Great Britain’s Josh Charlton won his country’s first gold medal of this year’s European Track Championships, dominating the individual pursuit on Friday evening.
The 22-year-old led his final against Portugal’s Ivo Oliveira from the start, pushing his advantage out to more than a second in the closing laps and ultimately winning by 0.749 seconds. The Brit’s time across the line was 4:02.882 over the 4,000m.
