Boddington ends Cundy's 20-year reign in C4 kilo time trial

Australia's Korey Boddington has taken the C4 kilo world title from Britain's Jody Cundy, ending a reign that lasted two decades. Boddington beat Cundy's kilometre time by 2.25 seconds on his final run at the para-cycling track world championships in the Netherlands, according to BBC Sport.

Cundy, aged 48, finished second in one minute and 4.93 seconds. C4 is a classification for riders with a certain type of impairment, and the kilo time trial is a solo ride against the clock over one kilometre of track. Riders go out one at a time, so the only opponent is the clock and whoever is riding next.

Cundy first won this event in 2006. He had kept the rainbow jersey, the champion's jersey, through 15 world championships since then. This week he was going for his 17th title in the discipline.

Cundy had 23 track world titles before the championships began. He is also a nine-time Paralympic champion. Three of his Paralympic medals came in swimming, between 1996 and 2000.

Boddington had already shown his speed this year. At the 2025 championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he set a world record of 10.581 seconds in qualifying, according to the UCI. New Zealand's Devon Briggs was second-fastest qualifier that year.

Britain had other results to celebrate on the opening day. Rebecca Newark won gold in the women's C5 kilo time trial. Sophie Unwin and her pilot Jenny Holl took silver in the women's B kilo time trial. A pilot is the sighted rider who sits at the front of a tandem bike and steers it. Elizabeth Jordan and her pilot Anna Whitworth Hay claimed bronze in the same event.

Finlay Graham took bronze in the men's C3 sprint final, a short, fast race on the track.

The championships run until 1 November, so there are more finals to come. For Cundy, the result means a first world kilo defeat after a long run of wins, and a fresh target to chase in the events that follow.