The venue was the former London Olympic Velodrome , where the track cycling competitions of the 2012 Summer Olympics were held. After the Games, it was renamed the Lee Valley Velodrome .
A total of 19 competitions were on the program. With the exception of the two-man team driving, there was a competition for women and men in all disciplines.
A week before the start of the world championships, over 50,000 tickets had been sold, making nine out of twelve events sold out. It was already clear that these world championships are among the "most successful of the modern age".
The most successful nation were the hosts: British Cycling athletes won a total of nine medals, including five gold medals. Laura Trott won gold in the scratch as well as in the omnium and bronze in the four-point pursuit. This made Trott the most successful female athlete, while the men's German Joachim Eilers was the best driver with two golds in Keirin and 1000-meter time trial and bronze in the team sprint. Russian Anastassija Woinowa won two gold medals . Zhong Tianshi became world champion in the sprint and thus the first cycling world champion from China to win an individual title. The women's four-man track won gold for the United States in this discipline for the first time . The Australian men's foursome won the title with a time of 3: 52.727 minutes, which is the second fastest time in the team pursuit over 4000 meters, and beat the “old rival” from Great Britain.
The end of the world championships formed the two-man team driving , which the British Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish decided for themselves, although Cavendish crashed on the last laps. For Wiggins it was the last race and the last victory at the Lee Valley Velodrome , as he would end his cycling career after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he commented shortly after the race. Contrary to this announcement, however, he started again in October 2016 at the Six day on this cycle race track.
In 2017, the World Championships were nominated as Best Sports Event for the Sports Business Awards .
The Russians Darja Schmeljowa (left) and Anastassija Woinowa (here at the European Championships 2015) won the world championship title in the team sprint.
Stefan Küng was also selected. In consultation with national coach Daniel Gisiger , he decided not to take part in order to better recover from his Pfeiffer glandular fever and to prepare for the road season.
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