Jaco van Gass beat ParalympicsGB team mate Fin Graham in the men's C3 3,000m individual pursuit final to win the first British gold medal in cycling at Paris 2024.
Jaco van Gass revealed he was hit by a car just days before winning Britain's first cycling gold medal of the Paris 2024 Paralympics.But the 36-year-old said he is fortunate to be at the Games following an incident on the streets of Paris last week."We did a recce of the road course last week, a car pulled out in front of me and I went over the bonnet. I had to take a few days off to recover, nurse myself back in, but we managed to recover well.
"The next day is always the hardest as the body settles down, the Saturday was very hard to kind of comprehend - would I be riding? By Sunday I was riding on the track again," he said.Van Gass' gold came in a rush of six medals in the velodrome for Great Britain on day two of the 2024 Paralympics. The 25-year-old from Greenwich easily defeated Japan's Shota Kawamoto to secure a medal on his Paralympic debut.
"It's a dream come true," she said. "I've worked really hard from the bottom to the top, and I hope it's an example to people of what you can achieve.
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