GB's Ferguson, Barrow and Brown win world titles

Cat Ferguson, Felix Barrow and Fran Brown each claimed planetary titles arsenic Great Britain won 9 medals connected time 4 astatine the UCI Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich.

Ferguson, 18, triumphed successful the women's inferior idiosyncratic clip proceedings (ITT) successful 23 minutes 49.72 seconds, beating Slovakia's Viktoria Chladonova to golden by 34.30 secs, arsenic Briton Imogen Wolff took bronze.

Barrow clocked 16:28.66 to triumph the men's T2 idiosyncratic clip proceedings golden by 34.84 secs, up of Belgium's Tim Celen.

And Brown, metallic medallist astatine the Paris 2024 Paralympics, retained her women's C1 ITT satellite rubric successful 29:27.93, starring a British one-two 4:09.42 up of team-mate Katie Toft, portion successful the C2 lawsuit Daphne Schrager won metallic and Amelia Cass took bronze.

Paralympic champion Finn Graham was a metallic medallist successful the men's C3 ITT, finishing 2.11 down French champion Florian Bouziani, arsenic Ben Watson narrowly missed retired connected the podium successful fourth,

Meanwhile, Matthew Robertson clinched bronze successful the C2 category.

Callum Russell was 4th successful the men's H4 ITT arsenic helium made his World Championship debut.

Rising prima Ferguson had to settee for satellite roadworthy contention metallic successful Glasgow successful 2023 and signed for racing squad Movistar aboriginal that year.

After winning her archetypal rainbow jersey, she told Eurosport: "It's incredible. The disappointment I've had earlier makes this jersey adjacent much special."

There are 55 British athletes taking portion successful the archetypal combined UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships from 21-29 September, with astir races being shown connected the BBC Sport website and app.