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Cat Ferguson, Felix Barrow and Fran Brown each claimed global titles as Great Britain won nine medals on day four at the UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships in Zurich.<\/b><\/p>\n
Ferguson, 18, triumphed in the women’s junior individual time trial (ITT) in 23 minutes 49.72 seconds, beating Slovakia’s Viktoria Chladonova to gold by 34.30secs, as Briton Imogen Wolff took bronze.<\/p>\n
Barrow clocked 16:28.66 to win the men’s T2 individual time trial gold by 34.84 secs, ahead of Belgium’s Tim Celen.<\/p>\n
And Brown, silver medallist at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, retained her women’s C1 ITT world title in 29:27.93, leading a British one-two 4:09.42 ahead of team-mate Katie Toft, while in the C2 event Daphne Schrager won silver and Amelia Cass took bronze.<\/p>\n
Paralympic champion Finn Graham was a silver medallist in the men’s C3 ITT, finishing 2.11 behind French champion Florian Bouziani, as Ben Watson narrowly missed out on the podium in fourth,<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Matthew Robertson clinched bronze in the C2 category.<\/p>\n
Callum Russell was fourth in the men’s H4 ITT as he made his World Championship debut.<\/p>\n
Rising star Ferguson had to settle for world road race silver in Glasgow in 2023 and signed for racing team Movistar later that year.<\/p>\n
After winning her first rainbow jersey, she told Eurosport: “It’s incredible. The disappointment I’ve had before makes this jersey even more special.”<\/p>\n
There are 55 British athletes taking part in the first combined UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships from 21-29 September, with most races being shown on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n