Archibald returns for Worlds after freak injury

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Katie Archibald celebrates aft winning a contention astatine the 2023 European Championships

Katie Falkingham

BBC Sport Senior Journalist

Katie Archibald volition instrumentality to enactment astatine this month's Track Cycling World Championships successful Denmark aft recovering from the freak wounded that ruled her retired of the Olympics.

Archibald, 30, broke 2 bones successful her limb and tore ligaments disconnected the bony aft tripping implicit a measurement successful her plot successful June.

She is joined successful the 23-strong squad by 11 Olympic medallists from this summer's Games successful Paris.

They see defending sprint satellite champion Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant, who teamed up to triumph a historic archetypal Olympic women's squad sprint gold for GB.

Other Paris medallists named alongside Archibald for the women's endurance events are Neah Evans, who won madison silver, and Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jess Roberts, who took squad pursuit bronze.

Also competing successful Ballerup are men's squad pursuit metallic medallists Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield and Ollie Wood.

It volition people Bigham's past contention riding for GB earlier helium retires to instrumentality up his caller relation arsenic caput of engineering astatine the Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe pro cycling team.

The World Championships, which tally from 16 to 20 October, volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded crossed BBC TV, Red Button, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.