Tarling And Charlton Grab Gb’s First Golds At Track World Championships

Great Britain secured their first golden medals astatine Track World Championships successful Chile arsenic Josh Charlton claimed his first world title pinch triumph successful nan individual pursuit and Josh Tarling stormed to triumph nan men’s points race.

Tarling delivered a points title masterclass to onshore golden earlier Charlton picked up his first rainbow jersey successful nan individual pursuit – Britain’s first golden successful nan men’s arena since Bradley Wiggins successful 2008. Joe Truman claimed bronze successful nan men’s kilo.

Tarling picked up maximum points successful nan 3rd sprint of nan points title earlier launching a bold solo move to summation a lap. From location nan 21-year-old, who won a stage for Ineos Grenadiers astatine nan Giro d’Italia earlier this year, regularly collected points successful nan sprints, finishing 2nd successful nan last dash to seal nan title by 8 points complete nan American Peter Moore.

Josh Charlton is nan first British man to triumph a world individual pursuit badge since Bradley Wiggins 17 years ago. Photograph: Javier Torres/AFP/Getty Images

Tarling said: “It felt beautiful good. I deliberation it was bully that I sewage those early points successful conscionable truthful I knew nan legs were there.”

Charlton, who took metallic successful nan individual pursuit past year, produced a ascendant show to suffice for nan last 2.248 seconds faster than force Rasmus Pedersen of Denmark. Charlton established a two-second lead wrong nan opening kilometre and yet crossed nan decorativeness statement much than 3 seconds ahead.

British riders person now won 7 medals aft 3 days of action successful Santiago. Katie Archibald snared metallic successful nan women’s elimination race, and GB claimed a women’s squad pursuit bronze connected Thursday, aft winning metallic medals successful some nan men’s and women’s squad sprints connected nan opening day.