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Tokyo Paralympics: Kadeena Cox units new world report to win gold

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

Venue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Observe on Radio 5 Dwell and on the BBC Sport web site

Britain’s Kadeena Cox retained her C4-5 500m time trial Paralympic title with a shocking world-record journey in Tokyo.

The 30-year-old, who received biking and athletics gold on the Rio Video games, knew she needed to beat the time of 35.830 seconds set by Canadian world champion Kate O’Brien to win Britain’s seventh gold of the Video games

And she or he smashed that with a superb 34.812secs – beating the previous report by 0.411secs.

Earlier, Britain’s Jaco van Gass claimed his second medal of the Video games with bronze within the C1-3 1000m time trial.

The pursuit gold medallist set a brand new world report in his C3 class, but it surely wasn’t sufficient for victory.

There have been additionally bronzes on day three for sprinter Maria Lyle within the opening session of the athletics competitors and for powerlifting debutant Olivia Broome.

Lyle completed third within the T35 100m as China’s Xia Zhou set a brand new world report whereas Broome had a finest elevate of 107kg within the -50kg occasion.