Seventeen-time gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey will compete in her ninth Paralympic Video games subsequent month.
The 46-year-old, who received three gold medals in Tokyo in 2021, has been formally introduced as a part of the 23-rider Group GB squad for the Paris Video games, which was revealed right this moment by British Biking.
Alongside Storey, monitor bicycle owner Jody Cundy will make his eighth look on the Paralympics, whereas tandem riders Neil and Lora Fachie have additionally been chosen, along with their respective pilots.
Storey will defend her time trial and highway race titles within the C5 class in Paris. On the final Paralympics, she turned Nice Britain’s most profitable Paralympian of all time; she made her debut as a swimmer in 1992, earlier than first competing as a bicycle owner in 2008.
“I could not have imagined going to eight Video games, not to mention profitable medals at each Video games, and 17 of these medals being gold,” she stated in 2021.
In a current interview with the Worldwide Paralympic Committee, Storey stated she now feels “as match as I’ve ever been” going into her ninth Video games. “For me, it might be superb to win once more and say I’ve received medals at 9 consecutive summer time Video games. I do not assume anybody has ever accomplished that,” she stated.
Additionally a former swimmer, Cundy’s eighth Paralympic look will see him compete within the C4-5 kilometre time trial, an occasion wherein he has received 15 consecutive world titles, and the blended crew dash.
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The 45-year-old was a part of the trio that received gold within the crew dash in Tokyo, setting the world file within the remaining.
“I believe attending to Paris is an achievement in itself,” the eight-time Paralympic gold medallist advised Biking Weekly earlier this 12 months. “If I nonetheless love the game, and I am nonetheless able to doing it, I’ll maintain doing it. So long as GB nonetheless need me on the squad, I’ll maintain doing it.”
The monitor biking occasions on the Paris Paralympics will happen between 29 August and 1 September. They are going to be adopted by the highway biking occasions, held between 4 and seven September.
The total Group GB biking squad is listed under.
Group GB Paralympics squad
Males’s B
James Ball piloted by Steffan Lloyd – MB 1,000m time-trial, MB particular person pursuit
Steve Bate piloted by Chris Latham – MB particular person pursuit, MB highway race, MB time-trial
Neil Fachie piloted by Matt Rotherham – MB 1,000m time-trial, MB particular person pursuit
Males’s C2
Matt Robertson – C2 particular person pursuit, C2 time-trail, C1-3 highway race
Males’s C3
Fin Graham – C1-3 1,000m time-trial, C3 particular person pursuit, blended crew dash, C3 time-trial, C1-3 highway race
Jaco van Gass – C1-3 1,000m time-trial, C3 particular person pursuit, C3 time-trial, C1-3 highway race
Ben Watson – C3 time-trial, C1-3 highway race
Males’s C4
Archie Atkinson – C4 particular person pursuit, C4-5 1,000m time-trial, C4 time-trial, C4-5 highway race
Jody Cundy – C4-5 1,000m time-trial, blended crew dash
Males’s C5
Blaine Hunt – C5 particular person pursuit, C4-5 1,000m time-trial, C4-5 highway race
Ladies’s B
Lora Fachie piloted by Corrine Corridor – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB particular person pursuit, WB time-trial, WB highway race
Lizzi Jordan piloted by Danni Khan – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB particular person pursuit, WB time-trial, WB highway race
Sophie Unwin piloted by Jenny Holl – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB particular person pursuit, WB time-trial, WB highway race
Ladies’s C1
Fran Brown – C1-3 time-trial, C1-3 highway race, C1-3 time-trial
Ladies’s C2
Daphne Schrager – C1-3 particular person pursuit, C1-3 highway race, C1-3 time-trial
Ladies’s C4
Kadeena Cox – C4-5 time-trial, blended crew dash
Ladies’s C5
Dame Sarah Storey – C5 time-trial, C4-5 highway race
