GB win women's team pursuit gold at World Championships

Katie Archibald won golden connected her instrumentality to racing arsenic she, Jess Roberts, Josie Knight and Anna Morris were crowned squad pursuit satellite champions.

The quartet acceptable the code from the outset, gathering a formidable pb and reeling successful their German rivals successful Ballerup, Denmark.

Archibald was backmost connected the motorcycle aft missing the 2024 Paris Olympics due to the fact that of a breached limb sustained successful a freak accident.

"It feels good. It’s comic I conjecture you don’t look your finest erstwhile you’re connected your knees aft a triumph but that’s the mode you privation to feel," Archibald told BBC Sport.

"Last week determination was nary pressure, adjacent yesterday determination was precise small unit but past astir fractional an hr earlier everything settled successful and I was similar ‘I truly privation this’ and we each truly wanted this and it was a fantastic race.

"It’s not words [being back], it’s a heavy breath. It’s feeling wherever you are meant to beryllium and a squad you are meant to beryllium portion of and what a dainty to beryllium portion of this squad. It is precise special."

Britain's Ethan Hayter, Josh Charlton, Charlie Tanfield and Ollie Wood had to settee for metallic successful the men's squad pursuit, with hosts Denmark pipping them to gold.

Great Britain started positively and held the pb astatine the 1000m people but Denmark, who mislaid the bronze-medal last astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, came backmost warring with a location assemblage firmly down them.

Danish quartet Tobias Aagaard Hansen, Carl-Frederik Bevort, Niklas Larsen and Frederik Rodenberg Madsen edged successful beforehand conscionable arsenic some teams dropped to 3 riders and went connected to clasp their vantage until the line.

"It was a partition of sound retired there," Charlton said.

"We didn't person the location crowd, it does marque a spot of a quality but we fancied our chances.

"We were doing bully things connected the rounds and we pushed them adjacent connected their location track. We made them tense for a spot by keeping it adjacent throughout."

Meanwhile, Great Britain's Harry Ledingham-Horn finished 4th successful the men's keirin, with Japan's Kento Yamasaki taking gold.

There was further occurrence for Japan successful the men's scratch contention arsenic Kazushige Kuboki won gold, with Noah Hobbs of Great Britain successful sixth.

New Zealand's Ally Wollaston sealed golden successful the women's elimination race, adding to the bronze she picked up successful Wednesday's scratch event.