Hahn, competing in her first major international Championships, knocked 0.09 off Brazilian Veronica Hipolito's previous record, clocking a time of 13.10sec to finish ahead of Hipolito and China's Junfei Chen in third.

The teenager from Charnwood, who has cerebral palsy, had only taken up the sport earlier this year after being inspired by last year's Paralympics in London and encouraged to try the sport by her older brother.

She is still so raw that she lined-up the race from a standing start, unlike her rivals who adopted the more normal crouch position.

"I cannot believe it, I am so happy," said Hahn who also won 200m silver on Monday (July 22).

"I need to thank my coaches, without them it would not have been possible.

"I cannot wait to go home and tell all my friends I did it."

Another female sprinter caused even more of a stir amongst the crowd in the Stadium of Parilly as home favourite Mandy Francois-Elie completed the T37 100m and 200m double, finishing more than half a second ahead of Germany's Maria Seifert and Johanna Benson of Namibia.

"I am euphoric," said 23-year-old Francois-Elie.

"It has been another really tough race.

"I made it with the amazing support of the crowd.

"My family and friends were here to support me and it gave me strength to do it.

"I hope to win more medals and cannot wait for the next Paralympics in Rio."


In the men's T46 100m, just 0.06 separated the top three as Poland's Michal Derus just squeezed past Australia's Michael Cole and 200m world champion Yohansson Nascimento in a Championship record of 10.93.

There was even more drama in the much anticipated showdown between rivals Michelle Stilwell of Canada and Belgium's Marieke Vervoort in the women's T52 800m final.

With 200m to go, the pair collided and Vervoort, making her athletic World Championship debut following a successful career in hand-cycling and Para-triathlon, ended up crashing to the ground allowing defending champion Kerry Mongan of the United States to take advantage and retain her title.

Or so she thought.

Following a review, reigning Paralympic T52 100m champion Vervoort was disqualified for obstructing 2011 World Championship silver medallist Stillwell and the race will be re-run tomorrow.

In another thrilling race, Switzerland's Marcel Hug made it a hat-trick of world titles as he saw off the challenge of rivals Kota Hokinoue of Japan and Australia's Richard Colman in the T54 5,000m.

"I am really happy," said the Swiss, who set a Championship record of 10min 20.16sec.

"It's been an interesting race.

"The pack stayed together but at the end I had the better sprint."


There was a Russian double in the men's 200m as three-time London 2012 Paralympic champion Evgenii Shvetcov set a Championship record of 29.69 in the T36 class, while compatriot Andrey Vdovin went one better in the T37 class as he raced to victory in a world record time 22.77, becoming the first man ever in his class to break 23 seconds.

Four-time Paralympic champion Evan O'Hanlon of Australia reaffirmed his dominance once again in the T38 short sprints as he added 200m gold to his 100m victory setting a Championship mark of 21.95 which also meant he retained both his titles from two years ago.

Canada's Brent Lakatos set a world, set in the semi-finals with a time of 25.46, while in the men's T54 200m London 2012 400m silver medallist Kenny van Weeghel from the Netherlands saw off the challenge of 100m Paralympic champion Leo Pekka Tahti of Finland.

Russia was celebrating gold and another world record again in the form of Artem Arefyev in the men's T36 1500m as he dominated the field and crossed the line in a time of 4:32.89 to take the record off Britain's Paul Blake, who had overcome him earlier in the week in the 800m.

Irishman Michael McKillop once again showed that he is untouchable in the men's T38 middle distance events as he completed the 800m and 1500m double for the third major Championships in a row, setting a Championship best of 4:10.17.


The men's T34 100m title went to Walid Ktila of Tunisia to complete the short sprint double, while two more Championship records were set by Guohua Zhou of China who broke her own Championship record with a time of 12.19 in the women's 100m T12, and by the Ukraine's Olena Gliebovain in the women's T13 100m, whose time of 12:32 saw her finish ahead of London 2012 silver and gold medallists Ilse Hayes of South Africa and Moroccan Sanaa Benhama respectively.

Away from the track, the women's F42/44 shot put title went to Germany's Jana Schmidt while in the F11 class, Italy's Paralympic champion Assunta Legnante won gold by beating her own world record with a throw of 16.79 metres.

There was a world record in the women's F31/32/51 club throw when F32 athlete Maroua Ibrahmi of Tunisia landed a distance of 24.15m to become world champion.

In the men's F44 long jump Germany's Paralympic champion Markus Rehm smashed his own world record by 60 centimetres with an incredible effort of 7.95m.

Paralympic bronze medallist Ruslan Katyshev of the Ukraine took the T11 triple jump crown with a personal best of 12.70m, while 2011 World Championship bronze medallist Luis Zepeda of Mexico secured gold in the F54/55/56 javelin.


Hosts France claimed a third gold medal of the Championships through men's F44 javelin champion Tony Falelavaki.

It was an Algerian clean sweep in the F32/33 shot put as Kamel Kardjena took gold with silver going to Karim Betina and bronze to Mounir Bakiri, while another Algerian, Safia Djelal, took top spot in the women's F57/58 javelin.

The IPC Athletics World Championships are due to continue through to July 28.

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