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Leeds: Gold medal-winning cyclist Katy Marchant returns home

Marchant said she wanted her son to be “sporty” as he grows up.

“It provides so many opportunities in life and I’m forever grateful for what sport has given me,” she said.

However, she said that as a parent the hours spent away from home were hard.

“That’s been really difficult and something I struggle with a lot. Feeling the guilt of thinking my job now is to be a mum and I should be at home looking after Arthur.

“But as he gets older he’s starting to understand and is more involved and wants to watch Mummy ride her bike,” she added.

Marchant said for now she was living her “absolute dream”, but felt she had “so much more to give”.

She said she would take a few days to decompress and then go back into training ahead of the World Championships in eight weeks.

Marchant, who went to school in nearby Allerton Bywater, was a GB junior heptathlete who was persuaded to switch to cycling after a coach noticed her impressive times on a static bike.

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