Hannah’s stamina put to test

Hannah Cockroft will discover whether she has the necessary endurance and strength for more IPC World Championships success in Doha on Wednesday.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Oct 2015, 09:25 BST
File photo dated 06/09/12 of Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday November 26, 2013. Having been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours, Cockroft retained both her T34 100 metres and T34 200 metres titles at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon and won the T33/T34 100 metres race at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium with a stadium record time of 17.80 seconds. See PA story SPORT Personality Shortlist. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire.File photo dated 06/09/12 of Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday November 26, 2013. Having been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours, Cockroft retained both her T34 100 metres and T34 200 metres titles at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon and won the T33/T34 100 metres race at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium with a stadium record time of 17.80 seconds. See PA story SPORT Personality Shortlist. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire.
File photo dated 06/09/12 of Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday November 26, 2013. Having been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours, Cockroft retained both her T34 100 metres and T34 200 metres titles at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon and won the T33/T34 100 metres race at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium with a stadium record time of 17.80 seconds. See PA story SPORT Personality Shortlist. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire.

Halifax’s “Hurricane Hannah” steps up to the 800 metres, having swept away the opposition at shorter distances.

And she has described the longer test as “worrying” and “scary” as she builds towards next year’s Rio Paralympics.

At least Hannah, 23, is in good form.

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She was one of four Great Britain gold medal winners on the opening day of the championships.

The European, world and Paralympic champion had come to Doha after losing to 14-year-old rival Kare Adenagen in London last month.

However, she claimed her third successive T34 100m world title in a time of 17.73 seconds - 0.82 ahead of American Alexa Halko with Adenagen fourth.

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