Tandem duo Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl claimed their second world championship silver medal at this competition, coming second to Irish tandem Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly in Zurich. 

Teammates Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall finished sixth, while Lizzi Jordan and Danni Khan did not finish. In the men’s race, Chris McDonald and Adam Duggleby delivered a valiant ride over a challenging course to come home in ninth place. 

Women’s tandem B road race 

The women’s road race started at pace, with the group staying together for the first few kilometres. Hitting the first climb, Jordan and Khan struggled and found themselves dropped from the lead group, 41 seconds down at the first time check while the other bikes stayed tight together. 

Within the second half of the lap, the pair managed to rejoin the group, while teammates Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall pushed the pace on the climbs in an attempt to break up the group. 

Heading towards the end of the first lap, Holl and Unwin and Irish pair Josephine Healion and Eve McCrystal broke off the front, with the British pair quick to jump on their wheels and conserve energy. 

Helion and McCrystal continued to lead from the front and launched another successful attack, leading by 51 seconds 28km in.  

The pressure was on for Holl and Unwin to pull back their lead and they continued to keep the Irish pair in their eyesight as they headed up the 15% climb. Helion and McCrystal continued to push the pace, managing to increase their lead to 57 seconds as the women’s race hit the lakeside circuit. 

Meanwhile, Jordan and Khan had slowly drifted further back from the peloton, and with less than half of the race to go, withdrew from the race. 

Heading onto the first of five laps of the lakeside circuit, the pace increased considerably and the pairings of Unwin and Holl and Dunlevy and Kelly caught up to the leading Irish bike, with just 19 seconds separating them from the chase group of the Italian and Polish bikes. 

Fachie and Hall continued to push hard through the course, but at almost two minutes back, they looked unlikely to bridge the gap to the podium with just 30km to go. 

The next three laps saw a fierce battle as the two Irish bikes worked together in an attempt to tire Unwin and Holl and push them out of contention for the win. With 15km to go, Dunlevy and Kelly launched a ferocious attack, catching the Brits by surprise and managing to break away from the group, where they would continue to increase the gap. 

The gap from Dunlevy to Unwin was initially 14 seconds, with another 14 seconds separating Unwin and the second Irish bike. With the chase group now over a minute behind, the podium was sealed but it was a question as to whether Unwin and Holl could give it one last push on the final six kilometre circuit and take the win. 

Ultimately, the pairing of Dunlevy and Kelly proved too much for the Paralympic road race champions and Unwin and Holl settled for their second silver medal of the championships, crossing the finish line one minute and 23 seconds behind. 

Fachie and Hall finished 6:47 down on the leaders, in sixth place overall. 

Men’s tandem B road race 

Chris McDonald and Adam Duggleby settled into the first 18km lap, comfortable in the lead group of nine at first time check. 

Crossing the finish line on the first large circuit, a group of two groups of three had formed, with McDonald and Duggleby in the third group just seven seconds behind the leaders Poland and Spain. 

Heading back into the 28km loop, McDonald and Duggleby were seen to be struggling on the climb, slowing considerably and losing about a minute on the Spanish leaders. 

By the third check point, the race had broken up considerably, with French leader Alexandre Lloveras and his pilot followed by two individual bikes, a group of three, and the British pair riding solo just over two minutes behind the leaders, having lost pace on the climbs. 

The French didn’t lead alone for long, with Dutch pair Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos bridging the gap on the descent to the French team. They were quickly joined by Spaniard Imanol Arriortua Zorrilla and pilot Fransisco Rus Garcia in a lead trio that would go on to complete the podium. 

Heading into the eight laps of the six kilometre lakeside circuit, spectators witnessed a cat and mouse chase between the three lead bikes, no one wanting to show their cards too early and launch an attack. 

In the end, it was world and Paralympic champions Bangma and Bos who won the sprint and took the rainbow jersey. McDonald and Duggleby pushed hard to complete the 103.2km course and finished 7:46 behind the winners in ninth place. 

Tomorrow’s road races will see the women’s and men's junior road races, as well as the men’s C3, C4 and C5 road races. 

You can watch the junior road races on Discovery+, the men’s C3 road race on BBC live stream and all para-cycling road races on Eurovision.