News Story Date : 09 November, 2009

GB Para-cycling Team Prove They’re Number One!

Creating Excellence congratulates the newly titled , Sunday Times Disabled Sportswoman of the Year, Sarah Storey with yet more success at this weekends Para-Cycling Track World Championships, which finished yesterday, at the Manchester Velodrome.

Overall, Britain’s para-cyclists once again proved their standing as the world’s leading team with a phenomenal medal haul of 10 gold, three silver and one bronze, as well as five world records.

There were multiple successes for Darren Kenny, Neil Fachie and his tandem pilot Barney Storey, Jody Cundy, Mark Bristow and Sarah Storey, with three wins on the final day bolstering the hosts’ total.

Aileen McGlynn and her tandem pilot Ellen Hunter won a gold and a bronze, Rik Waddon won two silvers, Simon Jackson and his pilot David Readle also won a silver and Darren Kenny replicated his successes from Beijing with three wins from three events - in the men’s CP3 one-kilometre time-trial, individual pursuit and the team sprint.

Creating Excellence client and Inspirational Speaker, Sarah Storey triumphed in the women’s LC1 500metres time-trial in 37.430sec, winning her first world title in the discipline following bronze medals in 2006 and 2007.
The 32-year-old former Paralympic swimming champion said: “I’m over the moon.”

It was her second win of the competition following her stunning world record ride of 3mins 34.26 in the women’s LC1 3km pursuit, a time which would have put her in 4th place in the 2008 Beijing Olympics!

Her success was followed up by her husband Barney Storey (also a Creating Excellence Inspirational Speaker), who triumphed in the men’s B&Vi sprint as pilot to Fachie.
It is the perfect ending to a week in which Sarah was awarded the Sunday Times Disabled Sportswoman of the Year, and proved exactly why she is more than deserving of the title.

Congratulations to the whole team - You are all an inspiration!!