Sarah Storey

Dame
Sarah Storey
DBE
Sarah Storey - 2017 Tour Series (Motherwell, pre-race).jpg
Storey in 2017.
Personal information
Full nameSarah Storey
Born (1977-10-26) 26 October 1977 (age 44)
Manchester, England
Team information
Current teamStorey Racing
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2010–2011Horizon Fitness
2012Escentual–For Viored
2013–2015Breast Cancer Care
2017Storey Racing
2019–Storey Racing
Professional teams
2016Podium Ambition Pro Cycling
2018Storey Racing
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's swimming
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 5 8 3
IPC World Championships 6 5 5
Total 11 13 8
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 100 m backstroke S10
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 200 m individual medley SM10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 100 m backstroke S10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 100 m breaststroke SB10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 200 m individual medley SM10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 400 m freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 4×100 m freestyle S7–10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 4×100 m medley S7–10
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta 400 m freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 100 m backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 4×100 m medley 34pts
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 100 m breaststroke SB9
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 200 m individual medley SM10
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona 100 m freestyle S10
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta 100 m freestyle S10
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens 100 m freestyle S10
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Malta 4x100m Freestyle relay S7-S10 and 100 m Breaststroke SB10
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 100 m Freestyle S10
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 200 m Ind. Medley SM10
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 400 m Freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 1994 Malta 100 m Backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 1994 Malta 200 m Ind. Medley SM10
Silver medal – second place 1994 Malta 400 m Freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 1998 Christchurch 100 m Backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 1998 Christchurch 4x100 m Medley open
Silver medal – second place 2002 Mar del Plata 100 m Backstroke S10
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Malta 4x100 m Medley S7-10
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 200 m Ind. Medley SM10
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 400 m Freestyle S10
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 4x100 m Freestyle open
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Mar del Plata 50 m Freestyle S10
Women's cycling
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 12 0 0
Para Track World Champs 13 2 2
Para Road World Champs 10 2 0
Para Euro Cycling Champs 3 1 0
Total 36 5 2
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Time trial LC 1–2/CP 4
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual Road Time Trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual Road Race C4–5
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Road race C4-5
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Individual Road Race C4–5
UCI World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Bogogno Time trial LC1
Gold medal – first place 2009 Bogogno Road race LC1
Gold medal – first place 2010 Baie-Comeau Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2010 Baie-Comeau Road race C5
Gold medal – first place 2011 Roskilde Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2011 Roskilde Road race C5
Gold medal – first place 2014 Greenville Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2014 Greenville Road race C5
Gold medal – first place 2015 Nottwil Time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2015 Nottwil Road race C5
Silver medal – second place 2006 Aigle Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2006 Aigle Road race
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar Road Race
Silver medal – second place 2005 Alkmaar Time Trial
Track cycling
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Individual pursuit LC 1–2/CP 4
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Time Trial C4–5 500m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Individual pursuit C5
IPC / UCI World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Aigle 3km Pursuit LC1
Gold medal – first place 2007 Bordeaux 3km Pursuit LC1
Gold medal – first place 2009 Manchester 3km Pursuit LC1
Gold medal – first place 2009 Manchester 500m time trial LC1
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari 500m time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari 4km Pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 Carson 500m time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 Carson 3km Pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2014 Aguascalientes 3km Pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2014 Aguascalientes Scratch race C1-5
Gold medal – first place 2015 Apeldoorn 500m time trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2015 Apeldoorn 3km Pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2016 Montichiari 3km Pursuit C5
Silver medal – second place 2016 Montichiari 500m time trial C5
Silver medal – second place 2016 Montichiari Scratch race C5
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Bordeaux 400m time trial LC1
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Aguascalientes 500m time trial C5
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar Individual Pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar 500m time trial

Dame Sarah Joanne Storey, DBE (née Bailey; born 26 October 1977) is a British Paralympic athlete in cycling and swimming, and a multiple gold medalist in the Paralympic Games, and six times British (able-bodied) national track champion (2 × Pursuit, 1 × Points, 3 × Team Pursuit). Her total of 28 Paralympic medals including 17 gold medals makes her the most successful (by gold medals) and most decorated (by total medals) British Paralympian of all time as well as one of the most decorated Paralympic athletes of all time. She has the unique distinction of winning five gold medals in Paralympics before turning 19.

Storey's major achievements include being a 29-time World champion (6 in swimming and 23 in cycling), a 21-time European champion (18 in swimming and 3 in cycling) and holding 75 world records. She is regarded as one of the most experienced campaigners in the history of the Paralympics as she took part at the Paralympics on eight occasions in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. She is a current para world record holder in women's 3000m individual pursuit and hour record.

