{"id":224669,"date":"2025-10-25T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224669\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:29:07","slug":"tarling-and-charlton-grab-gbs-first-golds-at-track-world-championships-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224669\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarling and Charlton grab GB\u2019s first golds at Track World Championships | Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Great Britain secured their first gold medals at the Track World Championships in Chile as Josh Charlton claimed his first world title with victory in the individual pursuit and Josh Tarling stormed to victory the men\u2019s points race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tarling gave a points race masterclass to land gold before Charlton picked up his first rainbow jersey in the individual pursuit \u2013 Britain\u2019s first gold in the men\u2019s event since Bradley Wiggins in 2008. Joe Truman claimed bronze in the men\u2019s kilo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tarling picked up maximum points in the third sprint of the points race before launching a bold solo move to gain a lap. From there the 21-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/10\/giro-ditalia-josh-tarling-primoz-roglic-time-trial-victory-cycling\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who won a stage<\/a> for Ineos Grenadiers at the Giro d\u2019Italia this year, regularly collected points in the sprints, finishing second in the final dash to seal the title by eight points over the American Peter Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Charlton is the first British man to win a world individual pursuit medal since Bradley Wiggins 17 years ago. Photograph: Javier Torres\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tarling said: \u201cIt felt pretty good. I think it was good that I got those early points in just so I knew the legs were there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Charlton, who took silver in the individual pursuit last year, produced a dominant display to qualify for the final 2.248sec faster than Rasmus Pedersen of Denmark. Charlton established a two-second lead within the opening kilometre and crossed the finish line more than three seconds ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">British riders have now won seven medals after three days of action in Santiago. Katie Archibald snared silver in the women\u2019s elimination race, and GB claimed a women\u2019s team pursuit bronze on Thursday, after winning silver medals in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s team sprints on the opening day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain secured their first gold medals at the Track World Championships in Chile as Josh Charlton claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224669","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\/224669","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=224669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}