Kadeena Cox

Kadeena Cox
MBE

Cox at the 2016 Paralympics
Personal information
Nationality	United Kingdom
Born	(1991-03-10) 10 March 1991 (age 26)
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Athletics, cycling
Event(s)	T38 sprint, C4 para-cycling
Club	Sale Harriers
Coached by	Paula Dunn (national) Brian Scobie (personal)
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	1st – 100 m (T37) 1st - 400m WR (T38)
Personal best(s)	100m sprint: 12.98s 200m sprint: 27.40s 400m sprint: 1:00.71
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Women's Paralympic athletics Summer Paralympics 2016 Rio 400 m – T38 2016 Rio 4 × 100 m – T35-38 2016 Rio 100 m – T38 IPC World Championships 2015 Doha 100 m – T37 2015 Doha 4 × 100 m – T35-38 IPC European Championships 2016 Grosseto 200 m – T38 Women's para-cycling Summer Paralympics 2016 Rio C4-5 time trial UCI Track World Championships 2016 Montichiari 500 m time trial – C4

Kadeena Cox, MBE (born 10 March 1991) is a British parasport athlete competing in T38 sprints and C4 para-cycling events. She was part of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, in which she won world titles in the T37 100m and C4 500m time trial respectively.

Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in both athletics and cycling, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 100m T38 sprint, before winning a gold medal in the Women's C4-5 cycling time trial, and another gold in the T38 400m sprint, becoming the first British Paralympian to win golds in multiple sports at the same Games since Isabel Barr in 1984 Summer Paralympics.

Cox was born in Leeds, England in 1991 to Jamaican immigrants. Her first school was Bracken Edge Primary in Chapeltown, Leeds. She attended Wetherby High School before matriculating to Manchester Metropolitan University where she studies physiotherapy.

She appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in December 2016 with specialist subject Arsenal F.C., and won the second Celebrity Robot Wars 2016 episode later that month with her collaboration with Ellis Ware (who drove Pulsar in the preceding regular series), with a robot called Kadeena Machina, a robot with a vertical disc, which won all four of its fights, the only robot to do so. She later partook on The Jump, but had her funding suspended whilst on the show due to the amount of injuries contestants suffer on it.