Henshaw, 37, who underwent elbow surgery a year ago, had powered to a Paralympic record in her win in the VL3 final on Saturday.
And she was strong from the start in Sunday’s race, quickly building an advantage over Katalin Varga of Hungary and cross the line in another Games best of 49.07 seconds.
Varga momentarily stopped paddling mid-race allowing Wiggs to overtake her and finish in 51.56 to add silver to her VL2 title.
“That was probably the hardest 200 metres weather-wise that I’ve ever had to do at a major,” Henshaw said.
“It was not pretty, probably not my best delivery in terms of how it looked but I’m really proud of how I managed to think quickly, draw on all my experience of water sports and managed to get that kayak to do what I wanted it to do and get over the line first.”
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