Blaine Hunt got a potential Great Britain medal rush in the cycling under way on day two of the 2024 Paralympics as he won silver in the men’s C4-5 1,000m time trial.
Making his Paralympic debut at 35, Hunt’s final time of 1:01.776 was beaten by only 0.126 seconds by Korey Boddington of Australia, who took gold.
Bronze went to Spain’s Alfonso Cabello, who edged GB’s Jody Cundy into fourth.
Matthew Robertson won bronze in in the men’s C2 3,000m individual pursuit – ParalympicsGB’s 100th medal in cycling events.
The 25-year-old from Greenwich easily defeated Japan’s Shota Kawamoto to secure a medal on his Paralympic debut.
Cundy, 46, is a nine-time Paralympic medallist who has won a medal in every Games he has participated in, going back to 1996 in Atlanta.
“[It’s] just not to be. I gave it everything. I’m not a million miles off my best here and I tried to back it up this afternoon,” Cundy told Channel 4. “I did pretty much the same time as this morning but everything I had in my legs is gone.
“It would have been nice to be on the medal board, but we’ve got the team sprint in a couple of days so get all the focus back on that and we can come back because we’ve got Kadeena [Cox, who crashed in her final on Thursday] with a point to prove.”
