Jack Carlin, Ryan Owens and Joe Truman stormed to team sprint gold as Great Britain Cycling Team won three medals on day one of the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn on Friday.
The young trio defeated France’s Benjamin Edelin, Sebastien Vigier and Quentin Lafargue in the final in a time of 43.860 seconds to secure successive gold medals in the event after victory in Glasgow last weekend.
Chris Latham won scratch race silver while 21-year-old Emily Kay took silver in the omnium - after winning gold last week in Glasgow - at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Netherlands.
Successive team sprint golds
With Carlin (19) man one, Owens (21) man two and Truman (19) man three, Britain had earlier qualified fastest in 44.012 seconds
Two for two. Happy days! https://t.co/AvppLWQ5UY
— Ryan Owens (@ryanowens0) November 11, 2016
The three went even faster in their round one tie with Belarus, in 43.778 seconds, to earn the chance of a second gold in as many weeks.
As in Glasgow, they met France and it was the same outcome as Britain won by over two-tenths of a second.
Special Kay strikes in omnium
In the women's omnium, fifth in the opening scratch race gave Emily Kay a solid foundation on which to build a medal charge and she followed up with an excellent second in the tempo race behind Kirsten Wild. A lap gain for four points plus five sprint wins gave Kay a total of nine, three adrift of Wild.
What a night!
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) November 11, 2016
It's silver for @EmilyKay95 in the omnium after gold in Glasgow last week.
That's medals for#TissotUCITrackWC pic.twitter.com/OG5AgU1of1
Fourth in the elimination race left Kay on 104 points with Wild on 114 heading into the points race finale.
With eight sprints over the 80 laps, Kay earned three further points over two sprints for a total of 107, while Wild added eight points to her tally to secure gold on home soil with 122 points.
Latham sprints to silver
Chris Latham produced an excellent sprint to secure Britain’s first medal of the evening.
Latham was one of 10 riders to gain a single lap in the 15km race, as Raman Ramanau took two laps on the field to win gold.
Nice work @ChrisLatham9
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) November 11, 2016
Silver for the in the scratch race.#TissotUCITrackWC pic.twitter.com/KdIcok57Dm
That left Latham fighting for one of two medals and the 22-year-old delivered his sprint superbly to take the silver ahead of Belgium’s Moreno De Pauw.
Youngsters gain team pursuit experience
A young British quartet of Matt Wall, Ethan Hayter, Matt Bostock and Joe Holt narrowly missed out on a place in the bronze-medal final of the team pursuit.
The Senior Academy riders had qualified in fifth with a time of 4:04.016 to ensure their place in round one.
There, they clocked 4:05.202, leaving them fifth overall and just one place short of making Saturday’s bronze-medal ride.
Marchant and James in team sprint
In the women’s team sprint, Rachel James and Rio Olympic bronze medallist Katy Marchant were knocked out of the competition by Russia in round one, by just 0.074 seconds.
With James leading the duo out, they had earlier set a time of 34.193 seconds to qualify in fifth to set up the knockout tie.
Racing continues on Saturday with the men’s sprint, women’s keirin, women’s 500m time trial and men’s points race.
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