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Team Pursuit do it Again!



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Despite not being able to use Russell Hampton and Andy Tennant due to illness the Great Britain U23 Team Pursuit squad have once again become European Champions

The team of Peter Kennaugh, Steve Burke, Ben Swift and Jonny Bellis easily qualified fastest in a time of 4m 12.890s to second placed Russia's 4m 18.946s

It was then no suprise that the British quartet beat the Russian's by a massive eight seconds in the final, recording a time of 4m 12.196s which was faster than their qualification time



Gregory Bauge

The Men's U23 Sprint saw Gregory Bauge of France set an outstanding 200m qualification time of 9.903s, which for an outdoor track is an amazing time

Jason Kenny and Matt Crampton were unfortunately drawn against each other in Round 2 of the competition with Kenny progressing through leaving Crampton to finish 6th overall

In the Junior men's equivalent Dave Daniell was fastest qualifier with a time of 10.497s, whereas teammate Chris Lyte was 5th with 10.745s



Dave Daniell

Daniell then lost in Round 2 to Russian Kiril Fliatov but he came back in the repechage when David beat Quentin Lafargue (Fra) and Andrea Prati (Ita) to progress to the semi finals

Lyte lost out in the early round and was forced to ride off for 7th place overall, in which he claimed victory

Britain's Jess Varnish claimed the silver medal in the 500m TT when she set a time of 36.665s. German Kristina Vogel took the victory with a time of 36.048s. Dani King finished down in 11th with a time of 39.322s





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