Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant kick-start the medal charge in the Paris velodrome by winning Great Britain’s first Olympic women’s team sprint gold.
Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant kick-started the medal charge in the Paris velodrome by winning Great Britain’s first Olympic women’s team sprint gold.
That time tumbled further, with first Germany, then New Zealand eclipsing it, before Finucane, Capewell and Marchant brought it back into British hands in 45.338 secs to secure their place in the gold medal race. Capewell is due to also race in the individual sprint, while Marchant - a bronze medallist from Rio 2016 - will contest the keirin.Great Britain did not even qualify for the women’s team sprint at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics, while at London 2012 - the first time the event was added to the programme - Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish were disqualified from the final.
But it was around that time that she started to notice changes. More work was being done to bring female sprinters through the system into an elite squad that was thin on numbers.
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