Kadeena Cox was born on 10 March 1991 and is a parasport athlete competing in T38 para-athletics sprint events and C4 para-cycling and British television presenter.
24 Facts About Kadeena Cox
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Kadeena Cox 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.
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In September 2021 Cox was the winner of the sixteenth series of BBC's Celebrity MasterChef.
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Kadeena Cox was born on 10 March 1991 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England to Jamaican migrants.
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Kadeena Cox attended Wetherby High School before going to Manchester Metropolitan University where she studied physiotherapy.
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Kadeena Cox began sprinting competitively at the age of 15 after her hockey coach suggested she try the sport.
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In 2012 Kadeena Cox was entering national events and recorded a new personal best in the 200m in the BUCS Championships held at the Olympic Park, a result which saw her take bronze.
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Kadeena Cox subsequently set a personal best of 11.93s for the 100m the same year.
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On 18 May 2014, Kadeena Cox entered the Loughborough International: two days later she was rushed to hospital after showing odd symptoms and was diagnosed as having a stroke.
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Intent on making the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Kadeena Cox was classified as both a T37 track and field athlete, to continuing her sprinting career, and a C2 track cyclist.
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In June 2016, after securing a place at the 2016 Summer Paralympics as a T37 athlete, Kadeena Cox was reclassified as a T38 category athlete, a classification for less-disabled athletes.
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Kadeena Cox set a new world record of 1:00.71 to take the gold medal in the T38 400m.
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Kadeena Cox was selected as the flag-bearer for the British team at the closing ceremony.
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Kadeena Cox finished 4th with a time of 1:01.16, her season best.
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In March 2016, Kadeena Cox represented Great Britain at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari.
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Kadeena Cox won gold in the 500m time trial in the 2016 Paralympics: her time of 34.598 seconds set a new world record.
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At the delayed Tokyo Paralympics, Kadeena Cox defended her time trial title, again winning gold in a world record time of 34.812 seconds.
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Kadeena Cox was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to athletics and cycling.
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In March 2017, Kadeena Cox was awarded the Sporting Equals Sportswoman of the Year at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards held at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
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On 5 June 2022 Kadeena Cox, riding a cycle alongside Sir Chris Hoy, headed "The Time of Our Lives" section of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
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Kadeena Cox appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in December 2016, scoring just 3 points with her specialist subject Arsenal FC, and no points at all in the general knowledge round.
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Kadeena Cox won the second Celebrity Robot Wars 2016 episode later that month with her collaboration with Ellis Ware, 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.
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In September 2021, Kadeena Cox won the sixteenth series of BBC's Celebrity MasterChef, beating Joe Swash and Megan McKenna.
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In November 2021, Kadeena Cox was announced as a contestant on the twenty-first series of I'm a Celebrity.