Track Cycling World Cup: Great Britain win two gold medals and one silver on second day
Sunday 9 November 2014 11:25, UK
Great Britain won two gold medals and one silver on the second day of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The golds came in the women’s team pursuit and the men’s team sprint, while the silver was delivered by the men’s team pursuit quartet.
In the men’s team sprint, Jason Kenny, Philip Hindes and Callum Skinner produced a fine performance to beat Germany's trio of Robert Forstemann, Joachim Eilers and Eric Engler by just 0.014 seconds in the final.
The British team had qualified second fastest behind the Germans but turned the tables in a closely contested decider with a time of 43.092 seconds.
In the women’s team pursuit, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne and Amy Roberts defeated Canada, one of their closest rivals, by five seconds in the final to continue Britain’s domination of the event.
The quartet stopped the clock on the 4km distance in a time of 4min 21.256sec, having earlier swept aside China in the semi-final.
Silver lining
In the men’s team pursuit, Steven Burke, Andy Tennant, Jon Dibben and Mark Christian overcame the Netherlands in the semi-final but were beaten by just over two seconds by Australia in the final.
Elsewhere on the second day of the world cup, Kenny narrowly missed out on claiming a second medal by finishing fourth in the men's keirin, while Jess Varnish and Victoria Williamson were both knocked out of the women's individual sprint before the quarter-final stage.
Both the men's and women's omnium got under way, with Dibben entering for Britain and riding three events on top of his two outings in the team pursuit. The 20-year-old sits outside of the medal places after a sixth in the scratch race, 15th in the pursuit and 19th in the scratch race.
Katie Archibald sat out the final rounds of the team pursuit to enter the omnium but is also out of medal contention at the halfway stage. She finished 23rd in the scratch race, 16th in the pursuit and tenth in the elimination race.
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