Monitor Worlds Day 4: Ganna wins particular person pursuit after tight battle with Bigham

Males’s Particular person Pursuit

Italy’s Filippo Ganna received the elite males’s particular person pursuit on day 4 of the UCI World Monitor Championships on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow. The present world document holder, set finally 12 months’s Monitor Worlds, celebrated his second consecutive rainbow jersey within the self-discipline, and his sixth title since 2016.

Within the gold medal spherical, Ganna clocked a time of 4:01.976 over the 4km race, besting Daniel Bigham (Nice Britain) by 0:00.054 seconds. Silver medalist Bigham set the quickest tempo for the primary three time-checks, extending his lead from 0.7 seconds after one kilometer to 2.3 seconds after 3 kilometres. It seemed like an upset was within the making however Ganna blasted to the victory within the last kilometre as Bigham light.

The bronze was taken by Jonathan Milan (Italy) who edged out Ivo Oliveira (Portugal). 

Ganna set the quickest time within the qualification spherical with the 4 riders ending in the identical placings as qualification within the last medal contests.

The scheduling of the UCI mixed Worlds compelled Ganna to choose the early observe occasions, together with the person pursuit which was held on the identical day because the elite males’s highway race received by Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands).

With a watch on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, Ganna and Milan determined to concentrate on the pursuit occasions.  Ganna and his compatriots took the silver within the Group Pursuit received by Denmark on Saturday.

His racing will not be executed as Ganna will compete within the elite males’s time trial, a part of the Street World Championships, on August 11. 

Ladies’s Elimination Race

Lotte Kopecky of Belgium received the elite ladies’s elimination race on the UCI World Monitor Championships for the second 12 months in a row. Sturdy type clearly nonetheless in place from her second place on the Tour de France Femmes, Kopecky beat out Valentine Fortin (France) and Jennifer Valente (United States) for the rainbow jersey.

Kopecky averted a three-rider crash early within the race and maintained her place. Italy’s Rachele Barbieri was the penultimate rider to be dropped, leaving Kopecky, Fortin and Valente to battle it out for the rostrum.  After Valente was gone on the subsequent lap, Kopecky confirmed her sprinting prowess to take the victory on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.

That is Kopecky’s fifth gold medal throughout 4 Monitor Worlds, having taken the title within the madison (2017, 2022), factors race (2021), and elimination race (2022, 2023).

The Belgian champion has extra racing on her schedule on the unified Biking World Championships with the factors race (August 8) and omnium (August 9) at Monitor Worlds and at last the elite ladies’s highway race on August 13 to conclude the UCI World Street Championships. She is not going to defend her madison title.

Ladies’s Keirin

Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand shocked the pre-race favourites by successful the ladies’s keirin at Monitor Worlds. 

“This has been a dream for a protracted, very long time. My final rainbow jersey was in elite juniors in 2017 so I’ve been pushing for this one for a very long time and super-proud to deliver it residence for New Zealand this 12 months,” mentioned Andrews.

“The important thing was completely that push to remain within the lead across the bend. That final acceleration on the again straight was completely all the pieces I had and from there actually it was holding on as greatest I might as a result of Martha was coming at me.

“It was not till that picture end was confirmed that I used to be positive but it surely has nonetheless not sunk in.”

She beat Martha Bayona (Colombia) by one hundredth of a second within the last dash to the road. Two-time world champion Lea Sophie Friedrich (Germany) took bronze. 

The six riders battling for gold within the last additionally included Hetty van der Wouw (Netherlands), Nicky Degrendele (Belgium) and Mathilde Gros (France).

Andrews received her warmth on the primary spherical as did Friedrich, Bayona, Kristina Clonan (Australia) and Emma Finucane (Nice Britain).  The New Zealander completed second to Emma Hinze (Germany) within the quarterfinals and second to Friedrich within the semi-finals.

Extra observe outcomes to observe quickly …