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There have been no new world data however it was nonetheless an thrilling fourth day of motion within the Tokyo Olympics observe program Thursday.
Canada scored its first biking medal of the Olympic Video games with Lauriane Genest taking a formidable bronze within the girls’s Keirin. It was a much less good day for the USA, with Madalyn Godby being knocked out within the quarterfinal, whereas Gavin Hoover took eighth within the males’s Omnium.
Matt Partitions took Nice Britain’s first gold on the observe with a commanding win within the males’s Omnium, whereas New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart put himself into the silver medal spot after lapping the sphere with simply over one lap remaining.
The Netherlands continued to dominate the lads’s and ladies’s dash competitions. Shanne Braspennincx stormed to girls’s Keirin gold whereas Jeffrey Hoogland and Harrie Lavreysen will line up within the Particular person Dash semi-finals Friday.
Males’s Omnium
Matt Partitions romped to victory within the males’s omnium to attain Nice Britain’s first gold medal within the Izu Velodrome. After rising accustomed to dominating the observe program, GB has not had the identical stranglehold on the boards thus far in Tokyo.
Campbell Stewart (New Zealand) went into the ultimate Omninum occasion in seventh place general however mounted a final gasp effort to climb into second place in an thrilling finish to the competitors. Stewart lapped the sphere for the second time, so as to add one other 20 factors to his tally, within the dying moments of the race and made the juncture shortly earlier than the bell tolled for the ultimate lap.
Defending Olympic champion Elia Viviani (Italy) held on for third place after a sluggish begin to the Omnium competitors, whereas world champion Benjamin Thomas (France) was nudged off the rostrum by Stewart’s efforts.
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Partitions obtained his Omnium bid off to the absolute best begin within the Scratch Race by leaping throughout to a gaggle that may efficiently lap the sphere earlier than happening to take the race win to present himself 40 factors. Thomas and Dutchman Jan Willem van Schip have been among the many riders that jumped the sphere with Partitions and rounded out the highest three.
In the meantime, Viviani had a disappointing begin after lacking the escape group after which ending thirteenth on the end line.
Partitions, Thomas, and van Schip have been at it once more within the Tempo Race, taking a lap on the sphere as soon as once more. This time, it was van Schip who took the ultimate dash to the road, with Thomas in second and Partitions in third. Viviani claimed a lap this time to assist his factors tally however he nonetheless had some floor to make up on the midway level.
Viviani’s fortunes modified within the Elimination Race as he bettered Wells to take the highest spot, whereas van Schip and Thomas missed the minimize inside the closing 10 riders. The USA’s Gavin Hoover loved a strong begin to the competition with a top-five end result within the Tempo Race placing him in eighth place forward of the ultimate factors race and he would end on this place after an exciting finish to the competitors.
Males’s Omnium outcomes
- Matt Partitions (Nice Britain)
- Campbell Stewart (New Zealand)
- Elia Viviani (Italy)
- Benjamin Thomas (France)
- Niklas Larsen (Denmark)
Ladies’s Keirin
Lauriane Genest scored Canada’s first biking medal of the Tokyo Olympic Video games, claiming bronze within the girls’s Keirin. Shanne Braspennincx of the Netherlands stormed to the gold medal whereas Ellesse Andrews delivered New Zealand its first medal with silver.
Canada obtained two riders into the ultimate with Kelsey Mitchell taking fifth in the long run. Mitchell was the favourite of the 2 Canadians to take a medal after a collection of sturdy performances in her rounds however it was Genest that had the pace within the closing to safe the bronze.
The USA’s Madalyn Godby missed out on a spot within the semi-finals after she was knocked out within the third quarter-final warmth. Godby missed the minimize by a small margin after being overwhelmed by Ukraine’s Liubov Basova into the ultimate qualifying spot.
Mitchell received the warmth she was in with Godby to undergo with ease into the following spherical, whereas Genest took the ultimate qualifying spot in her warmth to progress to the semi-finals. The Canadian pair have been pitted in opposition to one another of their semi-final warmth, however each made it by means of to the general closing with Mitchell in second and Genest in third.
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World champion Emma Hinze (Germany) almost got here down in a crash throughout the first quarter-final warmth after her rear wheel was caught by the Netherland’s Laurine van Riessen. The Dutch rider was shifting up the observe when she clipped Hinze’s wheel, sending her flying into GB’s Katy Marchant.
Whereas Marchant ultimately remounted and end the warmth, although she didn’t qualify for the following spherical, van Riessen was carried off on a stretcher after receiving medical consideration.
After some disappointing performances within the earlier rounds, Hinze would ultimately be knocked out within the semi-final, as would one other of the pre-race favorites Lee Wai Sze of Hong Kong.
Ladies’s Keirin closing
- Shanne Braspennincx (Netherlands)
- Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand)
- Lauriane Genest (Canada)
- Olena Starikova (Ukraine)
- Kelsey Mitchel (Canada)
- Liubov Basova (Ukraine)
Males’s Particular person Dash
The Dutch riders continued to dominate the lads’s sprinting self-discipline on the second day of competitors within the particular person occasion. Jeffrey Hoogland and Harrie Lavreysen not often seemed in bother as they progressed by means of the rounds, placing within the dominant performances that noticed them earn staff gold earlier within the week.
Defending Olympic champion Jason Kenny was pressured to place one other race in his legs to compete after he was despatched to the repechages (second-chance spherical) following his defeat to Denis Dmitriev of the Russian Olympic Committee within the 1/8 closing. Nonetheless, he can be ousted by Lavreysen within the quarterfinals.
Lavreysen, Hoogland, and GB’s Jack Carlin all took simple wins of their quarterfinal contests, going by means of in two races with out the necessity of a decider.
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The final of the quarterfinal bouts was between Denis Dmitriev (ROC) and Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago. Paul took a dominant win in race one and seemed set to sail by means of to the semi-final with one other commanding efficiency in race two, however he was relegated by the jury for deviating out of the dash line and a decider was arrange.
It seemed set to be a decent race however Paul noticed his hopes of constructing it by means of to the semis when he clipped the wheel of Dmitriev because the Russian got here into the sprinters’ line. Paul managed to keep away from a crash however he had misplaced an excessive amount of on Dmitriev, who was capable of experience comfortably to the road to progress to the following spherical.
Semi-final races (Friday)
- Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands) v Denis Dmitriev (ROC)
- Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands) v Jack Carlin (GB)
