{"id":721694,"date":"2026-07-31T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721694\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:02:12","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-england-teenage-cyclist-henry-hobbs-wins-first-individual-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721694\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026: England teenage cyclist Henry Hobbs wins first individual medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s teenage cyclist Henry Hobbs claimed his first senior individual medal by winning Commonwealth Games bronze in the men’s elimination race – just one day after a dramatic gold in the 4,000m team pursuit.<\/p>\n

Fresh from the exploits of Thursday evening<\/a>, the 19-year-old from Essex enjoyed yet more success in his first appearance at a major competition.<\/p>\n

Hobbs managed to hold off New Zealand’s Thomas Sexton to finish third behind Scottish silver medallist Mark Stewart and Australian winner Blake Agnoletto.<\/p>\n

His compatriot Harry Ledingham-Horn also picked up his first senior individual medal with bronze in the men’s keirin.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent finished 0.243 seconds behind Malaysian winner Mohd Azizulhasni Awang and 0.134 off silver medallist Leigh Hoffman of Australia.<\/p>\n

In the women’s 4,000m individual pursuit, Josie Knight, 29, had to settle for silver after finishing 6.141 seconds behind Wales’ Anna Morris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knight had set a Commonwealth Games record time of four minutes 25.719 seconds in the semi-final but that was blown out of the water by Morris, who won in 4:24.272.<\/p>\n

Her English team-mate Sophie Capewell also won silver in the women’s sprint, finishing second to Wales star Emma Finucane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s teenage cyclist Henry Hobbs claimed his first senior individual medal by winning Commonwealth Games bronze in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721694","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\/721694","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=721694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}