Last Updated: October 22, 2023, 01:00 IST
PALMA, Spain: Flying Dutchman Harrie Layreysen made a successful start to the UCI Track Champions League on Saturday with one other dominant show in the dash self-discipline in which he’s just about unbeatable.
The 26-12 months-outdated Olympic and world champion outclassed the sector in the Palma velodrome in the primary of 5 rounds of the Champions League which culminates with a double-header in London subsequent month.
Lavreysen bagged the 20 factors on provide for the winner and added one other 20 when he gained the keirin.
Britain’s Emma Finucane, sporting the rainbow jersey after successful the world title in Glasgow in August, was crushed to first place in the ladies’s dash by Germany’s Alessa-Catriona Propster.
The Track Champions League options 36 of the world’s greatest endurance riders and 36 of the highest sprinters. Endurance riders compete in scratch and elimination races with the sprinters contesting dash and keirin.
Britain’s twice Olympic chamopion Katie Archibald, winner of the inaugural Champions League in 2021, loved a productive first evening, successful the elimination race and ending second in the scratch race behind Lily Williams.
Japan’s Eiya Hashimoto topped the charts after the primary two occasions in the boys’s endurance collection.
Points are awarded all through the 5 rounds to determine the winners in the boys’s and ladies’s dash and endurance classes. The subsequent spherical is in Berlin.
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