Sentences with phrase «olympic team pursuit»

Elsewhere, not even a broken wrist could stop Katie Archibald from adding World Cup gold to an already - glittering 12 months, the Olympic team pursuit gold medallist and Six Day London champion enjoying UCI Track Cycling World Cup success with Elinor Barker.

Not exact matches

The cyclist's first Olympic medal came 12 years earlier when winning team pursuit bronze in Sydney.

But with Manning now switching over to coach the men, Newton, who had previously overseen the British Cycling men's Olympic Academy Programme and coached the men's team pursuit to silver at the 2013 Track World Championships, has stepped into the breach.

Kenny, Philip Hindes, and Callum Skinner clocked a new Olympic record to claim the first track cycling gold medal of the Games in the same night the women's team pursuit squad broke their own world record.

He won his first Olympic medal in the individual pursuit at Beijing 2008 before following that with team pursuit gold in 2012 and 2016.

Behind these Olympic giants, there's a lot of quality, not least Dani King and Laura Trott, who took the world Team Pursuit title alongside Houvenaghel earlier this year.

Rowsell, Olympic gold medallist in the women's team pursuit and reknowned individual pursuiter recorded a time 16 seconds quicker than Armitstead on the opening lap and nearly doubled that gap by the time she finished the 49 - minute test.

As well as being crowned Olympic Champion in the women's team pursuit in Rio last year, Archibald is a former champion in the same event at the World Championships (2014) and European Championships (her debut in 2013 and then again in 2015).

She was the first to three after team pursuit gold while also on the track Jason Kenny in the keirin will attempt to equal Sir Chris Hoy's tally of six Olympic titles.

Already an Olympic Gold medallist in GB's team pursuit in Rio — the rider is keen that cycling's troubled past is behind it.

But those aren't the only three with realistic gold medal hopes on day seven, Laura Trott leads Team GB's women's team pursuit quartet on the track in the velodrome hoping to become the first British female to win three Olympic titTeam GB's women's team pursuit quartet on the track in the velodrome hoping to become the first British female to win three Olympic titteam pursuit quartet on the track in the velodrome hoping to become the first British female to win three Olympic titles.

February 21, 2018 • On Wednesday, U.S. long track skaters won bronze in the women's team pursuit event — the first Olympic medal since 2010.