British wheelchair racer wins T34 400m gold forward of team-mates Karé Adenegan and Fabienne André as Thomas Younger wins 100m bronze.
Hannah Cockroft led a British one-two-three within the ladies’s T34 400m on the World Para Athletics Championships 2025 in New Delhi.
Karé Adenegan claimed silver with Fabienne André in third, whereas Thomas Younger received bronze within the males’s T38 100m.
Cockroft led from gun to tape as she delivered a championship document time of 55.62 to assert a seventeenth gold medal and lengthen her unbeaten run at worlds.
“For me to get by means of it’s the first huge tick – so I’m actually completely satisfied,” Cockroft stated. “It’s given me a taster to see the place different ladies are at, how they had been pushing and the way it all labored. The occasions are solely going to get tougher from right here – it was nice to get a run out and check myself. I’m a bit extra assured heading into Wednesday. It provides me extra preparation for the 100m and to ensure I’m able to go.”
Adenegan claimed silver in a season’s finest time of 62.70, with André ending third in 64.31.
Adenegan stated: “I’m proud of it – the primary factor on the finish of the season is to get a superb efficiency in a championships. I’m actually proud of that – there are issues I may have accomplished higher however I’m completely satisfied to have one other medal.”
Earlier within the session, Thomas Younger went into his remaining because the third quickest qualifier and delivered on that billing.
He got here residence robust within the final 30m, securing bronze, ending simply eight hundredths of a second behind American Ryan Medrano in second with an in-form Jaydin Blackwell who took gold.
Younger stated: “If lots of people may have two issues in a championship yr, it might be a PB and a medal. I ticked off these two issues – however I do prefer to win, and each time I don’t, I’m harsh to myself.
“We’ve acquired stuff to work on – Commonwealths subsequent yr, then onto the World Championships after which the Paralympics.”
Within the morning session, Sophie Hahn made it by means of to the ultimate of the ladies’s T38 100m after ending third in her warmth.
Hahn posted a time of 12.82 to qualify routinely however is hoping for extra within the remaining on Monday.
“You’ve acquired to play it protected within the heats – I need to reserve as a lot vitality as attainable for the ultimate, so hopefully I can ship a superb race tomorrow,” she stated.
“I used to be in all probability essentially the most nervous I’ve been for a very long time immediately.”
In the identical warmth, Maddie Down didn’t progress after ending in fifth in 13.36, with Olivia Breen additionally ending fifth in her warmth which meant she didn’t make the ultimate.
