{"id":837086,"date":"2026-07-31T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:55:10","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-england-cyclists-in-the-medals-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837086\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026: England cyclists in the medals on day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a silver double for England&#8217;s sprint teams at the Commonwealth Games on the opening day of competition at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katy Marchant, Rhianna Parris-Smith and Sophie Capewell were edged out by Wales in the women&#8217;s final, allowing an early advantage to slip as Wales roared back to win by 0.141 seconds in a new Games record of 46.760secs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamish Turnbull, Harry Ledingham-Horn and Joe Truman also had to settle for silver after being beaten by Australia by 0.577secs across the three-lap race, the winners finishing in 42.455secs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan Newberry enjoyed mixed emotions in the C4\/C5 4,000m individual pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having set a new C5 world record in qualification for the final, the 27-year-old saw the mark broken by New Zealand&#8217;s Nicole Murray in the bronze medal race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newberry then stormed to another new world record in the gold final, posting a time of five mins 5.764secs, only for her factored time to be beaten by Australian Tara Neyland who claimed gold, just outside her own C4 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lizzi Jordan and pilot Sylvie Misztal secured bronze in the tandem B sprint, winning the first two races of a best-of-three series against team-mate Sophie Unwin and her pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a silver double for England&#8217;s sprint teams at the Commonwealth Games on the opening day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-837086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}