The gold rush kicked off on day four with Rachel Morris, Britain’s first medal victor of the day.
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Cox is competing in two of the sports which make up a triathlon, but has admitted she can not swim.
Butterfield awoke from surgery to remove a tumour on her spinal cord in January 2010 paralysed from the chest down, but four years on she is a Paralympic champion having won with a world record throw.
Something of a medal landslide followed as Thornhill and Scott quickly caught their rivals to bag bronze and Turnham and Hall beat their opponents Foy and Thompson from New Zealand to win the gold in the women’s B individual pursuit. I’m just in shock, I’m Paralympic, world and European champion and perhaps I’ll have my first beer in two years now.
“There was no way I was going to come this far for silver”, Butterworth said.
And Cox, who was reclassified ahead of March’s Track World Championships, but still won gold, delivered. The event was factored in favour of C1, then C2 riders.
“For the kilo, I was properly nervous and I didn’t really enjoy it that much but for this one, with these guys and the way they’ve been riding for the last few months, it’s just a pleasure to get up there”. She had led the PT4 race until the final stages of the run before being overtaken by the American Grace Norman.
Storey, who won her 12th Paralympic title on Thursday and will target two more on the road next week, switched from swimming to cycling in 2005.
Alison Patrick and her guide took silver and Melissa Reid and her guide Nicole Walters bronze as Australia’s Katie Kelly and her guide Michellie Jones won gold. Tom Aggar took bronze in the corresponding men’s event.
Sabrina Fortune earlier claimed bronze in the F20 shot put at the Olympic stadium.
“I thought that I was dreaming”, said the 33-year-old from Lydney in Gloucestershire.
“When I came across that finish line, I held the tape in the air and wondered whether it was all real”.
The International Paralympic Committee said Sunday it was skeptical about Algeria’s claim that its women’s goalball team missed a game against Israel in Rio purely due to travel delays, and hinted that the team could be disqualified from the Games.
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Double Rio gold-medallist Jody Cundy said the team got it all right in Rio: “After four years ago, that was probably the lowest I’ve ever been; this is probably the highest I’ve ever been”.
