- Walls grabs second medal of Games after omnium gold
- Denmark’s Hansen and Morkov claim top spot
No country competing at Tokyo 2020 has welcomed the return of the madison to the fold with more enthusiasm than Team GB. A day after Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny won gold in the discipline’s first Olympic event for women, Matt Walls and Ethan Hayter dug deep to take silver in the men’s race – making its first appearance since 2008 on Saturday.
Gold went to the world champions, the Danish pairing of Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov, while France’s Benjamin Thomas and Donavan Grondin took bronze after Hayter’s tie-breaking sprint right at the death of the 200-lap race.