GB's Storey retains women's C5 world road title

Sarah Storey added to her haul of planetary titles connected a large time for Great Britain's Para riders astatine the 2024 Road and Para-cycling World Championships successful Switzerland.

The 46-year-old bushed British team-mate Morgan Newberry, 25, into 2nd spot to clasp her women's C5 roadworthy contention rubric successful Zurich connected Saturday.

Fran Brown claimed golden arsenic the lone rider successful the C1 category, portion chap GB rider Daphne Schrager won a sprint for metallic successful the C2 contention successful which team-mate Amelia Cass finished fourth.

Storey pulled distant from the tract connected the opening ascent of the time successful the C5 race, earlier completing the rain-drenched 70.2km people successful 1 hr 55 minutes 28 seconds, much than 7 minutes up of the field.

Victory followed Storey's triumph connected Sunday successful the C4-C5 idiosyncratic clip trial, and repeated the roadworthy and time-trial treble she won astatine the 2023 World Championships successful Glasgow.

"My play is simply a imagination travel true," said Storey, who besides won the roadworthy contention and time-trial astatine the Paralympic Games successful Paris past month.

"This is the 10th clip that I person won the treble - I americium implicit the moon."

The lawsuit has been overshadowed by the death of Swiss rider Muriel Furrer from caput injuries sustained successful a clang during the women's inferior roadworthy contention connected Thursday.

And Switzerland's Flurina Rigling delivered an affectional tribute to her team-mate aft winning the C2 contention by much than 3 minutes from Britain's Schrager.

"It was a super-tough contention successful the rain, but it was besides mentally super-tough due to the fact that of Muriel," she said. "We truly thought of her – we did the contention for her and it makes maine truthful arrogant that I americium capable to execute this for her successful beforehand of the location crowd."

Saturday's racing continues with the women's roadworthy race, which is being streamed unrecorded present connected BBC iPlayer, with sum owed to decorativeness astatine 16:45 BST.