Paris Olympics: World record for Great Britain in women’s Team Sprint qualification

World record for Great Britain in Qualification

Great Britain set a new World and Olympic record of 45.472 seconds in the women’s team sprint during the qualifying round at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome outside Paris.

In the first Olympic race with three riders and 750 metres of flat-out sprinting for the women, Katy Marchant hit out hard on her first lap, but Sophie Capwell appeared to slip slightly out of turn one, but she recovered quickly. With an extra shot of adrenaline, she closed the gap to the early leaders New Zealand and launched Emma Finucane, who put in a blistering final lap to get past the Kiwis.