Kadeena Cox claimed a stunning victory in the C4/C5 500 metres time-trial, 24 hours after claiming T38 100 metres bronze in athletics.
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Earlier in the men’s C1-2-3 1,000m time trial, China’s Li Zhangyu set a C1 world record time of 1:06.678 to secure the gold medal.
The gold rush kicked off on day four with Rachel Morris, Britain’s first medal victor of the day.
Jon-Allan Butterworth has become the first British serviceman or woman injured in Iraq or Afghanistan to win gold at the Paralympic Games.
Cockroft, from Halifax, retained her 100m T34 title in a Paralympic record time of 17.42 seconds.
Fortune took bronze in the F20 women’s shot put with Alice Tai also picking up bronze in the women’s S10 100m backstroke.
Butterworth had previously said that winning a gold medal at Rio “would be really nice to finish off that collection” he started four years ago, where one of his silvers came in a time trial that saw him pipped to gold by fractions of a second.
Crystal Lane was the 10th of 14 riders to go and clocked 37.346secs to place provisionally first, only for next rider Storey to go quicker in 37.068.
The successes took ParalympicsGB’s tally to 20 golds.
And the progressive nature of Cox’s illness means Rio might be her one and only opportunity to make history – which explains a lot. I never thought I could do it. “But I came for the gold, and I’ve got the gold – I’m happy”.
“I can’t sum it up, I can’t believe it, I’m so happy. It was slipping away from me in that race but I managed to get back and grab that medal and yeah, it was an awesome feeling”, she told Sports Mole. I might not be able to do one of the sports, let alone two. At the time he was applying to be part of the Army Parachute Regiment and was a cross country runner for Gloucestershire.
Ryan Taylor was sixth – 2:31 behind – while George Peasgood was seventh in the PT4 event and Joe Townsend sixth in the PT1 event. “I knew on my day I’d be good enough to beat anyone and I’ve done it”.
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The 31-year-old from Stratford-upon-Avon was competing in the mixed C1-2-3 category and is a C3 rider, with a lesser degree of impairment than her rivals.
