CHRIS Newton won his second medal in 24 hours last night when he took bronze in the men's points race.

Newton, from Stockton, finished the 30km race with 17 points - four ahead of his nearest rivals, Welshman Huw Pritchard and South Africa's Jean-Pierre van Zyl.

It came a day after he was part of the England team that took silver in the men's 4,000m team pursuit at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester.

His cause was helped when Australian Graeme Brown, a double Commonwealth Games gold medalist on Thursday, was disqualified for causing a multi-bike pile-up.

Newton, 28, said: "What he did was silly and very dangerous. He moved to the top of the bank, which he shouldn't have done. I was on the fence and the guy behind me had nowhere to go.

"He could have brought down half the field, and it was unnecessary because he's such a good rider."

Newton added: "I would have been happy with a bronze beforehand because it was my first points race for a while.

"But I got into a rhythm straightaway and got early points. But the crash then put me off a bit and I lost my legs.

"I found myself having to sprint and then try to recover as best I could between the sprints."

Newton was in a medal position throughout the 120-lap race, in which riders scored points in sprints at 10-lap intervals.

But Van Zyl slowly closed the gap and could still have denied Newton a podium finish on the last circuit, only for the Englishman to dig deep and come home in third on the final sprint.

With Brown out, the race was won comfortably by New Zealand's Ged Henderson. He triumphed in six of the sprints to amass 35 points, eight more than second-placed Mark Renshaw, who also won gold in yesterday's team pursuit.