Great Britain fastest in women's Team Pursuit qualifier at Glasgow Track World Cup

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The second round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup kicked off with the opening night at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome in Glasgow on Thursday.

The four days of track racing began with the women's and men's Team Pursuit qualifiers. Great Britain's women's team of Neah Evans, Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Eleanor Dickinson posted the fastest time of 4:16.037 to beat Germany and France.

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Womens Team Pursuit - Qualifying
Pos.	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Great Britain	0:04:16.037
Row 1 - Cell 0	Neah Evans
Row 2 - Cell 0	Katie Archibald
Row 3 - Cell 0	Elinor Barker
Row 4 - Cell 0	Eleanor Dickinson
2	Germany	0:04:17.414
Row 6 - Cell 0	Franziska Brausse
Row 7 - Cell 0	Lisa Brennauer
Row 8 - Cell 0	Lisa Klein
Row 9 - Cell 0	Mieke Kroger
3	France	0:04:21.036
Row 11 - Cell 0	Clara Copponi
Row 12 - Cell 0	Marion Borras
Row 13 - Cell 0	Valentine Fortin
Row 14 - Cell 0	Marie le Net
4	Belgium	0:04:21.578
Row 16 - Cell 0	Lotte Kopecky
Row 17 - Cell 0	Shari Bossuyt
Row 18 - Cell 0	Jolien d'Hoore
Row 19 - Cell 0	Annelies Dom
5	Italy	0:04:23.484
Row 21 - Cell 0	Vittoria Guazzini
Row 22 - Cell 0	Chiara Consonni
Row 23 - Cell 0	Simona Frapporti
Row 24 - Cell 0	Silvia Valsecchi
6	Australia	0:04:23.638
Row 26 - Cell 0	Georgia Baker
Row 27 - Cell 0	Kristina Clonan
Row 28 - Cell 0	Alex Martin-wallace
Row 29 - Cell 0	Macey Stewart
7	Ireland	0:04:26.299
Row 31 - Cell 0	Lara Gillespie
Row 32 - Cell 0	Mia Griffin
Row 33 - Cell 0	Kelly Murphy
Row 34 - Cell 0	Alice Sharpe
8	Poland	0:04:32.603
Row 36 - Cell 0	Nikol Plosaj
Row 37 - Cell 0	Karolina Karasiewicz
Row 38 - Cell 0	Daria Pikulik
Row 39 - Cell 0	Wiktoria Pikulik

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Mens Team Pursuit - Qualifying
Pos.	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Denmark	0:03:51.251
Row 1 - Cell 0	Lasse Norman Hansen
Row 2 - Cell 0	Julius Johansen
Row 3 - Cell 0	Frederik Roden Madsen
Row 4 - Cell 0	Rasmus Pedersen
2	Italy	0:03:52.088
Row 6 - Cell 0	Francesco Lamon
Row 7 - Cell 0	Liam Bertazzo
Row 8 - Cell 0	Simone Consonni
Row 9 - Cell 0	Filippo Ganna
3	France	0:03:53.964
Row 11 - Cell 0	Benjamin Thomas
Row 12 - Cell 0	Thomas Denis
Row 13 - Cell 0	Corentin Ermenault
Row 14 - Cell 0	Valentin Tabellion
4	Huub Wattbike Test test	0:03:53.715
Row 16 - Cell 0	John Archibald
Row 17 - Cell 0	Daniel Bigham
Row 18 - Cell 0	William Perrett
Row 19 - Cell 0	Jonathan Wale
5	Great Britain	0:03:54.495
Row 21 - Cell 0	Ethan Hayter
Row 22 - Cell 0	Edward Clancy
Row 23 - Cell 0	Charlie Tanfield
Row 24 - Cell 0	Oliver Wood
6	Switzerland	0:03:55.916
Row 26 - Cell 0	Thery Schir
Row 27 - Cell 0	Stefan Bissegger
Row 28 - Cell 0	Lukas Ruegg
Row 29 - Cell 0	Cyrille Thiery
7	Australia	0:03:57.832
Row 31 - Cell 0	Joshua Duffy
Row 32 - Cell 0	Leigh Howard
Row 33 - Cell 0	Conor Leahy
Row 34 - Cell 0	Godfrey Slattery
8	Germany	0:03:59.010
Row 36 - Cell 0	Richard Banusch
Row 37 - Cell 0	Maximilian Beyer
Row 38 - Cell 0	Jasper Frahm
Row 39 - Cell 0	Justin Wolf
9	Russian Federation	0:03:59.739
Row 41 - Cell 0	Nikita Bersenev
Row 42 - Cell 0	Lev Gonov
Row 43 - Cell 0	Ivan Smirnov
Row 44 - Cell 0	Gleb Syritsa
10	United States of America	0:04:00.890
Row 46 - Cell 0	Gavin Hoover
Row 47 - Cell 0	John Croom
Row 48 - Cell 0	Gregory Daniel
Row 49 - Cell 0	Ashton Lambie
11	Belgium	0:04:00.951
Row 51 - Cell 0	Robbe Ghys
Row 52 - Cell 0	Rune Herregodts
Row 53 - Cell 0	Gerben Thijssen
Row 54 - Cell 0	Fabio van den Bossche
12	Poland	0:04:04.713
Row 56 - Cell 0	Szymon Krawczyk
Row 57 - Cell 0	Bartosz Rudyk
Row 58 - Cell 0	Damian Slawek
Row 59 - Cell 0	Wojciech Ziolkowski
13	Ukraine	0:04:04.717
Row 61 - Cell 0	Vitaliy Hryniv
Row 62 - Cell 0	Volodymyr Dzhus
Row 63 - Cell 0	Roman Gladysh
Row 64 - Cell 0	Vladyslav Shcherban

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