2024 Paralympics round-up: "It means so much" - Halifax's Hannah Cockroft storms to another gold medal
Halifax’s Hannah Cockroft has won her fourth consecutive T34 100m Paralympics title.
It was Cockroft’s eighth gold medal at the Paralympics, winning in a time of 16.80 seconds in Paris, ahead of team-mate Kare Adenegan, who finished in 17.99 seconds.
Speaking to the Paralympics GB website, Hannah said: “I honestly didn’t know if I’d win it today. This was the scary one.
“It means so much to hold on for a fourth Paralympics, not a lot of people do that.
“My wheels were buzzing, I was trying to find my grip. The last time I felt like that was London 2012 and I couldn’t be upset, look at those stands, they are full, which is what we want.”
Cockroft is now only three gold medals behind Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's tally of eleven, and can narrow the gap even further in Saturday's T34 800m final, where she is also defending champion.
Meanwhile, Todmorden’s Megan Shackleton made a winning start to her Paralympic singles campaign with a 3-0 win against Ghaliah Alanazi from Saudi Arabia and will now play the number one seed and former World and Paralympic champion Borislava Peric-Rankovic in the quarterfinal on Wednesday.