Irish cycling duo Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal have struck gold for a second time at the Paralympic Games.
The pair streaked clear in the B road race at Fuji International Speedway on Friday to win their second gold medal in Japan.
Having retained their time trial title on Tuesday, the Irish women were one of the favourites for the road race.
Although with a lap to go they looked set for a tough battle with the British pair of Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl.
But the Irish duo ended up powering clear in a time of two hours and 35.53 minutes, with Great Britain taking silver and Sweden taking bronze.
"The road race is my favourite and I've always wanted to win that at the Paralympics," said Dunleavy, who also won silver with McCrystal in the B 3,000m individual pursuit last Saturday.
"In London I was fifth in the road race, and then I got silver in Rio. To win it in Tokyo is a dream come true.
"It was a really challenging race. The Swedish were really technically very good and on the downhills we were losing ground to them. If they went ahead of us, we had to use a lot of effort to get it back.
"It was a lot of on-off efforts and it was really draining as the laps went on.
"There was a chance there and we just had to take it. That was to attack really on that last climb coming in. We did, and we got a gap, and I just can't believe it held off to the line.
"I was fading off quickly though!"
The 39-year-old hoped her triumph might inspire young people who are struggling with visual impairments.
"I struggled at school, I found school really hard," she admitted. "I was diagnosed at 11 – I would have liked to have been able to say to my younger self then that everything is going to be OK – great things can happen.
"Just believe in yourself and there are things you can do, and that is what I would tell someone young with sight issues at home watching this."
McCrystal added to RTE Sport: "I can't believe it because as a pilot I found that course so stressful in the rain.
"As Katie said, we were losing ground on the descent. The climb I found tough because of the on-off during the race.
"I just said to Katie with about 2km to go that we're going to have to kick the last little drag up because the British bike are the current world champions. I didn't want to take them to the line so we had to chance it.
"We chanced it, we got a gap, and we just went for it and I cannot believe we did that.
"I didn't really feel the rain too much. I was just concentrating on staying upright and the Swedish girls really put it to us on the corners.
"Double Paralympic champions – oh my God almighty – never in my wildest dreams!"
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