Ellie Dickinson rounded off her 2018 in stunning style by helping Great Britain raise the roof at the TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup in London.

The Carlisle cyclist, who has competed for Carlisle’s Border City Wheelers and Penrith-based Beacon Wheelers, joined forces with Neah Evans and Olympic champions Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald to great effect as they stormed to team pursuit gold in the Lee Valley VeloPark.

But that only tells part of a story which saw Britain catch their American rivals with more than 1km of the pursuit remaining, dominating in such a fashion that is unbefitting of a gold-medal race.

That capped off what has been a monumental 12 months for the 20-year-old, world silver medallist in Apeldoorn earlier this year, prior to World Cup titles in Canada and now London.

“As far as Friday evenings go, mine was a good one,” Dickinson, from Houghton, said.

“London World Cup has been sweet and left me heading into a big old training block with a happy and positive head - thank you London.”

Next on the agenda for Dickinson is next year’s World Championships, the latest stepping stone in her bid to reach the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

She’ll have a fight on her hands to make it, however, with Great Britain’s female endurance team arguably the strongest in the world, with Rio 2016 champions Archibald and Kenny striking double gold in London.

Fellow Olympic hero Elinor Barker is also a contender for the longer races, which also include the omnium and Madison, as are Dickinson’s fellow starlets Emily Kay and Emily Nelson.

And it’s that strength in depth that can make the difference over the next two years, according to Dickinson’s team-mate and three-time world champion Archibald.

She said: “I guess we can go home content with what we set out at the start of that ride but we’re more eager to prove what we can do because that’s what we’ll need to do, come the World Championships.

“Every nation is here and every nation has it’s A-team. So, we’re excited for that challenge next and making use of all our combinations.

“There’s a mental win there for what that does to somebody’s psyche because America were the defending champions and we’ve got a win over the rainbow stripes.”

The next TISSOT UCI Track Cycling World Cup on UK soil takes place at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow from 8-10 November 2019. Sign-up now at bit.ly/NextStopGlasgow to access tickets before they go on sale to the general public.