Sarah Storey: I want to be the best version of me at Paralympics
Great Britain’s Dame Sarah Storey made history on day nine of the Paralympics by winning a 17th Paralympic gold medal to become the country’s outright most successful para athlete of all time.
Storey had trailed veteran German Kerstin Brachtendorf by 75 seconds at one stage of the C4-5 road race at the rain-soaked Fuji International Speedway but underlined her class to snatch glory.
The 43-year-old – whose first five golds came in the pool, beginning at Barcelona ’92 – has now won all 13 bike events entered dating back to her Games debut on two wheels in Beijing in 2008.
Elsewhere, Ben Watson won the men’s C1-3 race with fellow Briton Fin Graham claiming silver, while both Ellie Simmonds and Bethany Firth are targeting medals in the pool this morning.
In track and field world leader Dan Pembroke has gold in his sights in the F13 javelin and both Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett are in action this morning in the men’s wheelchair tennis. Follow all the latest updates from Tokyo:
