Brilliant Rohan bumps up Irish gold medal tally

For five days, Mark Rohan could only look on as the medals were hoarded and the levels of expectation multiplied like ripples in a pond.

By yesterday morning, he was the last of the 49-strong Irish Paralympic team to get a taste of these Games and wheeled his way to the starting ramp in Brands Hatch yesterday afternoon aware that anything less than a gold would be greeted with deflation.

By yesterday evening, he was H1 individual time-trial champion of the world.