SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — American Jennifer Valente won the ggreater medal in the women’s omnium to end Olympic racing at the National Velodrome on Sunday.
Valente consoleably grasped the title she won in Tokyo with a constant carry outance atraverse the four races.
Poland’s Daria Pikulik finished with silver medal and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston was third.
Valente was part of the American squad to triumph the team pursuit earlier in the week, giving her two ggreater medals in the Paris Games.
MEN’S KEIRIN
Flying Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen validateed his status as the king of men’s sprinting by triumphning the Olympic keirin to finish a extrastandard hat trick.
Lavreysen flew around the final corner to beat Australia’s Matthew Ricdifficultson, who took the silver.
The 27-year-greater powerhoparticipate also won the team sprint and sprint earlier in a fantastic week for the Dutch, repeating his feat from Tokyo, where he could only handle a bronze in the keirin.
Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer was third.
The race finale was somewhat overshadowed by a high-speed crash involving Malaysia’s Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom, Japan’s Shinji Nakano and Britain’s Jack Carlin, who were sent tumbling atraverse the track.
Sahrom slid over the line but was relegated for causing the accident. All three handled to walk away after treatment.
WOMEN’S SPRINT GOLD
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews and finishd an incredible week by triumphning the sprint ggreater.
Andrews outclassed Germany’s Lea Freidwealthy in the final, triumphning 2-0, to become the first woman from New Zealand to triumph the discipline at the Olympics, having also won the keirin and finishing with the silver medal in the team sprint.
“Honestly, this has outdoed all my anticipateations,” Andrews, whose keirin ggreater on Thursday was the first Olympics track title in 20 years for New Zealand, tgreater Eurosport.
“I knovel what my strengths were and put it out there.”
Britain’s sprint world champion Emma Finucane beat Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw to get the bronze — the 21-year-greater Briton’s third medal from her first Games.
–Field Level Media
