Top-ranked Georgia Taylor-Brown completed her first experience of the blue carpet elimination format with a dazzling gold, coming through the intense heat and racing triumphant.

It had been a huge effort in rising temperatures, but it was Taylor-Brown who broke away on the final bike leg with Beth Potter (GBR) and Cassandre Beaugrand (FRA) for company, and it became a chase for the podium positions, WTCS Leeds champion Beaugrand able to pass Potter late on to take silver.