Track World Championships: Harrie Lavreysen wins fourth gold medal in Chile and sets new career high of 20 titles

Sunday concluded the fifth day of competitors on the 2025 UCI Observe World Championships within the Peñalolén velodrome in Santiago, Chile. 5 titles remained for the taking, with the Factors Race and Keirin for the ladies, and the Dash, Madison and Elimination races for the boys.

Dutch legend Harrie Lavreysen made historical past on the ultimate day by incomes his twentieth profession gold medal, successful one other 4 titles at these World Championships. He additionally set the file in sweeping all 4 dash occasions.

“That is actually not regular. I stated beforehand that it could be thrilling, with the kilometer time trial underneath my belt, however I felt actually nice once more immediately,” Lavreysen advised NOS on the velodrome, which was additionally report by Wielerflits.

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“I acquired by means of the semi-final properly and had a variety of confidence in my legs. I watched a variety of phases. It appeared troublesome to overhaul right here, nevertheless it was doable. I ready very properly and was in a position to execute.”

Males’s Dash

The favorite to repeat because the Males’s Dash winner was Lavreysen, who had gained this occasion six occasions. He delivered on Sunday for a seventh rainbow jersey within the Dash with scorching velocity over Matthew Richardson (Nice Britain).

This was the Dutchman’s fourth gold medal of the Championships. The 28-year-old opened the competitions in Chile with a world title within the staff dash on Wednesday, the subsequent two days gained the Keirin and the 1k time trial, which made him the primary man to comb all 4 dash occasions in a single World Championship.

Leigh Hoffman (Australia) earned the bronze with wins within the ultimate heats in opposition to Nicholas Paul (Trinidad and Tobago), who replicated his fourth-place end from a 12 months in the past.

The rematch between Lavreysen and Dutch compatriot Jeffrey Hoogland by no means materialised, as Hoogland, final 12 months’s silver medalist, was ousted by Hoffman within the quarterfinals.

The qualifying and quarterfinal rounds had been contested Saturday evening in Santiago. As soon as on the quarters, Nice Britain’s Richardson overcame Japan’s Kaiya Ota in two comparatively easy matches, diving right down to spring a shock on his rival within the first race, and dominating the second.

France’s Reyan Helal may do nothing about Lavreysen of the Netherlands, who gained with relative ease over two matches.

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Trinidad and Tobago’s Paul used his flying 200m velocity to glorious impact to win each of his races in opposition to Israel’s Mikhail Yakovlev.

The largest shock of the quarterfinals got here when Hoffman twice managed to carry the wheel of the massive Dutchman heading into the ultimate dash for the road, leaping him on the road in each races to disclaim Hoogland a tilt at a medal.

Ladies’s Keirin

Defending Ladies’s Keirin world champion Mina Sato (Japan) defended her title on Sunday, surviving a semifinal spherical to win the general within the finals. Emma Finucane (Nice Britain), who was fourth final 12 months, earned the silver medal, with Lorena Cuadrado of Colombia securing the bronze.

Final 12 months’s silver medallist Hetty van de Wouw (Netherlands) rode safely by means of spherical one, however then started to wrestle a bit within the quarters and semis. She completed a distance seventh.