Lancashire track cyclist Rik Waddon finished ninth in the first of his London 2012 events this afternoon.
Waddon, who lives in Chorley, was racing today in the mens individual C1-2-3 1km time trial.
But Great Britain's first medal of the London 2012 Paralympic Games went to Mark Colbourne who won silver.
In an event factored to account for mixing classifications, Li Zhang Yu of China won gold with a C1 world record of one minute 13.009 seconds, converted to 1min 05.021secs.
Colbourne, competing in his first Paralympics aged 41 following a paragliding accident in 2009 which saw him sustain a broken back, finished in 1:16.882, converted to 1:08.471, as he claimed Britain's first podium place of the Games in front of a 6,000-capacity partisan crowd.
Tobias Graf of Germany set a C2 world record of 1:15.858, converted to 1:09.979, as he finished with bronze.
C3 world record holder Kenny, a six-time Paralympic champion, clocked 1:10.203 to place fourth, while Waddon, who has cerebral palsy, was ninth in 1:11.394.
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