Glasgow (AFP) – Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen made history in Glasgow on Monday by winning his fifth consecutive world title in the sprint, the premier event in track cycling, at the World Cycling Championships.
Issued on: 07/08/2023 – 20:40
2 min Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen won the men’s Elite Sprint Final at the Cycling World Championships to claim his 13th world title Britain’s Kieran Reilly earlier claimed the hosts’ first gold of the championships winning the BMX Freestyle Park title.
Lavreysen, 26, was in imperious form as he destroyed the field, beating Trinidad & Tobago’s Nicholas Paul in the final, to become the first sprinter in history to win five world championship titles in a row since the start of the professional era in 1992.
Lavreysen now has 13 world titles in total and will be the overwhelming favourite to win three gold medals next year at the Paris Olympic Games.
The two-time Tokyo Olympic champion, who came to the track after starting out in BMX, now has five titles in individual competition, five in team sprint, where the Netherlands reclaimed their crown on Friday, and three in keirin, another Olympic discipline.
European champion Reilly, meanwhile, had a spectacular run to finish ahead of Olympic champion Logan Martin of Australia in the final of the BMX Freestyle Park competition.Martin, the last man to go after the competition resumed following a rain-delay, came up half a point short of Reilly’s winning score of 95.80."It’s the next level," said a jubilant Reilly."This is the biggest competition in the […]
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