Saturday 5 March 2016 10:05, UK
Great Britain’s women won bronze in the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in London as Andy Tennant defeated team-mate Owain Doull to claim bronze in the men’s individual pursuit.
Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Joanna Rowsell Shand and Ciara Horne took an early lead of their third-placed final against New Zealand and continued to pull away to win by almost four seconds in 4min 16.540sec.
It was their second fastest team pursuit ever, bettered only by the 4min 16.350sec they clocked earlier in the day in the first round.
Trott said afterwards: "After yesterday's fifth we were a bit disappointed and we didn't show a time we knew we could do, so to put two 4:16s on the board today was really important, and also to break our national record again. That was was set at altitude so for us to come away and do it here was great and it really did feel like we were riding around as one today.
"Although we didn't win gold, we put our foot back in the door and showed that we can ride as a team and we have done a good time that we are proud of.
"I didn't think we were going to do a 4:16, but what do I know? I always get my times wrong. I was happy with how we rode."
Britain were unable to challenge for the gold medal after finishing only fifth in qualifying on Thursday, and Barker admitted afterwards that result had been an strategic experiment gone wrong.
She said: "We took a big risk yesterday and we always knew we were either going to qualify first or fall apart, and unfortunately it was the second one. It was a good learning curve to have; better to have it now than at the Olympics."
Tennant and Doull played out a nip-and-tuck battle in the men's individual pursuit bronze medal final.
Doull was ahead after 1km and they were dead level at the halfway mark, but then Tennant pulled into a half-second lead going into the last lap.
However, Doull then mounted a fightback and only missed out on the medal by less than 0.2 seconds.
Earlier in the day, Katy Marchant finished fifth in the women's 500m time trial as Russia's Anastasiia Voinova took gold.
