Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold struck gold once again with a record-breaking throw in the F46 javelin event at this year’s World Para Athletics Championships.
Arnold, 23, enjoyed a fine afternoon of throwing at the Olympic Park Stadium in London on Saturday July 15, and saw a massive 43.02 metre throw break her own world-record set at the Rio Paralympics last summer by a centimetre.
The emphatic length proved enough to secure the Ystrad Mynach-based athlete a third successive world title, after golds in Lyon and Doha in 2013 and 2015 respectively.
Arnold’s success also signifies a banishing of demons, after winning in the same stadium where nerves got the better of her in the London Olympic 2012 final.
She said: “I just feel amazing. Twenty-twelve wasn’t what I wanted, but I wanted to go out there and destroy the girls and that’s what I did.”