The primary three elite world titles of the 2024 UCI Monitor World Championships have been awarded on the observe at Ballerup Tremendous Enviornment exterior Copenhagen, Denmark on the opening day of competitors on Wednesday. The UCI Monitor Biking World Championships have been final held in Ballerup in 2002 and 2010. The 2024 championships shall be held October 16 to twenty.
Girls’s Scratch Race
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Girls’s Scratch Race was gained with closing lap dash by Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands)(Picture credit score: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com)
Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) celebrates the win within the 2024 Girls’s Scratch Race World Championship(Picture credit score: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com)
Winner Netherlands’ Lorena Wiebes stands on the rostrum after the ladies’s scratch race of the UCI Monitor Biking World Championships in Ballerup(Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Girls’s Scratch Race podium (LtoR): Second-placed USA’s Jennifer Valente, winner Netherlands’ Lorena Wiebes and third-placed New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston(Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) secured her first elite rainbow jersey of her profession in girls’s Scratch Race on the opening day of the UCI Monitor World Championships in Ballerup.
One of many quickest highway racing sprinters on this planet, Wiebes made her debut within the Scratch Race on the Monitor 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 prove 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 rapidly tried to close the transfer down. The typical velocity elevated, making it tougher 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, possible saving her power 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 follow the sphere again along with 4 to go.
Nice Britain’s Sophie Lewis took the lead with three to go, however as the sphere sprinted by for the final lap, Wiebes made her successful transfer. The highly effective Dutch sprinter held off the sphere for your complete final lap to take the victory.
Staff Nice Britain celebrates successful the gold medal within the girls’s Staff Dash (L to R): Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant (Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
Nice Britain secured the world title within the girls’s Staff Dash 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 crew included Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane and Katy Marchant, who went up in opposition to Dutch riders Kimberly Kalee, Hetty van de Wouw and Steffie van der Peet on the alternative facet of the observe.
Nice 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 crew of Kristina Clonan, Alessia McCaig and Molly McGill secured the bronze medal of their race in opposition to Germany’s Lara-Sophie Jager, Alessa-Catroina Propster and Clara Schneider.
Netherlands riders (L to R) Roy Van Den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland have fun after successful the boys’s Staff Dash (Picture credit score: Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP / Getty Photographs)
The Netherlands defended their world title within the males’s Staff Dash, and added a sixth world’s victory to their nation’s palmares within the occasion, closing out the opening day on the Monitor World Championships in Ballerup.
The Dutch crew of Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen and Roy van den Berg went up in opposition to the Australian crew of Thomas Cornish, Ryan Elliott and Leigh Hoffman within the gold medal spherical.
The Australians had the sooner first lap, however the Dutch crew 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 Nice Britain’s Marcus Hiley, Harry Ledingham-Horn and Joseph Truman’s fourth-place time of 43.322.
The UCI Monitor World Championships resumes on Thursday with finals within the males’s and ladies’s Staff Pursuit, girls’s Elimination Race, males’s Keirin and males’s Scratch Race.
