Monitor Worlds: Britain’s Anna Morris claims Particular person Pursuit gold whereas Chloé Dygert settles for silver and World Document
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4 world titles have been on the road on Saturday on the fourth day of racing on the 2024 UCI Monitor World Championships at Ballerup Tremendous Enviornment outdoors Copenhagen, Denmark. The penultimate day of competitors determined the gold medallists within the girls’s 500m Time Trial, girls’s Madison, girls’s Particular person Pursuit and males’s Omnium.
Girls’s Particular person Pursuit
In a shocking gold medal finale, Anna Morris (Nice Britain) received the world title within the girls’s Particular person Pursuit, overtaking reigning world champion Chloé Dygert (United States of America) with two laps to go.
Whereas Morris claimed the rainbow jersey in a time of three:16.560, it was Dygert who got here away with a brand new world document, setting the brand new greatest time of three:15.663 in qualifying, which eclipsed the document time she set in 2020.
“I’m in shock, I used to be simply making an attempt to experience for a PB actually and see what I might do. To be world champion, I’m speechless,” Morris mentioned in a British Biking media launch.
“I attempted to settle right into a barely quicker tempo and I used to be getting good suggestions from Cam Meyer, my coach on the trackside. He was giving me lap splits and as we have been moving into the ultimate kilo he was giving me constructive suggestions to inform me I used to be getting near Chloé and I had all my GB teammates down the again straight and I might hear them screaming so I believed possibly, you’ve simply received to dig deep right here and provides all of it you’ve received and see the place you find yourself.”
Dygert held the lead for 3,250 metres of the race after which the small margin started to fade. Morris posted a greater time with two laps to go and held on for the victory, conserving Dygert from taking a fifth gold medal within the occasion.
It was a snug bronze medal for New Zealand’s Bryony Botha, who additionally completed third in 2023. This time she distanced Franziska Brausse (Germany), who had earned a silver final yr and went away empty-handed.
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Pos.
Rider Identify (Nation)
Consequence
1
Anna Morris (Nice Britain)
3:16.560
2
Chloe Dygert (United States)
3:16.877
3
Bryony Botha (New Zealand)
3:21.086
4
Franziska Brausse (Germany)
3:24.620
5
Federica Venturelli (Italy)
Row 4 – Cell 2
6
Megan Barker (Nice Britain)
Row 5 – Cell 2
7
Alberte Greve (Denmark)
Row 6 – Cell 2
8
Mieke Kroger (Germany)
Row 7 – Cell 2
9
Martina Alzini (Italy)
Row 8 – Cell 2
10
Emily Ehrlich (United States)
Row 9 – Cell 2
11
Ariane Bonhomme (Canada)
Row 10 – Cell 2
12
Isabella Maria Escalera (Spain)
Row 11 – Cell 2
13
Maho Kakita (Japan)
Row 12 – Cell 2
14
Martyna Szczesna (Poland)
Row 13 – Cell 2
Girls’s Madison
Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth carry out a handsling on their solution to gold for Staff Denmark (Picture credit score: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com)
Residence favourites Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth captured the world title within the girls’s Madison for Denmark on Saturday. They vaulted from 4 locations down at lower than 20 laps to go by incomes lap factors, holding off France and Nice Britain.
France’s Victoire Berteau and Marion Borras earned the silver, incomes a one-point benefit over Nice Britain’s Neah Evans and Katie Archibald, who took the bronze.
Nice Britain’s Archibald used the ultimate move to push throughout the road and earn 10 factors, nevertheless it was simply shy by one level France’s complete of 43. The house crowd responded to a refrain of loud cheers as Denmark scored two closing factors on the end to safe the gold, the overall haul at 46.
A complete of 17 two-rider groups took the observe for the 120-lap occasion. There have been a number of missed exchanges within the early going as riders headed to the primary dash factors on provide, taken by Staff France.
France maintained the lead with 40 laps to go and the standings remained shut with the Netherlands, Italy, Nice Britain and Denmark. The Danish group went on the assault and received dash factors on the subsequent two sprints.
With 15 laps to go, Denmark remained aggressive and lapped the sphere to leap into first place, with an 18-point benefit over France. They might be the fourth and closing group to earn lap factors and it proved to be decisive.
