On the fifth and ultimate day of the 2024 UCI Observe World Championships, 5 world titles had been determined at Ballerup Tremendous Enviornment exterior Copenhagen, Denmark. The motion started with the lads’s Dash, with different medals to comply with within the girls’s Factors and Keirin races in addition to the lads’s Elimination and Madison occasions. In all a complete of 21 gold medal occasions accomplished the week.
Dutch dominance by Lavreysen in males’s Dash
Harrie Lavreysen outdueled Jeffrey Hoogland in a Dutch showdown for the lads’s Dash title on the 2024 UCI Observe World Championships in Norway. It was Lavreysen’s third gold medal of the week on the Ballerup Tremendous Enviornment, and a sixth consecutive Dash world championship.
For the second time he went up towards his compatriot Hoogland, defeating him within the males’s time trial. He additionally was a part of the Dutch squad, with Hoogland and Roy van den Berg, who gained the gold within the males’s Staff Dash.
The 27-year-old Lavreysen swept each races towards Hoogland, including a sixteenth profession gold to his world championships domination, in addition to holding 5 Olympic gold medals, three of these earned in Paris.
“I knew I used to be heading in the right direction. And I knew that file [of 14 world titles] could possibly be damaged in the future. The Observe World Championships have been held for over 100 years and have many nice information and rankings. That I can prime a kind of lists may be very particular,” Lavreysen advised Nos.nl after the race.
“I knew I needed to go for the kilometre time trial sooner or later. This 12 months appeared excellent for it, proper after the Olympics. And I actually loved it in the present day.”
Kaiya Ota (Japan) defeated final 12 months’s silver medallist Nicholas Paul (Trinidad & Tobago) and earned the bronze medal. Ota, third within the Dash on the Tokyo Olympic Video games, additionally was a part of Japan’s bronze medal end this week within the males’s Staff Dash.
Within the semifinals, Lavreysen defeated Ota in back-to-back races, whereas Hoogland wanted a decider to maneuver to the gold medal spherical forward of Paul. It was the second spherical that Hoogland wanted a decider spherical to proceed, as he break up races on Saturday’s quarterfinals towards Mikhail Yakovlev (Israel) and moved on with the decider victory by a slim 0:00:0.018 margin.
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Dash for gold
Pos.
Rider (Nation)
1
Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
2
Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands)
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Dash for bronze
Pos.
Rider title (Nation)
3
Kaiya Ota (Japan)
4
Nicholas Paul (Trinidad & Tobago)
Ladies’s Factors Race
Denmark’s Julie Leth reacts after successful the ladies’s Level race (Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Julie Leth (Norway) gained the gold medal within the girls’s Factors race, going three factors higher than defending champion Lotte Kopecky (Belgium), who took the silver medal.
Laura Gillespie (Eire) took the bronze, one level behind Kopecky, and completed simply forward of New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston.
Kopecky skilled a mechanical concern together with her chain earlier than the ultimate dash, which stored her from successful a 3rd gold medal within the Factors race. The Dutch all-rounder additionally gained the silver within the Elimination race this week.
“This silver is a bit more durable to just accept than the one from the elimination. Nicely, it’s nonetheless a World Championship and it’s nonetheless a medal. We have now to be happy with it in a manner, however I had hoped for extra. It was not meant to be,” Kopecky stated to Sporza.
“It was nonetheless troublesome to get 4 factors again on Leth. With out the chain downside I’d most likely have been stranded on one level, so that will not have modified the ultimate outcome.”
Jennifer Valente (United States of America), Mizuki Ikeda (Japan) and Alexandra Manly (Australia) took a lap and 20 factors early within the race. Then Leth launched a deadly assault and moved into the lead with lap bonus.
With simply 10 laps remaining, Kopecky pushed the tempo and will solely be adopted by Leth, Daniela Campos (Portugal), Marit Raaijmakers (Netherlands) and Neah Evans (Nice Britain). Evans was one of many riders introduced down in a crash within the ultimate bend whereas Kopecky couldn’t counter the ultimate dash of Leth, who took the bonus factors.
The 32-year-old Leth celebrated her second gold of the week, including to her Staff Pursuit medal, and had a particular celebration with the gang as she heads to retirement.
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Pos.
