Great Britain’s five-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft has experienced a lot during her career but still could not anticipate what Sunday’s morning session reserved for her at the Dubai 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.
Hurricane Hannah smashed the women’s 100m T34 world record (16.77) to clinch her 11th World Championships gold medal.
The British wheelchair racer was even more surprised with her time.
The gold has given confidence to Hannah about the future, as she now is hoping for more surprises next year at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Great Britain’s captain, Kare Adenegan, secured silver (17.49) and Alexa Kalko from USA got bronze with 18.83.
Sunday’s first world record came in the men’s shot put F12 with Ukraine’s Roman Danuliuk (16.69). Spain’s Kim Gonzalez Lopez got silver (15.69) and Elbek Sultonov from Uzbekistan, the bronze (15.39).
USED TO GOLD
Barbara Niewiedzial’s first appearance in a Worlds was in Birmingham 1998. More than 20 years later and she still is the one to beat in the women’s 1500m T20.
The Polish runner took her sixth world title (4:36.10) ahead of Ukraine’s Liudmyla Danylia (4:40.86) and IIona Biacsi of Hungary (4:43.16).
“I am used to being the world champion of the 1500m and I can’t imagine not being in the top of my discipline,” Niewiedzial said with a big smile in her face.
USA’s Lex Gillette won his fourth world title in a row in the men’s long jump T11 (6.45) with China taking silver and bronze through Xingyu Chen (6.43) and Dongdong Di (6.33), respectively.
China extended their lead in the medals table to eight golds with two victories on Sunday morning. Lijuan Zou won the women’s javelin throw F34 (19.33) and Juan Yao the women’s discus throw F64 (38.78).
Uzbekistan secured the second gold medal in Dubai with Bobirjon Omonov in the men’s shot put F41 (14.03).
The rainy morning session also saw Germany’s Johannes Floors break the men’s 100m T62 world record in the heats (10.54).
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