Nice Britain took the final of the sprints on provide, and the frantic tempo settled a bit with 9 laps to go. Then Belgium attacked over the subsequent two laps and Denmark marked the transfer to remain near the entrance together with France and the Netherlands.
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Pos.
Rider Identify (Nation)
Staff
Consequence
1
Denmark
46
Row 0 – Cell 3
Row 1 – Cell 0
Amalie Dideriksen
Row 1 – Cell 2
Row 1 – Cell 3
Row 2 – Cell 0
Julie Leth
Row 2 – Cell 2
Row 2 – Cell 3
2
France
43
Row 3 – Cell 3
Row 4 – Cell 0
Victoire Berteau
Row 4 – Cell 2
Row 4 – Cell 3
Row 5 – Cell 0
Marion Borras
Row 5 – Cell 2
Row 5 – Cell 3
3
Nice Britain
42
Row 6 – Cell 3
Row 7 – Cell 0
Neah Evans
Row 7 – Cell 2
Row 7 – Cell 3
Row 8 – Cell 0
Katie Archibald
Row 8 – Cell 2
Row 8 – Cell 3
4
Netherlands
39
Row 9 – Cell 3
Row 10 – Cell 0
Marit Raijmakers
Row 10 – Cell 2
Row 10 – Cell 3
Row 11 – Cell 0
Lisa van Belle
Row 11 – Cell 2
Row 11 – Cell 3
5
Italy
29
Row 12 – Cell 3
Row 13 – Cell 0
Chiara Consonni
Row 13 – Cell 2
Row 13 – Cell 3
Row 14 – Cell 0
Vittoria Guazzini
Row 14 – Cell 2
Row 14 – Cell 3
6
United States
9
Row 15 – Cell 3
Row 16 – Cell 0
Jennifer Valente
Row 16 – Cell 2
Row 16 – Cell 3
Row 17 – Cell 0
Megan Jastrab
Row 17 – Cell 2
Row 17 – Cell 3
7
Eire
4
Row 18 – Cell 3
Row 19 – Cell 0
Lara Gillespie
Row 19 – Cell 2
Row 19 – Cell 3
Row 20 – Cell 0
Mia Griffin
Row 20 – Cell 2
Row 20 – Cell 3
8
Belgium
3
Row 21 – Cell 3
Row 22 – Cell 0
Katrijn de Clercq
Row 22 – Cell 2
Row 22 – Cell 3
Row 23 – Cell 0
Helene Hesters
Row 23 – Cell 2
Row 23 – Cell 3
9
Australia
2
Row 24 – Cell 3
Row 25 – Cell 0
Alexandra Manly
Row 25 – Cell 2
Row 25 – Cell 3
Row 26 – Cell 0
Keira Will
Row 26 – Cell 2
Row 26 – Cell 3
10
Germany
1
Row 27 – Cell 3
Row 28 – Cell 0
Lea Lin Teutenberg
Row 28 – Cell 2
Row 28 – Cell 3
Row 29 – Cell 0
Lena Charlotte Reissner
Row 29 – Cell 2
Row 29 – Cell 3
11
Poland
0
Row 30 – Cell 3
Row 31 – Cell 0
Olga Wankiewicz
Row 31 – Cell 2
Row 31 – Cell 3
Row 32 – Cell 0
Patrycja Lorkowska
Row 32 – Cell 2
Row 32 – Cell 3
12
Switzerland
0
Row 33 – Cell 3
Row 34 – Cell 0
Michelle Andres
Row 34 – Cell 2
Row 34 – Cell 3
Row 35 – Cell 0
Aline Seitz
Row 35 – Cell 2
Row 35 – Cell 3
Girls’s 500m Time Trial
Iana Burlakova (Particular person Impartial Athlete) blows a kiss to the gang after successful the ladies’s 500m Time Trial world title (Picture credit score: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Iana Burlakova (Particular person Impartial Athletes) received the ladies’s 500m TT on the fourth day of racing on the UCI Monitor World Championships with a successful time of 0:00:32.863. She was the one rider to go sub-33 within the 500m TT closing.
Staff Nice Britain swept the subsequent three positions, with Sophie Capewell, fourth within the TT ultimately yr’s observe worlds, taking the silver medal in 33.010 and Katy Marchant, the reigning European champion on this distance, incomes the bronze, 33.119.
