The Italian duo of 18-year-old Letizia Paternoster and Maria Giulia Confalonieri scored the country's first gold medal in the Madison at the UCI Track World Cup in Minsk, Belarus on Sunday.
The duo defeated the more experienced Dutch pair of Amy Pieters and Kirsten Wild by 29 points to 25 after swapping the lead throughout the race. Coming into the seventh of eight sprints, the two teams were tied on points, but the Italian team shot clear to take the five points while the Dutch duo missed out. The Italians managed to get over the Dutch in the final sprint, taking second behind the Russian duo of Olga Zabelinskaya and Martia Novolodskaya to seal the win.
After coming third in Pruzkow, Manchester and Santiago, the Italians claimed the World Cup overall victory in the Madison for the season.
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Paternoster, a five-time junior track world champion, is in her first season at the elite level. The success of her Madison partnership with Confalonieri came after the country's team pursuiters sealed the overall World Cup in that discipline after taking three silvers and one gold during the series.
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