Glasgow Daily - August 4

Australia is off to a flying start at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, taking three medals on the first official day of competition in Glasgow, Scotland.

Paige Greco created history, winning the first medal of the new multi-discipline world championships format courtesy of a bronze medal performance in the Women's C3 Individual Pursuit.

Jess Gallagher and Caitlin Ward came agonising close to winning our first gold at these championships, falling by just 0.060 seconds to Great Britain in the Women's B 1000m Time Trial. Darren Hicks added to the Day 1 haul, taking silver in the Men's C3 Individual Pursuit.

The chance for more medals beckons tomorrow, with the men's team pursuit squad qualifying fourth, and the men's team sprint squad qualifying second to start their world championship defence campaign. Amanda Reid will also ride for a bronze medal in Women's C2 Individual Pursuit on Day 2 at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.

11 of our junior downhillers have progressed through qualifying at Fort William's Nevis Range, with junior women's national champion Sacha Mills posting a time of 5:31.212 to hold the fifth fastest qualifying time.

Jessica Sheridan, Zali Miklas, Alix Luckman have also made the 30-rider final, qualifying 16th, 24th and 29th respectively.

Lewis Allbon finished the fastest of the Aussie junior men with a time 4:49.213, good enough for 22nd overall. Allbon is joined by six other junior men qualified for the final, which will be raced tomorrow.

We also send our best wishes to junior women's downhill team member Georgia Henness, who suffered a crash during her qualifying run and was taken to hospital for further treatment on her injuries.

In action today

Downhill

• Elites - Qualification

• Women | 12:00 BST (21:00 AEST)
• Men | 12:30 BST (21:30 AEST)

• Juniors - Finals

• Women | 14:30 BST (23:30 AEST)
• Men | 15:30 BST (00:30 AEST)

Grand Fondo

• Road Race | 10:00 BST (19:00 AEST)

Track

• Morning | 09:30 BST (18:30 AEST)

• Team Pursuit Qualification – Women Elite
• TT Qualification – Women Elite, Men B, C4
• Omnium 200m TT – Women C2, Men C2

• Evening | 17:45 BST (02:45 AEST)

• Team Pursuit Round 1 – Men Elite
• Team Sprint Final – Men Elite
• Time Trial Final – Women Elite, Men B, C4
• Scratch Race – Women Elite, Women C4
• Individual Pursuit Final – Women C2

Yesterday's results

PARA-CYCLING TRACK

Individual Pursuit

• Men's C2 - Darren Hicks - 2nd🥈
• Women's C3 - Paige Greco - 3rd🥉

1km Time Trial

• Women B - Jessica Gallagher & Caitlin Ward - 2nd🥈

DOWNHILL QUALIFYING

Women Junior

• Sacha Mills - 5th (Q)
• Jessica Sheridan - 16th (Q)
• Zali Miklas- 24th (Q)
• Alix Luckman - 29th (Q)
• Georgia Henness - DNF

Men Junior

• Lewis Allbon - 22nd (Q)
• Mitchell Claxton - 24th (Q)
• Jed Stanton - 25th (Q)
• Kael Foale - 29th (Q)
• Rye Carlyon - 33rd (Q)
• William Ireland - 43rd (Q)
• Nathan Dabbs - 45th (Q)

What you might have missed

• Worlds: Australia opens medal account at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome
• Worlds: 11 Aussies through to junior downhill finals
• Worlds: Green and Walsh saddling up for a marathon ride
• Aussies get set to a defend a proud BMX Challenge legacy

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