Jody Cundy's story is truly remarkable and hard to replicate. Twenty-eight years ago, he made his debut at Atlanta 1996 and won his first medal. Now, at Paris 2024, he has won his latest. He has won at least one medal in each of his appearances. This time he did so by defending the mixed team sprint title alongside Kadeena Cox and Jaco van Gass.

Cundy, 45, teamed up with Kadeena Cox and Jaco van Gass to successfully defend the mixed team sprint title in the velodrome. This brings his total to eight medals in eight appearances for ParalympicsGB. Kadeena Cox had already recovered mentally from her crash in the velodrome final, where she was the favourite but was knocked out by bad luck. For Van Gass, it was another gold medal to add to his performance last week. The ParalympicsGB trio was truly top class.

For Cundy, it's his sixth gold medal in track cycling and thirteenth overall, including the swimming medal he won in Atlanta in 1996. Cundy has had a unique sporting career, winning his first gold medal in para-swimming (100m butterfly) and continuing to swim until Athens 2004 (three gold and two bronze medals).

From Beijing 2008 onwards, he swapped his swimsuit for a bike and has since gone on to win six Paralympic titles, a silver medal and a bronze medal in the velodrome. The trio crossed the line in 47.738 seconds. They were almost two seconds faster than Spain (49.564).

Who knows if he'll reach his ninth Games in Los Angeles, but the 45-year-old has made it clear that he wants to be there. "I can't believe I have nine gold medals," said Cundy, as quoted by The Independent. Jody is part of UK Sport's World Class Programme, funded by the National Lottery, which has allowed him to dedicate himself to training and has enabled him to arrive at Paris 2024 in competitive form.

"I couldn't have imagined where I would be when I started this journey in 1996. Another gold medal around my neck and it's fabulous. I love the sport and I can still compete at the highest level and do the training I need," he said.

The British team's final was very fast. They just missed the Tokyo record by 0.159 seconds. Cundy himself was pleased with the race, even if the gold medal was magnificent. "Tokyo is still my favourite gold medal, just because you never have the perfect race, but this one was," he said.

Cox made it through the first 250 metres, helping her to forget the events of the 500m time trial, where her tears after crashing made headlines around the world. It took her time to recover mentally, but her quality got her back on the track.

Great Britain also won gold with James Ball and Sophie Unwin. Ball won the men's tandem kilometre with pilot Steffan Lloyd. They finished in 58.964 seconds, ahead of Paralympic champion Neil Fachie.

It was Unwin's first Paralympic gold in Paris. She won bronze in the time trial at the start of last week's Games. This time she took gold alongside pilot Jenny Holl in the women's 3000m individual pursuit, also breaking the world record in the qualifying heat.