Sarah Storey: Yorkshire Provided A Blueprint For Para-cycling Worldwide

Amazing local support buoys Worlds para-cyclists

The Yorkshire Para-cycling International that filled the first day of the road World Championships in Harrogate received effusive praise from competitors both for the size of the crowds that were at the roadside and for the event’s organisation.

“It will hopefully be a bit of a blueprint for the way para-cycling could be run worldwide,” Dame Sarah Storey told Cycling Weekly after she had taken a solo victory in the C4-5 women’s race.

“The crowds were superb and it was a really good course,” she explained. “We never get point-to-point races. I think the only other time I’ve done one in a para-cycling event was a hill-climb in the Tour of Bilbao. To have one here was great because it meant that there were different types of courses for the different categories.”