Hunt wins Paralympic silver as Cundy misses out

Blaine Hunt sewage a imaginable Great Britain badge unreserved successful nan cycling nether measurement connected time 2 of nan 2024 Paralympics arsenic he won metallic successful nan men's C4-5 1,000m clip trial.

Making his Paralympic debut astatine 35, Hunt's last clip of 1:01.776 was beaten by only 0.126 seconds by Korey Boddington of Australia, who took gold.

Bronze went to Spain's Alfonso Cabello, who edged GB's Jody Cundy into fourth.

Cundy, 46, is simply a nine-time Paralympic medallist who has won a badge successful each Games he has participated in, going backmost to 1996 successful Atlanta.

He has 1 much chance to support that streak going, successful nan mixed squad sprint connected Sunday.

"[It's] conscionable not to be. I gave it everything. I’m not a cardinal miles disconnected my champion present and I tried to backmost it up this afternoon," Cundy told Channel 4. "I did beautiful overmuch nan aforesaid clip arsenic this greeting but everything I had successful my legs is gone.

"It would person been bully to beryllium connected nan badge board, but we've sewage nan squad sprint successful a mates of days truthful get each nan attraction backmost connected that and we tin travel backmost because we've sewage Kadeena [Cox, who collapsed successful her last connected Thursday] pinch a constituent to prove."

Fellow Brit Archie Atkinson vanished 5th successful nan final, pinch GB targeting respective medals connected Friday.

GB are guaranteed a golden and metallic successful nan men's C3 3,000m individual pursuit, arsenic Jaco van Gass and Fin Graham title successful nan final.

Sophie Unwin, Lizzie Jordan and Lora Fachie person each reached nan women's B 1,000m clip proceedings final, while Matthew Robertson races successful nan men's C2 3,000m individual pursuit bronze badge race.

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