Second GOLD for Wai Sze Lee
Women’s Keirin World Champion! #Pruszkow2019 pic.twitter.com/fYinntfzjK— UCI Track Cycling (@UCI_Track) March 3, 2019
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Hong Kong’s Sarah Lee Wai-sze clinches double at cycling worlds
- Lee, 31, claimed her first world keirin title on Sunday, adding that to the sprint crown she won on Friday
From left, silver medallist Kaarle McCulloch of Australia, gold medallist Sarah Lee Wai-sze of Hong Kong and bronze medallist Daria Shmeleva of Russia during the award ceremony for the Women's Keirin at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Sarah Lee Wai-sze of Hong Kong completed the sprint and keirin double at the track cycling World Championship in Pruszkow on Sunday.
Lee, 31, claimed her first world keirin title beating Australia’s Kaarle McCulloch and Russia’s Daria Shmeleva after having to settle for a silver at Apeldoorn last year.
On Friday, she had edged perennial runner-up Stephanie Morton to the sprint crown.
Earlier in the day Dutch youngster Harrie Lavreysen collected the individual sprint title after winning the team gold medal on Wednesday.
Lavreysen, 21, beat countryman Jeffrey Hoogland, who also won the four-man crown on Wednesday, by 0.198 of a second in the two-race final in Poland.
Hoogland was the quickest in qualifying on Saturday.
Local racer Mateusz Ryduk secured a first ever Polish medal at the showpiece annual event, beating reigning champion Matthew Glaezter to bronze.
Congratulations once again to Wai Sze Lee for winning the Women’s Keirin at #Pruszkow2019
@StephMorton28
Daria Shmeleva #Pruszkow2019 pic.twitter.com/pjqg2yElMv— UCI Track Cycling (@UCI_Track) March 3, 2019
Coming from a background in BMX cycling, Lavreysen claimed his first individual world title after finishing second in the sprint at Hong Kong in 2017, but he was only 10th last year.
The Netherlands and Australia finished joint-first on six golds each in the general leader board.