UCI Cycling World Championships 2023: GB begin with two gold and two bronze medals

Great Britain won 2 golds, a metallic and 2 bronze medals connected time 1 astatine the Cycling World Championships successful Glasgow.

Earlier Team GB collected golden and bronze successful the women's B 1km clip trial.

Germany pipped Great Britain to golden successful the women's elite squad sprint with some teams beating the erstwhile satellite grounds successful the final.

A large finale contention connected time one

Tidball edged retired Japan's Kazushige Kuboki successful a frantic decorativeness with Dutch rider Tuur Dens taking bronze.

Tidball became the archetypal Briton to beryllium crowned satellite champion astatine the men's scratch since Ben Swift won successful Melbourne successful 2012.

The 23-year-old erstwhile European under-23 champion saw his chances fading erstwhile Switzerland's Alex Vogel broke distant from the peloton with 4 laps to go.

But the Briton latched connected to Dens' instrumentality connected the last lap, overtaking Vogel wrong the last 200 metres, earlier sprinting astir the Dutchman for victory.

GB triumph women's B clip proceedings Gold and Bronze

Team GB's archetypal medals of the title came successful the women's B 1km clip proceedings with Sophie Unwin and aviator Jenny Holl claiming golden and Jordan Elizabeth and Amy Cole winning bronze.

Unwin and Holl were much than a 2nd down connected Jessica Gallagher and Caitlin Ward of Australia with a thigh to spell but bushed the Australians to archetypal spot by 0.060 seconds.

The British brace had won bronze successful the lawsuit past twelvemonth and are the defending class B idiosyncratic pursuit champions.

They qualified fastest and, mounting the past clip of the final, dramatically edged retired Gallagher and Ward who had beaten Unwin to golden astatine the 1km clip proceedings astatine the 2022 Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham.

Elizabeth and Cole bushed compatriots Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall who came fourth.

Germany and GB acceptable blistering times successful sprint final

In the women's elite sprint Britain were edged retired by Germany contempt posting the world's 2nd fastest time.

Sadly for Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Lauren Bell defending champions Germany posted the fastest conscionable 0.075 seconds earlier.

Lea Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch and Emma Hinze's winning clip was 0.119 quicker than the satellite grounds they acceptable successful 2022.

The trio person present won the squad sprint astatine the past 3 satellite championships together, 4 years agone Grabosch and Hinze won golden arsenic a brace aft Friedrich had raced successful qualifying.

• Reliver each the enactment from the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

GB triumph men's B idiosyncratic pursuit bronze

Elsewhere connected Thursday Stephen Bates and Christopher Latham bushed chap Britons Chris McDonald and Adam Duggleby successful the men's B idiosyncratic pursuit bronze medal race.

But determination was heartbreak for Team GB's Neah Evans with the Scot pipped to bronze by New Zealand's Bryony Botha successful the women's elite idiosyncratic pursuit.

Briton Sam Ruddock finished 4th successful the men's C1 idiosyncratic pursuit, 8 seconds down China's Weicong Liang successful the third-placed race.

Ryan Taylor of Briton besides finished 4th aft helium was comfortably beaten by bronze medal victor Shota Kawamoto of Japan successful the men's C2 idiosyncratic pursuit.

Republic of Ireland's Ronan Grimes won bronze successful the men's C4 Individual pursuit, beating France's Gatien Le Rousseau successful his bronze medal race.

And successful the men's C5 scratch contention British riders William Bjergfelt and Blaine Hunt finished 4th and sixth respectively.

Earlier successful the day, defending champions Great Britain crashed retired of the men's squad pursuit with rider Charlie Tanfield was taken to infirmary pursuing a autumn successful the qualification round.