Wild (NED) takes the European omnium crown from Archibald (GBR) after epic battle

Dutch star Kirsten Wild won the omnium gold medal at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Emirates Arena on Monday night to avenge last year's European championships defeat by Great Britain's Katie Archibald.

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Wild sped to victory after an enthralling and hard-fought battle over the four stages of the event.

Archibald was able to win only one stage, the elimination race, as the reigning world champion from the Netherlands added the European crown to her tally of titles thanks to an aggressive but well-controlled fourth and last part, the points race.

"I know Katie is really, really strong and I had to give everything to beat her," Wild said. "It was a hard and tight race."

The most surprising feat of the day came from 19-year-old Italian Letizia Paternoster who, in her first year competing at the elite level, managed to battle with multi-medallist champions such as Wild and Archibald to win an unexpected bronze.

"It's a real honour for me to win bronze behind two champions like them," Paternoster said. "They won an infinite number of medals at the Olympics, the worlds, the Europeans.

"I used to watch them on TV at the Olympic Games or at the world championships and I dreamed of being like them one day. It's surreal and I'm proud of finishing behind two champions like them while wearing my Italian jersey."

Jeffrey Hoogland (NED) won his second gold at Glasgow 2018 in the men's sprint, as he defeated Germany's Stefan Botticher. Hoogland's Dutch team-mate Harrie Levreysen was third ahead of home-crowd favourite Jack Carlin (GBR), adding bronze to the gold they won together in the team sprint.

"The Dutch call me 'Hulk Hoogland' [recalling the Incredible Hulk and Hulk Hogan, the world-famous wrestler from the 1990s, as Hoogland is 1.85m and 100kg]," the six-time European champion said.

"But they also found out that Hoogland means Highlander, so I guess it's something pretty cool to walk around with a surname like this, especially here in Scotland."

In the first medal event of the day, the men's madison, Belgium won their first gold at Glasgow 2018 with Robbe GHYS and Kenny De Ketele, who maintained the momentum from Sunday night's silver in the points race.

After some early aggressive moves and sprints to gain precious points, the Belgian pair then managed to control their opponents and eventually defeated world champions Germany, who took silver.

Daria Shmeleva won another gold for the successful Russian team, achieving a personal golden hat-trick with victory in the time trial, after she had previously won the sprint and the team sprint events.