Kadeena Cox

Kadeena Cox is a British parasport athlete who competes in T38 para-athletics sprint events and C4 para-cycling, and who also works as a television presenter. Born in Leeds to Jamaican parents, she studied physiotherapy at Manchester Metropolitan University after sprinting competitively as a non-disabled athlete from the age of fifteen. She won world titles in the T37 100 metres and the C4 500 metres time trial, and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics she took bronze in the T38 100 metres, then gold in the C4-5 cycling time trial and gold in the T38 400 metres, the first British Paralympian to win golds in two sports at one Games since Isabel Barr in 1984.