Back on top of the world, with a record to prove it: Kadeena Cox strikes gold again

Great Britain's Kadeena Cox, 35, has done it the hard way — again. At the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, the five-time Paralympic champion set a new world record of 1 minute 9.545 seconds to win C4 1km gold: her seventh world title, and her first since 2024. She celebrated draped in a British flag after a nervous wait while rival Tara Neyland rode. Britain also took men's tandem gold through James Ball and Aaron Pope in 59.563 seconds, on a day when the record books needed rewriting more than once.