ROUBAIX, France, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Olympic champions the Netherlands adopted beat hosts France within the males’s group dash last on the observe biking world championships on Wednesday.
The Dutch led from begin to end on the Stab Velodrome as Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen and Roy van der Berg added to their Tokyo gold medal with a time of 41.979 seconds.
It was, nevertheless, an honest efficiency by France, who received an surprising bronze medal on the Tokyo Video games.
Germany took bronze after their girls broke the world document with a time of 46.064 to grab gold from the Russian Biking Federation group with Britain claiming bronze.
Italy set one of the best time within the males’s pursuit qualifying earlier than simply beating Britain whereas France took a snug win in opposition to defending champions Denmark to arrange a last showdown with the Olympic champions on Thursday.
On a superb opening day for Italy, European champion Martina Fidanza broke away from the bunch and rapidly opened an unassailable result in declare the primary gold medal of the world championships within the girls’s scratch race.
Writing by Julien Pretot; Enhancing by Ed Osmond
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