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Great Britain won silver and bronze medals in the team pursuit events on day two of the European Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.<\/b><\/p>\n
The men’s quartet of Josh Charlton, Michael Gill, Noah Hobbs and Rhys Britton battled hard in the gold medal ride-off with world champions Denmark, but fell half a second short in a thrilling sprint finish.<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s women were beaten by Italy in their round one meeting, but their time of 4 mins 18.745 secs was enough to qualify for the bronze medal ride-off with France.<\/p>\n
The team of Grace Lister, Maddie Leech, Sophie Lewis, Anna Morris started well, although they had to shake off a resurgent French quartet before powering to victory in the second half of the race by a margin of 5.208 secs.<\/p>\n
The results for Great Britain were a reversal of the team sprints on day one when the women won silver and the men claimed bronze<\/a>. <\/p>\n However, Lauren Bell and Rhian Edmunds were unable to emulate their team success as they were both knocked out in the quarter-finals of the women’s sprint.<\/p>\n Matt Walls finished 13th in the men’s points race, but Neah Evans struggled to recover from an early crash to finish ninth in the women’s elimination.<\/p>\n Championship debutants Lyall Craig and Harry Radford finished 13th and 14th respectively in the men’s 1km time-trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n