Laura Trott wins gold in scratch race at European Track Championships
Saturday 17 October 2015 19:51, UK
Laura Trott bagged her second gold medal of the European Track Championships after winning the scratch race in Switzerland.
The 23-year had already been a member of the victorious women's pursuit team and produced a superb performance in Grenchen to secure another gold.
The race took place over 40 laps of the track and Trott took her time, as she was using the race as preparation for the omnium competition, which gets under way on Saturday.
However, she produced a superb final lap to storm past her rivals and come home ahead of Holland's Kirsten Wild and Roxanne Fournier of France.
Trott said: "We were using it as a bit of tester for Saturday really because, obviously, the scratch race is the first race of the omnium, so it was a bit of an activation.
"I'd normally do a turbo session on the day between the team pursuit and the omnium. As it was a scratch race and only 40 laps we thought why not, I'll just do it, and I just didn't panic, I guess.
"It was like that little break went away and everyone was looking at me to work and I was like, 'I don't need to work, this isn't my race to lose'."
