Hannah Cockroft And Kadeena Cox Take Rio Paralympic Gold

Great Britain’s rowers won three gold medals from four finals in a dominant performance on day four of the Paralympic Games in Rio.

The 37-year-old from Guildford won a road cycling time-trial gold in Beijing eight years ago.

Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley triumphed in the double sculls event and the mixed coxed four team were victorious, too, taking Britain’s tally to 18 gold medals.

Head lost 3-0 to Chinese world champion Li Qian and she will now turn her attention to the women’s team event.

She represented England in wheelchair athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow before switching to rowing.

Amazing! The 26-year-old army sergeant swimmer, who was wounded in Iraq and made famous for her flirtation with Prince Harry, won gold in the 100m breaststroke event at the Paralympic games on September 10. “I was just hoping for the best and putting everything I had into it”.

“It was always going to be a big challenge, but we’re all about big challenges”, Norfolk said.

Song Maodang broke the world record to clinch gold in the men’s 100m butterfly S8 at the Rio Paralympics.

The US Army sergeant captured the hearts of millions by returning her 2016 Invictus Games gold medal to the British hospital that saved her life.

“There’s no strategy, I just did daily training very well and it’s just basic skill coming through”, he said.

Yang Chao paid tribute to the National Paralympic Committee of China after winning gold in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1.

Para-triathlon i sone of the sports making their debut in Rio and Britain have a handful of medal hopefuls including Andy Lewis and Ryan Taylor. She said: “I have limb injuries”.

“Looking back, ignorance was bliss”. In the water it is quite painful for me swimming.

She’s the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics, then it was Isabel Barr in shooting and athletics.

She was third in the road race on her hand bike at London 2012, six weeks after being hit by a vehicle in training. “It just goes to show if you have stuff drilled into you every day by the coaches and you do it you can win”.

“To get a gold in a second sport and after a pretty tough run-in has been unbelievable”. He missed out in London, so I think he had a point to prove.

“It is insane to do the two sports but I have showed that whatever the setbacks in life you can do it”. That’s what medals are about. “But it’s also about giving people a way of believing that they can achieve something”.

And his medal goes a long way to making amends for London, when he arrived at Eton Dorney with a five-year unbeaten record, only to be edged into fourth.

“The pressure was just sky high coming into this”, she said.

Cockcroft successfully defended her Paralympic title in the T34 100m in the Olympic Stadium. But Rio as a sporting achievement is so much greater.