On 2 September 2021, she surpassed Mike Kenny's 16 Paralympic gold medal record to become Great Britain's most successful Paralympic athlete of all time after securing her 17th Paralympic gold medal when she won the women’s road race C4-5 event.

Early life

Storey was born Sarah Bailey in Manchester without a functioning left hand after her arm became entangled in the umbilical cord in the womb and the hand did not develop as normal. As a schoolgirl, she was subjected to bullying by her school mates and also faced eating disorder issues at school. She joined her first swimming club at the age of ten and was told by her coach that she had started her training too late to be good at anything.

Swimming at the Paralympic Games

Storey began her Paralympic career as a swimmer, winning two golds, three silvers and a bronze in Barcelona in 1992. She made her maiden appearance at the Paralympics in 1992 at the age of 14. She continued swimming in the next three Paralympic Games before switching to cycling in 2005, reputedly because of a persisting ear infection. It was revealed that she ended up with chronic fatigue syndrome before her 19th birthday.

She retained her Paralympic gold medals in women's 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley events at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. Despite the ear infection triggered by chronic fatigue syndrome, she continued to participate in swimming and claimed four silver medals and a solitary bronze in the next two Paralympic Games in 2000 and 2004 before quitting the sport.

Cycling

Storey at the Our Greatest Team Parade, in 2012.

At the 2008 Paralympic Games, her fifth, Storey won the individual pursuit – in a time that would have been in the top eight at the Olympic final – and the road

Storey also competes against non-disabled athletes and won the 3 km national track pursuit championship in 2008, eight days after taking the Paralympic title, and successfully defended her title in 2009. In 2014, she added a third national track title with a win in the points race.

Storey qualified to join the England team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she was "the first disabled cyclist to compete for England at the Commonwealth Games", against non-disabled cyclists. She was also the second Paralympic athlete overall competing for England at the Games, following archer Danielle Brown earlier in Delhi.

In 2011, Storey competed for one of the three places in the GB squad for the women's team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games. Although she was in the winning team for the World Cup event in Cali, Colombia in December 2011, she was informed afterwards that she was being dropped from the team pursuit squad.

London's 2012 Paralympics Games saw Storey win Britain's first gold medal, in the women's individual C5 pursuit. She went on to win three more gold medals, one in the Time Trial C4–5 500m, one in the Individual Road Time Trial C5 and finally one in the Individual Road Race C4–5.

In 2014, Storey and her husband Barney Storey founded the Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International women's amateur cycling team, supporting the charity Boot Out Breast Cancer. The team fielded squads in the 2014 and 2015 British road race seasons.

Storey attempted to break the world hour record at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London on 28 February 2015. She set a distance of 45.502 km, which was 563m short of Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel's 2003 overall world record – however Storey's distance did set a new world record in the C5 Paralympic cycling class as well as a new British record.

In the Rio 2016 Paralympics Storey became Britain's most successful female Paralympian when she won the C5 3000m individual pursuit final.

She became the first athlete to win the gold medal for Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Paralympics when she defended her Paralympic title in the women's individual pursuit C5 event. It was also her fifth Paralympic gold medal in track cycling and her tenth Paralympic gold medal in women's cycling. It was also her record 15th gold medal in her Paralympic career. During the qualifying heat event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she also incredibly shattered her own world record by four seconds in the individual pursuit C5 category.

Personal life

Storey married tandem pilot and coach Barney Storey in 2007. She gave birth to a daughter on 30 June 2013 and a son on 14 October 2017. She and her husband live in Disley, Cheshire.

In April 2019, Storey was appointed Active Travel Commissioner for the Sheffield City Region.

Honours

Storey was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours "for services to Swimming for People with Disabilities". Following the Beijing Games, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours "for services to Disabled Sport." In 2012, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Manchester. Following the 2012 London Games, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours "for services to para-cycling".

Storey was a nominee for the 2008 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year with a Disability and the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. She won The Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year in 2020, her win being officially announced in an online ceremony.

