Olivia Breen wins relay gold as GB end IPC World Championships in Doha on a high
Saturday 31 October 2015 21:09, UK
Olivia Breen secured relay gold as Britain's athletes wrapped up the IPC World Championships in Doha in glorious style.
It wrapped up a stunning week's work for the British team as they made it a haul of 13 victories in Qatar which bodes well with the Rio Olympics only nine months away.
The women's T35-38 4x100m relay team smashed the world record in 52.22 seconds, Hannah Cockroft claimed her third victory of the championships in the T34 400m and Hollie Arnold retained her F46 javelin title.
Kare Adenagan took bronze behind Cockroft to take the GB medal haul to 32, more than Lyon two years ago and higher than the stated target.
Sky Academy Sports Scholar Breen won her first medal of the event in Qatar having come close in the 100m, long jump and 200m.
Alongside Maria Lyle, Georgie Hermitage and Sophie Hahn, the 19-year-old Welsh star was part of the record-breakers relay sprinters as they overcame the Russians by just under a second.
Paralympic head coach Paula Dunn said: "We came out to Doha with the aim of winning 26-30 medals, 10-12 of those being gold and we hit that objective before we even started the final session.
"We can't afford to take this for granted going into a Paralympic year, but it's a really good indication of the strength and depth we have across the board.
"We've got a huge two years ahead with both Rio and a home championships in London on the horizon and I am confident that we can replicate and even surpass the performances we've seen over the last 10 days of action."
China topped the final medals table in Doha with 41 golds, 26 silver and 18 bronze. Russia, who topped the table two years ago, were runners-up with 24 gold, 21 silver and 24 bronze. The USA were third and Great Britain were fourth.
