News: Gold for Elinor in Points

Elinor Barker won gold for the Great Britain Cycling Team in a captivating points race on the final day of the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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News: Gold for Elinor in Points

Elinor Barker won gold for the Great Britain Cycling Team in a captivating points race on the final day of the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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The 22-year-old gained a second, decisive lap in the dying stages of the race to come out on top of a superb duel with American Sarah Hammer. It gave Barker gold to add to her silver medals in the scratch race and Madison.

“I’m incredibly happy,” she told BBC Sport. “Until the last lap it was looking like another silver. I’m so happy it was a gold. “Straight after the Olympics I told my coach I wanted to win the Points races and I was backed.”

Senior academy rider Joe Truman set a personal best time of 1:01.429 in the kilo to finish 11th overall. Katy Marchant went out of the keirin competition in the first round repechage whilst Mark Stewart and Ollie Wood were withdrawn from the Madison race at 30 laps to go having lost two laps.

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