Cycling World Championships 2023: Great Britain's Neil Fachie claims 19th world title

Great Britain's Neil Fachie claimed his 19th satellite rubric and Frances Brown besides took golden astatine the Cycling World Championships successful Glasgow.

Kadeena Cox, Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy earlier collected a metallic medal successful the mixed C squad sprint.

However, elsewhere it was a frustrating time of adjacent misses for British riders.

Joseph Truman, Neah Evans and GB's sextet successful the mixed squad clip proceedings each narrowly missed retired connected medals.

Fachie & Brown's aureate tally continues

Fachie's triumph alongside aviator Matthew Rotherham, Elizabeth Jordan and her aviator Amy Cole successful the mixed B squad sprint was his 3rd golden of the championships.

And it arrived successful scintillating manner with a superb burst of powerfulness that took implicit a 2nd retired of Italy successful the last thigh of their gold-medal race.

"It's conscionable the 19. Winning my archetypal was amazing. I ne'er imagined getting successful to treble figures and astir the 20 mark," Fachie told BBC Sport.

"It is benignant of an annoying fig due to the fact that you consciousness you person to travel backmost for 20."

Brown, who convincingly won the women's C1 scratch race, volition spell for her 4th rainbow jersey connected the roadworthy successful the women's C1 idiosyncratic clip proceedings connected Thursday.

"Apparently I tin thrust successful circles having not done it before. I had ne'er done a clump contention earlier and I had not ridden successful a clump since 2019," she said.

"It is truly tactical and consciousness is truly important. I find it precise hard to look down maine and thrust due to the fact that of my disability. It has been hard particularly with the breached ribs.

"I person not slept precise good but we person a strategy successful spot to maximise my recovery. I felt truly well, which bodes good for the road. I anticipation to support my jersey [women's C1 clip trial]."

Meanwhile, Emma Finucane precocious done 2 rounds successful the women's sprint to scope the semi-finals. She volition instrumentality connected past year's bronze medallist from Germany Emma Hinze connected Wednesday.

Her British squad sprint workfellow Sophie Capewell bowed retired successful the quarter-finals, losing a best-of-three brushwood against New Zealand's existent satellite keirin champion Ellesse Andrews.

Disappointment for Evans & Truman

Defending points contention champion Evans was aiming to triumph a 2nd golden successful 24 hours aft her occurrence successful the women's madison with Elinor Barker.

But she saw her hopes gaffe distant aft making a promising commencement to the 100-lap contention containing 10 sprints.

The 33-year-old British rider ended up isolated aft a calculated and beardown onslaught from Belgium's Lotte Kopecky.

Kopecky, who finished 2nd wide astatine the Tour de France Femmes, was capable to summation and clasp connected to a thigh alongside Australia's Georgia Baker arsenic that duo claimed golden and silver.

And portion Evans was successful contention for 3rd until the last lap, her earlier efforts saw her gaffe backmost successful the last sprint arsenic Japan's Tsuyaka Uchino came done to instrumentality the bronze medal.

It was besides a lawsuit of what mightiness person been for Truman who finished 4th successful the men's 1km clip proceedings arsenic the Netherlands' Jeffrey Hoogland took his 3rd consecutive rubric successful the event.

Australian duo Matthew Glaetzer and Thomas Cornish collected the metallic and bronze medals.

Swiss occurrence again arsenic GB miss out

Earlier connected Tuesday GB narrowly missed retired connected a medal successful the squad clip proceedings mixed relay arsenic the lack of Ben Turner told connected the streets of Glasgow.

A British squad containing Pfeiffer Georgi, Elynor Backstedt, Anna Shackley, Dan Bigham, Ethan Vernon and Josh Charlton - a precocious replacement for Turner - finished much than a infinitesimal down golden medallists Switzerland.

However, they were lone 12 seconds adrift of third-placed Germany.

"It's different 1 of those 'what if' moments," said Bigham, who was narrowly beaten into 2nd successful the idiosyncratic pursuit connected the way connected Sunday night.

"Losing Ben Turner was not the champion thing, he's a truly bully rider, incredibly talented and precise bully astatine going astir corners which was astir apt the superior happening today.

"Ten seconds successful the expansive strategy of things isn't a immense magnitude but reflecting backmost connected the prep we've been capable to bash and what we weren't capable to do, I deliberation we tin beryllium precise contented with the show we did."

Elise Chabbey and Marlen Reusser sprinted implicit the enactment to clinch triumph for a beardown Swiss squad that contained world-tour clip proceedings specialists Stefan Bissegger and Stefan Kung.

Switzerland's occurrence came contempt Reusser, their strongest pistillate rider, crashing 13km from the extremity of the twisting and method 40.3km course.