Fleur Jong won her third gold medal of the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships as she led the Netherlands to victory in the universal 4x100m relay final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Competing alongside Zara Temmink, Stijn van Bergen and Lito Anker, the 100m and long jump T64 champion made it a clean sweep of gold medals at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with her 10th global title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the universal relay, each team has two men and two women, who can compete in any of the four legs. The first 100m is run by an athlete with a visual impairment, followed by an amputee athlete and a coordination athlete before a wheelchair athlete takes the anchor leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Netherlands finished with two men \u2013 van Bergen and Anker \u2013 and were well placed in second behind Australia after Jong\u2019s leg. At the final handover, Netherlands were in the lead ahead of Indonesia, who also finished with two men. Anker managed to keep the first place across the finish line to secure the gold medal in 47.73, beating Indonesia by eight hundredths of a second as Australia, with 14-year-old Lexie Brown in the team, won bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great Britain\u2019s Hannah Cockroft won the women\u2019s 800m T34 final in a dominant fashion, setting a new championship record of 1:49.88. The British Para athletics superstar led the race from start to finish, with a large gap back to her opponents, bagging her third gold medal at New Delhi by a margin of more than 14 seconds. Her teammate Kare Adenegan made it a British one-two as Lan Hanyu of China claimed bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnything under 1:50.00 is a good time, I\u2019m super happy with the result, super happy with the gap and happy that it is over (after so many events),\u201d said Cockroft, who has dominated the T34 events since winning her two first world titles 14 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n