Great Britain maintained the feel-good factor from the Beijing Olympics by gaining more gold medals in the European Track Championships.

And West Yorkshire played a major part in the glory at Pruszkow in Poland by getting four golds. Two went to Cullingworth’s Hannah Mayho (pictured left) and the other two went to Otley’s Lizzie Armitstead.

Mayho, 17, won the junior women’s team pursuit alongside Alex Greenfield and Jessica Booth and then lifted gold in the junior women’s individual pursuit.

Last year North Halifax Grammar School pupil Mayho had taken silver in the junior women’s individual pursuit.

Armitstead stood on top of the podium in the U-23 women’s team pursuit with Katie Colclough and Joanna Rowsell. Armitstead also won gold in the U-23 Women’s Scratch.

Mayho, Greenfield and Booth topped the qualifying for the team pursuit over 2,000 metres, clocking 2min 20.249sec to head Belgium, Italy and Russia. The teams finished in the same order in the final with the British trio crossing the line in 2min 19.612sec, almost a second in front of the Belgians.

Former Parkside pupil Mayho was second in qualifying for the individual pursuit, clocking 2min 28.297 sec to be placed behind Jolien D’Hoore of Belgium. But the tables were turned in the final, Mayho’s 2min 28.275sec being about a third of a second quicker than D’Hoore.

Mayho said: “The Pruszkow track in fantastic and very fast. The banking is very good and it’s very smooth, so when the World Champion-ships are here next year there will be a lot of fast times.”

Armitstead, Colclough and Rowsell topped the charts in qualifying for the U-23 women’s team pursuit, posting 3min 27.828sec, which was almost seven seconds better than second-quickest France.

The final gave the trio of Britons the chance to further stamp their authority on the event and they stretched their margin to over eight seconds by stopping the clock at 3min 26.836sec. France finished second with Russia third.

In other results over the five-day championships, Great Britain won further gold medals in the Junior Women’s 500m Time Trial, Junior Women’s Keiren, Junior Women’s Points Final, Junior Men’s Madison and the U-23 Men’s Team Pursuit.