Paralympics 2016: Team GB take home three more gold medals on day three
Kadeena Cox became the first Briton in 28 years to win medals in two sports at the same Paralympics
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Your support makes all the difference.Team GB have continued their success on the third day of the Paralympics in Rio adding three gold medals to their impressive haul.
Kadeena Cox won a record-breaking gold in the women's C4/C5 500 metres time-trial on Saturday, becoming the first Briton in 28 years to win medals in two sports at the same Paralympics.
The 25-year-old from Leeds, who claimed T38 100m bronze on the athletics track on Friday night.
World champion Cox won gold in the velodrome in a world record of 35.716 seconds.
Andy Lewis earlier claimed Britain's 13th gold medal and first of day three with his victory in the PT2 category as the triathlon made its Paralympic debut at Copacabana beach.
While, wheelchair racer Hannah Cockcroft won her third Paralympic gold medal and first of the Rio Games at the Olympic Stadium.
Cockroft, from Halifax, retained her 100m T34 title in a Paralympic record time of 17.42 seconds.
Kare Adenegan, who is 15 and from Coventry, took silver behind her team-mate.
There was another track and field silver, for Toby Gold in the T33 100m.
Cox's win comes little more than two years since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in May 2014.
Cox is scheduled to return to the athletics track in the T36-38 4x100m relay and T38 400m, while she is also entered in cycling's road race on the penultimate day of the Games.
Cox is competing in two of the sports which make up a triathlon, but has admitted she cannot swim.
Additional reporting by Press Association
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