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Anna Morris defends her individual pursuit title with victory at the UCI World Track Championships great britain as teammate Josie Knight Katie Archibald And Maddy Leach won the gold medal madison,
Archibald, who won the madison world title in 2018 with Emily Nelson and won gold at the Tokyo Olympics laura kennyHelped Leach claim second medal santiago After that she was part of the bronze medal winning team pursuit team.
Scott Archibald, 31, and Leach, 22, put in impressive performances, scoring points in the first three sprints.
Archibald took the sprint to move two points ahead of the Netherlands midway through the competition, but a heavy crash later forced the Dutch out of the race.
Leach took the lead with two sprints to take three points and the pair held off France in the closing laps.
Britain won gold and silver in the individual events.
Knight was the fastest qualifier for most of the session after catching her rival and finishing in 4:25.141.
In the final race of qualifying, Morris clocked 4:24.194 to make the all-British final, with the Welsh rider dominating from the start.
Matt Richardson posted a strong qualifying time of 9.210 seconds to take first seed in the men’s sprint.
Richardson defeated Canada’s Nick Wams in the last 16 and Japan’s Kaiya Ota in the quarterfinals to set up a meeting with Australia’s Leigh Hoffman in the semi-finals.