UCI Track World Cup Glasgow - Day 3: Cameron Meyer wins points race gold

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World-class track racing continued for the evening session during Day 3 at the UCI Track World Cup in Glasgow Saturday. Australia's Cameron Meyer took home a gold medal in the men's points race as he continued his return to racing and the Great Britain team of Manon Lloyd and Katie Achibald came back from a crash to win the first ever World Cup women's Madison. 

Meyer was released by his road team Dimension Data in July after requesting the termination of his contract for personal reasons. He later announced in October that he would return to racing and focus on the track with his sights set on the 2020 Olympic Games. He recently rode the London Six and in Glasgow Meyer won the points race ahead of Benjamin Thomas (France) and Samuel Harrison (Team Usn) with a dominant ride.

In the men's keirin finals, Tomas Babek (Czech Republic) won the gold medal ahead of Vasilijus Lendel (Lithuania) and Lewis Oliva (Team Usn) in the last round.

The evening session ended with finals in both the women's sprint and the women's Madison. Manon Lloyd and Katie Achibald won the women's Madison ahead of France's duo Laurie Berthon and Coralie Demay. Russia's team of Maria Averina and Diana Klimova finished third.

The 26-rider field produced a thrilling race. The crash occurred during the second sprint as Lloyd took over from Archibald only to be pushed into her partner. The subsequent crash brought down five riders including both Britons, with the Belgian Kaat Van Der Meulen out of the race. Archibald hurt her wrist in the fall but fought the pain to race on.

“Someone closed down on top of Manon and I was still there,” Archibald explained. “There was nowhere to go. We all came down in a domino.” 

Lloyd and Archibald took a few laps to recover but once they had regained their places the race came down to a three-way battle with France and Ukraine. Archibald went on the attack and won three sprints in a row to close the gap on the French with 20 laps to go. In the finale Lloyd slung her in at the perfect moment, enabling her partner to lead out the final sprint and take double points and so land the gold.

Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) won the gold medal in the women's sprint in the final round against silver medallist Liubov Basova (Ukraine). While, Tania Calvo Barbero (Spain) took the bronze medal ahead of Nicky Degrendele (Belgium).

Golds for Ghys in Scratch Race and Kaczkowska in women's pursuit

The morning session at the UCI Track World Cup in Glasgow ended with two gold medals being awarded to Justyna Kaczkowska (Poland) and Robbe Ghys (Belgium).

Kaczkowska dominated the women's individual pursuit in both the qualifying round and the final round for the gold medal. She began her morning with the fastest qualifying time of 3:31 to beat Elise Delzenne (France) and Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus). She went on to win the gold medal with a time of 3:33, again beating Delzenne and Sharakova. Great Britain's Emily Nelson finished just off the podium in fourth.

The morning session ended with Ghys winning the men's Scratch Race. He beat Maksim Piskunov (Russian Federation) and Ivo Emanuel Oliveira (Portugal).

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