GB's Ferguson, Barrow and Brown win world titles

Cat Ferguson, Felix Barrow and Fran Brown each claimed world titles arsenic Great Britain won 9 medals connected time 4 astatine nan UCI Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich.

Ferguson, 18, triumphed successful nan women's inferior individual clip proceedings (ITT) successful 23 minutes 49.72 seconds, beating Slovakia's Viktoria Chladonova to golden by 34.30 secs, arsenic Briton Imogen Wolff took bronze.

Barrow clocked 16:28.66 to triumph nan men's T2 individual clip proceedings golden by 34.84 secs, up of Belgium's Tim Celen.

And Brown, metallic medallist astatine nan Paris 2024 Paralympics, retained her women's C1 ITT world title successful 29:27.93, starring a British one-two 4:09.42 up of team-mate Katie Toft, while successful nan C2 arena Daphne Schrager won metallic and Amelia Cass took bronze.

Paralympic champion Finn Graham was a metallic medallist successful nan men's C3 ITT, finishing 2.11 down French champion Florian Bouziani, arsenic Ben Watson narrowly missed retired connected nan podium successful fourth,

Meanwhile, Matthew Robertson clinched bronze successful nan C2 category.

Callum Russell was 4th successful nan men's H4 ITT arsenic he made his World Championship debut.

Rising prima Ferguson had to settee for world roadworthy title metallic successful Glasgow successful 2023 and signed for racing squad Movistar later that year.

After winning her first rainbow jersey, she told Eurosport: "It's incredible. The disappointment I've had earlier makes this jersey moreover much special."

There are 55 British athletes taking portion successful nan first mixed UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships from 21-29 September, pinch astir races being shown connected nan BBC Sport website and app.