Great Britain received their twelfth medal of the UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn on Saturday with Josie Knight profitable the ladies’s particular person pursuit. Anna Morris introduced the nation’s tally up yet one more notch to 13 with the bronze earlier than Emma Finucane closed out the competitors with a silver medal behind Germany’s Leo Sophie Friedrich.
Germany have been second to the British within the medal rely with 9, three gold, profitable the ladies’s Team Sprint, males’s Madison, and ladies’s Keirin.
The Netherlands have been a detailed second as Harrie Lavreysen did the dash hat-trick, taking out the keirin, particular person dash and crew dash.
“Last 12 months I additionally took the triple in Grenchen, however that’s one thing totally different than right here in Apeldoorn,” Lavreysen mentioned to nos.nl. “Especially within the run-up to the Olympic Games. I could not begin the 12 months higher. I’m already trying ahead to going put together, to get even higher, to point out what I can do in the summertime.”
On Saturday Ethan Hayter eked out the victory in a hotly contested factors race finale within the males’s Omnium.
Hayter tied on factors with Denmark’s Niklas Larsen however received on the tie-breaker, securing the fifth European title for GB. Fabio van den Bossche (Belgium), who led the Omnium heading into the factors race, fell to 3rd.
Earlier within the night, Lotte Kopecky received back-to-back gold medals within the ladies’s Points Race and Elimination race.
Kopecky topped Norways Anita Stenberg and Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) within the Points Race whereas Lea Lin Teutenberg (Germany) took silver within the Elimination Race. Britain’s Jessica Roberts claimed the bronze medal.
“When I noticed the programme, I used to be not proud of the factors race and the elimination race proper after one another,” Kopecky mentioned.
“Fortunately, I managed to persuade the coach to do each disciplines. With these two European titles inside half an hour, it turned out to be a really big day.”
Great Britain’s medal haul consists of 5 gold medals, 5 silver and one bronze.
Dan Bigham received the person pursuit and was a part of the profitable males’s crew pursuit squad with Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Ollie Wood and Ethan Vernon. Emma Finucane received the ladies’s particular person dash and Katy Marchant the 500m time trial.
Britain’s ladies’s crew received silver within the Team Sprint and Team Pursuit, Neah Evans received silver within the ladies’s Omnium, whereas William Tidball received silver within the males’s Elimination Race and Tanfield received silver within the particular person pursuit.
Germany have the next-best tally with two golds – the ladies’s crew dash and males’s Madison, two silver and three bronze.
The consequence for Great Britain is a powerful indicator for the upcoming Olympic Games the place the nation will attempt to defend their file.
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| Rank |
Nation |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Great Britain |
6 |
6 |
2 |
14 |
| 2 |
Germany |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
| 3 |
Netherlands |
3 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
| 4 |
Belgium |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| 5 |
Italy |
2 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
| 6 |
France |
2 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
| 7 |
Denmark |
2 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
| 8 |
Norway |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| 9 |
Portugal |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 10 |
Poland |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
