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Ashton Lambie wins 2021 Men’s Individual Pursuit World Championship

  • Ron 

Ashton Lambie (Lincoln, Neb.; HUUB Wattbike) was the highlight of the third day of the 2021 Tissot UCI Track World Championships, winning the Men’s Individual Pursuit World Championship title. Jennifer Valente (San Diego; TWENTY24 Pro Cycling) raced four events today, all part of the Omnium, and Gavin Hoover (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) competed in the Points Race.

The IP qualifiers went down in the morning, and Lambie destroyed it! Lambie, the current World Record Holder for 4,000 meters, laid down a time of 4:03.237 in qualifying. With this time, Lambie was 2.548 seconds faster than second-place rider Jonathan Milan (ITA). The two would match up in the Gold Medal round later in the day. While Milan started faster, Lambie took control of the race at 1,000 meters into the race. At 3,000 meters, Lambie was leading but still only up by half a second until he dug deep to pull off the win. He finished with a time of 4:05.060, winning by 1.089 seconds.

In a post-race interview, Lambie said, “I went out with the same schedule and at the end of the day it’s a race, the time doesn’t matter and you’re just racing against second place. With a [kilometer] and a half to go, I heard I was up by 0.4 then it kind of spread out the same way we raced the qualifiers so it went according to plan. It was awesome.”

USA Cycling Men’s Track Coach Rob Stanley could not be happier for Lambie and his performance today. He said, “It’s hard to know what to say to do Ashton’s ride justice, I think it’s remarkable how he has gone out and fought hard to achieve something incredible and will forever have created a piece of cycling history which is amazing for him and inspirational to American cyclists all over the world.  And to top it off he got on his bike and rode back to the hotel because he loves riding that much!”

Final Results:

  1. Ashton Lambie (USA)
  2. Jonathan Milan (ITA)
  3. Filippo Ganna (ITA)
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