Britain’s Anna Morris smashes individual pursuit world record at European championships

Britain’s Anna Morris smashes individual pursuit world record at European championships
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Britain’s Anna Morris smashes individual pursuit world record at European championships
Author: PA Media
Published: Feb, 15 2025 23:16

Summary at a Glance

Neah Evans finished eighth in the new women’s kilo event, with the European debutant Iona Moir 18th, while Grace Lister finished fifth in the women’s points race and Noah Hobbs ninth in the omnium.

Morris, who won individual pursuit bronze at the championships last year, became the first woman to win the European title in the event’s new 4km format, while Britain’s Sophie Lewis finished sixth.

Britain’s Anna Morris won gold in the individual pursuit at the European track championships in Belgium after breaking the world record twice in one day.

On the final day on Sunday, Matt Walls and Will Perrett will compete in the men’s Madison, with Evans and Maddie Leech in the women’s event.

The Welsh cyclist set a new world’s best of 4min 28.306sec in the qualifiers and bettered that in the final in Heusden-Zolder as she beat Italy’s Vittoria Guazzini in 4:25.874.

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