Emotion gets the better of Leeds’s own Kadeena Cox after Paralymic gold

Kadeena Cox last night became the first British athlete this century to win medals in two sports at one Paralympic Games.

Four years on, she was atop the podium in Rio alongside bone cancer survivor Laurence Whiteley, after they stormed to glory in the trunk and arms mixed double sculls.

Rachel Morris, who made the transition from cycling to rowing after London 2012, was Britain’s first medal victor of day four.

Port Elizabeth’s Golden Grey boy, Kevin Paul, secured South Africa its first gold medal in the Men’s 100m breaststroke, SB9 classification.

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.

“Well we’ve never had such prolific world records from both C4s and C5s”.

For Morris, who won road time-trial gold in 2008 and road race bronze at London 2012, six weeks after being hit by a vehicle in training, it was an unexpected success. He would hold on for the win and take the gold medal easily.

We’ve been working for a year-and-a-half to get to this point day in day out.

He joined the Battleback programme – a partnership between the British Paralympic Association and the Ministry of Defence – and now is a Paralympic champion. I threw a PB today so it is going to come.

“After all that, to be Paralympic gold medallist I’d absolutely do that again in a heartbeat”. I was taking it all in, seeing the pool that I raced in… it was just an fantastic feeling knowing I had achieved my goal and my dream in that pool.

“I keep looking around to check that I actually won, it’s so weird”. Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott took bronze.

Turnham added: “It’s incredible.

I believe I can beat him but we’ll see”.

Tandem duo Neil Fachie and Peter Mitchell won silver in the men’s B 1,000m time trial.

“It was great to start on the first day with a medal and even better to start with a gold medal”, said Fleiser, and former wheelchair basketball Paralympian.

Steadman missed a buoy on the swim and was alerted by the support canoes. I was mentally tired and I wasn’t sure I was going to do it. “But I have the determination and will put in the hard work to get there”. I still had a great race and I’m really pleased with my effort. The men’s 49kg class had nine athletes competing for medals, with each one allowed three lifts. “I made the finals in London but didn’t make the medals, so this is the icing on the cake, finally getting my hands on a medal after all that time”.