Rio 2016 Paralympics: Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft win gold

Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft both won their second golds of the Rio Paralympics, as GB surpassed their London 2012 total on day seven. ParalympicsGB’s nine golds on Wednesday took their tally to 43, improving on their 34 four years ago.

In a prolific evening session, they won 10 medals in the space of an hour in swimming and athletics. Cockroft won the T34 400m in a world-record time while Storey was victorious earlier in the C5 cycling time trial.

She was one of three time-trial gold medallists for Britain, along with Karen Darke and Steve Bate. Kadeena Cox set a world record of one minute 0.71 seconds to win the T38 400m in athletics, and Sophie Wells was victorious in the Grade IV dressage individual championship.(BBC,2016)