Rider Title (Nation)
Consequence
1
Julie Leth (Denmark)
43
2
Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
40
3
Lara Gillespie (Eire)
39
4
Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
39
5
Victoire Berteau (France)
34
6
Alexandra Manly (Australia)
28
7
Marit Raaijmakers (Netherlands)
27
8
Neah Evans (Nice Britain)
27
9
Jennifer Valente (United States)
25
10
Mizuki Ikeda (Japan)
24
11
Lea Lin Teutenberg (Germany)
24
12
Daniela Campos (Portugal)
21
13
Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)
21
14
Martina Alzini (Italy)
5
15
Akvile Gedraitytė (Lithuania)
3
16
Michelle Andres (Switzerland)
Males’s Elimination Race
Denmark’s Tobias Aagaard Hansen on his technique to gold within the males’s Elimination race (Picture credit score: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Denmark’s Tobias Aagaard Hansen took the rainbow jersey as he outpaced two-time world champion Elia Viviani (Italy) within the males’s Elimination race on Sunday. Dylan Bibic (Canada) took the bronze. But it surely was removed from an easy occasion, because the race noticed quite a lot of crashes in addition to relegations of three riders for inflicting disruptions within the frenzied competitors.
Jules Hesters (Belgium) was eliminated and posted a results of 18th for “harmful using” in an in depth go with Edibaldo Maldonado Rayas (Mexico). Three laps later Blake Agnoletto (Australia) was relegated for inflicting a crash.
The loudest controversy struck when Jan-Willem van Schip (Netherlands) was relegated from the ultimate 4 riders after which disqualified for “improper conduct”.
After Diogo Narciso (Portugal) was dismissed by Van Schip to fifth place, officers noticed the outcome in any other case. On the subsequent go with Bibic the trailing rider in fourth, the race jury dominated Van Schip because the dropped rider for “harmful using” when he interfered with Narciso on the earlier lap.
Van Schip stormed off the observe, demonstrating his displeasure by cursing and directing an obscene gesture towards the UCI officers in entrance of the spectators. He was disqualified “for assault, intimidation, insults, threats, improper conduct directed at another particular person”.
Whereas Van Schip’s behaviour might have spoiled the occasion, the Danish crowd went on to rejoice Hansen’s success. He added a 3rd medal for Denmark, having been a part of the gold medal Staff Pursuit effort alongside Carl-Frederik Bevort, Niklas Larsen, and Frederik Rodenberg Madsen and taking a silver within the Scratch race, each on Thursday.
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Pos.
Rider Title (Nation)
1
Tobias Aagaard Hansen (Denmark)
2
Elia Viviani (Italy)
3
Dylan Bibic (Canada)
4
Diogo Narciso (Portugal)
5
Mario Anguela Yaguez (Spain)
6
Noah Hobbs (Nice Britain)
7
Adam Křenek (Czech Republic)
8
Jordan Arley Parra Arias (Colombia)
9
Tim Wafler (Austria)
10
Adam Wozniak (Poland)
11
Nicolo de Lisi (Switzerland)
12
Akil Campbell (Trinidad and Tobago)
13
Blake Agnoletto (Australia)
14
Ramis Dinmukhametov (Kazakhstan)
15
Naoki Kojima (Japan)
16
Edibaldo Maldonado Rayas (Mexico)
17
Jules Hesters (Belgium)
18
Grant Koontz (United States)
19
Benjamin Boos (Germany)
20
Terry Yudha Kusuma (Indonesia)
21
Harshveer Sekhon (India)
22
Pavol Rovder (Slovakia)
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Jan Willem van Schip (Netherlands)
Ladies’s Keirin
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Mina Sato ensured that Japan might lay declare to each Keirin world titles at this 12 months’s Observe Worlds following Kento Yamasaki’s victory within the males’s race earlier this week.
Sato took the gold when she got here out from the wheel of dash champion Emma Finucane, the British rider main the way in which into the ultimate lap of the race.
Rounding the flip into the again straight, Sato sped across the exterior as she launched her bid for glory. She edged across the exterior of the ultimate nook to nip into the lead with excellent timing to take dwelling the rainbow jersey by a motorbike size.
Behind Sato, Hetty van de Wouw (Netherlands) additionally managed to make her well beyond Finucane, simply getting previous metres forward of the end line for the silver.
Katy Marchant (Nice Britain) was one other late mover, additionally nudging previous Finucane in a photograph end to say bronze.
Sato’s win is her first on the Observe Worlds following silver medals in 2021 and 2022. This 12 months she has gained the UCI Nations Cup and Japan Observe Cup, that means the world title rounds out an extremely profitable season.
The wins from Yamasaki and Sato mark the primary Keirin world titles for Japan since 1987, when Harumi Honda gained the lads’s title in Vienna.
