Kirsten Wild won her second rainbow jersey of the 2018 UCI Track World Championships on Friday, putting in a dominant performance in the four-race women’s Omnium to take the gold ahead of Amalie Diderickson (Denmark) and Rushlee Buchanan (New Zealand).
“I’m super, super happy,” Wild said. “The crowd gave me so much energy. I want to say ‘thank you’ to everybody. I’ve trained so hard for this, but so many people have helped me. It’s really amazing that it’s all worked out today.”
The Women’s Omnium started with a win for Wild in the Scratch Race, repeating her World Championship performance in the stand-alone Scratch Race on Wednesday. Italy’s Elisa Balsamo was second, followed by France’s Laurie Berthon.
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Great Britan’s Elinor Barker took top honours in the Tempo Race, winning sprints on laps eight, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, taking victory by three points over Gudrun Stock (Germany) and four points over China’s Xiaofei Wang.
The penultimate event, the Elimination Race, saw Wild take top points again, beating Jennifer Valente (United States) into second and Balsamo into third. Diderickson was fourth, followed by Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky in fifth.
In the final Points Race, Wild kept an eye on her nearest rivals as riders further down the standings swallowed up the points. Dideriksen took a late lap to move into the silver medal position, while Buchanan took two. Both riders moved within striking distance of Wild, but the Dutchwoman remained calm and put an exclamation point on her victory in the final sprint.
Men’s Points Race
Men’s Individual Pursuit
Women’s Sprint
Men’s Sprint
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