ParalympicsGB can today announce the selected riders who will compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. A total of 17 riders have been selected, including six who will be making their Paralympic debuts. There are also three Paralympic newcomers among the six pilots who will be competing at Paris 2024. After their most successful Paralympic
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today named the final cyclists that will make up the 30-strong squad to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 12 athletes announced include seven Olympic medallists and five debutants from the BMX racing, BMX freestyle park, track and road disciplines, with parity in the number
Cyclist Eyeru Gebru, a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024, has carried the Olympic torch in the historic town of Bayeux in Normandy, France. Eyeru was nominated to take part in the Torch Relay by the Department of Calvados, which will host the team’s Welcome Event in Caen and Bayeux in July,
GB Gold Medallists launch in person event challenges for amateur sports people. Sports Clubs are encouraged to put up entrants to VIP Experience days where they are tasked with beating time targets set on the day by GB Gold Medallists. Time bonuses are given to participants in relation to how much they fundraise for their
Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl won silver in the women’s B road race to round-off a hugely successful Games for ParalympicsGB’s cyclists. World champions Unwin and Holl kept up with the leaders around the gruelling Fuji International Speedway course, only briefly dropping off the back of a breakaway made by Katie-George Dunlevy of Ireland
Dame Sarah Storey made history by securing a record-equalling 16th Paralympic gold medal in Tokyo to tie Mike Kenny’s all-time British record. The cyclist dominated the women’s C5 time trial at the Fuji International Speedway and won by 92 seconds from teammate Crystal Lane-Wright for her second gold of the 2020 Games to become ParalympicsGB’s
Neil and Lora Fachie both won Paralympic gold before Kadeena Cox led the way to a team sprint triumph – all in world record time on a magical day for ParalympicsGB at the velodrome. There have been some remarkable days in recent British cycling history and this belongs in that company, yielding five medals to
Kadeena Cox stormed to a sensational world record to successfully defend her C4-5 500m time trial gold, as ParalympicsGB continued to count the medals at the Izu Velodrome. The 30-year-old stopped the clock in 34.812 seconds to give her a factored time of 34.433 and triumph by more than a second from Canada’s Kate O’Brien,
The first British medal of the day in Izu came courtesy of Aileen McGlynn and Helen Scott, who took silver in the women’s B 1000m time trial. The pair won silver together at London 2012 and got the band back together at 12 weeks’ notice after Sophie Thornhill’s retirement left pilot Scott without a stoker.
Dame Sarah Storey powered to ParalympicsGB’s first gold at Tokyo 2020 – and crushed her own world record in the process. So often the standard bearer for the team, it seemed fitting Storey got the medal count rolling as British cyclists claimed gold and two silvers at the Izu Velodrome. It’s 29 years since Storey
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