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RECORD-BREAKING BRITS IN TOP FORM

By Matt McGeehan, Press Association Sport

Great Britain enjoyed another golden day at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Manchester.

After victories for Jody Cundy and Mark Bristow, Aileen McGlynn and her tandem pilot rider Ellen Hunter and Sarah Storey successfully defended their world titles in world record times.

Storey set a world record of three minutes 34.266 seconds in qualification for the women's LC1 three-kilometres individual pursuit before winning the final with ease - and McGlynn and Hunter also bettered their own world record in the women's B&Vi one-kilometre time-trial with a time of 1:09.054.

Cundy, Bristow, McGlynn and Hunter and Storey are all Paralympic champions after a stunning show of supremacy last year, but Britain were keen to demonstrate their focus on London in the first global event since Beijing.

McGlynn and Hunter shaved 0.012secs off their Paralympic-winning time in defending their world title for the third straight time.

World Championship debutants Lora Turnham and Rebecca Rimmington were fourth.

"We were hoping for a bit more, but to get under it was great," McGlynn, who is partially sighted, told Press Association Sport.

Storey, who was born with a deformed left hand, emulated fellow former Paralympic swimming champion Cundy with a third straight world title win.

The 32-year-old from Manchester, who rides in the women's LC1 500m time-trial tomorrow, was two seconds quicker than her previous world record in qualification and caught American Greta Neimanas after five laps of the 12-lap final.

Paralympic champion Cundy won the men's LC2 one-kilometre time-trial world title in emphatic fashion with a world record ride of 1:05.414.

The 31-year-old from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, was almost five seconds quicker than his nearest rival in a blistering display.

Cundy, who is an amputee after being born with a deformed right foot, told Press Association Sport: "To go quicker than I did in Beijing is pretty special.

"It means that things have moved on again, so hopefully, come London I'll be really set to fly."

Bristow won the men's LC1 one-kilometre time-trial, winning his first individual world title in 1:09.680, adding to the Paralympic crown he claimed in Beijing.

The 47-year-old, who is the cousin of darts player Eric Bristow and was left without the use of his right arm following a road accident in 1997, told Press Association Sport: "I followed up what I did in Beijing.

"It's always harder, I think, to win for the second time, so it's great."

Darren Kenny added a fifth gold medal of the day with victory in the men's CP3 individual pursuit ahead of British team-mate Rik Waddon.

It was Kenny's 12th world title and third of the year - his second on the track - and the second 1-2 between the riders, who both have cerebral palsy, in two days.

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