GB cyclists strike double pursuit gold in European Track Championships

British men and women win team pursuit titles
Ed Clancy takes bronze in men’s scratch race
Cavendish returns to track for Ghent Six series
Men's team pursuit
Great Britain's men's team pursuit quartet beat Germany by almost a second in the final. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images

Great Britain claimed three medals on the second day of the cycling’s Track European Championships in Guadeloupe.

Ed Clancy, Jon Dibben, Owain Doull and Andy Tennant beat Germany’s men by almost a second in the team pursuit to clinch gold, while Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott defeated the Russian team by nearly seven seconds in the women’s final.

There was a bronze medal for Clancy in the men’s scratch race as the four-times world champion finished third behind Otto Vergaerde of Belgium and Spain’s Eloy Teruelrovira.

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