The Choosing Spanish finished the Adaptive Track Cycling World Championships held in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France) with seven medalsfour of them from Ricardo Ten, who was named world champion in the scratch, pursuit and omnium categories; two of Edward Santas and one of the Maurice Eckhardt.
Ricardo Ten is the great contender of the Track Cycling World Championship by climbing the podium four times to collect three gold medals and one silver.
The Valencian athlete, who for twenty-two years had a successful career as a Paralympic swimmer with more than one hundred titles as champion of Spain, thirteen European Championships, seven World Championships and three gold medals at the Paralympic Games (including one silver and two bronzes), changed the swimming pool for cycling in 2017, starting a successful cycling career.
The latest success for the 47-year-old Ten was the four medals won in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines which, along with his previous wins in other competitions, brings the number of world champions in the rainbow jersey to won between them. Eleven. track and race.
On the first day of this World Championship, Ricardo Ten was declared scratch world champion, on the second he won silver in the kilometer against the clock and on the third he closed the World Championship with two more golds in pursuit and omnium.
The Navarrese Edward Santas, from class C3, was twice on the podium in the championship. The first time to take a silver in Scratch, where he fought for gold with the British Fin Graham, and the second hanged the copper in the omnium with 142 points after finishing sixth in the kilometer against the clock.
Santas added a third medal but was one step away from bronze in the individual pursuit, where he was fourth after losing his race to Australian David Nicholas.
The seventh medal for the Spanish delegation was won by Maurice Eckhardtwhich, in class C2, hangs of brass just behind France’s Alexandre Leaute, gold, and Australia’s Darren Hicks, silver.
Also close to the medals was Oscar Higuera, who, in the C4 class, finished fourth in the scratch and fifth in the individual time trial.
The tandem composed of Héctor Catalá and Eloy Teruel, experiencing his first participation in a Track World Championship, completed a good performance in the chase and finished seventh.
Source: La Verdad
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