GB's Cockroft wins 800m for ninth Paralympic gold

Great Britain's Hannah Cockroft won her ninth career Paralympic gold medal as she led home a British one-two in the T34 800m final at Paris 2024.

A dominant Cockroft finished ahead of team-mate Kare Adenegan, just as she did in Sunday's 100m final, to win her second title in Paris.

Cockroft has won gold in the 100m and 800m at every Paralympics since London 2012, and took the 400m title at Rio 2016.

She finished in a time of one minute 55.44 seconds, almost eight seconds ahead of silver-medallist Adenegan, with the USA's Eva Houston denying a British clean sweep of the podium by outsprinting Fabienne Andre for bronze.