Kadeena Cox MBE OBE is a parasport athlete competing in T38 para-athletics sprint events and C4 para-cycling and British television presenter. She 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.
On 18 May 2014, Cox entered the Loughborough International: two days later she was rushed to hospital after showing odd symptoms and was diagnosed as having a stroke. After two months of physiotherapy she recovered back to normal health and began training again. Then on 15 September 2014 she experienced burning sensations in her right arm, which over the following few days worsened to numbness in her arm and right leg and she was again taken to hospital with suspicions of a stroke. After extensive tests she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in both athletics and cycling, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 100m T38 sprint, before winning a gold medal in the Women's C4-5 cycling time trial, and another gold in the T38 400m sprint, becoming the first British Paralympian to win golds in multiple sports at the same Games since Isabel Barr at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
In 2021 she appeared as a contestant on ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. In September 2021 Cox was the winner of the sixteenth series of BBC's Celebrity MasterChef.
Cox was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to athletics and cycling.
In March 2017, Cox was awarded the Sporting Equals Sportswoman of the Year at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSAs) held at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
On 5 June 2022 Cox, riding a cycle alongside Sir Chris Hoy, headed "The Time of Our Lives" section of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
