary Irishman Jason Smyth, who claimed his third straight gold in that event.

On the track wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley has qualified for the final of the 5000m.

Australia's men's wheelchair basketball team had a nail biting two point win over Turkey to remain undefeated.

Australia has now leapt to 6th on the medal tally with China well on top.