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Britain claim another gold

12:36pm Monday 8th September 2008

© Press Association 2008

Anthony Kappes and pilot rider Barney Storey secured Britain's fourth cycling gold medal of the Paralympic Games in Beijing on Monday.

The duo powered to victory in the men's B&VI one-kilometre time-trial at the Laoshan Velodrome in a world-record time of one minute 2.864 seconds.

Simon Richardson, Darren Kenny and Aileen McGlynn - with her tandem pilot rider Ellen Hunter - have already clinched gold medals in the velodrome, while swimmer Sascha Kindred prevailed in the National Aquatics Center on day one.

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