With both Trott and Archibald also winning the scratch race and elimination race, respectively, it made for a hugely successful meet for the women’s endurance squad.

Their male counterparts also returned with two further bronze medals, courtesy of Jon Dibben and Chris Latham.

Dibben put in a gutsy points race in the final round of the men’s omnium – winning the sprint on three occasions and lapping his rivals to finish third overall, just three points behind Team Sky’s Elia Viviani (Italy) and Cannondale-Garmin’s Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark).

Latham, meanwhile, took bronze in the elimination race; he also finished 12th in the Madison with Oliver Wood – who finished 15th in the points race – and Andy Tennant was fifth in the individual pursuit.

While the endurance squads returned with medals, however, there was no success for either the men’s or women’s sprint squads.

Having already missed out on the medal finals in the team sprints, Jason Kenny had to settle for fifth in the individual sprint – losing in the quarter-finals to eventual winner Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands).

Lewis Oliva was eighth in the same event, having twice come through the repechages to reach the quarter-finals and Matt Crampton was eighth in the men’s kilo – the same place Kenny finished in the men’s keirin.

Katy Marchant’s fourth place in the women’s kilo was the sprinters’ best result, with the 22-year-old also claiming seventh in the individual sprint and tenth in the keirin.

Jess Varnish was tenth in the individual sprint and Victoria Williamson was seventh and 18th in the kilo and keirin respectively.