Paralympics: Australia take wheelchair rugby gold

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Favourites Australia on Sunday beat Canada to take the gold medal in the wheelchair rugby final, as the London Paralympics came to a close.

The Aussies' star player Ryley Batt was in supreme form, scoring 37 points to take his overall tally to 160 from five tournament starts in a match where the Canadians had an uphill battle after ending the first quarter 18-11 down.

Australia won silver in Beijing four years ago behind the United States, whom Canada beat to get into the final. The US team took bronze after beating Japan in the third-place match.

A relieved Batt, who played at the Athens Paralympics in 2004 at the age of just 15, described the win as "third time lucky" -- and a much sought-after improvement on second-place last time round.

"You can only go one better than silver and that's a gold, and I know I've trained so hard over the last four years and so has the team to get to this point and it's finally paid off," the 23-year-old told reporters.