Paris 2024 Paralympics: Daphne Schrager wins first GB medal of 2024 Paralympics after Kadeena Cox crashes out

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Daphne Schrager wins first GB medal of 2024 Paralympics after Kadeena Cox crashes out

Daphne Schrager won Great Britain’s first medal of the 2024 Paralympics with silver in the women’s C1-3 3000m individual pursuit, after team-mate Kadeena Cox earlier crashed out of her final.

Cox did not finish in the final of the women’s C4-5 500m time trial, as the British athlete missed out on the first gold medal of the Games.

Four-time Paralympic champion Cox had qualified second fastest for the final in Paris, but endured an unsteady start in the medal race before hitting the velodrome track on the first corner.

Schrager, world champion in her discipline, then hoped to pick up GB’s first gold but had to settle for silver after being dominated by Xiaomei Wang of China in the final.

Wang finished nearly 10 seconds ahead of Schrager and almost lapped her, in the process of setting a new world record.

Schrager, 23, is world champion at C2 level but on her Paralympic debut could not find a way to gold in the combined category competed at these Games.

Bronze went to Switzerland’s Flurina Rigling.

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