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Royal Mail Stamps Approval

Neil Fachie and pilot Barney Storey’s gold success in the B 1km Time Trial, in which they beat Spain’s Jose Enrique Porto Lareo and and Jose Antonio Villanueva (silver) and the Netherlands’ Rinne Oost and Patrick Bos (bronze), is to be commemorated by the Royal Mail with a special stamp that will be available from Monday. In addition – and in line with the tradition begun last month at the Olympics – a post box in Aberdeen will be painted gold for Fachie and another in Disley in Cheshire for Storey, the husband of Sarah Storey who herself has already scored double-gold at the Paralympics. Fachie and Barney Storey’s 1Km Time Trial set a new World Record of 1:01.351.

 

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Second Gold for Sarah Storey

Sarah Storey has added a second gold to her tally in the C4-5 500m Individual Time Trial, having already taken top spot on the opening day of the Paralympics Games in the C5 Individual Pursuit. In a thrilling display the 34-year-old story recorded a time of 36.997 seconds holding America’s Jennifer Schuble off for silver and China’s Jianping Ruan in bronze. Her attention will now turn to next week’s Time Trial and Road Race in an effort to double her gold total for 2012.

 

An excellent day too for Sarah’s husband Barney Storey who helped pilot Neil Fachie to gold in the B Category 1km Time Trial, an event that saw a desperately disappointing ‘Did Not Finish’ for Anthony Kappes and his pilot Craig MacLean who suffered a double mechanical failure at their starts and were denied a third crack at the track.

 

In the Men’s Individual C4 Pursuit Jody Cundy channelled the frustration of his own ‘DNF’ from yesterday by taking the bronze; gold went to Romania’s Carol-Eduard Novak and silver to the Czech Republic’s Jiri Jezek. Whilst the Men’s C5 Pursuit saw a further medal for GB with Jon-Allan Butterworth taking silver behind Australian Michael Gallagher’s Gold.

 

With the velodrome action complete, attention next turns to the Wednesday’s Time Trials and Thursday’s Road Race.