Aug 7, 2024; Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Jennifer Valente of Crew United States competes within the first spherical of the ladies’s workforce pursuit in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer time Video games at Vélodrome Nationwide de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Necessary Credit score: Andrew P. Scott-USA TODAY Sports activities SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — American Jennifer Valente gained the gold medal within the ladies’s omnium to conclude Olympic racing on the Nationwide Velodrome on Sunday.
Valente comfortably retained the title she gained in Tokyo with a constant efficiency throughout the 4 races.
Poland’s Daria Pikulik ended with silver medal and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston was third.
Valente was a part of the American squad to win the workforce pursuit earlier within the week, giving her two gold medals within the Paris Video games.
MEN’S KEIRIN
Flying Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen confirmed his standing because the king of males’s sprinting by profitable the Olympic keirin to finish a outstanding hat trick.
Lavreysen flew across the closing nook to beat Australia’s Matthew Richardson, who took the silver.
The 27-year-old powerhouse additionally gained the workforce dash and dash earlier in an awesome week for the Dutch, repeating his feat from Tokyo, the place he might solely handle a bronze within the keirin.
Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer was third.
The race finale was considerably overshadowed by a high-speed crash involving Malaysia’s Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom, Japan’s Shinji Nakano and Britain’s Jack Carlin, who had been despatched tumbling throughout the observe.
Sahrom slid over the road however was relegated for inflicting the accident. All three managed to stroll away after therapy.
WOMEN’S SPRINT GOLD
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews and accomplished an unimaginable week by profitable the dash gold.
Andrews outclassed Germany’s Lea Freidrich within the closing, profitable 2-0, to turn out to be the primary girl from New Zealand to win the self-discipline on the Olympics, having additionally gained the keirin and ending with the silver medal within the workforce dash.
“Actually, this has exceeded all my expectations,” Andrews, whose keirin gold on Thursday was the primary Olympics observe title in 20 years for New Zealand, informed Eurosport.
“I knew what my strengths had been and put it on the market.”
Britain’s dash world champion Emma Finucane beat Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw to take the bronze — the 21-year-old Briton’s third medal from her first Video games.
–Area Degree Media
