VERWOOD'S Darren Kenny successfully defended his Paralympic title and then sent out a warning to Great Britain's cycle rivals.

Kenny clinched a second successive CP3/4 three-kilometre individual pursuit gold medal in Beijing today, with fellow cyclists Simon Richardson and Aileen McGlynn and swimmer Sascha Kindred also taking golds.

And Kenny says Team GB are equipped to take on anyone at the Laoshan Velodrome.

Kenny, aiming for a personal haul of five golds after two wins and two silvers in Athens, said: "I don't think there's anyone here that's not capable of getting the gold.

"That's the standard to get on to the team at the moment - we've left behind people that are capable of winning medals because of the number of spaces we're allocated."

The Dorset 38-year-old took almost six seconds off his own world record in the heat, lowering the mark to three minutes 36.875 seconds before overtaking South Korea's Jin Yong-sik after just 1,000 metres of the final.

Kenny, who was a promising junior rider before a series of crashes led to his disability, believes he can achieve his personal quest of five titles.

"This track feels really fast, conditions are good, my condition's good, I'm on a new bike, new hat and it just feels like it's all downhill all the way round," added Kenny.

"But there's a difference between what you can do and what you will do, so we'll see."