Cycling-Ganna storms to fifth men’s pursuit title in world record time

Oct 14 (Reuters)Italy’s Filippo Ganna smashed the men’s particular person pursuit entire world history en route to clinching his fifth environment title in the occasion at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome in France on Friday.

Ganna, who broke the Hour history past week, clocked 3:59.636 in the 4,000m occasion to superior the mark established by American Ashton Lambie at very last year’s globe championships by approximately .3 seconds.

The 26-year-outdated run to victory forward of compatriot Jonathan Milan, with Ivo Oliveira of Portugal beating Britain’s Dan Bigham in the third-location playoff.

“Probably some beers, it’s possible a gin and tonic, perhaps champagne. Who is aware, we’re in France,” Ganna mentioned when questioned how he would celebrate his entire world file.

Mathilde Gros gained the women’s dash race to assert her initial world title in front of a raucous residence group, with Germany’s Lea Friedrich ending runner-up and her compatriot Emma Hinze using bronze following beating Dutchwoman Laurine van Riessen.

The Netherlands took two gold medals with veteran Yoeri Havik winning the men’s details race and Jeffrey Hoogland retaining his 1km time demo title.

Hoogland finished in 58.106 seconds to claim his 3rd environment title in the event, beating Frenchman Melvin Landerneau and Alejandro Martinez Chorro of Spain to best place on the podium.

In the 1st closing of the night, the 31-12 months-previous Havik concluded forward of Germany’s Roger Kluge and Belgium’s Fabio van den Bossche in the 40km race around 160 laps.

Jennifer Valente additional a entire world title to her Olympic crown, providing the United States a dominant gold in the women’s omnium immediately after successful a few of the four races. Maike van der Duin of the Netherlands and Portugal’s Maria Martins completed the podium.

(Reporting by Hritika Sharma in Bengaluru Editing by Christian Radnedge)

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