Teenager Henry Hobbs avoided involvement in a serious crash on the penultimate lap to sprint to victory in the men’s 10km scratch race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old had already claimed a gold as part of the men’s 4000m pursuit team <\/a>earlier in the week before following that up with a bronze medal <\/a>in the elimination race on Friday.<\/p>\n Hobbs, whose brother Noah is a professional cyclist, edged out Australia’s Thomas Cornish and England team-mate Ethan Vernon to make it three medals from his games debut.<\/p>\n A crash just before the start of the final lap threatened to disrupt the race with a number of riders requiring medical attention and the remaining athletes having to avoid the debris.<\/p>\n “I didn’t feel too good in the morning so I thought if it was a sprint it would be great for me as it only needed one effort,” Hobbs told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n “I’m surprised a crash didn’t happen earlier because it was so fast – you always have to think you can win but I wasn’t one hundred per cent confident.”<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Saturday, England’s Sophie Unwin claimed a bronze medal in the women’s tandem B final with pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay having only started riding a tandem six weeks previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenager Henry Hobbs avoided involvement in a serious crash on the penultimate lap to sprint to victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723562","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\/723562","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=723562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}