The first day of competition at the 2025 Tissot UCI Track World Championships saw three titles awarded in the Pe\u00f1alol\u00e9n velodrome of Santiago in Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
he Netherlands\u2019 Lorena Wiebes set a spectacular tone as she won the women\u2019s scratch a couple of weeks after her triumph at the UCI Gravel World Championships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her compatriots went on to rule both team sprints, with Steffie van der Peet, Hetty van de Wouw, and Kimberly Kalee in the women\u2019s competition, and Jeffrey Hoogland, Roy van den Berg, and Harrie Lavreysen in the men\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day also produced the first battles in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s team pursuits, ahead of the discipline\u2019s finals which will be raced on Thursday. Rainbow jerseys will also be at stake in the men\u2019s points race, the men\u2019s kilometre time trial, the men\u2019s individual pursuit, the women\u2019s sprint, and the women\u2019s omnium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A leading figure of the UCI Women\u2019s WorldTour for years already, the Netherlands\u2019 Lorena Wiebes has developed a versatile skillset that makes her a winner in many different environments, as most spectacularly illustrated in the last two weeks, away from the road competitions where she so often shines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wiebes powered to the first gold medal up for grabs this week in Santiago as she successfully defended the title she already took in the women\u2019s scratch in 2024, her first participation at the UCI Track Worlds. The Oranje fast woman claims her second rainbow jersey in 11 days, after ruling the roads and paths of South Limburg at the 2025 Bolero UCI Gravel World Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Away from the rugged and dusty challenges that crowned her at home, Wiebes mastered the track of Santiago to get the better of Denmark\u2019s Amalie Dideriksen and New Zealand’s Prudence Fowler in a hard fought race covering 40 laps (10km) in 11\u201958\u2019\u2019 (50.139km\/h). Lithuania\u2019s Olivija Balei\u0161yte and France\u2019s Marion Borras had accelerated inside the final five laps but were reeled in by the field as the bell rang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy that I\u2019m able to change [disciplines] so quickly,\u201d Wiebes said after donning her new rainbow jersey. \u201cI\u2019m a bit more used to the track than last year. My positioning wasn\u2019t that good in the last four laps but I was lucky that another rider needed to move up and I could use her slipstream. I kept believing and it worked out!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Netherlands had never won the UCI World Champion title in the women\u2019s team sprint, but Steffie van der Peet, Hetty van de Wouw and Kimberly Kalee rose to rainbow glory in Santiago. The trio clocked a time of 45.743 (59.025km\/h) to get the better of Great Britain\u2019s Emma Finucane, Iona Moir and Rhianna Parris-Smith (46.003, 58.692km\/h). Crowned last year, Team GB had the best start before seeing the Dutch sprinters topple them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia\u2019s Alessia McCaig, Molly McGill and Kristine Perkins dominated the Polish trio (Marlena Karwacka, Urszula Los and Nikola Seremak) to complete the top three, just like they did in 2024. A fourth Australian team member, LiliyaTatarinoff, also stood on the podium to receive a bronze medal after she raced the qualifying with McGill and McCaig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was really difficult because it was very close the whole day,\u201d Van der Peet said. \u201cThe first [in qualifying] we were second so we were like: \u2018We need to step up our game\u2019; and I think we did. It was just enough for this gold so I\u2019m really proud of us.\u201d A three-time silver medallist last year in Ballerup (Denmark), Van de Wouw added: \u201cIt\u2019s really great to finally get a gold and it\u2019s even more special to get it together with the girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More historic fireworks capped off the session as the Netherlands retained their crown in the men\u2019s team sprint. This time, it took a monstrous finish from Jeffrey Hoogland, after strong turns by Roy van den Berg and Harrie Lavreysen, to get the better of Great Britain\u2019s Matthew Richardson, Joseph Truman and Hamish Turnbull. The Dutch sprinters covered the three laps in 41.691 (64.762km\/h), against Team GB\u2019s 42.060 (64.194km\/h).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Netherlands have now won seven of the last eight UCI World Champion titles in the team sprint, Australia being the exception in 2022 (a trio that included Richardson, before he switched from representing Australia to Team GB. Lavreysen\u2019s record for the most rainbow jerseys claimed at the UCI Track World Championships is now up to 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe got some quick times here and I\u2019m really happy we can wear the rainbow for another year,\u201d Lavreysen rejoiced. \u201cWe felt pretty comfortable but the rest of the countries were pretty quick as well,\u201d Hoogland added. \u201cWe train together and every training is full gas, that\u2019s the blend to win,\u201d Van den Berg concluded, celebrating \u201ca good start\u201d for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first day of competition at the 2025 Tissot UCI Track World Championships saw three titles awarded in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed.jpg",984,655,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed.jpg",984,655,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed.jpg",984,655,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Netherlands-take-charge-UCI_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}