She was third in the road race on her hand bike at London 2012, six weeks after being hit by a vehicle in training.
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In the early hours of this morning, Cox won gold in the women’s C4-5 500m time trial cycling event, beating a strong field that included Dame Sarah Storey, Britain’s most successful female Paralympic athlete of all time, who finished in fourth place.
Cox’s next two assignments in Rio will see her return to the athletics track for the T38 400m on Wednesday and T35-38 4x100m relay the following day, before she climbs aboard her bike again for the C4-5 road race on the penultimate day of the Games next Saturday.
Hu set a new world and also a paralympic record with her 107 kg lift.
“But I was so nervous about getting out the start clean, I didn’t get a very good start at all”.
It was the first time a veteran injured in those conflicts has won Paralympic gold.
In the PT4 event, George Peasgood finished seventh with Great Britain team-mate David Hill 10th.
Yang Chao paid tribute to the National Paralympic Committee of China after winning gold in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1.
Para-triathlete Steadman, who was born without a lower right arm, had been favourite to add Paralympic gold to her 2013 and 2014 world titles. “I’ve got MS, so it’s never certain”.
Britain claimed four medals from the four rowing finals, three of them gold. Tom Aggar took bronze in the corresponding men’s event.
The 31-year-old crossed the line in a season’s best 16.00 seconds to finish ahead of Tatyana McFadden of the United States by 13 hundredths of a second.
Song Maodang broke the world record to clinch gold in the men’s 100m butterfly S8 at the Rio Paralympics.
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.
Tang Wai Lok of Hong Kong won gold in 1:56.32 and Hamer took silver in 1:56.58.
Earlier, Sophie Pascoe won gold in the women’s 100m backstroke S10.
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She beat fellow Brit Crystal Lane in the C5 3,000m individual pursuit with a truly dominant display, catching and overlapping her compatriot after just 1,375m meters to retain her Paralympic title.
