ABERGAVENNY’S Rachel James won her third medal of the week on day four of the British Cycling National Track Championships in Manchester, while Newport’s Jon Mould also made the podium.

James had already piloted Sophie Thornhill to gold on the tandem in the para-cycling 200m flying start time trial for blind and visually impaired riders and the para-cycling BVI mixed kilo.

And she added a bronze on the penultimate day of competition in the women’s team sprint.

North West B duo James and Helen Scott collected bronze against Scotland’s Eleanor Richardson and Kayleigh Brogan with a time of 34.998 seconds.

Jess Varnish won her third gold of the competition with Dannielle Kahn, overcoming Katy Marchant and Victoria Williamson in the gold medal final.

Mould took bronze in the men’s points race, which went down to the final sprint as Spokes Racing Team’s Mark Stewart edged out Team Raleigh’s Mark Christian for the title.

Stewart won the penultimate sprint in the 30-kilometre race to move to 21 points with Christian behind on 18.

The Scot then ensured his victory with a point in the final sprint as Christian was unable to add to his tally.

NFTO Cycling’s Mould was third on 16 points.

Lewis Oliva of Devauden just missed out on bronze in the men’s sprint, which was won by kilo and keirin champion Callum Skinner.

The Scot defeated Matt Crampton by two heats to one, while Philip Hindes defeated Team USN’s Oliva for bronze.

“It has been fantastic,” said Skinner, who is part of the Great Britain Cycling Team.

“It’s been tight all the way through, just centimetres so it’s been so close and a good day’s racing. It’s good to win them when they’re close and if it was easy it wouldn’t be worth having “There’s an incredible strength in depth here and they’re a pleasure to train with day-in-day-out and it’s been amazing."

Wiggle Honda’s Laura Trott added women’s scratch gold to her team pursuit title in a compelling race.

Trott was one of five riders to take two laps on the field, along with teammates Dani King and Cardiff’s Elinor Barker, Pearl Izumi’s Katie Archibald and Dame Sarah Storey, and Team USN’s Emily Kay.

A burst of pace over the final 100 metres saw the 22-year-old distance her rivals to take the national jersey.

Kay took an excellent second with King third.

"I feel amazing," Trott said. "I’m really, really happy. I was disappointed with yesterday’s result (in the individual pursuit) after training hasn’t been going too well for last couple of weeks to be honest.

“I felt really good (today), we took a lap and I felt like we were cruising round. I was just really relaxed and it came into the sprint and it panned out just how I wanted.

“I waited and I was in control and I didn’t want anybody to get in the way of how I sprint. I took it on with a lap to go and it worked!”

Barker finished fifth, while fellow Welsh riders Amy Horne, Ciara Horne, Katie Curtis and Jessica Hill were seventh, 11th, 15th and 20th respectively.