Anna Morris wins madison gold in Shanghai as Britain leads medals with six golds

Morris completes a three-gold week

Anna Morris and Erin Boothman won the women's madison on Saturday, 17 October, with 40 points, ahead of France in second and Japan in third. Morris, 31, from Wales, and Boothman, 19, from Scotland, took the gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in Shanghai. The win completed a set of three golds for Morris, who had already won the team pursuit with Boothman, Josie Knight and Millie Couzens on Thursday, 15 October, and the women's omnium on Friday, 16 October. She is the first woman to win the team pursuit, omnium and madison at one championships since the women's madison was introduced in 2017. Morris, a seven-time world champion, spoke about the result afterwards.

I am quite speechless. It is going to take a while to sink in and reflect on it.

Couzens takes the all-British pursuit final

Millie Couzens, 22, won the women's individual pursuit final, an all-British contest against 29-year-old Josie Knight. Couzens led from the first lap and beat Knight by half a second, clocking four minutes 21.505 seconds. It was her second gold of the championships. Britain's six golds put the team at the top of the medal table. Couzens described her reaction after the final.

It is amazing, I am still a bit in shock to be honest. I had zero expectations going in.

Madison podium and Kopecky's seventh place

France's Clara Copponi and Marion Borras took silver with 33 points, and Japan's Maho Kakita and Tsuyaka Uchino completed the podium with 18. Belgium's Lotte Kopecky and Shari Bossuyt finished seventh, scoring 14 points from 12 sprints over 120 laps. Kopecky had won the madison title in 2017 with Jolien D'Hoore, but the Belgian pair were well off the medals this time.

Van den Bossche takes omnium silver

Fabio Van den Bossche, 26, took silver in the men's omnium with 129 points, behind Portugal's Iuri Leitao on 143 and ahead of Germany's Tim Torn Teutenberg on 115. He had been fourth with 98 points before the final points race. In that race he won a lap with fifty laps to go and took the lead, but Leitao responded straight away and Van den Bossche held on to second. He had also won omnium bronze at the Paris Olympics. His silver is Belgium's third medal at these championships, after Lotte Kopecky's third world title in the elimination race and Lindsay De Vylder's scratch bronze.

On Sunday, 18 October, Van den Bossche and De Vylder ride the team race (ploegkoers) at the Shanghai Velodrome, where they defend the rainbow jersey.