Mixed emotions for Tennant after Cali World Cup silver
BySportsbeat
Published 01/11/2015 at 12:15 GMT
Andy Tennant admits it was a case of mixed emotions after picking up Great Britain's second medal of the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali by winning silver in the individual pursuit on Saturday.
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GB's women won bronze in the team pursuit on the opening day but Tennant went one better as he set a personal best of 4:19.992 minutes in qualifying to reach the final.
His time of 4:22.095 wasn't quite enough to overhaul Germany's Domenic Weinstein in the final itself but it was a first World Cup medal in the individual pursuit for the 28-year-old.
And while Tennant, who was also part of the British quartet that finished fifth in the team pursuit on Friday, was content with the result he was left to rue the decision to move on to a bigger gear in the final.
"I'm pretty pleased," said Tennant. "But I went on a 108 [in the final]; it was just too big for me. I was 106 in the qualification.
"The qualifier was a lot better than that [the final]. I can naturally spin a bike at cadence for the team pursuit, we should have probably stuck with that, I would have probably been closer. Whether I would have won or not I don't know.
"It's my first World Cup medal in an individual pursuit though, so it's nice."
Elsewhere in Cali, triple European champion Laura Trott leads the women's omnium at the halfway mark after finishing second in the scratch race, third in the individual pursuit and winning the elimination race.
The 23-year-old has a ten point advantage over second-placed Kirsten Wild with the time trial, flying lap and points race to come on Sunday.
Jonathan Dibben lies eighth in the men's omnium at the halfway point, Katy Archibald came sixth in the women's scratch race while Katy Marchant and Jess Varnish exited the women's sprint in the last 16 and quarter-final repechages respectively.
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