{"id":724088,"date":"2026-08-02T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:05:25","slug":"wales-anna-morris-sets-new-commonwealth-games-record-in-womens-track-cycling-4000m-ind-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724088\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; Anna Morris sets new Commonwealth Games record in Women&#8217;s track cycling 4000m Ind. Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">Wales\u2019 Anna Morris produced a remarkable ride in the Women\u2019s 4000m Individual Pursuit, setting a new Commonwealth Games record.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh women won two golds among three medals on day two at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Morris started the Welsh podium procession in the 4000m Individual Pursuit where she set a Games record en route to gold ahead of England&#8217;s Josie Knight, with Scotland&#8217;s Erin Boothman prevailing in the bronze medal race.<\/p>\n<p>She had a time of 4:24.272 setting the new games record previously held by Josie Knight of England with 4:19.461 set in Turkey in February of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Morris said: \u201cIt\u2019s super special. We get that opportunity once every four years to wear the Welsh jersey and try and get on the top step to sing the anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales\u2019 Anna Morris produced a remarkable ride in the Women\u2019s 4000m Individual Pursuit, setting a new Commonwealth Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724088","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=724088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}