Track Cycling World Championships: Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton wins golds for Great Britain

Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton won gold for Great Britain at the World Track Championships.

By winning the men’s points race, Tarling won the first British gold medal in the championship in Chile and won the championship by collecting 750 points in the 40-kilometer race, beating American Peter Moore (675).

Charlton, 22, later doubled his gold medal to win Great Britain’s first world title in the individual event since Bradley Wiggins in 2008.

Making a good start, 21-year-old Tarling took points in the opening sprint, then took maximum points in the third sprint and then powered clear to win a lap.

This gave him the lead and he again went on to collect points, including the maximum score in the sprint 11, winning gold in style.

Making his Track Worlds debut, Tarling became the first Briton to win the points race title since Jonathan Dibben in 2016.

“I didn’t know how [my first World Championships] “It was scary not knowing what was going to happen or what it was going to feel like,” Tarling said.

“It felt pretty good. I think it was good to get the points early so I knew the legs were there.”

Charlton, who won the silver medal in his first match at the championship last year, advanced to the gold medal this time, finishing more than three seconds ahead of Denmark’s Rasmus Pederson.

On the other hand, Joe Truman repeated his success 12 months ago by winning the bronze medal after the Dutch duo Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland in the men’s 1 kilometer time trial.

After three days of competition, Britain’s overall medal tally is now seven.

Katie Archibald won silver in the women’s heat race, while Great Britain claimed silver in both the men’s and women’s team sprints on the opening day, with the women’s team claiming bronze on Thursday.