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Great Britain's Paralympic champion Jody Cundy smashed his own world record to claim time trial gold at the Para-Cycling World Championships in Manchester.

The 31-year old romped to gold in 1.05.414 seconds in the LC2 1000m event, beating his previous best of 1.05.466 seconds from Beijing last year.

And the former Paralympic swimming gold medallist was a comfortable winner in Manchester, crossing the line more than four seconds ahead of Romania's Carol Eduard Novak in silver and Jiri Jezek in bronze.

There was another British time trial winner in the LC1 category as Mark Bristow struck gold.

But the double Paralympic gold medallist was made to fight all the way to the line by Spaniard Pablo Jaramillo Gallardo who finished 0.273 seconds behind in silver.

Mario Hammer pipped German teammate Wolfgang Sacher to bronze.

The British team should be set for even more medals in this evening's session after impressive showings in the men's and women's individual pursuits.

Darren Kenny, fresh from his time-trial gold on Friday, will compete with fellow-Brit Rik Waddon for the honours in the men's CP3 3km gold medal race while Paralympic champion Sarah Storey will vie for her first medal of the championships in the women's LC1 event.

And few would bet against Storey emerging victorious this evening after the Brit knocked two seconds off her own world record to finish the 3km qualifier in 3.34.266 seconds.

More than the Games / Eurosport