AIS scholarship holder Matt Cowdrey is proving unstoppable with a fourth individual gold medal plus a new world record at the Beijing Paralympic Games.

All Cowdrey’s golds so far at the Games – the 50m freestyle S9, along with the 100m freestyle, the 100m backstroke and the 200m individual medley – have all registered World Record times.

The teenager claimed three gold in Athens – two in individual events and one from the 4x100m medley relay.

“It’s great, but to have two more individual gold means an awful lot to me as well,’’ Cowdrey said.

“The 50 is always so hard to pick and so hard to win so to get off there and have the three Chinese guys in the marshalling area was actually quite intimidating as they went so fast in the heats.”

“That was pretty much the perfect race for me.’’

It was very much a successful night of swimming for the Australian team as a whole with medals taken in five of the nine finals contested.

That takes Australia’s tally in the pool to 28 with one day of competition to go.

Former AIS scholarship holder Marayke Jonkers started the night off perfectly for the Australians with a silver medal in a brand new event for her, the S4 150m individual medley.

As S4 swimmers have limited trunk movement, they are not required to swim butterfly so medleys are reduced to three laps – backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.

Jonkers claimed bronze in Athens in the S4 breaststroke but the event was removed from the Beijing program.

The 27 year-old had to readjust her training for a completely new race.

“It’s absolutely awesome to win the silver,’’ she said.

“There have been so many setbacks and I said to myself in the marshalling area - you’ve worked hard so you deserve to do well, now go out and do it.”

“I can’t believe that after telling myself that, it actually worked!’’

Peter Leek (AIS/NSWIS) collected his seventh medal with silver in the 50m freestyle S8 behind China’s Wang Xiaofu, who broke his own world record.

Leek is doing well in accumulating a large number of accolades himself – he now has 2 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze – to equal Cowdrey’s tally of seven medals.

Jacqui Freney (AIS/NSWIS) medaled in the very next race with bronze in the women’s 50m freestyle S8 – her third bronze of the Games after the 100m and 400m freestyle successes.

In the last race of the program, Katrina Lewis (former AIS) had a perfect strike rate taking a medal – bronze – in her only event in Beijing.

Normally a 400m freestyler, Lewis contracted pneumonia the week before last March’s Olympic and Paralympic swim team trials in Sydney and was restricted to just the one short race – the 50m freestyle S10.

In other results, Prue Watt (AIS/VIS) was 8th in the 100m backstroke S13; Michael Anderson (AIS/QAS) was 6th in the 50m freestyle S10; and Annie Williams (former AIS) was 4th in the 50m freestyle S9 behind the great South African Natalie du Toit.