Track Cycling – World Championship 2021 [DAY 3]

October 22, 2021

Track Cycling – World Championship 2021 – DAY 3

Since they were first added to the cycling calendar in 1893, the UCI Track World Championships have drawn the world’s best specialists to their events to compete for coveted rainbow bands and a prestigious spot at the top of the World’s podium. The discipline itself has been around since the 1870s, when velodromes were first built to host many different types of bike racing. These velodromes, or tracks, consisted of two straights and two inclined turns like today’s modern ones, although they tend to vary in length and material. Contemporary velodromes, particularly those used in official competitions, have the regulation length (250m) and are made of wood. The Track World Championships will be held from October 20-24 at the Roubaix velodrome.

Ashton Lambie snatched the first rainbow jersey for the United States in the men’s Individual Pursuit at the UCI Track World Championships in Roubaix, France. It was a dominant performance over Jonathan Milan of Italy, who took the silver medal.

Two kilometres into the final, Lambie had a half-second advantage over Milan, and soon increased his lead to a full second.

Filippo Ganna, who failed to qualify for the finals, secured a second medal for Italy by taking the bronze in a duel against Claudio Imhof (Switzerland).

Just one year ago Lambie settled for silver in the Individual Pursuit. This time around the World Record holder took the gold medal, which was the first in 11 years for an American to recapture the top prize since Taylor Phinney took the world title.

Men’s 1K Time Trial

Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands) took the men’s 1K Time Trial finals victory for the second time in his career on Friday, soaring around the track four times for the world title. He was 1.3 seconds faster than Nicholas Paul (Trinidad and Tobago), who took the silver. Another 1.5 seconds back for bronze was former World Champion Joachim Eilers (Germany).

Hoogland recorded the fastest time after the first 250 metres, and continued to build his lead with each pass around the Stab Velodrome.

Paul may have been second, but he made Caribbean history with his silver medal, the first-ever medal for Trinidad and Tobago in the men’s kilo. He had the best time in the opening 250 metres but it was soon eclipsed by Hoogland, the final rider on the track.

There would be no defence of the world title by Sam Ligtlee (Netherlands), who had a fast start, but faded and had the fifth-best time. Patryk Pajkowski (Poland) was fourth.

Men’s Points Race

Benjamin Thomas won the first Points race title for France in 17 years to hold off Kenny De Ketele (Belgium). Vicent Hoppezak (Netherlands) finished for bronze.

The men’s Point race, with 160 laps (40km) and 16 sprints, came down to late-race strategy. With 29 laps to go and three sprints remaining, De Ketele had a one-point advantage over the Frenchman. Well behind, Vincent Hoppezak (Netherlands) had 33 points for third place, 11 points ahead of Sebastián Mora (Spain)

With 21 laps to go, sprint 14 was won by Thomas, to level the lead pair with 83 points. He went into the lead by taking sprint 15, taking a four-point advantage over the Belgian rider.

On the bell lap, Thomas, this year’s European champion in the Points race, went to the front for double points in the final sprint and the gold medal.

Women’s Omnium

Katie Archibald (Great Britain) won the second women’s Omnium title of her career on Friday in Roubaix, France, returning to a gold since 2017 in Hong Kong. She took a commanding lead into the final Points race with a sweep of top points in the Scratch, Tempo and Elimination rounds, and finished third in the Points race to win the rainbow jersey.

Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) finished 18 points back for silver and Elisa Balsamo (Italy) was 21 points back for bronze.

Kopecky gained maximum points by taking two full laps in the 80-lap Points race to move from eighth overall into second place. Going into the Points contest, Balsamo was in second place with 100 points, while Jennifer Valente (United States) was third with 96 points and France’s Clara Copponi was fourth at 94.

Attacks began with 15 laps to go and riders trying to form gaps, with Kopecky launching off the front with Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark) to form a two-rider gap for points on the seventh sprint. The pair lapped the field, which was a second time for Kopecky, and it vaulted the Belgian into second overall, nine points ahead of Balsamo, Maria Martins (Portugal) holding to fourth, four points behind the Italian.

On the bell lap for the final sprint and race finish, Copponi led the riders across the line in front of Balsamo with Archibald in third position. Kopecky would hold on for the silver, and Balsamo the bronze, while Copponi would miss the podium by three points to finish fourth, and Martins finished fifth.

Earlier in the day in the Women’s Omnium began with the Scratch race, Valente finishing second and Copponi in third. In the Tempo race, Ganna Solovei (Ukraine) was second and Kopecky, who was 22nd in the Scratch race, was third.

In the Elimination race a big crash took down several riders and neutralised the race for several laps, with Archibald was one of the riders taken down. She resumed to racing with a slightly banged-up knee that did not take out any steam in her engine as she attacked to win that race going away.

