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Great Britain won 3 bronze medals connected the opening time of the Track Cycling World Championships successful France.
Welsh rider Jess Roberts secured idiosyncratic bronze successful the women's 10km scratch contention connected her championships debut and dedicated the accomplishment to her precocious grandfather.
"I'm truly blessed with that due to the fact that my grandad passed distant connected Saturday," an affectional Roberts told BBC Sport.
GB's men's and women's squad sprint riders besides claimed bronze.
Lauren Bell, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane narrowly bushed the Netherlands successful the three-lap women's race, with Finucane crossing the enactment conscionable 0.008 seconds up of her Dutch opponent.
Germany took golden by defeating China with a caller satellite grounds clip of 45.967 seconds - the 2nd clip they had breached the satellite grounds successful the aforesaid night.
The men's third-placed last was arsenic arsenic tight, with Jack Carlin, Ali Fielding and Hamish Turnbull finishing a tenth of a 2nd amended disconnected than Germany.
"I deliberation we are implicit the satellite with however acold we person come," said Fielding. "We've lone been riding arsenic this benignant of squad for astir six weeks, truthful to propulsion that clip retired of the bag, we're successful a precise bully place."
Australia became men's satellite champions pursuing an breathtaking triumph implicit the Netherlands.
Roberts enactment successful a gutsy show successful the closing stages to decorativeness connected the podium alongside second-placed Dutch rider Maike van der Duin and Italy's Martina Fidanza, who retained her satellite title.
"[My grandfather] took maine astir everyplace successful my youth, astir races. This is simply a contention for him. I conscionable had him connected my enarthrosis to the decorativeness enactment and conscionable though propulsion each the way," said Roberts.
The 23-year-old won scratch sliver astatine the European Track Championships successful August and said that was a much-needed boost aft a hard clip successful her life.
She added: "The past 2 years person been truly pugnacious for me. I took clip disconnected past year, astir 5 months disconnected the motorcycle owed to wounded and intelligence health.
"But this twelvemonth I person been gathering and it's conscionable truthful bully to beryllium backmost connected a podium again. I astir discontinue the athletics past year, truthful I'm conscionable truly arrogant of myself for keeping going and hopefully I tin advancement from present and get stronger adjacent year."
Great Britain besides made a beardown commencement successful the men's and women's squad pursuit events.
World omnium champion Ethan Hayter, Dan Bigham, Ethan Vernon and Ollie Wood volition look Italy successful the golden medal contention connected Thursday aft topping their qualifier and past sealing triumph against New Zealand successful the archetypal round.
In the women's event, GB qualified successful 2nd spot earlier Thursday's archetypal circular and final, arsenic Italy acceptable the fastest time.
The Italian riders were 2 seconds quicker than the British quartet of Tokyo 2020 metallic medallist Neah Evans, Katie Archibald, Megan Barker and Josie Knight.
Double Olympic champion Archibald is returning to contention aft wounded and pursuing the death of her spouse Rab Wardell astatine the property of 37 successful August.
Day 2 of the championships connected Thursday volition beryllium disposable to ticker connected the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website from 17:20 BST.
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