Track Cycling World Championships: GB’s Anna Morris wins women’s individual pursuit gold
After winning team sprint gold with Marchant and Emma Finucane on Wednesday, Capewell was pleased with her response after missing out on a medal in the individual sprint on Friday.
“I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I was disappointed with the sprint – not in terms of my execution, but just that I couldn’t finish it off,” she said.
“It was nice to come out today with slightly fresher legs, execute really well and come away with a silver medal.”
Archibald, who missed the Olympics because of a broken leg sustained in a freak accident in her garden, added a madison medal to the women’s team pursuit gold won alongside Morris, Meg Barker and Josie Knight.
Archibald and Evans led from an early stage but, about two-thirds of the way through the 120-lap race, France, the Netherlands and Italy gained a lap on the field to move to the top of the standings.
Denmark did likewise shortly afterwards to assume the lead of the race and were eventually victorious in front of a home crowd, but the British pair took the final available sprint points to finish third.
Evans said: “The madison is chaos. You go in with what you think is the best plan possible and the number of times you have to say ‘that’s not how it’s going to go’ and adapt, it’s so difficult.”
