Rachel Morris is a Paralympic champion in a second sport after claiming rowing gold in Rio yesterday, while Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley also won the double sculls, before the mixed coxed fours completed the run of success, to make it 18 gold medals at the Games for ParalympicsGB.
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And GB’s Tom Aggar won bronze in the men’s armsshoulders single sculls.
Four years on Morris won the women’s arms-only single sculls with a perfectly timed surge in the second half of the 1,000m race.
Cox claimed bronze in the T38 100m on Friday (9 September), adding a gold for cycling gold in the C4-5 500m time trial, matching Isabel Barr’s feat at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul.
“I won three silvers in London but I will trade all those in for this one gold”.
The 28-year-old from Tunbridge Wells said: “I just snatched a bit at the match points because I was a bit nervous and if I had lost the fourth it would have been anyone’s game in the fifth”.
He said: “I think we knew from the training we knew we had a strong team and everyone could get on the podium and it was a case of what colour the medal would be if they got it right on the day”. Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott took bronze.
Neil Fachie and his pilot Peter Mitchell had to settle for silver in the tandem one-kilometre time-trial.
“I had to stay focused and realise what life is about, it’s not just about winning gold medals, it’s about living and being proud to live the life that I have, and I’m lucky”. “I never doubted that she would”.
There were three triathlon medals as the women took part in the sport’s debut Paralympics at Copacabana beach. Each time it starts to get painful I know I have all their support pushing me, my Invictus brothers and sisters and everyone who competes in that realm.I have limb injuries. Even more than that, I am honored to represent soldiers and everyone else. I still had a great race and I’m really pleased with my effort. “I made the finals in London but didn’t make the medals, so this is the icing on the cake, finally getting my hands on a medal after all that time”.
When she met Invictus ambassador and passionate campaigner for wounded soldiers, Prince Harry, this year, Marks asked him to take her gold medal at the wounded soldiers championship this year back to England and give it to the team at Papworth that helped to save her life in 2014.
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Kadeena Cox was overcome with emotion after defying the doubters by winning Paralympic cycling gold, 24 hours after taking bronze in athletics and two years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