Women’s Sprint

Teammates from Germany and Canada went up against each other in the women’s Sprint finals. Reigning world champion Emma Hinze (Germany) held off Lea Sophie Friedrich in a close second heat to defend her world title.

The final medal was also decided in just two heats, with Olympic Champion Kelsey Mitchell (Canada) defeating Lauriane Genest for the bronze.

Program :
Men’s points race, award ceremony
Women’s Sprint, ½ of final third round
Finals 3-4 & 1-2 Men’s Individual Pursuit
Women’s Sprint, final places 3-4 & 1-2
Women’s Omnium, fourth event – 20km points race
Women’s Sprint, final places 3-4 & 1-2 second round
Men’s Kilometre TT, award ceremony
Male Individual Pursuit, award ceremony
Women’s Sprint, final places 3-4 & 1-2 third round
Women’s Omnium, award ceremony
Women’s Sprint, award ceremony

Men’s Individual Pursuit
1 Ashton Lambie (United States of America) 0:04:05.060
2 Jonathan Milan (Italy) 0:04:06.149
3 Filippo Ganna (Italy)
4 Claudio Imhof (Switzerland)
5 Tobias Buck-gramcko (Germany)
6 Nicolas Heinrich (Germany)
7 Manlio Moro (Italy)
8 Charlie Tanfield (Great Britain)
9 Shunsuke Imamura (Japan)
10 Thomas Denis (France)
11 Lev Gonov (Russian Cycling Federation)
12 Ivan Novolodskii (Russian Cycling Federation)
13 Erik Martorell Haga (Spain)
14 Daniel Crista (Romania)
15 Joao Matias (Portugal)
16 Iuri Leitao (Portugal)
17 Alex Juan Pablo Zapata Unas (Colombia)
18 Julian Osorio Henao (Colombia)
19 Aliaksei Shmantsar (Belarus)
20 Volodymyr Dzhus (Ukraine)
21 Tomas Aguirre Garza (Mexico)
22 Lotfi Tchambaz (Algeria)

Men’s 1K Time Trial

1 Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands) 0:00:58
2 Nicholas Paul (Trinidad and Tobago) 0:00:01
3 Joachim Eilers (Germany) 0:00:02
4 Patryk Rajkowski (Poland) 0:00:02
5 Sam Ligtlee (Netherlands) 0:00:02
6 Alexander Sharapov (Russian Cycling Federation) 0:00:03
7 Alejandro Martinez Chorro (Spain) 0:00:03
8 Yuta Obara (Japan) 0:00:03
9 Davide Boscaro (Italy)
10 Robin Wagner (Czech Republic)
11 Santiago Ramirez Morales (Colombia)
12 Anton Hoehne (Germany)
13 Ryan Dodyk (Canada)
14 Muhammad Fadhil Mohd Zonis (Malaysia)
15 Ivan Gladyshev (Russian Cycling Federation)
16 Andrey Chugay (Kazakhstan)
17 Dominik Topinka (Czech Republic)
18 Ronaldo Laitonjam (India)
19 Juan Carlos Ruiz Teran (Mexico)
20 Vladyslav Denysenko (Ukraine)
21 Mitchell Sparrow (South Africa)
22 Mohamed Elyas Mohamed Yusoff (Singapore)
23 Norbert Szabo (Romania)

Men’s Points Race
1 Benjamin Thomas (France) 94
2 Kenny De Ketele (Belgium) 84
3 Vincent Hoppezak (Netherlands) 35
4 Sebastian Mora Vedri (Spain) 24
5 Ethan Vernon (Great Britain) 19
6 Valere Thiebaud (Switzerland) 16
7 Corbin Strong (New Zealand) 14
8 Michele Scartezzini (Italy) 9
9 Theo Reinhardt (Germany) 8
10 Vlas Shichkin (Russian Cycling Federation) 6
11 Vitaliy Hryniv (Ukraine) 3
12 Gavin Hoover (United States of America) -12
13 Wojciech Pszczolarski (Poland) -18
14 Daniel Crista (Romania) -20
15 Facundo Gabriel Lezica (Argentina) -40
16 Martin Chren (Slovakia) -40
17 Nicolas Pietrula (Czech Republic) -40
18 Jose Muniz Vazquez (Mexico) -100
DNF Dzianis Mazur (Belarus)
DNF Lotfi Tchambaz (Algeria)
DNF Bryan Steve Gomez Penaloza (Colombia)

Women’s Sprint Finals

Women’s Sprint – Finals for gold
Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Emma Hinze (Germany)
2 Lea Sophie Friedrich (Germany)
Women’s Sprint – Finals for bronze
Pos. Rider Name (Country) Team Result
3 Kelsey Mitchell (Canada)
4 Lauriane Genest (Canada)

