{"id":22112,"date":"2025-11-06T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sophie-unwin-and-jenny-holl-win-britains-third-gold-on-day-two-in-rio\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:31:38","slug":"sophie-unwin-and-jenny-holl-win-britains-third-gold-on-day-two-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sophie-unwin-and-jenny-holl-win-britains-third-gold-on-day-two-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl win Britain&#8217;s third gold on day two in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl triumphed in the women&#8217;s B individual pursuit to claim a third gold for Britain on day two of the Para-Cycling World Championships.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duo, who set a new world record in qualifying, paced their effort superbly to overcome a two-second deficit and beat New Zealand&#8217;s Emma Foy and Jessie Hodges, rounding off a fine day for the British team in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the evening Jody Cundy claimed his second gold in as many days by winning the inaugural men&#8217;s C4 sprint title, while James Ball and Steffan Lloyd claimed gold in the men&#8217;s B 1km time trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cundy, 47, led from start to finish as he held off Belgium&#8217;s Jarno Thierens and Australia&#8217;s Michael Shipley to win his 23rd world track gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ball and his pilot Lloyd were equally as impressive as they finished over a second clear of Australia&#8217;s Kane Perris and Luke Zaccaria, with Italy&#8217;s Stefano Meroni and Francesco Ceci in third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kadeena Cox collected a silver in the women&#8217;s C4 kilo behind Australia&#8217;s Tara Neyland after being unable to maintain her blistering start. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fin Graham secured his second medal of the week with a bronze in the men&#8217;s C3 1km time trial and Lizzi Jordan and pilot Dannielle Khan caught Poland&#8217;s Karolina Karasiewicz and Dominika Putrya to earn a bronze in the women&#8217;s B individual pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, there was disappointment for Blaine Hunt, who crashed out in the men&#8217;s C5 elimination race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British team now has four golds, three silver medals and five bronze medals overall. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c993x011d3vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl triumphed in the women&#8217;s B individual pursuit to claim a third gold for Britain on day two of the Para-Cycling World Championships. The duo, who set a new world record in qualifying, paced their effort superbly to overcome a two-second deficit and beat New Zealand&#8217;s Emma Foy and Jessie Hodges, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22114,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions\/22114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}