Storey extends record as GB win 31st gold in Paris

Dame Sarah Storey extended her grounds arsenic Great Britain's most-decorated Paralympian arsenic she won her 18th vocation golden medal connected time 7 astatine Paris 2024.

Storey, 46, won the women's C5 roadworthy cycling clip proceedings by much than much 4 seconds to unafraid ParalympicsGB's 31st golden medal of the Games.

It came 32 years aft her archetypal Paralympics medal successful 1992.

Fran Brown won metallic successful the women's C1-C3 clip trial.

GB person present won 63 medals successful Paris, putting them 2nd successful the medal table. Only China person much medals than Great Britain, winning 118 medals, including 55 golds.

Storey kicked things disconnected for ParalympicsGB connected Wednesday greeting by extending her grounds arsenic Great Britain's astir decorated Paralympian.

An astonishing 32 years connected from her Paralympic debut astatine Barcelona successful 1992, Storey won by 4.69 seconds from France's Heidi Gaugain, 27 years Storey's junior.

Gaugain, 19, was calved successful November 2004 - by past Storey had already won 16 Paralympic meals, each of which came successful Para-Swimming.

She subsequently switched to Para-Cycling and Wednesday's triumph means she present has 29 Paralympic medals successful all.

Her 18th Paralympic golden puts her among a radical of six Paralympic athletes who person won that many.

Storey's triumph came connected what she described arsenic an "appalling" people which was conscionable 14.1km long.

It was her archetypal contention nether 22km successful the lawsuit astatine the Paralympics, which she has present won for 5 consecutive Games.

"It's a abbreviated race. This is the shortest Paralympic clip proceedings we person ever had, and I deliberation it's a existent shame due to the fact that we don't get to showcase Para-sport successful the mode we privation to," Storey said.

"I've had to enactment that speech and absorption connected what I could control, due to the fact that I couldn't power the contention distance. But I anticipation they ne'er bash this to the women again, due to the fact that it has been appalling."

Storey is backmost successful enactment connected Friday successful the roadworthy race, looking to prime up her 19th golden medal.

Elsewhere successful roadworthy cycling, Brown secured a metallic medal successful Women's C1-3 idiosyncratic clip trial.

She is backmost successful roadworthy contention enactment connected Saturday, arsenic is chap Brit Daphne Scharger, who finished successful 5th spot connected Wednesday.

Great Britain person the accidental to adhd to their medal tally connected the way connected Wednesday afternoon.

Blaine Hunt and Archie Atkinson are some successful men's idiosyncratic clip proceedings finals.

Jaco van Gass, Fin Graham and Ben Watson are each successful the men's C3 idiosyncratic clip final, portion the trio of Lizzy Jordan, Lora Fachie and Sophie Unwin each diagnostic successful the women's B idiosyncratic clip trial.

There was different engaged greeting successful the excavation for GB.

Of the 63 medals won by Great Britain astatine the 2024 Paralympics truthful far, 20 person travel successful the pool, a fig which is apt to summation further connected Wednesday night, with each of 10 ParalympicsGB's swimmers successful Wednesday's heats reaching their finals.

In the men's S12 100m freestyle, Stephen Clegg was the fastest crossed the 2 heats. His last starts astatine 16:30 BST.

The trio of Rhys Darbey, William Ellard and Cameron Vearncombe are each successful the men's SM14 200m idiosyncratic medley last aft finishing among the apical six successful qualifying. That last starts astatine 16:42 BST.

Olivia Newman-Baronius was fastest successful qualifying for the women's SM14 200m idiosyncratic final, starting astatine 16:50, portion Poppy Maskill and Alice Tai person besides made it.

Toni Shaw completed a cleanable greeting of qualifying arsenic she reached the last of the women's S9 100m freestyle final.

Clegg, Matt Redfern, Becky Redfern and Scarlett Humphrey will diagnostic successful the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay last astatine 18:58 BST.

Great Britain's medal anticipation successful the T38 men's agelong leap was Karim Chan.

Chan was 2nd astatine the halfway people with a leap of 6.32m, down lone China's Zhong Huanghao, who leaped 6.50m successful the 2nd round.

Khetag Khinchagov of the Neutral Paralympic Athletes took the pb with a leap of 6.52m earlier Chan was besides overtaken successful the last circular by Colombia's Jose Gregorio Lemos Rivas, who posted a leap of 6.40m.

Chan came adjacent to moving backmost into the medal positions with his last jump, but connected his Paralympic debut, his last leap of 6.39m saw him miss retired connected a medal by conscionable 1 centimetre.

Khinchagov had already done capable to triumph the golden medal, with metallic going to Zhong and bronze to Lemos Rivas.

Great Britain could prime up golden successful the quad doubles wheelchair tennis, with Andy Lapthorne and Gregory Slade facing the Netherlands' Sam Schroder and Niels Vink.

Lapthorne and Slade booked their spot successful the last connected Sunday with a straight-sets triumph implicit Brazil's Leandro Pena and Ymanitu Silva.

Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett are successful enactment successful the men's singles quarter-finals and aboriginal connected Wednesday volition squad up successful the men's doubles semi-finals against the French duo of Frederic Cattaneo and Stephane Houdet.