{"id":7508,"date":"2024-11-30T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/track-champions-league-katie-archibald-extends-endurance-lead-in-round-two\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T16:40:14","slug":"track-champions-league-katie-archibald-extends-endurance-lead-in-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/track-champions-league-katie-archibald-extends-endurance-lead-in-round-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Champions League: Katie Archibald extends endurance lead in round two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Katie Archibald extended her lead in the women&#8217;s endurance competition in the second round of the Track Champions League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archibald followed up her opening-round victories in the women&#8217;s scratch and elimination races by placing second in both events in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That took the 30-year-old&#8217;s combined points total to 74 &#8211; 29 clear of Canada&#8217;s Sarah van Dam before round three takes place at the same venue on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Briton Matthew Richardson is second overall in the men&#8217;s sprint league, while Emma Finucane sits third in the women&#8217;s sprint discipline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After claiming opening wins in the men&#8217;s sprint and keirin finals when the first round was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cy0g7vwd27\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">held at Quentin-en-Yvelines in France<\/a> on 23 November, Richardson placed fifth in the sprint and fourth in the keirin on Friday night to remain within seven points of Dutch leader Harrie Lavreysen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finucane was fourth in her sprint final and 11th in the keirin, leaving the 21-year-old 20 points behnd Alina Lysenko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katy Marchant rose to sixth overall in the women&#8217;s sprint league by following up seventh place in the sprint with fifth in the keirin, as Lysenko took maximum points in both events in round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the third round on Saturday, rounds four and five will be held at London&#8217;s Lee Valley VeloPark on 6 and 7 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fourth season of the Track Champions League consists of five rounds, held in three cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Riders compete in either the sprint or endurance competitions, entering two races &#8211; sprint and keirin for sprinters, and elimination and scratch for endurance riders &#8211; in each round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Points won in each round are reflected in a league table and the rider with the most points in each discipline at the end of the series is crowned the overall winner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cvg722rdrzeo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Archibald extended her lead in the women&#8217;s endurance competition in the second round of the Track Champions League. Archibald followed up her opening-round victories in the women&#8217;s scratch and elimination races by placing second in both events in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. That took the 30-year-old&#8217;s combined points total to 74 &#8211; 29 clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}