The first three elite world titles of the 2024 UCI Track World Championships have been awarded on the observe at Ballerup Super Arena outdoors Copenhagen, Denmark on the opening day of competitors on Wednesday. The UCI Track Cycling World Championships have been final held in Ballerup in 2002 and 2010. The 2024 championships will probably be held October 16 to twenty.
Women’s Scratch Race
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Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) secured her first elite rainbow jersey of her profession in ladies’s Scratch Race on the opening day of the UCI Track World Championships in Ballerup.
One of the quickest highway racing sprinters on the earth, Wiebes made her debut within the Scratch Race on the Track Worlds, securing the victory forward of silver medallist Jennifer Valente (United States of America) and bronze medallist Ally Wollaston (New Zealand).
The ladies raced 40 laps with Valente main the USA on the primary few hundred metres earlier than swinging up the observe and letting rival nations take a end up entrance. Wollaston additionally stayed close to the entrance whereas Wiebes bided her time sitting 5 wheels again.
Marion Borras (France) made the primary assault however Italy’s Martina Fidanza and Norway’s Anita Yvonne Stenberg shortly tried to close the transfer down. The common pace elevated, making it harder for Borras to carry her hole.
Rider after rider got here to the entrance to set the tempo, however Wiebes stayed additional again within the group, seemingly saving her vitality for the ultimate laps.
Borras sat up with 24 laps to go and the sphere again collectively. The riders settled into a quick tempo averaging 49.6 kph, deterring any assaults from flying off the entrance.
Valente made an try and defend her world title however Wiebes was on her wheel and the pair drifted again into the group with seven laps to go.
Marina Garau (Spain) counter-attacked however the transfer did not stick to the sphere again along with 4 to go.
Great Britain’s Sophie Lewis took the lead with three to go, however as the sphere sprinted by means of for the final lap, Wiebes made her profitable transfer. The highly effective Dutch sprinter held off the sphere for your complete final lap to take the victory.
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Women’s Scratch Race outcomes
Pos.
Rider Name (Country)
Result
1
Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands)
Row 0 – Cell 2
2
Jennifer Valente (United States of America)
Row 1 – Cell 2
3
Ally Wollaston (New Zealand)
Row 2 – Cell 2
4
Martina Fidanza (Italy)
Row 3 – Cell 2
5
Anita Yvonne Stenberg (Norway)
Row 4 – Cell 2
6
Lee Sze Wing (Hong Kong)
Row 5 – Cell 2
7
Sophie Lewis (Great Britain)
Row 6 – Cell 2
8
Olivija Baleišytė (Lithuania)
Row 7 – Cell 2
9
Ellen Klinge (Denmark)
Row 8 – Cell 2
10
Alžbeta Bačiková (Slovakia)
Row 9 – Cell 2
11
Maja Tracka (Poland)
Row 10 – Cell 2
12
Maho Kakita (Japan)
Row 11 – Cell 2
13
Marion Borras (France)
Row 12 – Cell 2
14
Lena Charlotte Reißner (Germany)
Row 13 – Cell 2
15
Petra Ševčíková (Czechia)
Row 14 – Cell 2
16
Maria Martins (Portugal)
Row 15 – Cell 2
17
Keira Will (Australia)
Row 16 – Cell 2
18
Lily Plante (Canada)
Row 17 – Cell 2
19
Cybele Schneider (Switzerland)
Row 18 – Cell 2
20
Maria Antonieta Gaxiola González (Mexico)
Row 19 – Cell 2
21
Lani Wittevrongel (Belgium)
Row 20 – Cell 2
22
Marina Garau Roca (Spain)
-1 Lap
23
Anna Kolyzhuk (Ukraine)
DNF
24
Fanny Malissa Cauchois One (Laos)
DNF
Women’s Team Sprint
Great Britain secured the world title within the ladies’s Team Sprint with a time of 45.949 beating rivals from the Netherlands within the gold-medal spherical of the three-rider, three-lap occasion.
The British group included Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant, who went up towards Dutch riders Kimberly Kalee, Hetty van de Wouw and Steffie van der Peet on the other facet of the observe.
Great Britain held the lead for all three laps, crossing the road with the world title as Netherlands settled for silver with a time of 46.593.
Australia’s group of Kristina Clonan, Alessia McCaig and Molly McGill secured the bronze medal of their race towards Germany’s Lara-Sophie Jager, Alessa-Catroina Propster and Clara Schneider.
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Women’s Team Sprint finals
Pos.
Rider Name (Country)
Result
1
Great Britain
0:00:45.949
Row 1 – Cell 0
Sophie Capewell
Row 1 – Cell 2
Row 2 – Cell 0
Emma Finucane
Row 2 – Cell 2
Row 3 – Cell 0
Katy Marchant
Row 3 – Cell 2
2
Netherlands
0:00:46.593
Row 5 – Cell 0
Kimberly Kalee
Row 5 – Cell 2
Row 6 – Cell 0
Hetty van de Wouw
Row 6 – Cell 2
Row 7 – Cell 0
Steffie van der Peet
Row 7 – Cell 2
3
Australia
0:00:47.358
Row 9 – Cell 0
Kristina Clonan
Row 9 – Cell 2
Row 10 – Cell 0
Alessia McCaig
Row 10 – Cell 2
Row 11 – Cell 0
Milly McGill
Row 11 – Cell 2
4
Germany
0:00:48.188
Row 13 – Cell 0
Lara-Sophie Jager
Row 13 – Cell 2
Row 14 – Cell 0
Alessa-Catriona Propster
Row 14 – Cell 2
Row 15 – Cell 0
Clara Schneider
Row 15 – Cell 2
Men’s Team Sprint
The Netherlands defended their world title within the males’s Team Sprint, and added a sixth world’s victory to their nation’s palmares within the occasion, closing out the opening day on the Track World Championships in Ballerup.
The Dutch group of Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen and Roy van den Berg went up towards the Australian group of Thomas Cornish, Ryan Elliott and Leigh Hoffman within the gold medal spherical.
The Australians had the sooner first lap, however the Dutch group was sooner on the ultimate two laps securing the world title with a time of 42.046, whereas the Australians settled for the silver medal for the second yr in a row, in a time of 42.673.
Japan earned the bronze medal as Yoshitaku Gagasako, Yuta Obara and Kaiya Ota completed with a time of 42.877, beating Great Britain’s Marcus Hiley, Harry Ledingham-Horn and Joseph Truman’s fourth-place time of 43.322.
The UCI Track World Championships resumes on Thursday with finals within the males’s and ladies’s Team Pursuit, ladies’s Elimination Race, males’s Keirin and males’s Scratch Race.