Cameron Meyer successfully defends Points Race title
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Gold medal winner Netherland's Kirsten Wild (L) competes during the women's omnium during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medallist Australian Cameron Meyer poses on the podium after the men's points race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Kirsten Wild (Netherlands) and Elisa Balsamo (Italy)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Gold medal winner Netherland's Kirsten Wild celebrates winning the women's omnium during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Silver medallist Demark's Amalie Dideriksen, Gold medal winner Netherland's Kirsten Wild and Bronze medallist New Zealand's Rushlee Buchanan pose on the podium after taking part in the women's omnium(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medallist Italy's Filippo Ganna celebrates on the podium after the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel rides during the women's sprint semi final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel (R) rides ahead of Silver medalist Australia's Stephanie Morto during the women's sprint final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel celebrates winning the women's sprint final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel, Silver medalist Australia's Stephanie Morton and Bronze medalis Germany's Pauline Sophie Grabosch pose on the podium after taking part in the women's sprint final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel (L) and Bronze medalist Germany's Pauline Sophie Grabosch celebrate after women's sprint final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Silver medallist Portugal's Ivo Oliveira, Gold medallist Italy's Filippo Ganna, and Bronze medallist Russian Alexander Evtushenko pose on the podium after the men's individual pursuit (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Silver medallist Portugal's Ivo Oliveira poses on the podium after the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Maximilian Levy (Germany)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Kirsten Wild (Netherlands) on the front in the Points Race(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Jan Willem van Schip, Cameron Meyer and Mark Stewart(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Filippo Ganna (Italy) hoists his machine after winning the Individual Pursuit world championship(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Gold medalist Germany's Kristina Vogel celebrates on the podium after taking part in the women's sprint final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
France's Sebastien Vigier takes part in the Men's Sprint Qualifying at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medal winner Netherland's Kirsten Wild (2L) competes in the women's omnium during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Gold medal winner Netherland's Kirsten Wild (C) celebrates winning the women's omnium during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Filippo Ganna competes in the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Ryan Owens of Great Britain competes in Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Daniel Bigham of Great Britain take part in the Men`s Indivdual Pursuit Qualifying(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
New Zealand's Edward Dawkins take part in the Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Jeffrey Hoogland of Netherlands competes in Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Daniel Bigham of Great Britain take part in the Men`s Indivdual Pursuit Qualifying(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Sliver medalist Netherland's Jan Willem Van Schip, Gold medalist Australian Cameron Meyer and Bronze medalist Britton Mark Stweart pose on the podium after the men's points race final (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Italy's Filippo Ganna competes in the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Italy's Filippo Ganna celebrates after the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Italy's Filippo Ganna celebrates after the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Maximilian Levy of Germany competes in Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Jack Carlin of Great Britain competes in Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Japan's Tomoyuki Kawabata takes part in the Men's Sprint Qualifying at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
France's Sebastien Vigier awaits to take part in the Men's Sprint Qualifying at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Britain's Ryan Owens takes part in the Men's Sprint Qualifying at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Cyclists compete during the women's UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, on March 2, 2018(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Hong Kong's Xiaojuan Diao cries after crashing with a jury member during the women's Omnium at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Australian Cameron Meyer leads the field during the men's points race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Australian Cameron Meyer celebrates winning the men's points race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Australian Cameron Meyer (L) looks back at Netherland's Jan Willem Van Schip during the men's points race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Netherland's Jan Willem Van Schip celebrates during the men's points race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Melvin Landerneau of France competes in Men`s sprint qualifying during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
Filippo Ganna competes in the men's individual pursuit race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships(Image credit: Michael Aisner)
"I'm super, super happy," Wild said. "The crowd gave me so much energy. I want to say 'thank you' to everybody. I've trained so hard for this, but so many people have helped me. It's really amazing that it's all worked out today."
The Women's Omnium started with a win for Wild in the Scratch Race, repeating her World Championship performance in the stand-alone Scratch Race on Wednesday. Italy's Elisa Balsamo was second, followed by France's Laurie Berthon.
Great Britan's Elinor Barker took top honours in the Tempo Race, winning sprints on laps eight, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, taking victory by three points over Gudrun Stock (Germany) and four points over China's Xiaofei Wang.
The penultimate event, the Elimination Race, saw Wild take top points again, beating Jennifer Valente (United States) into second and Balsamo into third. Diderickson was fourth, followed by Belgium's Lotte Kopecky in fifth.
In the final Points Race, Wild kept an eye on her nearest rivals as riders further down the standings swallowed up the points. Dideriksen took a late lap to move into the silver medal position, while Buchanan took two. Both riders moved within striking distance of Wild, but the Dutchwoman remained calm and put an exclamation point on her victory in the final sprint.
"I think that's the way to win an Omnium," Wild said. "I think that if you're at the back you don't win, so that's the only tactic that works"
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Men's Points Race
Cameron Meyer defended his title in the Points Race to take his ninth world title. The Australian easily outdistanced runner-up Jan Willem van Schip, 70 points to 52. Great Britain's Mark Stewart was third at 49 points. Meyer built his lead with sprint wins on laps six, seven, eight, 11 and 14.
Meyer also lapped the field twice, along with Stewart, Kenny de Ketele (Bel), King Lok Cheun (China) and Andreas Graf (Austria). Van Schip lapped the field only once, but he won three lap sprints and took double points in the finale.
"Points race world title number five, it was a hard one but I am very happy," said Meyer. "It is special, everyone of them is special, especially when you win a gold medal in the world championships."
Men's Individual Pursuit
European champion Filippo Ganna (Italy) improved upon his silver medal from last year's championships in Hong Kong, where he lost out on the rainbow stripes to Australia's Jordan Kerby.
This year Ganna beat Portugal's Rui Oliveira, who set the fastest time in qualifying, by nearly two seconds with a time of 0:04:13.607. Oliveira stopped the clock at 0:04:15.428.
"I wanted to finish as soon as possible because I was suffering so much," Ganna said. "He started so strongly, but I relied on my coach and on the plan that we had.
"When did I realise I passed him? When I did it. In those moments you don't have much time to make important reasoning," Ganna said. "You are going all out from start to finish and the only thing you can do is just keep yourself on the track.
In the race for bronze, Russia's Alexander Evtushenko beat Great Britain's Charlie Tanfield 0:04:13.786 to 0:04:15.930.
Women's Sprint
Kristina Vogel successfully defended her rainbow jersey in the Sprint competition, handling Australia's Stephanie Morton in the first gold medal race, falling to Morton in the second but then bouncing back in the third to take the gold.
In the race for Bronze, Germany's Pauline Sophie Grabosch defeated Hong Kong's Wai Sze Lee in two successive races for the final podium spot.
Men's Sprint
Racing in the morning session, the men sprinted through the qualifier and two rounds to whittle the field down to eight riders who will contest the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals on Saturdy to decide the winner.
Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands) set the fastest qualifying time, covering the opening test in 0:00:09.674. Australia's Matthew Glaetzer set the next best time at 0:00:09.677, followed by France's Sebastien Vigier at 0:00:09.701.
Following the 1/16 and 1/8 rounds, eight riders emerged for the quarter-finals, where Ryan Owen (Great Britain) will face Maximilian Levy (Germany), Glaetzer will face Denis Dimtriev (Russia), Sebastien Vigier (France) will face Mateusz Rudyk (Poland) and Jack Carlins (Great Britain) will take on Edward Dawkins (New Zealand).
