Sarah Storey on Thursday topped the list of Britain's most decorated Paralympians after racing to victory in the C4/5 road race at Brands Hatch. The 34-year-old's win was her fourth of the Games and the 11th in her 20-year Paralympic career, after she won five swimming golds before switching to cycling for Beijing in 2008. She also has seven silver medals and three bronzes.
The feat takes her above Tanni Grey-Thompson in the table, the legendary wheelchair racer who garnered 11 golds, four silvers and one bronze. Storey, from Manchester in north-west England, said: "To be even on the same page as Tanni, to have won 11 and make it a clean sweep for this week, is just a dream come true. I don't know if it'll ever sink in."
Grey-Thompson wrote on Twitter after the race: "@MrsSarahStorey wins her 11th gold medal. Congratulations !!!!!" The British Paralympic Association said swimmer Mike Kenny won 16 golds and two silvers from 1976 to 1988 but Games records from that period were "sketchy, so it is difficult to be definitive about who is the greatest of all time".
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