Their tally of three golds, four silvers and a bronze reinforced their position as the team to beat next year.

There were two golds, two silvers and a bronze in time trials and a gold and two silvers in road races.

Shaun McKeown (pictured), who won bronze in the C3 TT at the 2010 World Championships and has been on top form this year, produced a brilliant ride against a world-class field to clench his first World Cup gold for Britain.

Mutiple world and Paralympic champion David Stone showed his dominance in the T2 TT by finishing more than a minute ahead of competition and came second in the T2 Road Race, narrowly missing out on gold to Italy's Georgio Farroni.

Hand-cyclists Rachel Morris in the H3 category and Karen Darke in the H2 won silver in the time trial in their respective categories against strong opposition.


In the 36 kilometres road race Morris (pictured) stormed to a sensational victory and Darke snapped up silver, both riding a gutsy race and attacking hard on the last lap to get ahead of their opponents.

There was also a bronze medal for Mark Colbourne, who made a very strong debut for Britain at his first World Cup, ranking third in a strong C1 field in the tiem trial and picking up fifth place in the C1 road race.

But the British team also suffered disappointment with women's tandem road race left pilot Fiona Turnham suffering a broken collarbone and stitches to her chin and another crash in the men'srRoad race resulted in Russ White finishing outside of qualification points.

Chris Furber, GB Para-Cycling Coach, said: "With all European nations fielding strong teams, the Segovia World Cup was always going to be a tough competition but we managed to take respectable eight medals against a world-class field.

"Our most experienced road riders delivered and we are particularly pleased with performances from our new talent including Shaun McKeown's brilliant TT win and Mark Colbourne's impressive World Cup debut for the team."

"We missed out on a few qualification points this weekend and we will be looking to claw them back at the final round of the World Cup in Canada next month."

Rohan (pictured centre) was in outstanding form for Ireland as he claimed a gold medal time trial and then won the H1 Road race.

Rohan, who had also completed the gold medal double in Sydney last month in round one of the World Cup competition, has now guaranteed himself the overall trophy going into the final event which takes place in Canada next month.

Irish manager, Denis Toomey said "It would be great if we could now send Mark to compete in Canada so he could collect his trophy personally at the end of that race.

"Canada was not on our programme and our budget is fully committed to the end of the year.

"This is an historic achievement; it would be fabulous if somehow we could raise the funds necessary to send Mark to Canada."

Pictures: Yuko Sato/UCI

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