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Breanna Clark breaks own world record to defend 400m Paralympic title

Breanna Clark won the women’s 400m T20 gold medal and continued to lower her own records at the Tokyo Paralympics.

The Los Angeles native has now won the race at every major championship she competed.

Clark had claimed the Rio 2016 title in a Paralympic record time of 57.79 seconds. She broke that record Tuesday morning, winning her heat by a whopping 3.36 seconds in 56.07.

In the final, the 26-year-old dropped the Paralympic record once again, this timing breaking the 55.99 world record she had set in 2018. She won by exactly one second, in 55.