{"id":820622,"date":"2026-11-01T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820622\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:54:09","slug":"para-cycling-world-championships-kadeena-cox-wins-second-gold-and-adds-another-world-record-in-womens-c4-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820622\/","title":{"rendered":"Para-cycling World Championships: Kadeena Cox wins second gold and adds another world record in women’s C4 sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain’s Kadeena Cox won her second gold medal at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands, while also breaking another world record in qualifying. <\/p>\n

In the first round of the C4 sprint, Cox crossed the line in a record time of 11.409 seconds. <\/p>\n

The 35-year-old then eased through the semis before edging past Australia’s Tara Neyland on the line in a close final to win her first individual sprint world title. <\/p>\n

On Friday, five-time Paralympic gold medallist Cox also won the C4 1km gold with another world record.<\/a><\/p>\n

There were further golds for GB in both the men’s and women’s tandem sprints. <\/p>\n

In the men’s race, James Ball and Aaron Pope also won their second golds of the championships, adding to their 1km time-trial victory, while Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl comfortably won the women’s event to take their sixth world title. <\/p>\n

Lizzi Jordan and Anna Whitworth-Hay claimed bronze after beating Germany in the third-place decider. <\/p>\n

There were also silver medals for Elisabeth Simpson in the women’s C2 sprint, Archie Atkinson in the men’s C4 scratch and for Fin Graham in the men’s C3 elimination race.<\/p>\n

The medals take GB’s tally at the championships to six golds, eight silvers and five bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Kadeena Cox won her second gold medal at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}