Saturday 15 April 2017 17:41, UK
Katie Archibald missed out on another medal opportunity in the women's individual pursuit, the day after securing her first individual world gold at the Track Cycling World Championships.
The 23-year-old won Great Britain's third medal in Hong Kong, and a first gold, with a hard-fought victory in the omnium, but placed fifth in qualifying of the three kilometres individual pursuit on Saturday.
Only the top four riders progressed to a second ride and Archibald, who clocked three minutes 31.331 seconds, was 0.258 seconds off fourth place.
"I just feel a bit stupid," Archibald said. "I feel that I could be good at it. I wanted to peak for it and I didn't.
"I guess I am just kind of embarrassed as I have put a lot of work into it."
Archibald acknowledged there are few opportunities to prioritise a non-Olympic event like the individual pursuit and this was one of them. The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games may be the next and final chance ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Olympic team pursuit gold medallist from Rio has temporarily relocated to Glasgow from Manchester and taken the decision to coach herself.
Archibald, 23, added: "Yesterday was probably the hardest race I have ever done and it turns out I couldn't do it twice.
"I had this one chance to focus on it, not that I would have changed yesterday for anything. Definitely no regrets, it was the right thing to do."
Chloe Dygert of the United States was the fastest qualifier in 3 minutes 22.920secs, almost seven seconds clear of the field.
Archibald's personal best is 3:28, which would have been good enough to meet Dygert in the final.
"I think I might have been making excuses in the past. (But) I've not progressed," Archibald added.
"That's the same time as I did at a World Championships two years ago, off the back of three pursuit rides in one day."
There would also be no medal for youngster Ryan Owens, who could only finish fifth in the men's sprint.
The 21-year-old from Bedfordshire beat Germany's Max Niederlag, who had knocked fellow Briton Callum Skinner, to make the semi-finals.
But Owens proved no match for Dutch rider Harrie Lavreysen in the semi-finals and was then beaten 2-0 by New Zealand's Ethan Mitchell in the battle for bronze.
Lavreysen had to settle for silver as he was beaten in both legs by Russia's Denis Dmitriev.
