Matt Walls won a second gold for Britain at the European Cycling Union (UEC) Elite Track European Championships in Plovdiv ©UEC

Matthew Walls earned his second title at the European Cycling Union (UEC) Elite Track European Championships in Plovdiv, in the men’s omnium, meaning Britain goes into the penultimate day of competition tomorrow leading the medals table with five golds.

The 22-year-old world bronze medallist from Oldham, who won the men’s elimination race on the opening day at the Kolodruma Velodrome, finished ahead of Yauheni Karaliok of Belarus and Portugal’s Iuri Leitao, winner of yesterday’s scratch race.

"It was a tough race," Walls told British Cycling.

"It's been a long day.

"I managed to come into the final points race with a bit of a lead, I was able to hold that lead and ended up with another win.

"I'm really happy to come away with a second jersey.

"I've got the madison on Sunday so I'm looking forward to that and hopefully I can make it a third."

The first British gold of the evening came from Neah Evans in the women’s individual pursuit.

Evans pulled clear over the third and final kilometre to finish in 3min 29.456sec, with Italy’s Martina Alzini taking silver in 3:32.386.

Italy beat Britain in the race for the bronze medal as Silvia Valsecchi clocked 3:28.878 to finish ahead of Josie Knight, who stopped the clock at 3:31.519.

Russia go into the fourth day of competition with four golds thanks to Anastasiia Voinova, who won her women’s sprint final against compatriot Daria Shmeleva.

Bronze went to Ukraine’s Olena Starikova, who outsprinted Lithuania’s Migle Marozaite.

Italy’s Elisa Balsamo held off Britain’s four-times Olympic champion Laura Kenny to win the women’s omnium.

The 22-year-old from Cuneo, who earned bronze in the omnium at last year’s European Games in Minsk, won the scratch and elimination races – the first and third of the four elements – and finished strongly in the points race to earn a total of 135 points and take Italy’s second gold so far.

Kenny, Olympic omnium champion at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games, had to settle for silver on 126 having finished second in the scratch and elimination sections.

Bronze went to Russia’s Maria Novolodskaya on 114.

Germany earned its first gold of the Championships through Maximilian Levy, who beat Russia’s Denis Dmitriev in the men’s sprint final.

Lithuania’s Vasilijus Lendel took bronze at the expense of Sotirios Bretas of Greece.

Tomorrow will see finals in the men’s keirin, individual pursuit and points race, while the women’s finals will be in the points race and keirin.