In winning cycling gold in a world record time, the 25-year-old from Leeds became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics.
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The gold keeps coming for Team Nigeria at the paralympics with the country notching up its third in powerlifting and six medals overall. The Halifax Hurricane, as she was named after London 2012, took victory in the T34 100m ahead of Kare Adenegan, who is 15 and from Coventry.
Team Nigeria yesterday toppled Tunisia on Africa’s medal haul at the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil after Lauritta Onye and Ndidi Nwosu claimed gold medals.
Great Britain on day three of the Rio Paralympics claimed eight medals, three of them gold – including a special success for Kadeena Cox. The 23-year-old finished in a time of 2:24.90, more than five seconds clear of Canadian Aurelie Rivard.
“It’s insane to think of this time two years ago, I had a relapse and I got re-diagnosed, going to hospital”.
Nigeria’s performance so far at the Paralympics means that they are now the highest-ranked nation in Africa, positioned 9th in the overall medals table between Uzbekistan in 8th and Germany in 10th.
“To date I think it’s been a cultural problem – much like we’ve seen traditionally in swimming, which is dominated by white athletes”.
Earlier, Andy Lewis took the gold in the PT2 triathlon and Sabrina Fortune took bronze in the F20 shot put.
Dame Sarah Storey was the defending champion but fully expected Cox to beat her.
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Olympic and Paralympic regulation ban teams from missing specific games, amid suggests in Israel that Algeria missed the first game against the United States to avoid censure. China’s Li Zhangyu won gold with a world record time of 1min 6.678sec.
