WATCH: Forres cyclist Lauren Bell wins silver in the women's team sprint at the UCI Cycling World Championships as Germany smash their own world record to win in Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome
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Forres cyclist Lauren Bell was so close to realising her dream of becoming a world champion in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
The former Forres Academy pupil was competing in the opening day of the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.
Alongside her regular Team GB women's team sprint partners Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane, Bell (23) battled her way through to the final.
Having won bronze at last year's world in France, the British trio had already achieved their best but wanted to break the dominance of the German team of Lea Sophie Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch and Emma Hinze by claiming the gold.
Watch YouTube footage of the entire final.
The German trio are the reigning world and Olympic champions, and although GB set a faster time than their rivals in qualifying, Germany were quicker in the first round of the championships.
In the end, it took a world record-breaking performance from Grabosch, Hinze and Friedrich to snatch the gold in an extremely close final.
Bell led the way for Team GB in the first lap against Grabosch, and despite a powerful performance from all three British women they finished just 0.075 seconds behind Germany and outside the new world record.
As well as winning bronze in last year's UCI track cycling world championships last year, Bell and her team-mates claimed silver at this year's European Championships, also won by the Germans.
Starting yesterday and continuing until August 13, the inaugural UCI cycling world championships will be hosted in Glasgow and across Scotland.
The single biggest cycling event in history, it brings together 13 existing individual cycling world championships into one mega event.
