European Track Cycling Championships: GB win silver and bronze on day two
Britain won silver and bronze medals in a team hunt on the second day of the European Championship at Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.
Men’s Quartet with World Champion Denmark for Josh Charlton, Michael Gill, Noah Hobbs and Rhys Britton The gold medal riding struggle, but fell for half a second in the exciting sprint game.
British women were beaten by Italy in the first round of meetings, but their time was 4 minutes, and 18.745 seconds was enough to qualify for the bronze medals of France and France.
Grace Lister, Maddie Leech, Sophie Lewis, Anna Morris started well, even though they had to get rid of a revival French Quartet before winning the second half and winning the game by 5.208 seconds.
The result of Great Britain is to reverse the team sprint on the first day Woman wins silver, man claims bronze.
However, Lauren Bell and Rhian Edmunds couldn’t imitate their team success, as they both were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the women’s sprint.
Matt Walls ranked 13th in the men’s points match, but Neah Evans worked hard to recover from an early crash and ranked ninth in the women’s knockout round.
Champions first Lyall Craig and Harry Radford scored 13 and 14 respectively in the men’s 1km.
