A fourth day of racing offered four gold medals at the 2025 UCI Track World Championships in the Peñalolén velodrome in Santiago, Chile.
The women competed for titles in the Madison as well as qualifying and finals for Individual Pursuit and 1km Time Trial. Men’s action included four rounds of events in the Omnium.
Women’s Kilometre Time Trial
Hetty van de Wouw (Netherlands) set the best time in qualifying in the Women’s Kilo with a world record-breaking time of 1:03.652, almost a full second faster than Lea Sophie Friedrich (Germany) and Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand).
She went on to claim her second gold medal of the Championships, winning by a solid 1.6 seconds over independent athlete Iana Burlakova, breaking her own world record set in qualifying, and breaking the 57kmph speed barrier in the process. Andrews secured the bronze medal less than half a second better than Friedrich.
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Rank |
Rider (country) |
Time |
|
1 |
Hetty van de Wouw (Netherlands) |
1:03.121 |
|
2 |
Iana Burlakova (AIN) |
1:04.797 |
|
3 |
Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand) |
1:04.909 |
|
4 |
Lea Friedrich (Germany) |
1:04.944 |
|
5 |
Stefany Cuadrado (Colombia) |
1:04.946 |
|
6 |
Martina Fidanza (Italy) |
1:05.573 |
|
7 |
Pauline Grabosch (Germany) |
1:05.956 |
|
8 |
Rhian Edmunds (Great Britain) |
1:06.048 |
Men’s Omnium
The Men’s Omnium competition opened with the Scratch Race on Saturday, Kazushige Kuboki of Japan taking the top spot ahead of Lindsay de Vylder (Belgium) and Juan David Sierra (Italy) in third.
In the Tempo Race, Moritz Augenstein (Germany) scored top points to win the second round of the Omnium. Kuboki finished second to hold his lead in the Omnium, eight points ahead of Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain), who was third in the Tempo contest. De Vylder faded with 11th place, and slipped two spots to fourth overall with two events to go.
In the elimination race, Japan’s Kazushige Kuboki, who was leading the standings at that point, was the first of the top riders to be eliminated in ninth position, and with Great Britain’s Matt Bostock and the Netherlands’ Philip Heijnen both electing to drop out and conserve his energy, the final four places were decided with Leitao fourth, Torres third, and Augenstein second behind a flying Lindsay de Vylder who launched early to seal the full 40 points.
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