Wales cycling duo Emma Finucane and Anna Morris will go for track gold at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome tonight after impressing in the morning session.<\/p>\n
Finucane was part of the team sprint trio alongside Rhian Edmunds and Lowri Thomas that won gold on the opening night of the cycling, while Morris secured a bronze in the team pursuit alongside Jess Roberts, Megan Barker and Ciara Oliva.<\/p>\n
Finucane has qualified for the sprint semi-finals where she will face fellow Welsh rider Edmunds.<\/p>\n
Finucane set a new Commonwealth Games record of 10.322 seconds in sprint individual qualification and eased through the last 16.<\/p>\n
This set up a quarter-final against reigning Commonwealth and Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews and Finucane beat the New Zealander comfortably in two races to achieve semi-final qualification.<\/p>\n
Edmunds followed Finucane into the final four by beating Scotland’s Lauren Bell, while Thomas bowed out at the last 16 stage.<\/p>\n
Morris, who is the individual pursuit double world champion, will race for gold.<\/p>\n
Morris qualified second fastest in a time of 4:25.817, just behind England’s Josie Knight, with the two Great Britain team-mates going head-to-head in the final at 16:40. Morris beat Knight in the world final in 2025.<\/p>\n
Oliva was sixth fastest in a new five-second personal best, while Roberts was 10th.<\/p>\n
Morris also has a chance of a medal in the women’s 10km scratch race alongside Barker and Carys Lloyd which starts at 17:56.<\/p>\n
Rhys Britton and William Salter finished 10th and 13th respectively in the men\u2019s individual pursuit qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales cycling duo Emma Finucane and Anna Morris will go for track gold at the Sir Chris Hoy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721124","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\/721124","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=721124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}