{"id":349755,"date":"2025-12-15T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349755\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:03:07","slug":"great-britain-dominate-with-11-victories-at-key-end-of-year-track-cycling-event-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349755\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain dominate with 11 victories at key end-of-year track cycling event in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain\u2019s Olympic track cyclists<\/a> dominated at the Tissot Track Cycling Challenge in Switzerland over the weekend, where they earned 18 medals, of which 11 gold.<\/p>\n

The squad ruled in particular over the women\u2019s events, winning every elite final on both the endurance and sprint sides.<\/p>\n

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Among the standout riders was Anna Morris<\/a>, the current world, European and national individual pursuit champion, who claimed four victories inside the velodrome in Grenchen over the two-day event: the scratch race, points race, omnium and Madison alongside Katie Archibald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old wrote on Instagram afterwards that it was a \u201cpretty exciting life moment\u201d to race and win alongside Archibald, and hailed the \u201cclean sweep\u201d she helped the Brits achieve across all the women\u2019s races.<\/p>\n

In the sprint events, it was Sophie Capewell<\/a> who led the supremacy. The Olympic team sprint champion, who decided to sit out of racing for much of the year to recover after last summer\u2019s Games<\/a>, won both the individual sprint and keirin competitions, guiding a British 1-2-3 in the latter, ahead of Lowri Thomas and Lauren Bell.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst international in a while after a long break from racing,\u201d Capewell wrote on Instaram. \u201cA couple of wins, good learnings, and back building race rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were also braces of victories for Ollie Wood<\/a> in the men\u2019s points race and omnium, and Ethan Vernon<\/a> in the elimination race and Madison.<\/p>\n

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Vernon rode in the Madison alongside his NSN Cycling<\/a> road teammate Lewis Askey<\/a>, a former junior national champion in the event, who returned to the track for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n

The Tissot Track Cycling Challenge is an official UCI event that carries a Class 1 licence, making it higher-ranked than National Championships, but less so than World or Continental Championships, or the various UCI Nations Cups.<\/p>\n

GB\u2019s medal haul of 18 vastly overshadowed the rest of the competition; the next best nation was France, with four medals and only one gold.<\/p>\n

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The full list of GB\u2019s medal winners from the 2025 Tissot Track Cycling Challenge is below. The squad did not take any male sprinters to the competition in Switzerland; some recently spent time on a training camp in Lanzarote, while others, including Matthew Richardson<\/a>, competed at the recent Six Days of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

GB medal winners<\/p>\n

GOLD<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s elimination race \u2013 Ethan Vernon
Men\u2019s Madison \u2013 Lewis Askey and Ethan Vernon
Men\u2019s omnium \u2013 Ollie Wood
Men\u2019s points race \u2013 Ollie Wood
Women\u2019s elimination race \u2013 Katie Archibald
Women\u2019s keirin \u2013 Sophie Capewell
Women\u2019s Madison \u2013 Katie Archibald and Anna Morris
Women\u2019s omnium \u2013 Anna Morris
Women\u2019s points race \u2013 Anna Morris
Women\u2019s scratch race \u2013 Anna Morris
Women\u2019s sprint \u2013 Sophie Capewell<\/p>\n

SILVER <\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Madison \u2013 Matthew Bostock and Ollie Wood
Women\u2019s keirin \u2013 Lowri Thomas
Women\u2019s points race \u2013 Katie Archibald
Women\u2019s sprint \u2013 Lowri Thomas<\/p>\n

BRONZE<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s elimination race \u2013 Lewis Askey
Men\u2019s scratch race \u2013 Lewis Askey
Women\u2019s keirin \u2013 Lauren Bell<\/p>\n

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