Jonathan Milan broke the individual pursuit world record this evening on his way to World Championship gold in Denmark – for the second time in one day

Jonathan Milan broke the 4km individual pursuit world record and won gold at the UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen. It was the second time the world record was broken today, by Brit Josh Charlton

Charlton’s new record was 0.332 seconds faster than Ganna’s, set in 2022. But despite Charlton taking on Milan in the gold-silver race this evening, the Italian dominated the race.

He took an early lead and although it briefly looked like Charlton would mount a comeback, Milan were on the rise, taking gold with a new world record in a time of 3:59.153, compared to Charlton’s 3:59.304 this one year tomorrow.

Milan appeared to have held back in qualifying as his first kilometer time in the final was a second faster than in qualifying this morning.

The battle for bronze and fourth place today was between two Brits – Dan Bigham and Harry Tanfield – with Bigham leaving his rival behind in the second half of the race. He took bronze on his last ride before retiring.

He has now hung up his racing bikes – and left his role as a performance engineer at Ineos Grenadiers behind Criticism of the British team. He will soon take over the position of performance manager Engineering at Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe.