Sunday concluded the fifth day of competition at the 2025 UCI Track World Championships in the Peñalolén velodrome in Santiago, Chile. Five titles remained for the taking, with the Points Race and Keirin for the women, and the Sprint, Madison and Elimination races for the men.
Dutch legend Harrie Lavreysen made history on the final day by earning his 20th career gold medal, winning another four titles at these World Championships. He also set the record in sweeping all four sprint events.
Men’s Sprint
The favourite to repeat as the Men’s Sprint winner was Lavreysen, who had won this event six times. He delivered on Sunday for a seventh rainbow jersey in the Sprint with scorching speed over Matthew Richardson (Great Britain).
This was the Dutchman’s fourth gold medal of the Championships. The 28-year-old opened the competitions in Chile with a world title in the team sprint on Wednesday, the next two days won the Keirin and the 1k time trial, which made him the first man to sweep all four sprint events in one World Championship.
Leigh Hoffman (Australia) earned the bronze with wins in the final heats against Nicholas Paul (Trinidad and Tobago), who replicated his fourth-place finish from a year ago.
The rematch between Lavreysen and Dutch compatriot Jeffrey Hoogland never materialised, as Hoogland, last year’s silver medalist, was ousted by Hoffman in the quarterfinals.
The qualifying and quarterfinal rounds were contested Saturday night in Santiago. Once at the quarters, Great Britain’s Richardson overcame Japan’s Kaiya Ota in two relatively straightforward matches, diving down to spring a surprise on his rival in the first race, and dominating the second.
France’s Reyan Helal could do nothing about Lavreysen of the Netherlands, who won with relative ease over two matches.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Paul…
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