Fin Graham has had his fair share of close finishes at these Games. In the velodrome he was edged out by his teammate Jaco van Gass in the C3 indidivdual pursuit. In the road time trial on Wednesday fewer than 20 seconds over those 28.3km separated him from a second medal.
But on Saturday he finally came out on the winning side of a close call, taking gold in the men’s C1-3 road race in Clichy-sous-Bois by a whisker from France’s Thomas Peyroton-Dartet.
A breakaway group of Graham, Peyroton-Dartet and his France teammate Alexandre Leaute dominated the race, establishing a safe lead over the field, with the Graham and Peyroton-Dartet eventually shedding Leaute to set up a two-horse race for gold as they entered the final kilometre.
A partisan home crowd roared on Peyroton-Dartet, the time trial champion, into the final straight but it was the rider from Manchester who proved the stronger in the sprint, crossing the line barely a bike’s length ahead of his rival.
At the Stade de France, Britain’s Zach Skinner narrowly missed out on a medal in the men’s T13 long jump. Skinner, the son of former England rugby player Mick Skinner, leapt out to 6.83m, 37cm short of the bronze medallist Paulo Henrique Andrade Dos Reis of Brazil.
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