Cycling World Championships 2023: GB win women's team pursuit as they maintain fine start with five golds on day three

Great Britain impressively claimed 5 golden medals, 2 silvers and a bronze medal connected time 3 of the Cycling World Championships.

Charlie Hatton was the archetypal British rider to instrumentality golden connected Saturday successful the men's upland motorcycle downhill.

Britain's medal tally present stands astatine 22.

Aside from those successes, Sam Ruddock and Blaine Hunt besides successfully defended their men's C1 and C5 1km time-trial titles successful Glasgow.

And Jaco van Gass won golden successful the men's C3 scratch race, finishing conscionable up of his compatriot Fin Graham for the 2nd consecutive day, aft besides edging the C3 1km clip proceedings connected Friday.

Earlier successful the time Cat Ferguson took metallic successful the women's inferior roadworthy race, portion Laurie Greenland claimed a bronze down Hatton.

Emotional Archibald inspires GB

In the women's squad pursuit Britain were overwhelming favourites to triumph a archetypal satellite rubric for 9 years aft taking the metallic astatine Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines adjacent Paris successful October and besides finishing 2nd astatine the Tokyo Olympics.

And Archibald, who spoke poignantly astir her grief pursuing the decease of her spouse and chap cyclist, Rab Wardell, successful the physique up to these championships, was fixed a rousing reception arsenic the riders were announced.

Once connected the track, the British quartet did not disappoint contempt initially having to marque up a slender shortage connected a good organised New Zealand team.

However, arsenic the British squad got stronger New Zealand yet faltered erstwhile Michaela Drummond dropped distant from the mediate of their train, with the disruption helping the hosts yet triumph by much than 4 seconds.

"You don't truly [stay focused with that reception], it is each coming retired present with this is the event," Archibald told BBC Sport.

"Someone was talking astir imposter syndrome the different time and you astir person it the different mode round, we astir spot ourselves arsenic the champion successful the satellite but we person not been connected the apical measurement since 2014.

"So to person that feeling validated feels good."

Ruddock gave Britain the cleanable commencement to the evening contempt having to ticker connected anxiously arsenic Li Zhangyu rode past successful the men's C1.

But helium was soon capable to punch the level successful delight erstwhile the satellite grounds holder was lone capable to station the 3rd champion time, with Li's compatriot Liang Weicong securing the metallic medal.

Meanwhile, Hunt was much than a 2nd faster than American Christopher Murphy and Belgian Niels Verschaeren.

Hatton masters the mud

Hatton, 25, had earlier enactment successful an outstanding tally successful rain-lashed conditions to unafraid golden successful Fort William with chap British rider Greenland taking bronze down Austria's Andreas Kolb.

Victory for the unfancied Hatton, who had ne'er won a World Cup contention sparked chaotic celebrations astatine the finishing enactment arsenic helium became the 5th British rider to triumph the satellite crown since the lawsuit was archetypal staged successful 1990.

"It is perfectly insane. I americium mislaid for words," Hatton told BBC Sport.

"I knew I was riding good this play but I ne'er expected the win. I deed each my lines and had a truly bully run."

Prior to that lawsuit British hopes of a medal successful the women's upland motorcycle downhill were dashed arsenic Austria's Valentina Holl defended her rubric connected the last run, that gold-winning effort pushing Britain's Louise-Anna Ferguson into fourth.

Five-time erstwhile victor Rachel Atherton finished eighth contempt dislocating her enarthrosis successful practice.

Switzerland's Camille Balanche and France's Marine Cabirou won the metallic and bronze medals.