Report: GB Paralympic Team in Australia - Part 4

 

Posted 5 Feb 2007

Report & Pics - Team Manager Dave Mellor

Australian Open Track National Championships, Sydney

 

Straight off the back of a very hard two week block of training in Bendigo is possibly not the best preparation for a Track competition but I am very pleased to say that today we have come away with 5 Gold Medals out of the 7 events that we competed in. There were no World Record times and the competition was a little closer in time than normal, but we delivered. Barney Storey possibly summed the day up when he said that he had never ridden a Kilo in February before and would never do so again! - "we just never got up to speed, we had plenty of Endurance and our splits are probably going to show we did not fade at all but there was no top end" said the Sprint Tandem pilot.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, sees the Endurance Solo riders, Sarah Bailey, Darren Kenny and in action in the 3km and 4km Pursuits.

Results

1 Kilometre Time Trial

Gold

 - Male Tandem VI Anthony Kappes and Barney Storey 1:05.230
 - Female Tandem VI Aileen McGlynn and Ellen Hunter 1:11.803
 - LC2 Jody Cundy 1:10.970
 - CP3 Darren Kenny 1:14.103

Silver
 - LC1 Gary Rosbotham Williams 1:14.165

Bronze
 - CP4 Rik Waddon 1:16.86

500 Metre Time Trial

Gold
 - LC1 Sarah Bailey 40.98

 

Images from the Day

 

Gary Rosbotham Williams

 

Hunter and McGlynn atop the podium

 

Jody Cundy on the podium

 

Jody Cundy in action

 

 

Sarah Bailey on the podium - and Darren Kenny with medal and flowers

 

 

Storey and Kappes on the podium

 

Rik Waddon with coach Chris Furber