Women’s Omnium – Scratch Race
1 Katie Archibald (Great Britain)
2 Jennifer Valente (United States of America)
3 Clara Copponi (France)
4 Olivija Baleisyte (Lithuania)
5 Maria Martins (Portugal)
6 Elisa Balsamo (Italy)
7 Petra Sevcikova (Czech Republic)
8 Maike Van der Duin (Netherlands)
9 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark)
10 Rinata Sultanova (Kazakhstan)
11 Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
12 Yumi Kajihara (Japan)
13 Nikol Plosaj (Poland)
14 Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Spain)
15 Hanna Tserakh (Belarus)
16 Aline Seitz (Switzerland)
17 Gulnaz Khatuntseva (Russian Cycling Federation)
18 Alzbeta Bacikova (Slovakia)
19 Verena Eberhardt (Austria)
20 Ngaire Barraclough (Canada)
21 Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)
22 Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
23 Ganna Solovei (Ukraine)
24 Victoria Velasco Fuentes (Mexico)

Women’s Omnium – Tempo Race
1 Katie Archibald (Great Britain) 34
2 Ganna Solovei (Ukraine) 24
3 Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) 21
4 Hanna Tserakh (Belarus) 20
5 Elisa Balsamo (Italy) 2
6 Nikol Plosaj (Poland) 2
7 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark) 1
8 Jennifer Valente (United States of America) 1
9 Olivija Baleisyte (Lithuania) 1
10 Clara Copponi (France)
11 Maria Martins (Portugal)
12 Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Spain)
13 Maike Van der Duin (Netherlands)
14 Petra Sevcikova (Czech Republic)
15 Gulnaz Khatuntseva (Russian Cycling Federation)
16 Ngaire Barraclough (Canada)
17 Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
18 Verena Eberhardt (Austria)
19 Aline Seitz (Switzerland)
20 Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)
21 Rinata Sultanova (Kazakhstan)
22 Yumi Kajihara (Japan)
23 Victoria Velasco Fuentes (Mexico)
24 Alzbeta Bacikova (Slovakia)

Women’s Omnium – Elimination Race
1 Katie Archibald (Great Britain)
2 Elisa Balsamo (Italy)
3 Clara Copponi (France)
4 Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
5 Jennifer Valente (United States of America)
6 Maria Martins (Portugal)
7 Olivija Baleisyte (Lithuania)
8 Maike Van der Duin (Netherlands)
9 Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Spain)
10 Verena Eberhardt (Austria)
11 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark)
12 Alzbeta Bacikova (Slovakia)
13 Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
14 Aline Seitz (Switzerland)
15 Petra Sevcikova (Czech Republic)
16 Nikol Plosaj (Poland)
17 Ganna Solovei (Ukraine)
18 Gulnaz Khatuntseva (Russian Cycling Federation)
19 Rinata Sultanova (Kazakhstan)
20 Yumi Kajihara (Japan)
21 Ngaire Barraclough (Canada)
22 Victoria Velasco Fuentes (Mexico)
23 Hanna Tserakh (Belarus)
24 Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)

Women’s Omnium – Points Race
1 Katie Archibald (Great Britain)
2 Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
3 Elisa Balsamo (Italy)
4 Clara Copponi (France)
5 Maria Martins (Portugal)
6 Jennifer Valente (United States of America)
7 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark)
8 Olivija Baleisyte (Lithuania)
9 Maike Van der Duin (Netherlands)
10 Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
11 Nikol Plosaj (Poland)
12 Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Spain)
13 Ganna Solovei (Ukraine)
14 Hanna Tserakh (Belarus)
15 Yumi Kajihara (Japan)
16 Verena Eberhardt (Austria)
17 Aline Seitz (Switzerland)
18 Rinata Sultanova (Kazakhstan)
19 Petra Sevcikova (Czech Republic)
20 Victoria Velasco Fuentes (Mexico)
21 Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)
22 Alzbeta Bacikova (Slovakia)

Women’s Omnium – Final Classification
1 Katie Archibald (Great Britain) 137
2 Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) 119
3 Elisa Balsamo (Italy) 116
4 Clara Copponi (France) 113
5 Maria Martins (Portugal) 106
6 Jennifer Valente (United States of America) 99
7 Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark) 99
8 Olivija Baleisyte (Lithuania) 86
9 Maike Van der Duin (Netherlands) 73
10 Ally Wollaston (New Zealand) 68
11 Nikol Plosaj (Poland) 63
12 Eukene Larrarte Arteaga (Spain) 56
13 Ganna Solovei (Ukraine) 48
14 Hanna Tserakh (Belarus) 47
15 Yumi Kajihara (Japan) 45
16 Verena Eberhardt (Austria) 33
17 Aline Seitz (Switzerland) 28
18 Rinata Sultanova (Kazakhstan) 27
19 Petra Sevcikova (Czech Republic) 14
20 Victoria Velasco Fuentes (Mexico) 6
21 Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway) 4
22 Alzbeta Bacikova (Slovakia) -35
DNF Ngaire Barraclough (Canada)
DNF Gulnaz Khatuntseva (Russian Cycling Federation)