Storeys Take Britain to 18 Golds
Barney and Sarah Story both claimed golds as Britain moved clear at the top of the Paralympics medal table
Former swimmer Sarah Story and her husband Barney both won golds at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing to take Britain two clear of China at the top of the medal table.
Sarah Story, who was competing in her fifth Games but her first on the bike, won the women's LC1-2/CP4 individual pursuit in a world record of 3min 36.637sec.
Going into the race she knew even if she lowered her own world record mark of 3min 48.622sec it may not be enough. Her LC1 category (for athletes having minor or no lower limb disability) was combined with two other categories at the Games, meaning the final positions were determined by a factoring system based on world records.
Despite taking eight seconds off her own world best in the heat, she qualified second fastest for the final behind Jennifer Schuble, who set a world record for her class of 4min 01.243sec. But Story went even faster in the final, lowering the mark by a further four seconds.
Storey's husband Barney then clinched his second gold medal of the Games as tandem pilot alongside partially sighted Anthony Kappes in the B&VI 1-3 sprint.
The duo, who defeated Argentina in the quarter-finals and Japan in the semi-finals, clocked 10.758sec in the first sprint and 11.524sec in the second to beat their Australian counterparts 2-0 in the cat-and-mouse final.
Kappes, from Stockport, and Story also won the men's B&VI 1-3 one-kilometer time-trial on Monday.
Sarah Story, who was competing in her fifth Games but her first on the bike, won the women's LC1-2/CP4 individual pursuit in a world record of 3min 36.637sec.
Going into the race she knew even if she lowered her own world record mark of 3min 48.622sec it may not be enough. Her LC1 category (for athletes having minor or no lower limb disability) was combined with two other categories at the Games, meaning the final positions were determined by a factoring system based on world records.
Despite taking eight seconds off her own world best in the heat, she qualified second fastest for the final behind Jennifer Schuble, who set a world record for her class of 4min 01.243sec. But Story went even faster in the final, lowering the mark by a further four seconds.
Storey's husband Barney then clinched his second gold medal of the Games as tandem pilot alongside partially sighted Anthony Kappes in the B&VI 1-3 sprint.
The duo, who defeated Argentina in the quarter-finals and Japan in the semi-finals, clocked 10.758sec in the first sprint and 11.524sec in the second to beat their Australian counterparts 2-0 in the cat-and-mouse final.
Kappes, from Stockport, and Story also won the men's B&VI 1-3 one-kilometer time-trial on Monday.
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