British cyclist Dame Sarah Storey won 18th Paralympic gold

British athlete and cyclist Dame Sarah Storey won the 18th Paralympic gold in cycling time C5 competition at the 2024 Paralympic event. She is the most successful British Paralympian who continued to set records.

Dame won a gold medal at the Paralympics for a fifth consecutive year. She has earned five gold medals in swimming. And thirteen gold medals in cycling with a recent one at the Paralympic Games.

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Dame beat her competitors by more than four seconds, finishing the distance in 20 minutes and 22.15 seconds. She was behind the lead by more than seven seconds at the start of the cycling competition. However, she made a strong comeback in the last part of a competition to keep her title as Paralympian champion.

After securing her Paralympian championship, she expressed delight in winning gold. However, she was upset that the racing competition was only at a shorter distance, unlike the men’s C5 cycling competition.

The C5 cycling event for men is twice as lengthy and has two laps on the same track; compared to women’s C5 cycling competition. Following this, Dame called the competition “the shortest Paralympic time cycling competition” in which they participated.

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Hence, she thought it a real shame because they did not get to showcase the parasport in the way that they wanted to. She hoped they would never do this to cycling women again because it became awful.

However, British cyclist Dame Sarah Storey won the 18th Paralympic gold medal just before her upcoming competition in the C4-5 road race on Sep 6, 2024.

Dame is a 46-year-old who is the only British athlete to win gold since her Paralympic cycling debut in Beijing 2008. She started her career as a swimmer and made her Paralympic debut at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. She was only 14 years old when she earned two gold, three silver, and one bronze medal.