Major results

1992
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
1st Gold medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 400 m Freestyle
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 4x100 m Freestyle
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 4x100 m Medley
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 100 m Freestyle
1994
World Para Swimming Championships
1st Gold medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
1st Gold medal blank.svg 100 m Breaststroke
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 400 m Freestyle
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 4x100 m Medley
1996
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg 100 m Breaststroke
1st Gold medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
1st Gold medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 400 m Freestyle
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 100 m Freestyle
1998
World Para Swimming Championships
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 4x100 m Medley
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 400 m Freestyle
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 100 m Breaststroke
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 4x100 m Freestyle
2000
Paralympic Games
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 4x100 m Medley
2002
World Para Swimming Championships
1st Gold medal blank.svg 100 m Freestyle
1st Gold medal blank.svg 400 m Freestyle
1st Gold medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 100 m Backstroke
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 50 m Freestyle
2004
Paralympic Games
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 100 m Breaststroke
2nd Silver medal blank.svg 200 m Individual Medley
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 100 m Freestyle
2005
European Para-cycling Championships
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Road Race
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Individual Pursuit
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg 500m Time Trial
2nd Time Trial
European Open Para-cycling Championships
1st Road Race
1st Individual Pursuit
2nd 500m Time Trial
3rd Time Trial
National Track Championships
7th Individual Pursuit
2006
UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
3rd 500m Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Para-cycling Individual Pursuit
3rd Individual Pursuit
7th 500m Time Trial
UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
2nd Road Race
2nd Time Trial
2007
UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
3rd 500m Time Trial
National Road Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Para-cycling Road Race
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Para-cycling Individual Pursuit
7th 500m Time Trial
UCI Paralympic World Cup
1st Individual Pursuit
1st 500m Time Trial
2008
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time Trial
1st Gold medal blank.svg Individual Pursuit
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual Pursuit
UCI Paralympic World Cup
1st Individual Pursuit
3rd 500m Time Trial
2009
UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg 500m Time Trial
UCI Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
UCI Masters Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
2nd Road Race
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual Pursuit
UCI Paralympic World Cup
1st Individual Pursuit
1st 500m Time Trial
2010
UCI Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team Pursuit
2nd Individual Pursuit
6th Commonwealth Games, Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall 2 Days of Bedford International Stage Race
1st Stages 1 & 2
9th National Road Championships, Road Race
2011
UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg 500m Time Trial
UCI Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team Pursuit
4th Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall 2 Days of Bedford International Stage Race
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 & 2
UCI Track Cycling World Cup–Manchester
1st Team Pursuit
Sydney Road World Cup
1st Road Race
1st Time Trial
1st Blenheim Palace Time Trial Event
3rd National Road Championships, Time Trial
2012
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Gold medal blank.svg 500m Time Trial
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time Trial
1st Gold medal blank.svg Road Race
2012 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
2nd Team Sprint
UCI Track Cycling World Cup–Cali
1st Team Pursuit
1st Overall Essex Giro Stage Race
1st Blenheim Palace Time Trial
1st Curlew Cup Road Race
1st Caperwry Road Race
1st Cheshire Classic Road Race
9th Overall Tour du Limousin
2014
2014 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Scratch Race
3rd 500m Time Trial
2014 UCI Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points Race
2nd Team Pursuit
1st Overall Essex Giro Stage Race
1st Cheshire Classic Road Race
1st Stage 2 Tour de Bretagne Feminine
3rd National Road Championships, Time Trial
2015
2015 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
2nd 500m Time Trial
2015 UCI Road Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Team Pursuit
1st Cheshire Classic Road Race
1st Overall National Time Trial Series
3rd National Road Championships, Time Trial
3rd Points Race, Revolution – Round 4, Glasgow
2016
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time Trial
1st Gold medal blank.svg Road Race
2016 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
2nd 500m Time Trial
2nd Scratch Race
3rd National Road Championships, Time Trial
2017
National Track Championships
3rd Team Pursuit
2019
2019 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
2020
2019 UCI Track Para-cycling World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Scratch Race
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Omnium
2020
Paralympic Games
1st Gold medal blank.svg Individual Pursuit
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time Trial
1st Gold medal blank.svg Road Race

World records

Date Discipline Time Event Location Ref
14 August 2005 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 4'01"140 Alkmaar,  Netherlands
11 September 2006 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 3'53"107 Aigle,   Switzerland
12 September 2006 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 3'51"666 Aigle,   Switzerland
22 August 2007 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 3'48"622 Bordeaux,  France
10 September 2008 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 3'36"637 2008 Paralympic Games Beijing,  China
7 November 2009 3000m Individual Pursuit (LC 1) 3'34"266 Manchester,  Great Britain
29 November 2011 3000m Individual Pursuit (C5) 3'33"248 Manchester,  Great Britain
30 August 2012 3000m Individual Pursuit (C5) 3'32"170 2012 Paralympic Games London,  Great Britain
2 April 2014 3000m Individual Pursuit (C5) 3'32"050 Aguascalientes,  Mexico
28 February 2015 Hour record (C5) 45.502 km UCI Track Cycling World Cup Lee Valley VeloPark, London,  Great Britain
8 September 2016 3000m Individual Pursuit (C5) 3'31"394 2016 Paralympic Games Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil

See also


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