World Para Athletics Championships: Sammi Kinghorn secures T53 100m world gold

Kinghorn made her World Championship debut successful London successful 2017

British wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn hailed the "incredible feeling" of claiming golden aft her T53 100m triumph astatine the Para Athletics World Championships.

"This is what I americium present for," she told BBC Sport arsenic she won GB's sixth golden astatine the lawsuit successful Paris.

"I privation to beryllium satellite champion and to bash it contiguous is an unthinkable feeling."

Kinghorn, who was near paralysed aft an mishap connected the household workplace successful 2010, won treble golden successful the 100m and 200m astatine the 2017 World Championships successful London and took bronze implicit 100m astatine some the 2019 Worlds successful Dubai and the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics.

The Great Britain co-captain made a superb commencement successful Friday's last and looked strong, holding disconnected the situation of Swiss prima Catherine Debrunner (16.06), who was chasing her 4th golden medal astatine these championships, and China's Fang Gao (16.23).

"I knew I was successful bully shape," Kinghorn added. "I've been grooming good and pushing well, but I didn't cognize I could go satellite champion.

"I astir didn't deliberation I had it successful me. I conscionable had to absorption connected my ain contention and each I was reasoning was 'go fast'. Even erstwhile we crossed the enactment I didn't cognize I had it, but to bushed Catherine to the enactment was amazing.

"I cognize I americium accelerated retired of the blocks - I conscionable request to enactment successful my ain head. That is the happening I person learned. Over the years I person go much assured successful my ain quality and I tried to enactment focused and not get distracted."

Kinghorn volition question different medal connected Saturday erstwhile she goes successful the T53 400m final.

Earlier, Sophie Hahn won her 2nd bronze medal of the championships, finishing 3rd successful the T38 200m successful 26.35 seconds.

As successful the 100m, Hahn again finished down Hungary's Luka Ekler and Colombia's Darian Jimenez, who reversed positions from the shorter sprint arsenic Ekler took golden and Jimenez settled for silver.

The 26-year-old Hahn, who said connected societal media this week she is warring her toughest intelligence conflict since coming connected the country arsenic a teenager, was contented with her performance.

"The 200m isn't my strongest lawsuit truthful I americium blessed to travel distant with a season's champion and a bronze medal," she told BBC Sport.

"I knew I had to spell retired hard - perpetrate to the start, whip it disconnected the crook and basal gangly - truthful I deliberation I did each of that.

"Going guardant I request to enactment connected my commencement and method but besides enactment connected the extremity of my races to marque definite I americium moving nether unit due to the fact that I americium not utilized to having radical connected my shoulder."

There was heartbreak for Paralympic bronze medallist Hannah Taunton who was edged retired for bronze successful the T20 1500m.

The 32-year-old was incapable to get past Ukraine's Liudmyla Danylina successful the location consecutive - finishing 0.14 seconds down her rival successful 4:33.07.

Elsewhere, determination was a sixth agelong leap satellite rubric for German 'Blade Jumper' Markus Rehm who acceptable a title grounds arsenic helium maintained his dominance successful his T64 event.

The 34-year-old, who mislaid his close limb beneath the genu successful a wakeboarding mishap arsenic a teenager, soared to 8.49m successful the 5th circular - a people that would person won golden astatine each Olympics since Athens successful 2004 - and past matched it again successful the last round.

It was abbreviated of the 8.72m satellite grounds helium acceptable successful Germany past period but inactive good wide of his nearest challenger Derek Loccident of the United States whose champion effort was 7.39m.