Australia’s para cyclists have shone on day two of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, successful two gold medals and a silver on the Nationwide Velodrome.
Korey Boddington and Emily Petricola secured gold medals inside quarter-hour of one another, whereas Jessica Gallagher claimed a silver medal within the last occasion of the day.
Petricola claimed her gold within the girls’s C4 3,000m particular person pursuit, defending the title she had received in Tokyo three years earlier.
The Australian sounded a warning to her rivals in qualifying, setting a brand new world report of three:35.856 earlier within the day.
Petricola ensured she didn’t want the complete 3,000m in her gold medal race in opposition to New Zealand’s Anna Taylor, catching the Kiwi rider with greater than a lap remaining.
The Paralympic champion described the sensation of defending her title as “higher than I anticipated” as she had her household in attendance.
“I’ve folks from house which might be with me right here. That is the primary time they have been capable of see me race internationally. I really feel so proud.,” she mentioned.
“I’ve my brother and his youngsters, my greatest mates, my oldest mates. These are the those who picked me up after I was at my lowest level after I first obtained sick. They’ve seen me at my worst and now they obtained to see that I’ve completed one thing fairly superb.”
Simply quarter-hour earlier, Paralympic debutant Korey Boddington claimed his gold medal within the males’s C4-5 1,000m time trial.
Korey Boddington is racing for gold in Paris. (Getty Photos: Michael Steele)
After setting a Paralympic report of 1:02.021 within the heats that morning, Boddington transformed his standing because the quickest qualifier right into a gold medal.
“If I labored as onerous as I am working now, I would most likely have been superb in school,” a jubilant Boddington mentioned.
“That is unbelievable. I wish to inform youngsters on the market to go for his or her goals. To struggle for them. You gotta shoot for the celebrities.”
Jessica Gallagher capped off an excellent day for Australia within the last occasion of day two, successful a silver medal within the girls’s B 1,000m time trial.
