For Lavreysen, who took gold in the team sprint on the opening day together with Hoogland and Roy van den Berg, it was his eighteenth world title. This also includes six global sprint titles.
Double gold: both men and women are crowned team sprint world champions at the World Championships in Chile
Six riders start on the keirin, first riding three laps behind a motorized pacer and then sprinting for the win in three laps.
Via a detour to the quarter-finals
Lavreysen had drawn the second starting position, Hoogland started sixth and quickly moved to the front behind the bike. But when it came to sprinting, Lavreysen took off straight away on the Santiago cycling track and maintained his margin until the finish.
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The most successful Dutch Olympian among men with five gold medals had previously needed the repechages to reach the quarter-finals. Unlike Hoogland, he had not managed to finish among the first two in his heat, but he still put that right.
Hat trick Harry
Lavreysen won the Olympic title in the keirin in Paris last year, underlining his nickname ‘Hattrick Harrie’ with titles in the sprint and team sprint. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2020, he won the three world titles for the first time. This was repeated a year later at the Roubaix World Championships. But keirin is the least predictable part he ends up with. At the Tokyo Games he was surprised by an early attack by the British Jason Kenny and only finished bronze. At the past two World Championships he remained outside the podium places.
It was already the fourth gold medal for the Netherlands at this World Cup. On Wednesday there were also women’s world titles in the team sprint and in the scratch section, won by Lorena Wiebes.
World Championship silver for Dorenbos in the scratch section
Yanne Dorenbos won silver in the scratch section on the second day of the Track Cycling World Championships in Chile. The 25-year-old Castricummer had to leave only the German Moritz Augenstein in the sprint. The bronze went to New Zealander Campbell Stewart.
Lorena Wiebes extends the scratch world title at the track cycling World Championships
In the non-Olympic scratch event, a group of riders sprint for the win after forty laps (10 km).
Dorenbos, who had only just recovered from a serious training accident, saw the race completely open with ten laps to go. “There were quite a few men looking at each other, and I was one of them,” he told NOS. “A group broke away and it was difficult to close the gap. When I joined, the sprint was almost underway. I didn’t have much left.” In the chaos that arose, the jury was no longer clear, according to Dorenbos. “We were called twice for the last lap. I think we drove an extra lap, but anyway, I am very satisfied. It means a lot to me that I am standing here two months after that accident.”
He will also ride the pair race with Vincent Hoppezak in Santiago on Sunday, the event in which the duo won gold at the European Championships early this year in Zolder, Belgium. Dorenbos also took silver in the points race there. Last year he surprised with his World Cup debut with bronze at the omnium.
Lisa van Belle disappointed in the women’s elimination race. In a race marred by crashes, the 21-year-old from Zoetermeer only finished 21st. At the beginning of this year, Van Belle had won bronze at the European Championships in the part in which a group of riders rides a number of laps on the track and every two laps the rider who crosses the finish line last has to be removed from the race. The title went to Ireland’s Lara Gillespie.
Van de Wouw reaches sprint semi-finals
Hetty van de Wouw reached the semi-finals of the sprint tournament at the World Championships in Chile on Thursday. The 27-year-old from Brabant defeated New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews, the Olympic sprint champion and the keirin of the Paris Games, in the quarter-finals.
Van de Wouw only needed two heats to decide the match. Last year she came second in the sprint. In the final she fell short against Emma Finucane in Ballerup, Denmark. The British rider lost in the quarter-finals on the Santiago cycling track. Van de Wouw will compete for a place in the final against the Russian Jana Burlakova.
Van de Wouw had set the second best time in the qualifications and was therefore allowed to skip the first round. In the second round she defeated the Czech Veronika Jabornikova, who had been responsible for the elimination of Steffie van der Peet in the first round. In that phase it was only one heat, from the quarter-finals onwards it concerns two heats won. The semi-finals and final are Friday.
Van de Wouw and Van der Peet took gold in the team sprint together with Kim Kalee on Wednesday.