British golds for Emily Kay and men's team sprint squad at Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow
Monday 7 November 2016 15:08, UK
Great Britain topped the medal table at the Track World Cup in Glasgow after picking up two more gold medals on Sunday.
The hosts took their haul to five golds with Emily Kay winning the new-look omnium before the men's team sprint squad of Jack Carlin, Ryan Owens and Joe Truman also triumphed at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
Kay, the most senior member of the team pursuit squad which won on Friday, won her second gold of the three-day event with a mature and composed ride in the omnium.
She was fourth in the opening scratch race, second in the tempo race and second in the elimination race to sit second entering the concluding points race.
The 21-year-old from Bromsgrove was six points behind Japan's Yumi Kajihara, but overcame that margin and then held off the challenge from behind as Belgium's Lotte Kopecky finished one point adrift.
"For the first World Cup in the [Tokyo 2020 Olympic] cycle, to win gold is better than I could have imagined," Kay said.
Britain have won the last three Olympics in the three-rider, three-lap men's team sprint but no world title since 2005.
That might soon change as Carlin, Owens and Truman showed there is strength in depth behind Rio gold medallists Phil Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner.
The trio won in 43.479 seconds, with France second, and now compete at next week's Track World Cup in Apeldoorn.
Owens, an unused Rio Olympics reserve, said: "We're such a unit together, we're friends on and off the track.
"We were third in qualifying but we just got better and better as the day went on.
"We just went out there and enjoyed the environment with the home crowd and it came out the best way possible."
Great Britain's earlier golds in Glasgow - where they won no silvers or bronzes - came from the team pursuit squads on Friday and Katie Archibald and Manon Lloyd in the women's Madison on Saturday.