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Katie Archibald returned to winning ways at the UCI Track World Championships with a stunning victory in the women’s madison alongside Maddy Leach, becoming only the fourth woman to win two madison world titles.
Later on day four in Santiago, Anna Morris defended her individual pursuit title with a win. great britain Teammate Josie Knight.
Archibald, who won the madison world title in 2018 with Emily Nelson and won gold at the Tokyo Olympics laura kennyBeing part of the bronze medal-winning team pursuit team helped Leach claim her second medal and first rainbow jersey.
Scott Archibald and 22-year-old Leach 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 was assured of at least two medals in the individual pursuit, with Knight being 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.
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