Cox peerless in retaining women’s C4-5 500m time trial titleParalympicsGB athlete will switch to athletics next weekGreat Britain’s Kadeena Cox retained her Paralympic women’s C4-5 500m time trial title at the Izu Velodrome, a world-record-breaking final run kicking off the first half of what Cox hopes will be another Olympic multisport double.
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Cox was the last to ride in Friday’s final, having qualified fastest, but showed no sign of pressure with a blistering time of 34.433sec to take gold by over a second, ParalympicsGB’s ninth medal in three days of track cycling in
Japan. Canada’s Kate O’Brien took silver, with Caroline Groot of the Netherlands winning bronze.