In the Team Sprint team competition , both the juniors and the juniors set new world records on the first day of the world championships : the German drivers Pauline Grabosch and Emma Hinze were the first to fall below the 34-second mark with a time of 33.889 seconds in the final, after they had already finished in had set a new personal best in qualifying with 33,962. In the junior category , it was the Russian team made up of three drivers, Sergei Isajew , Alexei Nosow and Alexander Wasjuchno , who improved the 2010 world record of 45.402 seconds to 44.767 seconds. The next day Pauline Grabosch won the gold medal in the 500 meter time trial, also with a new world record time (34.657 s).
In the qualification of the team pursuit , the Swiss four of the juniors set a new Swiss record with 4: 08.523 minutes and thus improved the national best time of 4: 09.808 minutes, which the same four drivers had about five weeks earlier, on July 14, at the track Had set up the European Championships in Athens .
The German driver Leo Appelt improved his own national best time of 3: 16.848 minutes in the 3000 meter single pursuit with 3: 15.432 minutes, which he had achieved in June 2015 at the German track championships in the Berlin Velodrom .
The most successful athlete - both women and men - was the German short-term specialist Emma Hinze with a total of four medals, three gold medals (team sprint, sprint and keirin) and a silver one in the 500 meter time trial , followed by her teammate Pauline Grabosch with two gold medals in team sprint and time trial. The Australian driver Kelland O'Brien won three medals, two golds (in the two-man team driving with Rohan Wight and in the team pursuit with Wight, Alex Rendell and James Robinson ) and once bronze in the single pursuit. The Czech rider Jiří Janošek also won three medals, a gold medal in the 1000-meter time trial and a silver medal each in the sprint and keirin.
