It was the first track world record of the Championships, which got underway on Tuesday (August 19).

Her time of 1min 01.41sec was more than a second faster than the record she set in France seven years ago.

She beat Germany's Irmgard Bensusan into second and T43 world record holder Marlou van Rhijn of The Netherlands into third.

"I feel very good, it was a good day without wind and with the sun," said the 25-year-old.

"There were a lot of tough competitors on the track and it's a beautiful day to me.

"I didn't expect the world record because we were in Championship competition but I knew I could run under the world record but I could not be sure I would."

After soaking up her achievements, Le Fur stepped back into the Swansea University International Sports Village during the afternoon session for the long jump as she chased a second gold.

But her fifth round jump of 5.28 metres was four centimetres shy of Great Britain's Stef Reid, who leapt 5.32m in the second round to take the win.

The crowd were treated to more home success as Hannah Cockroft took to the startline of the women's 800m T34.

Britain's Hannah Cockroft added 800m T34 gold to her 100m title at the IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea ©Getty Images



Despite being an unfamiliar event for the 100m European champion, Cockroft finished more than a second clear of her team mate Melissa Nicholls, crossing the line in 2:15.16.

There was also a gold medal for Britain's Dan Greaves in the men's discus throw F44 and for his countrywoman Joanna Butterfield in the club throw F32/51.

She led a British 1-2-3 in the event, with Paralympic champion Josie Pearson finishing second and Gemma Prescott third.

The day's action began with European record holder Beat Bösch of Switzerland winning the men's 100m T52 in 18.62sec.

Turkey's Oznur Yilmazer added women's 200m T11 gold to her 100m title, while Russia's Viacheslav Khrustalev stopped the clock at 4:00.08 to win men's 1500m T20 gold.

The men's long jump T36 went to form, as Ukraine's world champion and world record holder Roman Pavlyk leapt to gold with a best of 5.28m in his final attempt, while the women's javelin F34 was won by favourite Birgit Kober of Germany, who as well as defending her European title, also holds the world and Paralympic titles.

Russia secured double gold in the men's and women's 400m T37, with a second world record of the day on the track.

Andrey Vdovin clocked one of three track world records on day four of the IPC Athletics European Championships ©Getty Images



Evgeniya Trushnikova won the women's race in a season's best of 1:06.35, while compatriot Andrey Vdovin ran a world record 50.91.

That was not the end of Russia's gold medal rush on day four of the Championships, or the world record pace.

Margarita Goncharova won her third gold medal of the meet with victory in the women's 400m T38 in a world record time of 1:03.40.

Minutes later, compatriot Alexey Kotlov bagged gold in the men's 200m T47 in a personal best time of 22.86, before Egor Sharov won the men's 400m T13, also with a personal best of 48.99.

The world records were not limited to the track, with a thrilling high jump F44 competition seeing the previous benchmark bettered three times before Poland's Paralympic champion Maciej Lepiato won gold with a clearance of 2.17m.

Britain's Jonathan Broom-Edwards was second, having leapt 2.15m.

Tomorrow will be the final day of action in Swansea.

Among the highlights are expected to be Germany's world and Paralympic champion Markus Rehm bidding for European glory in the men's long jump T44.