Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini of Italy trip to gold medal in girls’s Madison at Paris Olympic Video games(Picture credit score: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini of Italy(Picture credit score: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Maike van der Duin and Lisa van Belle (Netherlands) performing a handsling(Picture credit score: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Ladies’s Madison Remaining – Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Norman Leth of Denmark) (Picture credit score: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Elinor Barker and Neah Evans of Nice Britain trip to silver(Picture credit score: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Crew Belgium riders Katrijn De Clercq and Helene Hesters(Picture credit score: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Maho Kakita and Tsuyaka Uchino of Crew Japan(Picture credit score: Jared C Tilton/Getty Photos)
Marion Borras and Clara Copponi of Crew France(Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photos)
Jennifer Valente and Lily Williams of United States of America performing a handsling(Picture credit score: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
On the monitor at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France for the Ladies’s Madison, Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini realise they’ve gained the gold(Picture credit score: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Italy’s Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini claimed the gold medal within the girls’s Madison after a poised and assured efficiency within the Paris Olympics.
The group gained three of the 12 sprints within the 120-lap race, then used a late assault to lap the sphere, incomes 20 factors for that feat. Collectively, the tally got here to 37 factors, six greater than their nearest rivals, defending Olympic Madison champions Nice Britain.
Nice Britain’s Elinor Barker and Neah Evans, taking the torch from Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald, missed the successful transfer however amassed 31 factors with a constant efficiency that they capped off with a late assault to take dwelling essentially the most profitable dash on the end to win the silver medal.
The British group simply managed to get forward of the Netherlands’ Maike van der Duin and Lisa van Belle – two younger newcomers to the Olympics, who stole a lap with 48 laps to go to maneuver into the lead however solely scored eight factors in sprints for a complete of 28 – 10 greater than fourth-placed Jen Valente and Lily Williams (USA).
Britain had been within the lead on the midpoint of the race with 14 factors on the US pair, however slipped to second after the Dutch group lapped the sphere earlier than dash quantity eight. The Brits took the eighth dash however Italy attacked immediately afterward and powered clear forward of a subject stuffed with drained legs.
The Italians stayed away to take the utmost factors on dash 9 to maneuver into the lead, after which managed the race from then on, marking the Dutch duo once they tried to go clear with 16 laps remaining.
From there, it was a struggle for bronze with the British group getting the higher of the USA within the dying moments of the race and staying clear to disclaim them the bronze.
Outcomes
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Rank
Nation (Riders)
Factors
1
Italy (Chiara Consonni / Vittoria Guazzini)
37
2
Nice Britain (Elinor Barker / Neah Evans)
31
3
Netherlands (Maike van der Duin / Lisa van Belle)
28
4
United States of America (Jennifer Valente / Lily Williams)