Emma Finucane (Nice Britain) laid down the time to beat with three riders to go within the closing spherical and noticed every of these riders eclipse her time of 33.178 to maintain her one spot off the rostrum.
In qualifying, Burlakova set the perfect time at 33.002, 11 milliseconds quicker than Capewell and 0.155 quicker than Marchant. She was lightning quick on the primary lap and sustained her pace via the road to alternate her white and black impartial package for a rainbow jersey.
The occasion marked the final time this distance can be contested on the UCI World Championships, because it strikes as much as 1000m subsequent yr to match the identical distance because the elite males.
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Pos.
Rider Identify (Nation)
Consequence
1
Iana Burlakova (AIN)
0:00:32.863
2
Sophie Capewell (Nice Britain)
0:00:33.010
3
Katy Marchant (Nice Britain)
0:00:33.119
4
Emma Finucane (Nice Britain)
0:00:33.178
5
Martha Bayona Pineda (Colombia)
0:00:33.211
6
Kristina Clonan (Australia)
0:00:33.247
7
Miriam Vece (Italy)
0:00:33.419
8
Yulu Jiang (China)
0:00:33.779
Males’s Omnium
Males’s Omnium podium (L to R): Second positioned Italy’s Simone Consonni, winner Belgium’s Lindsay de Vylder and third positioned Netherlands’ Yanne Dorenbos (Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Lindsay De Vylder (Belgium) scored an sudden gold medal within the males’s Omnium on the Monitor World Championships in Norway to conclude the fourth day of competitors. He overcame a 28-point deficit within the 100-lap factors race to maneuver onto the highest step of the rostrum for his first world title.
Italy’s Simone Consonni took the silver medal whereas Yanne Dorenbos (Netherlands) held on for a bronze medal.
De Vylder has received nationwide titles in a number of disciplines, together with the Omnium, as a junior and elite on the observe however has not been on a world championship podium earlier than Saturday.
“I had such a troublesome interval after the Olympics. I anticipated a lot from the Olympics, they usually have been actually unhealthy. I completely misplaced confidence in myself,” the brand new world champion mentioned in a post-race interview for broadcasters, together with FloBikes.
“Simply to be on the rostrum at [Copenhagen] can be nice, I by no means imagined I might win the title. This can heal the wound for certain.”
Dorenbos took the early lead within the opening occasion on Saturday, the Scratch Race, with Simone Consonni (Italy) following in second.
Oscar Julien-Nilsson (France) then took the win within the Tempo Race, the place factors can be found on every lap. He scored factors on 4 laps within the first half of the race after which was amongst six riders who lapped the sphere, boosting them into rivalry for the victory.
Yanne Dorenbos (Netherlands) was second and Ethan Hayter (Nice Britain) third, whereas Consonni took sixth to stay close to the highest of the general standings. Spaniard Sebastian Mora Vendri attacked late within the race and scored factors on the six closing laps, however couldn’t do higher than seventh.
Going into the third occasion, Dorenbos had a 10-point benefit over Consonni, whereas Simon Vitzthum (Switzerland) moved from seventh to 3rd. Nilsson-Julien vaulted up the leaderboard from thirteenth to fourth, and De Vylder remained quietly within the prime 10.
Hayter took the win over Rui Oliveira (Portugal) within the Elimination race, with Consonni holding on for third and Dorenbos fourth. This tightened the battle for the gold medal with eight factors separating Dorenbos and Consonni. Hayter moved as much as third general, tied on factors with Oliveira, each 18 factors again of the general chief.
Earlier than the Factors race Van Vylder was fifth general within the males’s Omnium and wanted an enormous haul of factors within the closing race. He mentioned it was his benefit that Dorenbos would “not have eyes on everybody” and he might go unnoticed for a lot of the race.
“I knew I needed to attempt to take laps and that’s precisely what I did,” the 29-year-old mentioned.
Van Vylder saved his greatest efficiency for final, utilizing the Factors race to take the rainbow jersey. He earned 60 lap factors to make the distinction in that closing contest. Grant Koontz (Unites States of America) earned the person win, however Van Vylder held off all of the others with 6 laps to go.
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