Barney Storey

Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
Track cycling
Summer Paralympic Games
Gold 2008 Beijing Men's 1 km time trial (B&VI 1–3)
Gold 2008 Beijing Men's sprint (B&VI 1–3)
World Disability Championships
Gold 2006 Men's 1 km time trial
Gold 2006 Men's sprint
Gold 2007 Men's 1 km time trial
Gold 2007 Men's sprint

Richard Barnaby "Barney" Storey MBE (born 13 March 1977) is a British cyclist.[1] Storey rides as a sighted pilot for blind or partially sighted athletes in tandem track cycling events. He has competed at two Paralympic Games winning two gold medals.

Storey's first appearance at the Paralympics was in 2004 in Athens. He participated in two tandem track cycling events, acting as the sighted pilot for Daniel Adam Gordon. The pair finished fourth in the sprint and fifth in the 1 km time trial.[2]

In 2005 he won the British national title for the 200 metres tandem sprint competing with Craig MacLean. At the 2006 British National Tandem Sprint Championships held in Newcastle Storey defended the title partnered by partially sighted Paralympian Anthony Kappes; this made them the first Paralympic team to hold the able-bodied national title.[3] Storey won gold medals in both the sprint and time trial at the 2006 World Disability Championships and defended both titles successfully in 2007.[1]

At the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, China, Storey competed as the pilot for Kappes in the B&VI 1–3 classification. In the 1 km time trial they set a new world record time of one minute 2.864 seconds to win the gold medal.[4] Storey and Kappes won their second gold medal of the Games in the B&VI 1-3 sprint. The pair defeated Argentina and Japan on route to the final which they won 2–0 against Australia. The medal came less than an hour after Barney's wife Sarah had won Paralympic gold in the same velodrome competing in the women's individual pursuit.[5][6]

Following the Beijing Games, Storey was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year Honours.[7][8]

At the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Manchester in 2009 Storey teamed up with former Paralympic sprinter Neil Fachie. Together they broke the 1 km time trial world record for the B&VI 1 classification which had been set by Storey in partnership with Kappes.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Barney Storey". British Cycling. http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/gbr/GBRiderInfo/Storey_Barney_Bio.asp. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
  2. ^ barney storey's profile on paralympic.org
  3. ^ "Record duo sprint to tandem triumph". Bournemouth Echo. 7 July 2006. http://archive.thisisdorset.net/2006/7/7/118005.html. Retrieved 10 May 2010. 
  4. ^ "Duo take GB's fourth cycling gold". BBC Sport. 8 September 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7603152.stm. Retrieved 10 May 2010. 
  5. ^ "Storeys add to GB cycling golds". BBC Sport. 10 September 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7607585.stm. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
  6. ^ Neil Wilson (11 September 2008). "What a Storey: Husband and wife claim historic golds on same day in velodrome". The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1054437/What-Storey-Husband-wife-claim-historic-golds-day-velodrome.html. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
  7. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 22. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  8. ^ "Hoy knighted in New Year honours". BBC Sport. 31 December 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/7804849.stm. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
  9. ^ "Neil Fachie breaks world record on para-cycling debut". The Guardian. 6 November 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/nov/06/neil-fachie-world-record-time-trial. Retrieved 11 May 2010.