Nine- time Paralympic gold medal champion Hannah Cockroft claims she is “far from done” complying with even more success at the Paris 2024 Games.
Cockroft completed in front of team-mate Kare Adenegan in the T34 800 metres last to assert her 2nd gold title in Paris, complying with earlier success in the T34 100m, taking her total profession tally to 9.
Victory for the 32-year-old methods she has actually completed in addition to the platform in the 100m and 800m at every Paralympics considering that London 2012.
Even though the Paralympics has actually simply completed, she is currently looking at up Los Angeles.
Speaking at the National Lottery Paralympics homecoming in Birmingham, she informed the information company: “The feeling of gold medals will never ever get old.
“Nine of these, if you’d have told me 20 years ago that this is what I would have achieved, I’d have never believed, but I am far from done yet.
“I definitely want to try and get double figures. I feel I have so much to learn, I’ve got so many things I need to improve on so there’s definitely more to give.”
Cockroft returned before the chasing pack to assist Team GB to a total amount of 20 medals on the last Saturday of the Games.
She did it in emphatic style, taking the victory in one min and 55.44 secs, 8 secs before Adenegan in 2nd area for a British one-two.
Cockroft was thrilled with Paralympics GB’s initiatives in Paris.
She included: “It makes me so proud to be a member of Team GB, we are the best team and a power to be dealt with.
“We went there and we showed everyone how good we are, we put down incredible performances. It’s so empowering when you go into your race and hear the celebrations from team-mates around you, it pushes you on, like ‘I want that feeling’.
“Paris was absolutely incredible and everything I hoped it would be and more.
“I think there was so much worry going into the Games whether we would sell tickets or whether people would come and watch us, but to have that was amazing and made the gold medals feel even more special.
“Especially that last night, the Saturday night, getting in the stadium in front of 70,000 people – a full stadium – it’s what you dream about when you’re a little girl.”
Cockroft will certainly finish her parties when she obtains wed to other Team GB Paralympian Nathan Maguire.
She claimed: “We get married in three weeks so that’s kind of our distraction right now, maybe while we are celebrating.
“That’ll be a great celebration too. This year has been a lot; world championships, Paralympics and a wedding.
“If I could give my younger self one bit of advice, it would be don’t put a wedding on a Paralympic year.
“It is a rush around right now ticking the boxes but I think we are on top of it and it’ll be all worth it.”
