athlete didi bronze stood with a Great Britain flag around her shoulders

Great Britain's Ndidikama Okoh celebrates winning bronze after the Women's 100m T63. Image provided by PA/Alamy.

Okoh wins dramatic bronze on penultimate night of the Paralympics

Loughborough athlete Didi Okoh won an incredible bronze medal in the Women’s 100m T63 at the Paralympic Games.

The university-based sprinter recorded a personal best of 14.59 seconds to finish third following a late collision in lanes six and seven as Ambra Sabatini fell and took out compatriot Monica Contrafatto.

It was a chaotic ending as Okoh – appearing in her first international championship – powered through to make the podium just one-hundredth of a second ahead of fourth-placed Contrafatto.

Okoh, who only recently moved to Loughborough to train under experienced sprints coach Joe McDonnell, concluded ParalympicsGB's Paris 2024 athletics campaign in some style.

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