ROUBAIX, France (Reuters) – Olympic champions Italy added the lads’s workforce pursuit title to their checklist of spectacular victories in 2021 as they defeated hosts France within the last on the observe biking world championships on Thursday.
It was a primary world title for the Italians within the males’s pursuit for 14 years as Filippo Ganna, Liam Bertazzo, Simone Consonni and Jonathan Milan completed the 4 km race in a time of three:47.192 forward of France’s 3:49.168.
Britain took the bronze medal after defeating defending champions Denmark for third place.
“The folks by the observe confirmed nice assist for the French, however we at all times race to the final metre and to win the rainbow jersey in the identical yr as we gained gold on the Olympics is actually necessary for us,” Ganna advised reporters.
Girls’s workforce pursuit Olympic champions Germany claimed the world title as they prevented an Italian double by beating the latter to gold within the last.
The German quartet of Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Mieke Kroeger and Laura Suessemilch completed in 4:08.752, with the Italians a way off the tempo in 4:13.690.
Britain once more picked up the bronze, this time beating Canada to 3rd place.
There was French pleasure when Donavan Grondin gained the lads’s scratch race forward of Tuur Dens from Belgium in a time of 16:59.
Dutch sprinter Harrie Lavreysen, who gained particular person and workforce golds at this yr’s Olympics, claimed the lads’s keirin last over 200 metres in a time of 10.027 to beat compatriot Jeffrey Hoogland and Russian Mikhail Iakovlev to the highest of the rostrum.
Lavreysen additionally gained the workforce race within the dash last with Hoogland on Wednesday.
Italian Letizia Paternoster gained the primary ever ladies’s elimination race on the world championships, with Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky and Jennifer Valente of the US finishing the rostrum.
(Reporting by Nick Stated; Enhancing by Ken Ferris)
