{"id":6954,"date":"2018-03-15T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/dutch-dominance-on-home-oval-apeldoorn-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:25:01","slug":"dutch-dominance-on-home-oval-apeldoorn-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velorbola.com\/en\/dutch-dominance-on-home-oval-apeldoorn-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Dominance on Their Home Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the turn of February and March, the main track cycling event of the year \u2014 the World Championships \u2014 took place at the velodrome in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

The world track calendar is tied to the Olympic cycle. Countries and athletes always link their preparation strategy to the next Olympic Games, which is why this factor is the key one in any in-depth look at track battles.<\/p>\n

As you know, the next Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo in 2020, so two years earlier the national teams are already completing their generational change, and the main outlines of the Olympic squads are taking shape at the World Championships. You could say this is a watershed period, and not only chronologically: the trial period is already over, and it is already clear whom we may see on the Olympic oval two years from now.<\/p>\n

Since I plan to limit myself to a single post about the championships, I will skip the preliminary heats and, in chronological order, focus only on the finals, and \u2014 with a few small exceptions \u2014 draw your attention only to the statistics. Given its importance, of course, I won’t fail to name the new owners of the world champion’s rainbow jersey. But first, let’s look at the list of events; all of them are held for both women and men, the only difference usually being the distance to be covered. The first five are part of the Olympic program:<\/p>\n

\tKeirin;
\n \tOmnium;
\n \tIndividual sprint;
\n \tTeam pursuit;
\n \tTeam sprint;
\n \tTime trial;
\n \tIndividual pursuit;
\n \tPoints race;
\n \tScratch;
\n \tMadison.<\/p>\n

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Day one \u2014 February 28<\/p>\n

The championships’ first medals were contested in the women’s scratch race (an individual mass-start race; men race over 15 kilometers and women over 10, and the winner is whoever is first to cover the set distance). The very first race showed the hosts’ extremely high motivation. The race \u2014 and the first gold of these championships in the team standings \u2014 went to the Netherlands’ Kirsten Wild. It was Kirsten’s second rainbow jersey; she had won her first in the same event in 2015. But as it later turned out, this was only the beginning, and fans will remember these championships as her benefit performance, since Wild won three gold medals here in total. Still, let’s not depart from the course we’ve set and follow things in order.<\/p>\n

After the scratch came the team sprint; the women’s and men’s champions were crowned at the end of the first day.<\/p>\n

Women’s team sprint podium:<\/p>\n

\tGermany (Miriam Welte, Kristina Vogel, Pauline Grabosch);
\n \tNetherlands;
\n \tRussian Federation.<\/p>\n

Men’s team sprint podium:<\/p>\n

\tNetherlands (Nils van ‘t Hoenderdaal, Harrie Lavreysen, Jeffrey Hoogland, Matthijs B\u00fcchli);
\n \tGreat Britain;
\n \tFrance.<\/p>\n

Day two \u2014 March 1<\/p>\n

On the second day, medals were awarded in the men’s keirin and scratch race, and in the women’s and men’s team pursuit.<\/p>\n

Men’s keirin<\/p>\n

\tFabi\u00e1n Puerta (Colombia);
\n \tTomoyuki Kawabata (Japan);
\n \tMaximilian Levy (Germany).<\/p>\n

Men’s scratch race<\/p>\n

\tYauheni Karaliok (Belarus);
\n \tMichele Scartezzini (Italy);
\n \tCallum Scotson (Australia).<\/p>\n

Women’s team pursuit<\/p>\n

\tUSA (Jennifer Valente, Kelly Catlin, Chlo\u00e9 Dygert, Kimberly Geist);
\n \tGreat Britain;
\n \tItaly.<\/p>\n

Men’s team pursuit<\/p>\n

\tGreat Britain (Ed Clancy, Kian Emadi, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield);
\n \tDenmark;
\n \tItaly.<\/p>\n

Day three \u2014 March 2<\/p>\n

Men’s individual pursuit<\/p>\n

\tFilippo Ganna (Italy);
\n \tIvo Oliveira (Portugal);
\n \tAlexander Evtushenko (Russian Federation).<\/p>\n

Men’s points race<\/p>\n

\tCameron Meyer (Australia);
\n \tJan-Willem van Schip (Netherlands);
\n \tMark Stewart (Great Britain).<\/p>\n

Women’s omnium<\/p>\n

\tKirsten Wild (Netherlands);
\n \tAmalie Dideriksen (Denmark);
\n \tRushlee Buchanan (New Zealand).<\/p>\n

Women’s sprint<\/p>\n

\tKristina Vogel (Germany);
\n \tStephanie Morton (Australia);
\n \tPauline Grabosch (Germany).<\/p>\n

Day four \u2014 March 3<\/p>\n

Men’s omnium<\/p>\n

\tSzymon Sajnok (Poland);
\n \tJan-Willem van Schip (Netherlands);
\n \tSimone Consonni (Italy).<\/p>\n

Men’s sprint<\/p>\n

\tMatthew Glaetzer (Australia);
\n \tJack Carlin (Great Britain);
\n \tS\u00e9bastien Vigier (France).<\/p>\n

Women’s time trial<\/p>\n

\tMiriam Welte (Germany);
\n \tDaria Shmeleva (Russian Federation);
\n \tElis Ligtlee (Netherlands).<\/p>\n

Women’s individual pursuit<\/p>\n

\tChlo\u00e9 Dygert (USA);
\n \tAnnemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands);
\n \tKelly Catlin (USA).<\/p>\n

Women’s madison<\/p>\n

\tGreat Britain (Katie Archibald, Emily Nelson);
\n \tNetherlands;
\n \tItaly.<\/p>\n

Day five \u2014 March 4<\/p>\n

Men’s time trial<\/p>\n

\tJeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands);
\n \tMatthew Glaetzer (Australia);
\n \tTheo Bos (Netherlands).<\/p>\n

Men’s madison<\/p>\n

\tGermany (Roger Kluge, Theo Reinhardt);
\n \tSpain;
\n \tAustralia.<\/p>\n

Women’s keirin<\/p>\n

\tNicky Degrendele (Belgium);
\n \tLee Wai Sze (Hong Kong);
\n \tSimona Krupeckait\u0117 (Lithuania).<\/p>\n

Women’s points race<\/p>\n

\tKirsten Wild (Netherlands);
\n \tJennifer Valente (USA);
\n \tJasmin Duehring (Canada).<\/p>\n

In total, at their home championships the Kingdom of the Netherlands won five gold and five silver medals plus two bronze, twice as many medals as second-placed Germany \u2014 although if we count rainbow jerseys, the Germans were only one behind the winners of the team standings.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, in a sport in which 10 sets of medals are contested at the Olympic Games, and in which we once even had a tradition, we don’t even have a proper velodrome in our country \u2014 never mind any other “luxuries”…<\/p>\n

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All images: UCI<\/em>\/www.uci.org\/track<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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