Archibald extends lead in Observe Champions League

Katie Archibald prolonged her lead within the girls’s endurance competitors within the second spherical of the Observe Champions League.

Archibald adopted up her opening-round victories within the girls’s scratch and elimination races by inserting second in each occasions in Apeldoorn within the Netherlands.

That took the 30-year-old’s mixed factors whole to 74 – 29 away from Canada’s Sarah van Dam earlier than spherical three takes place on the identical venue on Saturday.

Fellow Briton Matthew Richardson is second general within the males’s dash league, whereas Emma Finucane sits third within the girls’s dash self-discipline.

After claiming opening wins within the males’s dash and keirin finals when the primary spherical was on 23 November, Richardson positioned fifth within the dash and fourth within the keirin on Friday evening to stay inside seven factors of Dutch chief Harrie Lavreysen.

Finucane was fourth in her dash closing and eleventh within the keirin, leaving the 21-year-old 20 factors behnd Alina Lysenko.

Katy Marchant rose to sixth general within the girls’s dash league by following up seventh place within the dash with fifth within the keirin, as Lysenko took most factors in each occasions in spherical two.

Following the third spherical on Saturday, rounds 4 and 5 can be held at London’s Lee Valley VeloPark on 6 and seven December.

The fourth season of the Observe Champions League consists of 5 rounds, held in three cities.

Riders compete in both the dash or endurance competitions, coming into two races – dash and keirin for sprinters, and elimination and scratch for endurance riders – in every spherical.

Factors received in every spherical are mirrored in a league desk and the rider with essentially the most factors in every self-discipline on the finish of the sequence is topped the general winner.

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