Team England's Hannah Cockroft enjoyed a gold rush typical of her glittering career at Paris 2024.

The dominant force of T34 since 2010, Cockcroft powered to her fourth consecutive 100m title before adding a third consecutive 400m crown to her collection, taking her all-time Paralympic gold tally to a staggering nine.

She now sits just two golds off Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's eleven, GB’s Paralympic record in wheelchair racing - something that will hardly faze Cockroft given her vast record-breaking exploits.

She was just a teenager when she set her first world record in May 2010, and later in the same month, with the pressure of sitting her A-level exams also on her mind, Cockroft went on to set another seven world records in the space of eight days.

Her career may have only been in its embryonic stages, but she had already stamped her mark as the one to catch - a status she would keep for the rest of her career, with a glittering four Paralympic Games now under her belt.


Having conquered the Paralympic stage to an emphatic degree, Cockroft turned to represent Team England for the first time at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022.

She made the Alexander Stadium her own in characteristic fashion, bringing home gold in the T34 100m to complete the set of gold medals at every major athletics championships.

And with fellow Team England athletes Kare Adenegan and Fabienne Andre completing the clean sweep on home soil, it was a moment to be forever remembered in Cockroft's eyes.

She said: “I can’t believe that I’ve gone out and I’ve done it.

“To do a sub-17 on that track, it does show the power of a crowd. They roared all three of us English girls’ home. They made us incredibly proud to represent our country.

“To sit all three of us up there, it shows that we're doing something right. We’re still pushing para sport. We’re still making the most of it and we’re still getting great girls coming through. I know I’m old. I’ve been around for ten years now. But it just shows that we’re not getting any slower and the event’s progressing all the time.

“Hopefully there were some kids sat at home, I know it’s late, and they’re going to come and challenge us in four years’ time and they’re going to be the new champions.”

Two years later and Cockroft was back on the Paralympic track at Paris 2024.

And with the success of Birmingham 2022 on her back, the 'Halifax Hurricane' made sure to put on a show in front of a packed-out Stade de France, adding two more Paralympic titles to her overwhelming collection.


However, with Paris acting as her first ever Games without breaking a world record, Cockroft is hellbent on coming back for LA and getting even quicker.

“I’d love to get another Games in and I can definitely get quicker,” she said after taking home the title in the 100m. “I’m 32 now, which everyone keeps telling me is old.

“Something hasn’t clicked this year, it has been a really frustrating season. I’m going to break 16 seconds before I’m done.

“I’m making my life well hard doing this. You know you are the one people are watching but that’s what keeps you going, you don’t want to let people down and I know I have more in me.”

With nine Paralympic golds, 16 world titles and five current world records to her name, Cockroft still feels like she is yet to reach the peak of her powers.

She still has records to break and could well be primed for another special Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2026.