Katie Archibald won a silver medal in the women’s elimination race while Great Britain claimed bronze in the women’s team pursuit at the Track World Championships.<\/p>\n
Two-time Olympic champion Archibald was competing in the elimination for the first time in a World Championships and the race took three attempts to get started because of crashes.<\/p>\n
With the riders having been whittled down to four in Santiago, Chile, Archibald made a last-ditch sprint to knock out Victoire Berteau of France and secure her 16th world medal overall.<\/p>\n
Belgium’s Helene Hesters then bowed out, leaving a match sprint with Ireland’s Lara Gillespie, who opened a gap as she pushed for the line and Archibald could not catch the European champion from taking her first world title. <\/p>\n
“I’m really happy to get to that point to contend when it’s a different race in the final two [laps, the match sprint],” said Archibald. “I just didn’t have the legs.”<\/p>\n
Gillespie said: “It’s really special and I’m so proud of my country and our small team here. It took focus and composure and I kept believing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Archibald won a silver medal in the women’s elimination race while Great Britain claimed bronze in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-237679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}