Cox eases to another 400m gold

GREAT BRITAIN’S Kadeena Cox won gold in the women’s T38 400metres at the World Para Athletics Championships in London last night.

It means the 26-year-old now has three gold medals, in two different sports, having won in the para-cycling in 2015 and the 400m T38 in Rio last year, the event she won again last night in 1min 2.87secs.

She will look to add another title today at the London Stadium when she races in the T38 100m against team-mate Sophie Hahn, having already won bronze in the T38 200m.

Great Britain’s Paul Blake, however, failed to repeat his Rio success in the T36 400m, finishing fourth.

Double Paralympic sprinting champion Liam Malone, meanwhile, believes technology will help him run faster than Usain Bolt within the next three years. Jamaican sprinter Bolt set the 100m world record of 9.58 seconds in 2009 but Malone, from New Zealand, believes technological improvements to the blades used by amputee runners will slice times.

“I’m aiming for 9.4 seconds,” said Malone. “In the next three years I’ll run faster than Usain Bolt over 100m. It won’t be done in the Paralympics and I’ve no intention of ever racing Usain Bolt or able-bodied people, it’s about racing against their time outside of the rules and regulations that limit technology. That’s what I’m focused on at the moment.”

Bolt won his penultimate 100m race before retiring from the sport with a time of 9.95secs in Monaco last night.