Track cycling, Ganna and silver mates in the team pursuit of the World Championship. Same metal for Barbieri

The blue train is silver. The Olympic champion quartet finished behind Great Britain in the final for gold at the World Championships in Saint Quentin en Yvelines and missed an encore 12 months after the victory in Roubaix. Mai Ganna and his teammates surrendered after a tight head-to-head with Hayter, Wood, Vernon and former hour record holder Dan Bigham, the man Ganna snatched the record from last Saturday in Grenchen. Simone Consonni, Manlio MoroJonathan Milan and Filippo Ganna they stopped the clock at 3’46 “033, against 3’45” 829 for the British. Bronze to Denmark against Australia. Between the first and final round the coach Marco Villa he replaced Lamon with Consonni, but the change did not bring the desired result: Italy entered the final with the second best time and was never in front in the 4 km of the test. Consonni: “A nice final, sorry because we wanted to bring this one too. Now it’s back to work for the other goals. We came from a demanding season on the road and we didn’t know how we could perform here ”. Moro: “Let’s not throw away this silver, they are the strongest, they didn’t give up until the end”. Tomorrow Ganna and Milan are back on track for the individual pursuit.

Rachele Barbieri silver in the elimination race

Second silver of the day a few minutes later with Rachele Barbieri, beaten only by the Belgian Lotte Kopecky in the elimination race. A courageous race conduct for the 25-year-old from Emilia, attacking the penultimate sprint to eliminate the American Valente, but she arrived tired at the last sprint, in which she must surrender to the very expert opponent.