Great Britain’s Dave Ellis triumphed in the Paralympic triathlon event in the men’s PTVI class as the GB funneled for a few medals in the race across downtown Paris.
Ellis, closely followed by Miley and then Berens, took more than a minute of the overall time to claim the gold and make it for Olympic heartbreak in Tokyo three years ago.
He is part of a strong team comprising other British athletes that include Lauren Steadman, Claire Cashmore,
and Alison Peasgood, among others, that should clinch medals from Prince Alexandre III on Monday.
Having started the race in fifth position after swimming, Ellis and Pollard cyclists were able to bridge to the front group.
This was where the golden dreams of Ellis and Pollard ended in 2021, allowing a problem with the chain of their bicycle to force them to quit the game.
This time there was no such problem; Ellis was in a four-man race for the first after the cycle along with French triathletes Antoine Perel and Thibaut Rigaudeau, as well as Owen Cravens of the USA.
But it was in the run where Ellis demonstrated he was in a different class to leave the field and also claim a Paralympic gold apart from world, European, and Commonwealth crowns.