Cycling, Junior Track World Championships, gold and world record for the Italian quartet

The Italian quartet of the team pursuit on the track has a future, after Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Simen Consonni and Jonathan Milan won gold at the Tokyo Games and bronze in Paris. This seems to be what the junior world championships currently taking place in China say.

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For Dino Salvoldi’s boys, in fact, the gold medal arrived and a further improvement of the world record that they had already beaten in qualification: Davide Stella, Ares Costa, Christian Fantini and Alessio Magagnotti (with Eros Sporzon who had competed in the first round) beat France in the final with a time of 3’51″199 (the previous limit was 3’53″562). For Italy, in this world championship in Luoyang, two other medals have already arrived: bronze for Chantal Pegolo in the women’s scratch, bronze in the women’s team speed (Chantal Pegolo, Siria Trevisan and Matilde Cenci).

DOCTOR’S SUPER

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The second title for Italy also arrived thanks to the success of Fabio Del Medico in the Keirin. The Tuscan from Pietrasanta won the final sprint ahead of the Japanese Kanata Takahashi (silver) and the Kazakh Daniyar Shayakhmetov (bronze).