{"id":639099,"date":"2026-06-15T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639099\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:07:11","slug":"welsford-third-at-copenhagen-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639099\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsford third at Copenhagen Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Sam Welsford secured a hard-earned podium as he raced to third in a reduced bunch sprint in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Welsford was led out by Ben Turner after the early break was caught in the final metres, wth Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin Deuceunick) taking the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Turner and Lucas Hamilton had worked well together on the final lap of the finish circuit in the Danish capital after a crash had splintered the peloton, reducing the number of riders chasing the break dramatically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wily quarter infront looked to have timed their effort close to perfection, but they were caught in the final kilometre with Hamilton and Turner contributing to the chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welsford then contested the reduced group sprint, finding a gap behind Philipsen to attack and claim a spot on the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Welsford secured a hard-earned podium as he raced to third in a reduced bunch sprint in Copenhagen.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639099","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=639099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}