{"id":520944,"date":"2025-10-23T01:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:05:15","slug":"track-cycling-world-championships-2025-live-follow-live-coverage-from-day-one-in-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520944\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Cycling World Championships 2025 LIVE: Follow live coverage from day one in Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the British athletes to look out for?published at 18:26 BST 22 October<\/p>\n<p>18:26 BST 22 October<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/c4e98d84-f6d4-49ef-bfc4-9da246773705.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>BBC Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britain's Emma Finucane celebrates after wining the Women's Sprint - Finals of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8b5bb242-b2bb-4d51-b087-1f979e7d65b0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Archibald will once again lead Great Britain&#8217;s elite women in the madison and elimination races, while Olympic gold medallist Emma Finucane will be on the hunt for further sprint success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finucane is the defending champion in the women&#8217;s sprint, beating Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw to gold last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain are also defending champions in the women&#8217;s team sprint, which features Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant alongside Finucane. The trio, who were crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cj355n3n521o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic champions<\/a> in Paris, dominated the event at last year&#8217;s Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Great Britain&#8217;s men will be looking to get the better of the Netherlands this time out after missing out on sprint team bronze in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Richardson will line up in Great Britain colours for the first time, having won three medals for Australia at the Paris Olympics before switching nationalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Gill and Josh Charlton will also be aiming for the individual pursuit gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who are the British athletes to look out for?published at 18:26 BST 22 October 18:26 BST 22 October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-520944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115420799298919164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}