Mark Bristow – Team Sprint Gold Medal – 50.218
Great Britain

“It wasn't particularly fast day today, but we are still doing times in the team sprint that would still win us Paralympic gold medals so we are still ahead of the competition on a slow day so it's a nice position to be in.

"The atmosphere was great. The event is brilliant because they get so many kids in and the kids get to cheer and make some noise and its great to ride any cycling event and have that amount of noise cheering you on, its beautiful, its wonderful.

"I now go back into the same cycle I had with Beijing, first I go back to California for three weeks and then I start the cycle again. I am looking forward to a bit of sunshine!”


Simon Jackson – Tandem Sprint Gold Medal
Great Britain

“We competed last year after just three weeks together and we took two silvers so this time we have gone one better and took two gold's and it was fantastic.

"We got pushed really hard by Neil and Dave and it was a fantastic sprint series in the end, good for the crowd and we had good, healthy competition, which is what its all about. Healthy, hard, good competition is fantastic and we can now push on and hopefully to the World Championships in November.”


Vicky Begg – Tandem 3KM Pursuit Gold Medal
Great Britain

“That's the first 3k effort that I have done, certainly in this format. I could here the crowd and coach giving it 'come on' so yea I am glad we managed to beat them in the end.

"Its been so different to the environment I am used to being in and everything about ti is a completely different language of cycling, but its exciting.

"We may go together at the worlds, but we have got six months until, which is plenty of time. My aims were similar to Aileen's in that she was telling what times were the times to aim for and it gave me a sense of what we had to do.”


Paula Tesoriero – Flying 200m
New Zealand (New World Record)

“Its been a great event, well worth over six hours of travelling. Its good to come here and see how everyone else is doing and benchmark against them going into the World Championships this year.

"Out of the two races today I by far preferred the record attempt. I came to have a crack at the world record and we did it so it was great. The atmosphere was really good, especially for the world record attempt I could here what was going on and how the commentator was rivved up so it was good, really good.

"Competition pushes you and makes you perform well and pushes you to your limtis so i think this year BT Paralympic World Cup was great.”


Neil Fachie – Tandem Sprint Silver medal
Great Britain

“This is my first ever cycle race so it was an amazing experience. It felt as though there was a hell of a lot of noise in the stadium, which gave me that little bit extra that i may not have done.

"Its quite hard to come up with tactis when your working againts each other and supporting each other but when you get out on the track its every man for himself. It was different, but i certainly enjoyed it which was the main thing.

"This year now i need to continue to get used to the bike and if things go really well theres the World Championships in November which id like to be a part of and come to Manchester again. Long term i am definetly wanting to go to London, its where every athlete wants to be.

"I really hope i come back here next year, its a really good event and this year with it being my first was a great experience and id love to smaple it again next year and maybe pick up a gold or two.”

Sarah Storey, 3km Pursuit Gold medal 
Great Britain

“It's always good to win, I can't say I'm pleased with the time. I set off the quickest ever time I've done for the kilo but that's the only way to get faster. However I think I paid for it a little bit.

“I missed a lot of training in November, in fact all my training because I was following the media circus and enjoying myself following Beijing.

“The BT Paralympic World Cup is the first disability event I've taken part in since Beijing. The people are great and the enthusiasm of the crowd is always brilliant with lots of noise and support, so it's been good overall.”

Jody Cundy - Flying 200m New World Record & Team Sprint Gold medal
Great Britain

“In the team sprint we knew we'd be there or there abouts with the time. We were a bit slower in the final but between us we've had a few races over the last couple of days so it was a good result.

“It was also great to have the chance to blow away the cobwebs and get up some speed and the record attempt finished it off. I'd set myself a tough target of breaking eleven seconds which is a pretty good bench mark for most able body guys to break so to go in there and take it is always a good way to do it.

“It's great to have had the opportunity to break the record here in Manchester at the BT Paralympic World Cup on a home track in front of a home crowd with friends and family is great.

“We can't complain about the way today's gone I've got two gold medals out of two days and broke the world record so a perfect end to the weekend.” 

Anthony Kappes - New British Open Tandem Kilo Record Holder, Great Britain

“That was great, you endure it first then enjoy it afterward. The partnership is going well, Jason has taken hold of the training that we do, training is quite an experiment at the minute to see how best to train a tandem stoker, obviously because of the disability you can't just go out on the road and ride your bike. So what we're trying to do is emulate an able bodied solo track riders training but in a laboratory environment.

“I find Jason very likeable he's very honest and straightforward even if you don't want to hear it but I appreciate that and it makes us go faster.

“Originally I would've said it may be difficult to get someone with Olympic experience together to work as one with a Paralympic tandem rider but on reflection if you can ride a bike you can ride a bike and guys like Jason can ride bikes, so actually on the front of a tandem I don't think it's as big a wrench as some of us though it might be.

“At the minute we're concentrating on the kilo, let's kill the kilo is what we're thinking. Obviously it's frustrating not being able to defend the two jerseys I've got with Barney because I don't want anyone else to have them, as far as I'm concerned their mine and I want to keep them. But we've got to look at the bigger picture, today has certainly given us the opportunity to see what that bigger picture could be, so that's great."