The cycle-ball finals on the final day of the UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships in G\u00f6ppingen, Germany, saw the home team Wolf and Holzer reign supreme in the women\u2019s tournament, and a successful farewell for fellow Germans Mlady and Kopp in the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In artistic cycling, Jana Pfann won the Single Women while B\u00e4rk and Kirst retire from competition with a Pair Women victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany\u2019s cycle-ball team Judith Wolf and Danielle Holzer (Hofen\/Prechtal) were unbeaten in the 2025 UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships, conceding only three goals in four games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They faced Switzerland’s Sava Baumann and Chiara Dotoli in the final, winning 6-1 to take a third successive victory for Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Third place went to Japan, represented by Sayaka Tokuhiro and Nana Yamashita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany’s Bernd Mlady and Raphael Kopp of RMC Stein\/Germany were crowned UCI World Champions in a repeat of last year\u2019s final against their rivals Patrick Schnetzer and Stefan Feurstein of Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Austria\u2019s 2022 UCI World Champions drew first blood in the G\u00f6ppingen cauldron. \u201cWe didn’t let that upset us,\u201d said Mlady, who lives in Stuttgart, just a few kilometres from the competition venue. The score was 1-1 at half-time, before the defending UCI World Champions from Germany turned up the heat and pulled away to win 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou can’t imagine a better career farewell,\u201d said Kopp. After the next round of the UCI Cycle-ball World Cup in Sch\u00f6ftland, Switzerland, next weekend and the UCI World Cup Final in Hofen, Germany, three weeks later, Mlady\/Kopp will hang up their bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bronze medal went to the brothers Timon and Yannick Fr\u00f6hlich from Altdorf (Switzerland) ahead of the French duo of Quentin and Mathias Seyfried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antonia B\u00e4rk and Henny Kirst of Bonn-Duisdorf\/Germany ended their career together in the best possible way. Having announced that they were competing in their last season together, the reigning world champions were unbeatable in G\u00f6ppingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was able to enjoy the final. The conditions here were just perfect,\u201d said an overjoyed 28-year-old Kirst. His partner B\u00e4rk (27), with whom he has been competing since 2015, shed tears of joy, confessing: \u201cAt first I didn’t have the feeling that I was competing in a World Championships. But then I suddenly realised that this is the final\u2026 and now we’re UCI World Champions again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a world best score of 146.36 points, they said goodbye to the championships in style. The pair will make a last appearance at the UCI Artistic Cycling World Cup Final in \u00d6schelbronn, Germany, in a week’s time, wearing the prestigious rainbow jerseys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The silver medalists were Kim Leah Schl\u00fcter and Nele Jodeleit (Knetterheide\/GER) ahead of Switzerland\u2019s Simona Lucca and Larissa Tanner (St\u00e4fa\/D\u00fcrnten). Another Swiss pair, Julia St\u00e4heli\/Tanisha Tanner (Amriswil), finished fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jana Pfann (Bruckm\u00fchl\/GER) came to the World Championships in top shape. With the highest difficulty level of all the competitors, the 2022 World Champion was the last to go into the final. In the preliminary round, she had not delivered perfectly, but still won. And she went on to break the long-standing curse of the preliminary round winners, who had not succeeded in the final since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pfann had relied on safety but also took some risk \u2013 and it paid off: \u201cI had said to myself, \u2018either it works out, or it doesn’t.\u2019 That wouldn’t have been tragic either.\u201d With 190.92 points, the 21-year-old won her second rainbow jersey of UCI World Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite expectations, the silver medal did not go to Germany, with Veronika Koch (Hausham), who was seeded in second place, losing a contact lens during the freestyle, and finishing in sixth place. Silver went to Switzerland’s Alessa Hotz (Baar) with 182.58 points. The two-time bronze medallist (2021 and 2022) thus marked the greatest success for her country in this discipline since 1988, when Switzerland last won gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Austria’s Lorena Schneider (H\u00f6chst), competing in her last UCI World Championships, secured the bronze medal for the fourth time. Italy\u2019s Magdalena M\u00fcller scored 158,64 points for fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n