Para-cycling Track World Championships: Sarah Storey to lead 27-strong British team

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Dame Sarah Storey celebrates gold at the Tokyo Paralympics

Sarah Storey will lead a 27-strong British squad at the Para-cycling track World Championships as she returns from injuries sustained in an August crash.

Storey, Britain’s most successful Paralympian with 17 golds, suffered broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung in the incident in Quebec, Canada.

The 44-year-old will seek to defend her women’s C5 individual pursuit world title, with fellow world champions Jody Cundy, Jaco van Gass, Neil Fachie and James Ball also set to competeexternal-link in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

The championships, which start on 20 October, are the first Para-cycling track Worlds since before the Covid-19 pandemic and are taking place in the velodrome set to be used for the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

Stephen Park, Great Britain cycling team performance director, said: “With a number of debutants representing Great Britain for the first time in what will be the Paralympic velodrome at Paris 2024, I am expecting to see some impressive performances that will start to give us an idea of what successes the next Paralympics could bring for the Great Britain cycling team.”

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