GB's Storey retains women's C5 world road title

Sarah Storey added to her haul of world titles connected a awesome time for Great Britain's Para riders astatine nan 2024 Road and Para-cycling World Championships successful Switzerland.

The 46-year-old hit British team-mate Morgan Newberry, 25, into 2nd spot to clasp her women's C5 roadworthy title title successful Zurich connected Saturday.

Fran Brown claimed golden arsenic nan only rider successful nan C1 category, while chap GB rider Daphne Schrager won a sprint for metallic successful nan C2 title successful which team-mate Amelia Cass vanished fourth.

Storey pulled distant from nan section connected nan opening climb of nan time successful nan C5 race, earlier completing nan rain-drenched 70.2km people successful 1 hr 55 minutes 28 seconds, much than 7 minutes up of nan field.

Victory followed Storey's triumph connected Sunday successful nan C4-C5 individual clip trial, and repeated nan roadworthy and time-trial double she won astatine nan 2023 World Championships successful Glasgow.

"My play is simply a dream travel true," said Storey, who besides won nan roadworthy title and time-trial astatine nan Paralympic Games successful Paris past month.

"This is nan 10th clip that I person won nan double - I americium complete nan moon."

The arena has been overshadowed by nan death of Swiss rider Muriel Furrer from caput injuries sustained successful a clang during nan women's inferior roadworthy title connected Thursday.

And Switzerland's Flurina Rigling delivered an affectional tribute to her team-mate aft winning nan C2 title by much than 3 minutes from Britain's Schrager.

"It was a super-tough title successful nan rain, but it was besides mentally super-tough because of Muriel," she said. "We really thought of her – we did nan title for her and it makes maine truthful proud that I americium capable to execute this for her successful beforehand of nan location crowd."

Saturday's racing continues pinch nan women's roadworthy race, which is being streamed unrecorded now connected BBC iPlayer, pinch sum owed to decorativeness astatine 16:45 BST.