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Hannah Cockroft says she can recover from her first defeat in her own category in over seven years at next month's IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha.

The double Paralympic champion, 23, was beaten over 400m in London last weekend by T34 British rival Kare Adenegan, 14.

"When it happened I was shocked, upset and confused," Cockroft told 91Èȱ¬ Sport.

"I went in relaxed and taking it for granted and I messed up but Kare was the better athlete on the day."

Cockroft had been unbeaten for 300 races in the T34 category for wheelchair athletes.

Adenegan, who will be making her GB debut in the championships which start in Doha on 21 October, was inspired to take up wheelchair racing after watching Cockroft in action at London 2012.

The pair will be in action in Doha in the 100m, where Cockroft will be defending her world title, as well as in the 400m and 800m, and the Yorkshire athlete says the loss means she has more determination to add to her list of successes.

"Losing to Kare has given me the motivation to pick up on those little things I need to improve ahead of Doha," she added. "I can't afford to go into races and make mistakes any more as I've been able to do in the past.

"People were just expecting me to win every race and I wanted them to be excited by what I was doing but they weren't.

"Now I have lost, I hope it will get people to watch me because they won't know the end result and there are athletes who can beat me.

"In Doha the only acceptable result for me is three golds. It will be difficult conditions for us with the heat but I think my experience will count for a lot."