Bronze medalist in the keirin at the Tokyo Olympics last summer in track cycling, Lauriane Genest once again took third place on the podium in this event, this time at the Glasgow Nations Cup on Sunday, in Scotland.
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The Lévisienne (+0.073 seconds) finished behind the French Mathilde Gros (11,309 seconds) and the Colombian Martha Bayona Pineda (+0.044 seconds). Also present in this grand final, Alberta’s Kelsey Mitchell (+0.226 seconds) took sixth and last place.
Thursday, the Quebecer and her compatriots Kelsey Mitchell and Sarah Orban had been decorated with silver in the team sprint.
Also on Sunday, at the Men’s Omnium this time, Mathias Guillemette from Trifluvien took 15and rank (47 points) in the classification of this competition where the cyclists accumulate points in four events. Guillemette finished 21and (1 point) in the scratch race, 12and (18 points) at the tempo race, 7and (28 points) in the elimination race and 6and (0 points) in the points race.
Briton Oliver Wood (145 points) won the gold medal ahead of Spaniard Sabastian Mora Vedri (134) and Belgian Fabio Van den Bossche (110).
This is his second appearance in the Nations Cup after that of Cali, last year in Colombia, but where the level of competition was less high as he said.
“At the end of the week, it was quite a level of World Championships. […] It bodes well and I still had a good performance, but unfortunately, it’s the only Omnium I’m going to do this year,” said Guillemette, adding that the Canadian team wanted to enter a different athlete in this event at each stage of the circuit.
“The elimination race is where I usually excel, but the one I did two days ago, it didn’t go very well. [il s’était classé 17e]. It’s sure it’s the fun to see that I’m learning a bit and improving. [Dimanche]the average speed was 55 or 56 kilometers per hour, so it was not a very easy race,” he added with a laugh.
“I corrected a lot of mistakes made on Friday and today I hit the target. »
The next stop on the World Tour will be in Milton, Ontario in mid-May.