The 107th UCI Track World Championships took place in Hong Kong from April 12 to 16, 2017 . This was the second time in the history of cycling that World Track Championships were held in Asia , after 1990 in Maebashi .
370 athletes from 42 countries were registered. There were 20 competitions on the program. For the first time in the history of track cycling, one of the oldest disciplines, two-man team cycling (Madison), was also ridden by women; until now this discipline was reserved for men. All ten railway disciplines for women and men were now on the program.
The Association of German Cyclists had quota places in 19 races. In the two-man team event, the German athletes missed the qualification. In this discipline there has not yet been a championship for women in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, unlike in some countries such as Australia or the Netherlands. In the sprint , in the keirin and in the 1000 and 500 meter time trials of men and women, two Germans each started, as did the men's single pursuit . British Cycling was the only association whose riders qualified for all competitions.
The Australian team was the most successful with a total of eleven medals, including three gold, followed by France with a total of five medals. Two of the three gold medals for France went to Benjamin Thomas . The Russian team also won gold three times, all in the short-term disciplines. The German team won two gold medals, both won by Kristina Vogel , who thus became double world champion for the first time in her career.
The Malaysian Azizulhasni Awang became world champion in the Keirin for the first time after ten years in the elite, in which he had twice won silver and twice bronze on the track. This also made him the first world champion from Malaysia in an Olympic discipline. The Russian Denis Dmitrijew succeeded for the first time in many years at the top of the world to win the world championship title in the sprint and is the first male driver from Russia to win an individual gold medal in a short-term event. The New Zealander Ethan Mitchell also wrote cycling history for his country by winning the first individual medal in the sprint for New Zealand. The Belgians Lotte Kopecky and Jolien D'hoore became the first world champions in cycling history in a two-man team in a race marked by falls. The Australian Amy Cure won a silver medal in the team pursuit as well as bronze in omnium and two-man team races , making her the first track cyclist, male or female, to win medals in six different disciplines at world championships.
The German driver Gudrun Stock improved Judith Arndt's 19-year-old German record in the single pursuit over 3000 meters from 3: 34.420 minutes to 3: 34.325 minutes and thus finished ninth. In the time trial of the men two silver medals were awarded as the Czech Tomáš Bábek and Frenchman Quentin Lafargue the 1000 meters in the same time: completed (1 01,048 min.).
Darja Schmeljowa (left) and Anastassija Woinowa (here at the 2015 European Championships) became world champions in the team sprint for the second time in a row, while Schmeljowa also won the time trial title.
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