Tokyo Paralympics: Kadeena Cox sets new world record to win gold

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Britain's Kadeena Cox retained her C4-5 500m time trial Paralympic title with a stunning world-record ride in Tokyo.

The 30-year-old, who won cycling and athletics gold at the 2016 Rio Games, knew she had to beat the time of 35.830 seconds set by Canadian world champion Kate O'Brien to win Britain's seventh gold of the Games.

And she smashed that with a brilliant 34.812secs - beating the old record by 0.411secs.

"I knew I was going to have to do something special, and that if I put everything together that me and my coach had worked on, it would be amazing," she said.

"I executed a race that was near-perfect - I'm so happy."

In the pool, Hannah Russell and Reece Dunn both landed gold on another successful day for British swimmers.

Russell held off the challenge of Russian Daria Pikalova to retain her S12 100m backstroke title.

Dunn, who finished second in the S14 butterfly on Wednesday, won his first Paralympic gold in the S14 200m freestyle.

Bethany Firth failed to retain her S14 200m freestyle crown, finishing second, with fellow Briton Jessica-Jane Applegate taking bronze.

There was also a bronze for Stephen Clegg in the men's S12 100m backstroke.

Natasha Baker won Britain's fourth Para-equestrian medal in Tokyo, taking silver in the Grade III individual test on Keystone Dawn Chorus, known as Lottie.

The pair scored 76.265% with gold going to Denmark's 21-year-old Tobias Jorgensen and his mount Jolene Hill (78.971).

Earlier in the velodrome, Britain's Jaco van Gass claimed his second medal of the Games with bronze in the C1-3 1000m time trial.

The pursuit gold medallist set a new world record in his C3 category, but it wasn't enough for victory.

There were also bronzes on day three for the men's wheelchair fencing epee team of Piers Gilliver, Dimitri Coutya and Oliver Lam-Watson, sprinter Maria Lyle in the opening session of the athletics competition and for powerlifting debutant Olivia Broome.

It was a second medal of the Games for both Gilliver and Coutya and a first for Lam-Watson on his debut.

Lyle finished third in the T35 100m in 14:18 seconds as China's Xia Zhou set a new world record of 13:00 while Broome had a best lift of 107kg in the -50kg event.

Broome's team-mate Ali Jawad finished sixth in the men's -59kg event after a build-up where his training was not only affected by Covid-19 but also by the Crohn's disease which he deals with on a daily basis.

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Cox deals with 'tricky' conditions

Cox goes again in Saturday's team sprint alongside Van Gass and Jody Cundy before switching sports and aiming to retain her T38 400m title on the athletics track next Saturday.

After having a stroke in 2014, she was then diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had to rebuild her sporting career.

After her Rio heroics, where she became the first Briton to win two golds in different sports at the same Paralympic Games in 28 years, she has had to deal with a number of injuries and has had issues with what she referred to as "disordered eating".

The Tokyo heat has also presented her with a big challenge.

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