By James Toney in Paris

Brighton's Fabienne Andre has vowed to keep chasing team-mate Hannah Cockroft as she finished in her slipstream at the Paralympics.

They don't nickname Britain's greatest ever wheelchair racer ‘Hurricane’ without good reason, her win in the T38 100m was her eighth medal in four Games.

It's hard to think of a track and field event - Olympic or Paralympic - as dominated by one individual as the T38 100m, Cockroft now a four-time champion in the blue-riband sprint.

She duly flashed across the line a good five metres ahead of her nearest rival Kate Adenegan, while Andre came fifth in 18.86 seconds.

"I would have loved to have medalled and gone a little bit faster, but I gave it all I had," said Andre, who is one of over 1,000 elite athletes on UK Sport’s National Lottery-funded World Class Programme, allowing them to train full time, have access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering medical support – which has been vital on their pathway to the Paris 2024 Games.

"I’m really grateful for all the support I had around me. My family, my coaches and everyone else who makes this possible, including the National Lottery.

"I need to go back and have a look at the race, see what I did, what went well. I’ve recently changed coaches and recently made quite a few changes so I’m really excited to go back and put in the work and see what more improvements we can make.

"I can’t be too disappointed, I’ve PB’d in every distance this year and delivering on the world stage in front of the crowd for the first time, it's quite different from Tokyo when the stadium was empty.

"I’m not sure I’ve experienced anything like it. A lot of athletes are saying its close to 2012. I don’t have anything to compare it to but it's certainly very special."

Cockroft insists there is no complacency despite her dominant record.

“I’m making my life well hard doing this," she said.

"You know you are the person people are watching but that’s what keeps you going, you don’t want to let them down and I know I have more in me too.

"My time wasn’t amazing but it doesn’t matter. This was the scary one. It means so much to hold on for a fourth Paralympics, not a lot of people do that.

"I’m 32 now, which everyone keeps telling me is old. I’d love to get another Games in and I can definitely get quicker. I’m going to break 16 seconds before I’m done.

“The standard is increasing massively, there are so many new girls on the line and they are all coming for me."

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