COVENTRY’S Kare Adenegan won her second Paralympic silver medal for Great Britain at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games competing in the T34 800m.
Adenegan claimed her seventh Paralympic medal and second in Paris after once again finishing behind GB teammate Hannah Cockroft as part of a British one-two.
The 23-year-old won silver in a time of 2 minutes 3.12 seconds behind Cockroft (1:55.44) and ahead of America’s Eva Houston (2:05.94) who took bronze.
Adenegan told Channel 4: “I’m feeling so grateful and so blessed.
“That was a really hard race, I was literally praying ‘please, please, anything, I need extra’.
“I got through it, another silver medal, I’m so happy.
“I was trying to stay so focused, I’ve been visualising the race and practicing in my head what I needed to do.
“I executed it, it seemed like it was a slower race for us all but I’m happy with another medal.
“The atmosphere was incredible, it was so loud, on the start line I couldn’t hear anything, after Tokyo it’s great to know my family and friends are in the crowd as well.”
The Coventry athlete also won silver in the T34 100m earlier in the Games as she again finished behind fellow Brit and nine-time Paralympic gold medallist Cockroft.
