Glasgow Daily - August 11

Another day, another set of rainbows: this time to Felicity Wilson-Haffenden, the young Tasmanian who’s become the junior women time trial world champion. Her rapid rise in cycling – which she only took up because of the COVID pandemic – is remarkable. Now she’s at the top of the world!

Fliss’s was not the only great Aussie performance against the clock. Grace Brown produced another stunning Worlds time trial to win her second silver medal. To fall short of victory by just 5.67 seconds must have been agonising, but credit where it’s due: that was an exceptional ride.

Over in Dumfries, our para-cyclists collected three silver medals in the road time trial. Congratulations to Emily Petricola, Darren Hicks and Alana Forster on some strong rides.

Down at Glentress Forest, there are good signs for Australia in cross-country MTB, with Rebecca Henderson placing fifth in the short-track event. We’re looking forward to seeing her racing XCO on Saturday.

Back in Glasgow, our BMX racers had their first proper training session today. One more hit-out tomorrow and then we race. And former world champion Janine Jungfels has finished 9th in Trials at Glasgow Green. There’s a bit happening!

In action today

Friday, August 11

CROSS COUNTRY

Olympic (XCO) – Men U23 | 11:30 BST (20:30 AEST)
Olympic (XCO) – Women U23 | 15:30 BST (00:30 AEST)

ROAD

Individual Time Trial – Men Junior | 10:00 BST (19:00 AEST)
Individual Time Trial – Men Elite | 14:35 BST (23:35 AEST)

TRIALS

Semi-finals – 26” Men Elite | 14:00 BST (23:00 AEST)

PARA-CYCLING ROAD

Road Race – Men T2, Women T2 | 09:00 BST (18:00 AEST)
Road Race – Women H3 | 11:00 BST (20:00 AEST)
Road Race – Men H4 | 14:00 (23:00 AEST)

Yesterday's results

Glasgow

ROAD - ITT WOMEN JUNIOR

Felicity Wilson-Haffenden - 1st🥇🌈
Mackenzie Coupland - 5th

ROAD - ITT WOMEN ELITE

Grace Brown - 2nd 🥈
Georgina Howe - 10th

MTB - XCC ELITE WOMEN

Rebecca Henderson - 5th

MTB - XCC ELITE MEN

Sam Fox - 30th
Cameron Ivory - 41st

MTB - XCO JUNIOR MEN

Jack Ward - 46th
Levi Dougherty - 51st
Cohen Jessen - 74th

TRIALS - ELITE WOMEN SEMI-FINALS

Janine Jungfels - 9th

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - WOMEN ITT C1

Kaitlyn Schurmann - 4th

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - WOMEN ITT C3

Paige Greco - 5th

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - WOMEN ITT C4

Emily Petricola - 2nd 🥈
Meg Lemon - 5th

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - WOMEN ITT C5

Alana Forster - 2nd 🥈

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - MEN ITT B

Kieran Murphy/Michael Freiberg - 10th

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - MEN ITT C2

Darren Hicks - 2nd 🥈

PARA-CYCLING ROAD - MEN ITT C3

David Nicholas - 12th

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