Park hails successful week as GB leave World Championships with six medals

There were no more medals for Great Britain on the final day of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships but the team will leave Apeldoorn happy with a week that yielded six in all.

There were plenty of positives as both youth and experience triumphed – providing some good news for cycling while ongoing controversies at home continue with today’s publication of a Parliamentary report into doping culture in sport.

Gold medals came in the men’s team pursuit and women’s Madison, Laura and Jason Kenny helped win silver in the women’s team pursuit and men’s team sprint, while young riders Jack Carlin and Mark Stewart had a silver and bronze respectively.

Great Britain’s performance director Stephen Park said: “Our role is to win medals, and we don’t want to win any less than we did but we fully recognise that how we win is as important as winning itself.

“When you look at the events we’ve been competitive in its across the board. There are young riders coming through and that upward pressure puts pressure on the incumbents.”

There was almost one more medal for Britain in the final event of the week, but Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart missed out on bronze by a single point to Australia in the men’s Madison – won by Germany.

Elinor Barker could only manage 12th place in the women’s points race, Katy Marchant was ninth in the women’s keirin and in the men’s kilo, neither Callum Skinner nor Joe Truman could make it out of the qualifying session.