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Day three of the Tokyo Olympic observe program noticed but extra data falling.
Italy narrowly received a nailbiter of a Group Pursuit to get the gold medal and set a brand new world document of three:42.032. The Italian 4 narrowly beat the world champions Denmark who took the silver medals. Australia took bronze after successful silver within the Rio Video games.
There was additionally a stack of qualification rounds on the third day on the Izu observe. The ladies’s Keirin racing noticed Maddie Godby (USA) make it by means of to Thursday’s quarter-finals, as did the Canadians Kelsey Mitchell and Lauriane Genest.
The Canadian males had much less luck within the Particular person Dash, with neither Nick Wammes nor Hugo Barrette progressing to Thursday’s races.
Group Pursuit finals
It was an exciting conflict of the titans within the gold medal last between Italy and Denmark.
Italy took the early lead earlier than the race yo-yoed both manner. Denmark piled on the afterburners by means of kilometer three to winch out a robust hole that appeared insurmountable just for the Italian trio to make a dramatic comeback within the last 500 meters to take gold.
The Italian squad lapped the observe nearly in disbelief earlier than roaring with triumph after setting a brand new world document of three:42.032 and successful by lower than 0.2 seconds. The workforce completed sixth within the 2016 Video games.
There was a dramatic fall within the bronze medal last between New Zealand and Australia.
The fourth Kiwi rider within the formation touched wheels with the rider in entrance and hit the boards onerous halfway by means of the race. The New Zealand workforce’s last three quickly misplaced construction and dropped their final man, forcing them to gradual, reform and so open the door for Australia to bag the bronze medal. The fallen rider was with out severe harm.
Canada blasted out of the gate quick however quickly misplaced a rider within the race with Germany for fifth. The ultimate three of Michael Foley, Derek Gee, and Jay Lamoureux held robust to take the win and set a brand new nationwide document with a time of three:46.324.
Nice Britain put Tuesday’s drama to mattress to beat Switzerland of their spherical to complete seventh.
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Group Pursuit finals:
- Italy (Gold)
- Denmark (Silver)
- Australia (Bronze)
Ladies’s Keirin qualifiers and repechages
U.S. observe star Maddie Godby and the Canadian Lauriane Genest each progressed by means of their race after taking one-two within the six-rider warmth that they each began. They are going to race within the quarter-finals Thursday.
The 17-time nationwide champion Maddie Godby takes on the world’s finest Keirin racers within the nation that invented the game.
Catch this insanely quick and frenetic race at 3:30 ET on @NBCOlympics tonight! https://t.co/hhEq1hw7pW…#RideToTokyo #TokyoOlympics #WeChampionCycling pic.twitter.com/LJdpor7PtA
— USA Biking (@usacycling) August 4, 2021
There was a shock when reigning Keirin world champ Emma Hinze of Germany didn’t qualify by means of her spherical and was compelled to race within the repechages (second-chance rounds). Hinze’s warmth was received convincingly by Canadian rider Kelsey Mitchell.
Hinze promptly went on to position second in her repechage warmth to progress by means of to Thursday’s quarterfinals.
Hong Kong speedster and prime favourite Lee Wai Sze was equally shocked when she was compelled into the repechages however bounced again to win her last race and make it by means of to the following spherical. Kaarle McCulloch (Australia) was one other prime contender that had put an additional race in her legs in an effort to undergo to Thursday’s races by qualifying within the repechage.
In the meantime, GB’s Katy Marchant additionally needed to duke it out within the repechage, regardless of successful her warmth, after she was relegated for getting into the sprinters’ lane when a competitor was already there.
Keirin quarter-finals (Thursday)
Warmth 1:
- Marchant (GBR)
- Hinze (GER)
- Lee (HKG)
- Van Riessen (NED)
- Shmeleva (ROC)
- Starikova (UKR)
Warmth 2:
- Genest (CAN)
- Gros (FRA)
- Friedrich (GER)
- Gaxiola Gonzales (MEX)
- Brasspenninckx (NED)
- Andrews (NZL)
Warmth 3:
- Godby (USA)
- McCulloch (AUS)
- Mitchell (CAN)
- Zhong (CHN)
- Kobajashi (JAP)
- Basova (UKR)
Males’s Dash qualifiers and repechages
Hotly-tipped Dutch duo Jeffrey Hoogland and Harrie Lavreysen topped the dash qualifiers, setting the very same time within the flying 200, after which went on to win their subsequent rounds.
The Canadians Nick Wammes and Hugo Barrette additionally made it by means of the primary spherical of qualifiers. Wammes bettered the German Stefan Boetticher in his 1/32 last to maneuver onto the following spherical, solely to be overwhelmed within the 1/16 last. He didn’t make it by means of the repechage and is out of the competitors.
Barrette was compelled into the repechages within the 1/32 and equally did not progress from there.
Main contender and Olympic powerhouse Jason Kenny (Nice Britain) received his 1/32 last to advance by means of to the following spherical. The Brit went on to withhold a shock late cost from dwelling favourite Yuta Wakimoto within the 1/16 spherical to see his manner by means of to Thursday’s races and hold his hopes alive for a document third gold medal.
Wakimoto got here by means of his repechage to make it to the 1/8 finals and hold Japanese hopes alive.
Males’s Dash 1/32 Finals ✅
The #Rio2016 defending champion, Jason Kenny received his warmth to realize auto qualification for the 1/16 Finals.#Tokyo2020 | #CyclingTrack | #Olympics
— UCI Monitor Biking (@UCI_Track) August 4, 2021
Males’s Dash 1/8 finals (Thursday):
- Jeffrey Hoogland (NED) v Mohd Asisulhasni Awang (MAS)
- Harrie Lavreysen (NED) v Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom (MAS)
- Jack Carlin (GBR) v Sebastian Vigier (FRA)
- Nicholas Paul (TTO) v Yuta Wakimoto (JPN)
- Denis Dmitriev (ROC) v Jason Kenny (GBR)
- Maximilian Levy (GER) v Sam Webster (NZL)
