Cycling: Canada’s Kelsey Mitchell claims Nations Cup gold

MILTON, Ont. –

Kelsey Mitchell continued to shine on the fourth and closing day of the Tissot UCI Observe Nations Cup, this time claiming gold within the Keirin for the primary time in her profession whereas teammate and Olympic Keirin bronze medallist Lauriane Genest had a minor crash that prevented her from ending the race.

The 2 sprinters, who gained bronze within the Staff Dash earlier this week, completed within the high three in rounds 1 and a pair of to qualify for the gold-medal closing on Sunday.

Mitchell took off with two laps to go, taking a strong advance on the stacked discipline of riders. Within the closing lap, Lauriane Genest acquired caught in a crash with Steffie van der Peet of the Netherlands and Yuka Kobashi of Japan, all three riders dropping their shot on the podium. Mitchell went on to win the dash and took residence the gold medal forward of Mina Sato of Japan, whereas World Champion Lea Sophie Friedrich of Germany was relegated.

“I am actually pleased with what I did — I like going to the entrance as a result of it is safer up there and often my legs will maintain on,” mentioned Mitchell. “I wished to go in there and do my greatest, and that is what I did. I used to be joyful to make it via qualifying and never need to do a repechage. It was an in depth one within the semis, I barely acquired via however certified for the ultimate and left all of it on the market. It is so good to be on your house monitor, I prepare right here nearly each single day after which trying up and seeing my family and friends was very particular.”

Within the Dash occasion, Olympian Nick Wammes and Ryan Dodyk each clocked quick instances within the qualifying race, ending with the sixth and seventh greatest instances respectively and Dodyk setting a private greatest clocking in at 9.717 seconds.

After 4 days of racing, Canada concludes the occasion with a complete of three medals — bronze within the Staff Dash (Kelsey Mitchell, Lauriane Genest, Sarah Orban, Jackie Boyle), silver within the Dash (Mitchell) and gold within the Keirin (Mitchell).

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Might 15, 2022