{"id":225142,"date":"2025-10-25T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:29:15","slug":"i-just-didnt-have-the-legs-gbs-katie-archibald-scores-silver-on-day-two-of-the-track-world-championships-emma-finucane-relegated-out-of-sprint-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225142\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I just didn’t have the legs’ \u2013 GB’s Katie Archibald scores silver on day two of the Track World Championships, Emma Finucane relegated out of sprint title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain\u2019s Katie Archibald<\/a> added a 16th medal to her UCI Track World Championships<\/a> collection on Thursday night, earning silver in a crash-marred elimination race.<\/p>\n

The event was stopped and restarted twice in Santiago, Chile, after two heavy crashes caused two riders to be stretchered off. Archibald came into the final two with Ireland\u2019s Lara Gillespie, and led out the last lap from the front, but was pipped on the line.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnce we did get going, I had a couple of close calls, and then got into the swing of things,\u201d double Olympic champion Archibald said afterwards. \u201cI\u2019m really, really happy to get to that point to contend when it\u2019s essentially a different race in the final two; you do an elimination race and then you do a match sprint.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like I did well in the elimination race, and then I just didn\u2019t have the legs in the final there. Normally I come off these races in pieces, physically done-in, and I felt like I didn\u2019t have the top end. I\u2019m, rationally, very happy. Physically, my legs, I\u2019m a bit disappointed, but I guess that\u2019s a mark of respect for a World Championship title.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillespie\u2019s gold medal made her Ireland\u2019s first ever female winner at the Track World Championships.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the elimination race, reigning sprint champion Emma Finucane<\/a> was relegated in her quarterfinal with Iana Burlakova, and forced to bow out early in her title defence.<\/p>\n

The Welshwoman, who was targeting a third rainbow jersey in a row, was initially judged to have won the deciding heat, before the UCI commissaires ruled against her for \u201centering the sprinter\u2019s lane when the opponent was already there\u201d.<\/p>\n

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GB\u2019s men\u2019s sprinters also left the keirin competition in the quarterfinals, both Olympic silver medallist Matthew Richardson<\/a> and Harry Ledingham-Horn unable to make the top-four in their heats. The event was won by Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen, now a 18-time world champion.<\/p>\n

GB earned two medals in day two, the second coming in the final event of the night, the women\u2019s team pursuit. The quartet of Josie Knight, Anna Morris, Meg Barker and Maddie Leech beat Belgium comfortably in their bronze medal ride-off, after qualifying second-fastest on Wednesday. Italy won the title, ending a two-year British streak.<\/p>\n

The GB squad<\/a> has now collected four medals in Santiago, having picked up silvers in both the men’s and women’s team sprints on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Germany\u2019s Moritz Augenstein won the men\u2019s scratch race, and Denmark successfully defended their men’s team pursuit title.<\/p>\n

The racing continues at the Track World Championships on Friday with finals in the men\u2019s points race, men\u2019s kilometre time trial, men\u2019s individual pursuit, women\u2019s omnium and women\u2019s sprint. Check out our streaming guide<\/a> for more information on how to watch the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain\u2019s Katie Archibald added a 16th medal to her UCI Track World Championships collection on Thursday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-225142","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\/225142","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=225142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}