Glasgow Daily - August 5 | ARA Australian Cycling Team

Australia continues to come agonisingly close to taking their first rainbow jersey at these World Championships, with another three silvers and a bronze added to the medal tally overnight.

The night got off to a promising start at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, with Amanda Reid taking bronze in the Women C2 Individual Pursuit.

After posting the second fastest time in qualifying, Michael Shippley looked poised for a podium finish in the C4 1km Time Trial, and he didn't disappoint, taking silver with a time of 1:04.813.

Kristina Clonan put together an almost perfect race in the Women Elite Time Trial, edged out by Germany's Emma Hinze by just 0.136 seconds, giving the Queenslander silver and her first ever world championship medal.

Michael Shippley

The most dramatic moment of the evening came in the final race of the night, with Australia unable to hold off a fast-finishing Dutch team in the Men Elite Team Sprint gold medal final, falling by just 0.035 seconds.

Australia had a character-building day out at Fort William in the junior finals. After qualifying fifth fastest, Sacha Mills was the highest placed Aussie in the Junior Women, finishing in 12th position. In the Junior Men Finals, national champion Kael Foale was the highest placed Aussie in 18th.

Australian riders qualified in 10th place in both the Elite Men and Women categories, with Sian A'Hern and Troy Brosnan leading the green-and-gold charge for tomorrow's finals.

Looking ahead, and no less than four disciplines will be in action tonight, with BMX Freestyle and Road Race events getting underway, while more medals will be decided in the Downhill and Track.

In action today

Saturday, August 5

BMX FREESTYLE PARK

Qualification – Women Elite | 09:00 BST (18:00 AEST)
Qualification – Men Elite | 13:30 BST (22:30 AEST)

MTB DOWNHILL

Final – Women Elite | 12:30 BST (21:30 AEST)
Final – Men Elite | 14:00 BST (23:00 AEST)

ROAD

Road Race – Women Junior | 10:00 BST (19:00 AEST)
Road Race – Men Junior | 13:00 BST (22:00 AEST)

TRACK

Morning session | 10:00 BST (19:00 AEST)

Sprint Qualification, 1/16, 1/8 Finals – Men Elite, Women B
Team Pursuit Round 1 – Women Elite
Omnium 200m Time Trial – Women C5

Evening session | 17:30 BST (02:30 AEST)

Team Pursuit Final – Men Elite, Women Elite
Scratch Race – Men C2, C3
Keirin Round 1 – Women Elite
Sprint 1/2 Finals – Women B

Yesterday's results

MTB Downhill

TRACK - TEAM SPRINT

Men Elite (Leigh Hoffman, Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer, Thomas Cornish) - 2nd 🥈

TRACK - 500M TIME TRIAL

Women Elite - Kristina Clonan - 2nd 🥈

TRACK - SCRATCH RACE

Women Elite - Chloe Moran - 13th

PARA-CYCLING TRACK - SCRATCH RACE

Women C4 - Meg Lemon - 5th
Women C4 - Erin Rowell - 9th

PARA-CYCLING TRACK – 1KM TIME TRIAL

Men C4 - Michael Shippley - 2nd 🥈
Men C3 - David Nicholas - 5th
Men B Tandem - Beau Wootton and Byron Davies - 6th

PARA-CYCLING TRACK – INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT

Women's C2 - Amanda Reid - 3rd 🥉

DOWNHILL

Women Junior Final

Sacha Mills - 12th
Jessica Sheridan - 18th
Zali Miklas- 26th
Alix Luckman - 28th

Men Junior Final

Kael Foale - 18th
Lewis Allbon - 27th
William Ireland - 32nd
Mitchell Claxton - 34th
Jed Stanton - 35th
Nathan Dabbs - 41st
Rye Carlyon - DNS

Women Elite Qualifying

Sian A'Hern - 10th (Q)
Lia Ladbrook - 20th (Q)
Elise Empey - 24th (Q)
Ellie Smith - DNS

Men Elite Qualifying

Troy Brosnan - 10th (Q)
Luke Meier-Smith - 27th (Q)
Oliver Davis - 28th (Q)
Remy Meier-Smith - 30th (Q)
Kye A'Hern - 33rd (Q)
Jackson Connelly - 46th (Q)
Josh Arcus - 55th (Q

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