Great Britain on day three of the Rio Paralympics claimed eight medals, three of them gold – including a special success for Kadeena Cox. “I did not start the race so fast, but then I sped up and I won”.
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Britain enjoyed a golden morning in the Paralympic rowing, picking up three gold medals.
Vietnam has won its first ever medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in style with weightlifter Le Van Cong breaking the world record in the men’s 49kg class by lifting 183kg.
Cox is scheduled to return to the athletics track in the T36-38 4x100m relay and T38 400m, while she is also entered in cycling’s road race on the penultimate day of the Games.
“I’ve tried to put the past to the back of head in the last few days but I was so nervous and that really hurt and I’m just glad that’s over”.
A hand-cycling gold medalist in Beijing eight years ago, Morris was hit by a auto while out training in 2012 and decided it was safer on the water.
Cox, who has multiple sclerosis, said: “I just can’t believe it”.
Meanwhile, 2012 gold medallist Richard Whitehead set a new Paralympic record of 23.07 seconds when he qualified for Sunday’s T42 200m final. She is one of four American active-duty soldiers competing in the Paralympic Games. She narrowly missed the gold medal at the 2012 Paralympics after failing to lift 142.5 kg, losing out to Egyptian Fatma Omar.
Giglia clocked a C3 world record of 41.252, but Holland’s Alyda Norbruis took gold with a C2 world record of 39.631, factored to 36.908.
But not since Isabel Newton won medals in shooting and athletics at the 1988 Seoul Games had a Briton “doubled-up” in the SAME Games. Even more than that, I am honoured to represent soldiers and everyone else. I was mentally tired and I wasn’t sure I was going to do it.
Rebecca Redfearn finished second in the SB13 100m breaststroke final as Fotimakhon Amilova of Uzbekistan won from lane one in a world record of 1:12.45, beating the mark Redfearn set in Sheffield earlier this year.
Azerbaijani Paralympians have won 161 medals (64 gold, 57 silver and 40 bronze) over the last four years.
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Adenegan, 15, is the youngest athlete in the Great Britain team and is the only racer to have beaten Cockroft during her four-year dominance in the T34 category.
