Tokyo 2020: All 20 members of British cycling team win medals as Dame Sarah Storey secures 16th gold
All 20 members of Britain's cycling team have now won a medal at the Tokyo Games, in a day that has seen a slew of medals for ParalympicsGB.
Dame Sarah Storey was among the British cyclists who secured a title on Tuesday after winning her 16th gold medal in the C5 time trial at the Tokyo Games.
Appearing at her eighth Paralympic tournament, the 43-year-old cyclist clinched first place in the time-trial C5 event on the Fuji International Speedway circuit, with a time of 36:08.90.
Fellow GB rider Crystal Lane-Wright snatched silver in 37:40.89, with Germany’s Kerstin Brachtendorf coming in third.
Making his Paralympic debut, Ben Watson, who used to work as a chartered surveyor, then won the men's C3 time trial by more than 56 seconds.
There were further cycling medals for tandem pair Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall, both winning silver, with George Peasgood coming first in the men's C4 time trial bronze, just days after he won silver in the triathlon.
Storey's remarkable victory means she has matched the record held by swimmer Mike Kenny, who secured 16 golds between 1976 and 1988.
While having won 27 medals to his 18, Storey could fully surpass Kenny's record if she mirrors her first-place performances at London 2012 and Rio 2016 to win a 17th gold in the C4-C5 road race on Thursday.
“I never set out on this journey to be Britain’s greatest Paralympian, but to match the best man and to have more other medals is just a dream come true – well, it is almost a dream that was not one,” she said.
Storey won five golds in the pool across four Games before a seamless transition to the bike ahead of Beijing 2008, which has brought even greater rewards.
Adding to a haul of British sporting success on Tuesday, swimmer Reece Dunn grabbed his third Paralympic gold of the Tokyo Games by breaking the world record in the S14 men’s 200m individual medley.
On another busy evening at Tokyo Aquatics Centre, there were four further medals for ParalympicsGB.
Bethany Firth gained silver in the SM14 200m individual medley in 2:23.19, while Stephen Clegg won the men’s S12 100m freestyle bronze in 53.43, with Hannah Russell emulating that achievement in the women’s race in a time of 1:00.25.
At the Olympic Stadium, British runner Columba Blango and long jumper Olivia Breen each won bronze.
Breen’s best jump in the T38 classification was 4.91m, while her fellow Briton Hetty Bartlett was sixth with a leap of 4.05m.
Veteran table tennis player Sue Bailey, meanwhile, guaranteed her first Paralympic medal at the sixth Games of her career by reaching the semi-finals of the women’s team classes 4-5 competition alongside Megan Shackleton.