Success for Brits in Los Angeles
Sarah Storey
Great Britain claimed gold and silver in the first two events at the Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles.
Sarah Storey won gold in the C5 500 metres time trial, posting a new British record and a PB with a time of 37.371 seconds, head and shoulders above the rest of the field.
"This is the event, alongside the road race, that I get a little nervous," said Storey.
"You never know what's going to happen when the world record-holder (China's Ju Fang Zhou) is in the event."
The other British success came in the Women's B/Vi three-kilometre pursuit in which GB fielded two tandem pairings - Lora Turnham, piloted by Fiona Duncan, silver medallists in the event in 2011, and Aileen McGlynn, piloted by Helen Scott. Both pairings made it through a tough qualification, posting third and second fastest times respectively.
In the finals, Turnham and Duncan faced New Zealand's Phillipa Gray and Laura Thompson in a bronze ride-off and finally placed fourth. McGlynn and Scott were up against Ireland's Catherine Walsh and Francine Meehan in the finals. Here too, the British pairing started the race better than the opposition but lost their advantage in consecutive laps to place second behind the Irish.
