KATIE Archibald went from ecstasy to agony in the space of 15 hours as her hopes of a World Track Championships golden double were ended in Hong Kong.

After a sleepness night following her exhaustive omnium victory – buzzing on the congratulatory messages from family and friends and probably one coffee too many – she finally ran out of steam.

Still it was close. Archibald’s time of three minutes 31.331 seconds for the individual pursuit left her fifth fastest, agonisingly missing out on the medal rides by less than 0.3 sec.

“I actually don’t remember sleeping but I must have at some point,” the 23-year-old from Milngavie said. “I was opening my eyes still jumping up and down with all the caffeine and things.

“I had a bit of a caffeine night but I thought I’d be able to roll it over. That [the omnium] was probably the hardest race I have ever done and it turns out I couldn’t do it twice. There were lots of messages but maybe that didn’t help with the sleep. Maybe I should have had a cull.

“I just feel a bit stupid. Oh well. To be honest, I knew on the start line that I was fighting to get the second fastest.

“I guess I am just kind of embarrassed as I have put a lot of work into getting my pb at 3:28 and I’ve done it twice under circumstances that I thought could have been a lot better. I think I might have been making excuses in the past. I wanted to peak for it and I didn’t.”

Archibald’s frustration was magnified by the fact that this, the immediate post-Olympics world championships, could have been her last crack at winning the pursuit title which is not on the Games programme.

As Tokyo 2020 draws nearer, her training priorities will inevitably switch to the team pursuit, where she will hope to defend the Olympic title she won last summer in Rio.

Then there is the omnium, where she could be battling with Laura Kenny, who won in London 2012 and successfully defended in Brazil, if she returns after the birth of her child.

Archibald, the Sunday Herald columnist, added: “We are really far away from the Olympics, which I guess is the other kick in the balls.

“I had this one chance to focus on it, not that I would have changed yesterday for anything. Definitely no regrets. But I don’t know if there will be a lot more chances like this. I feel that I could be good at it. I want to be good at it. But that’s the same time as I did at a world championships two years ago again off the back of three pursuit rides in one day.

“I made excuses then of, ‘Oh if I’d been a bit fresher’. I don’t know when the time comes when there is a time you can stand next to and feel content with. I am not sure if I’m there yet.”

Britain took their medal tally to four after Archibald’s fellow Olympic team pursuit gold medallist, Elinor Barker, teamed up with Emily Nelson for silver in the madison.

The event has been added to the women’s programme at the worlds for the first time and there is talk of it being included on the

schedule in Tokyo, which could also pique Archibald’s interest given its endurance nature.

Barker, who has silver from the scratch here and goes in the points race today, and Nelson took an early lead but were overhauled by Belgium after an at times fierce 120-laps which saw several riders crash out. Australia won bronze.

Ryan Owens, Britain’s sole survivor in the sprint after Scotland’s Olympic silver medallist Callum Skinner went out in the second round on Friday, lost his bronze medal match to New Zealand’s Ethan Mitchell.

Skinner will not contest today’s kilo contest with the one slot going to Joe Truman while Dundee’s Mark Stewart will line-up in the madison with Ollie Wood.