A few weeks before the start of the World Championships, it was announced that the four-time British Olympic champion Laura Kenny would be competing for the first time after the birth of her child five months earlier.
Around 370 athletes from 40 countries took part.
The most successful nation at these world championships were the Dutch hosts with a total of twelve medals, including five gold medals. Three gold medals alone went to Kirsten Wild , who won the Omnium , points race and Scratch and, together with Amy Pieters, the silver medal in the two-man team race . Sprinter Jeffrey Hoogland became world champion in the time trial as well as in the team sprint with Harrie Lavreysen , Matthijs Büchli and Nils van 't Hoenderdaal . The German team went home with a total of six medals; Of the total of four gold medals, two went to Kristina Vogel , who won the sprint and, together with Pauline Grabosch and Miriam Welte, the title in the team sprint. Welte, in turn, won the time trial over 500 meters, Grabosch came third in the sprint. In the Keirin , Vogel missed another gold medal that she was aiming for, which would have been her twelfth and with which she would have overtaken the most successful driver to date, the Australian Anna Meares , by a title. The fourth gold medal for the German team also marked the end of the competition on the last day of the competition, when Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt became world champions in two-man team driving. Austria and Switzerland could not win medals.
The German Lisa Brennauer set a new German record in the qualification of the single pursuit with 3: 32.485 , as did the women's four-man with 4: 24.369 minutes and the men's four with 3: 56.594 minutes.
Two gold medals won the USA's Chloe Dygert that the individual pursuit decided in outstanding fashion for themselves: As early as the qualification she asked with 3: 20.072 minutes set a new world record and that was about nine seconds faster than the second-placed Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten . In the final for gold, she improved her own best time again to 3: 20.060 minutes. The opportunity arose because the race was not shot down as usual after Annemiek van Vleuten was overtaken . Together with the US women's four, she also won gold in the team pursuit .
The World Championships were overshadowed by the serious accident of US competition judge Andrew McCord. He stepped on the track during the women's scratch race to pick up an object and was struck by Hong Kong Chinese Xiaojuan Diao . He remained motionless for several minutes and then, like the driver, was taken to the hospital. The race was canceled and the title fights were interrupted for more than an hour. McCord suffered severe head injuries.
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