Three riders were clear early in the 10km scratch race – Jenny Holl joined by Kayla Dinnin (Liv-Halo) and Mille Thomson (Solas Cycling).
It was clear after an early attack that the three would contest the medals, with the sprint deciding the fate of each rider.
Holl led it out, with Thomson following in her wheel tracks, but it was the Blair Drummond native, Holl, that would take the victory, from the 19-year-old Aberdeenshire rider. Dinnin, would take bronze.
Dinnin would have gold alongside Holl in a Scotland “Mix” team in the female team pursuit – the duo were alongside Lucy Sweeney and Eva Murphy as they would ride to an excellent gold medal.
They caught the quartet from Velo Ecosse – who qualified second. The Ecosse quartet included two Masters World Champions – Jude Paterson and Gillian Anderson looking resplendent in their rainbow jerseys in qualifying. The duo alongside Liz Wisdish and Christina Mackenzie clocked a time of 5:27.9 in qualifying – over ten seconds quicker than the next teams from VC Astar Anderside.
The “B” squad of Astar of Zara Mair, Janet Tair, Fiona Davidson and Deborah Ferns would take bronze, narrowly beating the “C” squad from the Glasgow outfit in the bronze final.
The first title of the day was a new event – the female kilometre – with a mix of endurance and sprint riders testing themselves against the clock.
Jenny Holl set the early pace with a 1:10.7 – a strong watermark for others to reach. Sarah Johnson (Glasgow Track Racing Club) would follow up just behind to be second in the club house with one rider left to go.
Ellie Stone made no bones about this event being one for the sprinters – her 1:07.659 was only half a second off the Scottish record and was yet another qualifying standard for next summer’s games.
It would be a busy few hours for Stone and her fellow members of the Scotland team sprint squad. After yesterday’s exploits, Stone, Iona Moir and Maddy Silcock would attempt to make another Team Scotland standard – and break it they did – with the Scottish record set 24 hours ago going with them. Their time of 48.65 will count as the second of two required Commonwealth Games standards.
In her club kit of SES Racing, Moir would taste further success in the keirin – coming up from the back of the field in the final – after Ellie Stone made an early move – to take the gold medal.
Glasgow Track Racing Club’s Sarah Johnson would come home in second place, with Stone’s early attack counting for third.
In the open sprint competition, three riders would break the ten second barrier in qualifying including South African Olympian Jean Spies.
Come the semi-finals there would be a lot of exciting racing – with both heats going into the ride-off.
Spies (Cycle Nation) would just get the better of Anthony Young (Glasgow Track Racing Club), while Niall Monks would best Luthais Arthur in the all-GTRC semi final.
Heading into the final Spies would take the competition beating Monks 2-0 in the final – but as a Spies is a non-Scottish rider, Monks would take gold.
Anthony Young would win 2-0 against Arthur, after the latter would be relegated in the first race of two for a deviation – and Young would hold on to take silver in the second race, with Arthur claiming bronze.
Logan Maclean (Onelife) dominated the open points race, scoring 96 points after several laps gains in a hectic 25km race – that was over in under 30 minutes. Matti Dobbins (Edinburgh Bike Fitting) was one of the only riders (alongside English rider Ben Marsh) to hold onto the Stirling maverick – and take silver.
Behind there was a battle for the bronze with Ben Gibson (Team PB Performance) and Brodie Duncan (West Lothian Clarion) among those involved in the action. But it would be Struan Shaw who would ride sensibly to take bronze, after sticking to Maclean throughout the early part of the race.
Zara Mair (VC Astar Anderside) would best Jude Paterson (Team Ohtean Aveas) in a thriller for the gold medal in the masters 40+ individual pursuit. The two would swap the lead several times but Mair would just do enough to take the victory by around half a second from Paterson.
Andy Bruce (Vanelli-Project GO) would take open 50+ individual pursuit from Matt Howitt (Johnstone Wheelers) in second and Brian McGhee (RCCK) in third.