Dame Sarah Storey, 46, wins incredible 18TH Paralympics gold medal as she rewrites history in ninth consecutive Games
SARAH STOREY has won an incredible 18th Paralympic gold medal.
The Dame was already Great Britain's most successful Paralympian ever with 17 gold medals to her name.
However, the peerless 46-year-old has now added an 18th Paralympic gold to her collection by winning the women's individual C5 road cycling time trial in Paris.
The Dame beat French hope Hidei Gaugain to land the medal.
Storey trailed Gaugain by more than seven seconds after 5.8km of the 14.1km course.
But Storey stormed back in the closing stages to complete the course in 20 minutes and 22.15 seconds and retain her title by a 4.69-second lead, which she has won every year since 2008.
It is the ninth Games of her career - the most for a British athlete - after making her Paralympic GB debut in Barcelona in 1992 as a swimmer.
She is solely competing in road events in Paris 2024, but has done no harm to further cementing her status as a sporting legend.
Alana Forster of Australia won bronze.
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