The day three of the European Track Cycling Championships in Grenchen (Switzerland) left no medal for the Spanish delegation, honoring the deceased with a black bracelet Estela Dominguez. The selection continues on three silver in the past days of Eukene Larrarte in the scratch, Albert Torres in the scoring and Alejandro Martínez in the kilometer against the clock. towerscertainly, the most outstanding Spaniard the day after graduation seventh at the beginning.
It was the Spanish team’s main possession of the day to try to increase their medal tally. Torres was in the main group for a good part of the scratch, but was unable to respond to the Briton’s final attack Oliver Wood, champion, which caused other runners to switch. Dutchman Roy Eefting took silver, Frenchman Donavan Grondin captured bronze and Torres finished in seventh place.
The Spanish participants in speed and pursuit were unable to improve that position. In Speed, Alejandro Martinez He was fifteenth in qualifying and played in the first round, of the round of 16, against Italian Mattia Predomo, beating him by 0.153 seconds. Ekain Jimeneznineteenth in that qualifying round, lost by 330 thousandths in the same knockout phase against Czech Martin Cechman.
They were also unable to achieve the difficult task of entering the top 4 in the individual pursuit classification Erik Martorell neither Joan Marti Benassar, in a test where the remaining runners are eliminated. Britain’s Daniel Bigham dominated with a time of 4:02.775 with Martorell seventeenth in 16.157 seconds and Bennassar twenty seconds back in 25.485. Bigham took silver after losing in the final against the Italian jonathan milanwhile the bronze was hung by German Tobias Buck-Gramcko.
In addition to the men’s scratch and pursuit, other trials that awarded medals this Friday with a Spanish presence in the competition were the female omnium. The new European scratch runner-up participated in it Eukene Larrartethat finished eleventh overall with 66 points after being seventh in the scratch, twelfth in the tempo race, eleventh in the eliminations and fourteenth in the points. The ómnium experienced the British exhibition Kate Archibald, winner of all modalities to hang the gold with 155 points. Polish Daria Pikulik was silver with 124 and Belgian Lote Kopetcky, bronze with the same score.
The remaining test of the day is the women’s single sprint. In it there was a German double with gold for Lea Sophie Friedrich and silver for her compatriot Pauline Grabosch, who won the final in two sets. The bronze was hung by the British Sophie Capewell.
Source: La Verdad
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