GB win gold and bronze in girls’s B time trial

UCI Biking World Championships 2023

Hosts: Glasgow and throughout Scotland Dates: 3-13 August

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Staff GB gained their first medals of the Biking World Championships in Glasgow, accumulating gold and bronze within the girls’s B 1km time trial.

Briton Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl have been greater than a second down on Jessica Gallagher and Caitlin Ward with a lap to go however beat the Australians to first place by 0.060 seconds.

Jordan Elizabeth and Amy Cole completed third.

Staff GB’s Lora Fachie and Corrine Corridor got here fourth.

Unwin and Holl had gained bronze within the occasion final 12 months and are the defending class B particular person pursuit champions.

They certified quickest and, setting the final time of the ultimate, dramatically edged out Gallagher and Ward who had crushed Unwin to gold on the 1km time trial on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.

GB win males’s B particular person pursuit bronze

Elsewhere on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Thursday Stephen Bates and Christopher Latham beat fellow Britons Chris McDonald and Adam Duggleby within the males’s B particular person pursuit bronze medal race.

However there was heartbreak for Staff GB’s Neah Evans with the Scot pipped to bronze by New Zealand’s Bryony Botha within the girls’s elite particular person pursuit.

Briton Sam Ruddock completed fourth within the males’s C1 particular person pursuit, eight seconds behind China’s Weicong Liang within the third-placed race.

Republic of Eire’s Ronan Grimes gained bronze within the males’s C4 Particular person pursuit, beating France’s Gatien Le Rousseau in his bronze medal race.

And within the males’s C5 scratch race British riders William Bjergfelt and Blaine Hunt completed fourth and sixth respectively.

Earlier defending champions Nice Britain crashed out of the boys’s workforce pursuit with rider Charlie Tanfield was taken to hospital following a fall within the qualification spherical.

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