GB’s Sarah Storey wins her third cycling gold

Storey finished 94 seconds ahead of Poland’s Anna Harkowska and has now won a total of nine Paralympic golds – five in swimming and four in cycling.

Three of these cycling golds have been won at the London Paralympic Games.

She told Channel 4: “I’ve spent so much time on the road this year and it means so much to me to win this gold. Seeing the success of the Olympians on the road, I really wanted to add my name to the list. It would’ve been better if there had been a bit of rain, but it’s so worth it in the end.”

Today Storey was victorious in the C5 road cycling time trials at Brands Hatch. In the velodrome, she won golds in the C5 3km individual pursuit and individual C4-5 500m time trial.

Great Britain’s David Colbourne won a silver in the C1 time trials at Brands Hatch, with first place going to Germany’s Michael Teuber.

Seeing the success of the Olympians on the road, I really wanted to add my name to the list. Sarah Storey, gold medallist

This followed his double-medal success in the velodrome – a gold in the men’s individual C1 pursuit and a silver in the C1-2-3 1km time trial.

There were also medals for Karen Darke and David Stone, with Darke winning silver in the individual H1-2 time trial and Stone picking up a bronze in the mixed T1-2 time trial.

But other Great Britain cyclists were less successful.

After winning three silvers in the velodrome, Iraq veteran Jon-Allan Butterworth could only manage 13th in the C5 road cycling time trials.

Ukraine’s Yegor Dementyev took the gold medal, China silver and Australia bronze.

Butterworth was nursing a bandaged right arm after being hurt during training at Brands Hatch on Tuesday.

“I was definitely feeling it in my legs from the track and I crashed, bashed my arm, hip and back, so I was feeling that as well,” he told Channel 4. “I’m obviously not a road time triallist by nature, but I would like to do more on the road.”

Fellow ParalympicsGB cyclist Shaun McKeown, who won a silver in the velodrome in the men’s individual C3 pursuit, finished sixth in the C3 race, with Australia taking the gold.

Gold medallists Neil Fachie & Barney Storey at Brands Hatch – Barney says wife Sarah ready to defend time trial title! twitter.com/nzerem/status/â?¦

— keme nzerem (@nzerem) September 5, 2012