Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton won gold medals for Great Britain at the Track World Championships.<\/p>\n
Tarling delivered a first British gold of the championship in Chile by winning the men’s points race, amassing 750 points over the 40km event to beat American Peter Moore (675) to the title.<\/p>\n
Charlton, 22, then doubled the gold tally, winning GB’s first world title in the individual pursuit since Bradley Wiggins in 2008.<\/p>\n
A good start saw 21-year-old Tarling take points in the opening sprint, then secure maximum points in sprint three before he powered clear to gain a lap.<\/p>\n
That gave him the lead and he continued to accumulate points, including the maximum again in sprint 11, to win gold in style.<\/p>\n
Track Worlds debutant Tarling becomes the first British man to win the points race title since Jonathan Dibben in 2016.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know how [my first World Championships] would be or how it would feel , so not knowing was scary,” Tarling said.<\/p>\n
“It felt pretty good. I think it was good that I got those early points in so I knew the legs were there.”<\/p>\n
Charlton, who took silver on his championships debut last year, dominated this time around as he upgraded to gold – finishing more than three seconds clear of Denmark’s Rasmus Pederson.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Joe Truman took bronze in the men’s 1km time trial – behind the Dutch duo of Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland – to match his achievement from 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
Britain’s overall medal tally is now up to seven after three days of action.<\/p>\n
Katie Archibald won silver<\/a> in the women’s elimination race, while GB claimed women’s team pursuit bronze on Thursday, having secured silver medals in both the men’s and women’s team sprints on the opening day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton won gold medals for Great Britain at the Track World Championships. Tarling delivered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224288","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\/224288","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=224288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}