Dame Sarah Storey and Jody Cundy win gold at UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
Tuesday 21 April 2015 16:59, UK
Great Britain won four gold medals and one silver on the opening day of the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Holland.
Dame Sarah Storey led a British one-two in the C5 500m time trial, while Jody Cundy was victorious over twice that distance in the C4 category.
Sophie Thornhill and Neil Fachie then defended their blind/visually impaired tandem 1km time trial titles with their respective pilots, Helen Scott and Pete Mitchell.
Storey clocked a winning time of 37.847 seconds for her time trial, beating the previous leading time set by team-mate Crystal Lane by 0.03 seconds to secure the 10th track world title of her career.
Reigning world champion and world-record holder Jufang Zhou, of China, was unable to break 38 seconds, leaving the British pair to celebrate.
Cundy was set a testing target by Slovakian Josef Metelka's time of one minute 6.886 seconds, but he responded with a superb 1min 4.381sec to snatch gold for Great Britain.
Thornhill won last year's time trial and sprint events in Mexico with Rachel James as pilot but was back with Scott, her partner from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, for this year's event.
They comfortably surpassed the marker of 1:09.505 set by Dutch pair Larrisa Klaassen and Haliegh Dolman, finishing in 1:07.553 as 19-year-old Thornhill continued her dominance of the international scene.
Fachie and Mitchell clocked 1:01.787 to beat Germany's Kai-Kristian Kruse and Stefan Nimke to gold in the men's event and round off a superb opening day for Britain.
