Elsewhere for Great Britain on Friday, Emma Finucane had to settle for the silver medal in the women’s sprint final, as 21-year-old Yuan Liying of China secured a straight-ride victory on her way to the title in front of a home crowd. <\/p>\n
Sophie Capewell narrowly missed out on bronze in the women’s sprint final, coming out on the wrong side of a photo finish to Japan’s Mina Sato. <\/p>\n
Joseph Truman won bronze in the men’s time trial final. <\/p>\n
Stewart, who was fourth in the points race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer, said he was “speechless” to finally claim a world title, and thanked British Cycling and his wife and family for their support. <\/p>\n
“It’s a selfish pursuit being an athlete; you kind of lose yourselves in it sometimes,” he told BBC Sport. <\/p>\n
“People need to understand you’re a young person with an immense amount of pressure, and it takes years to learn those lessons sometimes. <\/p>\n
“Over the last 10 years, the culture change at British Cycling, for the better, has been amazing.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsewhere for Great Britain on Friday, Emma Finucane had to settle for the silver medal in the women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804647","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\/804647","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=804647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}