Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker lit up Milton for a second successive night as fellow Olympic champion Jason Kenny toasted his first gold medal of the TISSOT UCI Track World Cup season.
Archibald and Barker had already claimed team pursuit gold alongside Laura Kenny and Ellie Dickinson but they were far from done there as they joined forces for the Madison.
The event is due for its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 and the British pair certainly showed their early credentials in Canada, breezing to victory in magnificent fashion.
The success kept on coming too, with Jason Kenny ruling the boards in the keirin to follow up his team sprint bronze with solo gold in Canada.
While Mark Stewart’s silver rush continued, backing up his individual points race medal in France last week with another second place, this time in the omnium.
Barker and Archibald dominate the Madison
Archibald has spoken of her Madison intentions across the next two years, with she and Emily Nelson triumphant en route to World Championship gold in the event back in March.
But while the partner in Barker was different, the result was identical, the two slinging their way to first place with 36 points to their name.
Ten points in the final sprint aided their cause but the race was won long before then, with only silver medallists Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth scoring more than half the Brits’ total.
Bronze went to home favourites Allison Beveridge and Stephanie Roorda but nothing could stop Archibald and Barker – who became national champions in the Madison just a fortnight ago – ruling the World Cup track once again.
The two were also victorious in the event the last time the TISSOT UCI Track World Cup came to Great Britain, in Manchester last November.
While for Archibald it was a second straight Madison victory in Canada, 12 months on from a gold-medal performance alongside Dickinson.
King Kenny shows his class
Boasting Olympic, world and European titles in the event, Jason Kenny knows how to win a keirin.
More than a decade has passed since winning his first TISSOT UCI Track World Cup medal in the event but the 30-year-old was back at it in Milton, gold his prize in a thrilling final race.
After finishing third in his heat, Kenny went on to boss his repechage to reach the second round – though he faced a battle getting to the medal after once again crossing the line third.
But when it mattered most he left nothing chance, a superb performance seeing him cross the line 0.042 seconds ahead of Canada’s Hugo Barrette, while bronze went to Matthijs Buchli.
That came despite a 5am wake-up call from son Albie overnight, with the disrupted sleep far from ruining Kenny’s rhythm.
Stewart’s silver show continues
With team pursuit and points race medals of the colour in France last week, Mark Stewart has become rather used to winning World Cup silver this season.
And that proved to be the order of the day once again as the Brit sailed to second place once again following an excellent performance in the opening session of the omnium.
Stewart won the first two events, the scratch and tempo races, while fourth place in the elimination had him poised heading into the points finale.
But a lap gain from France’s 2017 omnium world champion Benjamin Thomas saw gold cruelly snatched from his grasp, the 23-year-old riding home for silver with 134 points.
Thomas finished with 144 while New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart took bronze, two points shy of Stewart’s total.
Sprinters on show in Milton
After teaming up on the opening night, Katy Marchant and Lauren Bate went their separate ways for the individual sprint with mixed fortunes in the event.
Bate stopped the clock in 11.221 seconds in qualifying to finish 31st, with her time proving just one-tenth of a second away from being enough to reach the 1/16 finals.
Olympic bronze medallist Marchant qualified 13thand sailed through to the 1/8 finals after overcoming Yuka Kobayashi, though she was unfortunate to miss out on the next stage after losing to Mathilde Gros by just 0.005 seconds.
Sunday’s final day in Milton will see Laura Kenny take to the line for the women’s omnium, while Marchant returns for the keirin.
The men’s competition features Stewart and Ollie Wood in the Madison while Philip Hindes and Ryan Owens will be gunning for individual glory in the men’s sprint.
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