{"id":725054,"date":"2026-08-02T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725054\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:34:12","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-england-cyclist-robertson-breaks-games-record-again-to-claim-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725054\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026: England cyclist Robertson breaks Games record again to claim gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

England cyclist Matthew Robertson broke the Commonwealth Games record for a second time to earn gold in the men’s C1-C3 3,000m individual pursuit.<\/p>\n

Robertson, 27, had already taken the Games record<\/a> in the morning qualification session, only for Scotland’s Fin Graham to break it and set up an intriguing gold-medal match.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon racing, Robertson set another record of three minutes and 22.597 seconds to put the pressure on his training partner.<\/p>\n

Graham went out hard to try and beat the new record but his energy sapped and Robertson claimed the gold medal.<\/p>\n

“That was probably the hardest end to a bike race I’ve ever watched,” said Robertson. <\/p>\n

“It was so close. I knew roughly what times Fin could do because we train together all the time, and I knew I’d done a good ride, even without looking at the clock, just from how it felt. It was really nerve-wracking watching him.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Matthew Bostock won the Isle of Man’s first gold medal since 2006 as he held off Australia’s Oliver Bleddyn to win the men’s 40km points race.<\/p>\n

And Joe Truman took silver in the men’s 1,000m time trial behind winner Leigh Hoffman of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England cyclist Matthew Robertson broke the Commonwealth Games record for a second time to earn gold in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725054","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\/725054","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=725054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}