GB win silver and bronze at European Championships

Great Britain won silver and bronze medals in the team pursuit events on day two of the European Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

The men's quartet of Josh Charlton, Michael Gill, Noah Hobbs and Rhys Britton battled hard in the gold medal ride-off with world champions Denmark, but fell half a second short in a thrilling sprint finish.

Great Britain's women were beaten by Italy in their round one meeting, but their time of 4 mins 18.745 secs was enough to qualify for the bronze medal ride-off with France.

The team of Grace Lister, Maddie Leech, Sophie Lewis, Anna Morris started well, although they had to shake off a resurgent French quartet before powering to victory in the second half of the race by a margin of 5.208 secs.

The results for Great Britain were a reversal of the team sprints on day one when the women won silver and the men claimed bronze.

However, Lauren Bell and Rhian Edmunds were unable to emulate their team success as they were both knocked out in the quarter-finals of the women's sprint.

Matt Walls finished 13th in the men's points race, but Neah Evans struggled to recover from an early crash to finish ninth in the women's elimination.

Championship debutants Lyall Craig and Harry Radford finished 13th and 14th respectively in the men's 1km time-trial.