Tarling and Charlton win world track golds for GB

At the Track World Championships, Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton won gold for Great Britain.

In Chile, Tarling won the men’s points race with a 750-point lead over American Peter Moore (675), earning his first British gold of the championship.

Charlton, 22, added to Bradley Wiggins’ 2008 gold medal total, earning GB its first individual pursuit title.

After getting off to a strong start, 21-year-old Tarling scored maximum points in the opening sprint before running away empty.

He seized control of the lead, and he kept accumulating points, including the most points ever at sprint 11 to claim the gold medal in style.

Tarling, who debuts in the Track Worlds, becomes the first British man to win the points race since Jonathan Dibben in 2016.

Not knowing how or how it would feel for my first World Championships was frightening, Tarling said.

“It felt good,” he said. I thought it was good that I knew the legs were there when I first saw it.

Charlton, who won the championships last year, led by more than three seconds, overtaking Rasmus Pederson, who had earlier won silver.

In another area, Joe Truman won the men’s 1km time trial behind the Dutch duo of Jeffrey Hoogland and Harrie Lavreysen to match his previous best result from 12 months ago.

After three days of action, Britain now has seven medals overall.