Mathias Guillemette from Trifluvien teamed up with Ontarian Dylan Bibic to rank 13e row of the Madison race on Sunday on the final day of the World Track Cycling Championships which concluded in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
The young Canadian duo finished this 200 lap (50 kilometer) relay event, where intermediate sprints were contested every ten laps, with a cumulative -18 points.
Bibic scored 2 points in the intermediate sprint of 110 laps to go, except that the representatives of the country were overtaken by the peloton just under 30 laps from the finish. As a result, 20 points were deducted from them and it is for this reason that they finished the race at -18 points.
“I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but with an average speed of 58.6 km/h and restarts at over 70 km/h, it was difficult. We still stayed alive in the race until the end to finish in 13e place,” Guillemette wrote on his Facebook page.
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In front of a jubilant crowd, the Frenchmen Donavan Grondin and Benjamin Thomas were the strongest physically and strategically to win with 65 points, even allowing themselves to celebrate in the last laps, because victory was mathematically assured to them.
Britons Ethan Hayter and Oliver Wood (47 points) won silver ahead of Belgians Fabio van den Bossche and Lindsay de Vylder (43 points).
The best nations in the standings managed to take a lap on the peloton, which allowed them to collect 20 points, in addition to those at stake in the 20 intermediate sprints.
Remember that on Thursday, Bibic had signed a surprise victory in the scratch race. This is the only medal won by Canada at these worlds in 22 events.
Short day from Genest to the keirin
In the women’s keirin event, Lauriane Genest had a tough outing. The bronze medalist in this event at the Tokyo Olympics took the sixth and last of her qualifying wave won by the Frenchwoman Marie-Divine Kouame, crowned world champion in the 500 meters the day before. Once in the repechage, the Lévisienne ranked fourth in her wave, thus missing her ticket for the next round by two places.
On the side of his compatriots, Kelsey Mitchell took fifth place in the B final, good for the 11e place in the final standings, while Jackie Boyle saw his journey come to an end in the quarter-finals.
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