
It is rare, unheard of in fact, that riders at the British National Track Championships have maths homework due the following week. But that was the case for 16-year-old Henry Hobbs, still in his first year of A-Levels, who rode to a surprise podium on his senior debut on Saturday night.
The teenager sealed bronze in the men’s kilometre time trial, clocking a PB of 1:02.574, and finishing just four tenths of a second off gold.