Yesterday was the second race of the 2016 World Cup, a Sprint race in Wroclaw writes Cat Taylor. The Qualification (morning) and Final (afternoon) courses took in a variety of terrain, with the Final held in tricky old university buildings, with an arena start and two "laps" of the area (using a map exchange). This meant that the race was exciting to watch as well as being very challenging, testing runners' speed, agility and quick route choice decisions. 

Once again it was Ralph Street who came away with the best performance of the British men, running two more solid races to secure 12th position in the final.

Ralph was joined in the A Final by Peter Hodkinson, who described his race as "a good experience and some things to improve, though I'm not disappointed with my performance."

Hollie Orr qualified strongly for the women's A Final but says the afternoon's difficult course "illustrated my recent focus away from sprint technique - there's no getting away with mistakes at this level!"

Meanwhile, Jo Shepherd recovered excellently from one mistake in the morning's qualification race - which cost her a place in the A final - to have a great run in the afternoon, the fastest woman in the "B" final. Jo was pleased to have "good control" on the technical course.

Though the day provided something of a mixed bag of experiences, the team's consensus was that the competition was really well organised, with great courses and as Will Gardner commented, "it was brilliant to have such loud team support in the arena". The World Cup weekend concludes today with a Sprint relay and GBR have three full teams and one mixed nation team. It promises to be an exciting race and a chance for the athletes to either build on today's performance or make a new start.