Observe Worlds: Lavreysen outduels Hoogland in Dutch 1-2 in males’s Dash last
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On the fifth and last day of the 2024 UCI Observe World Championships, 5 world titles have been determined at Ballerup Tremendous Enviornment exterior Copenhagen, Denmark. The motion started with the boys’s Dash, with different medals to comply with within the girls’s Factors and Keirin races in addition to the boys’s Elimination and Madison occasions. In all a complete of 21 gold medal occasions accomplished the week.
Dutch dominance in males’s Dash
Harrie Lavreysen outdueled Jeffrey Hoogland in a Dutch showdown for the boys’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 Group 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.
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 Group 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 cut 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 identify (Nation)
3
Kaiya Ota (Japan)
4
Nicholas Paul (Trinidad & Tobago)
Ladies’s Factors Race
Denmark’s Julie Leth reacts after profitable the ladies’s Level race (Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Pictures)
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 subject along with her chain earlier than the ultimate dash, which saved her from profitable 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 tougher to just accept than the one from the elimination. Properly, it’s nonetheless a World Championship and it’s nonetheless a medal. We’ve got to be happy with it in a means, 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 end result.”
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 last 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 Group Pursuit medal, and had a particular celebration with the gang as she heads to retirement.
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