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
Unwin and Holl rally to road race silver
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
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Brilliant Storey equals Kenny’s all-time record
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
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Fachies win double velodrome gold and Brits add team sprint glory
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
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Sensational Cox blazes her way to gold in velodrome
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,
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Aileen McGlynn and Helen Scott take silver
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.
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Dame Sarah Storey powers to ParalympicsGB’s first Tokyo gold
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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Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny win gold
Laura Kenny became Team GB’s first female Olympian to win gold at three separate Games, as she and Katie Archibald showed complete dominance to triumph in the first-ever women’s Olympic Madison. Kenny already had back-to-back omnium and team pursuit golds from London and Rio, as well as a team pursuit silver from earlier at Tokyo
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Team GB Announce Cycling Team for Tokyo
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today named the riders who will compete in the cycling events at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 26 riders from the Great Britain Cycling Team, of which 16 will make their Team GB debut, have been selected to represent Team GB, with British Cycling setting themselves the aim
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Cyclists enjoy sunny Sunday for second Team Bath Sportive
The sun shone on the second Team Bath Sportive as more than 100 cyclists enjoyed perfect conditions for a Sunday ride through the Somerset countryside. Entrants travelled from as far afield as Ipswich, Cardiff, Cheshire and North Wales to take part, while overseas University of Bath students from China were also among the cyclists who
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