{"id":222369,"date":"2025-10-24T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:01:07","slug":"world-track-cycling-championships-katie-archibald-wins-silver-medal-as-gb-women-take-team-pursuit-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222369\/","title":{"rendered":"World Track Cycling Championships: Katie Archibald wins silver medal as GB women take team pursuit bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archibald helped GB win team pursuit gold at the past two World Championships. The 31-year-old Scot was not in the squad for the first time since 2017 but aims to be in the team at the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Jess Roberts and Meg Barker qualified second fastest but were beaten by Germany in the first round, before Maddie Leech replaced Roberts as GB comfortably beat Belgium for bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the sprint events, Emma Finucane made it through to the women&#8217;s quarter-finals by beating GB team-mate Lauren Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in the deciding race at that stage with Russian Iana Burlakova, Finucane was relegated for dropping into the sprinter&#8217;s lane, knocking the two-time defending champion out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Richardson and Harry Ledingham-Horn were knocked out in the men&#8217;s keirin quarter-finals, before Dutch star Harrie Lavreysen extended his record for world titles to 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archibald helped GB win team pursuit gold at the past two World Championships. The 31-year-old Scot was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}