Nice Britain returned from the UCI Junior Monitor World Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, with 5 gold medals of their hand baggage, and 5 extra of bronze and silver.
The younger squad had a profitable time in Europe, with younger stars Henry Hobbs and Erin Boothman, particularly, having golden weeks. The pair each got here residence with two rainbow jerseys.
GB’s different gold got here within the males’s crew dash, for Kristian Larigo, Archie Gill, and Ioan Hepburn. There was additionally silver within the particular person dash for Gill, which was received by Choi Tae-ho of South Korea, bronze within the particular person pursuit for Thompson, which was received by Alessio Magagnotti of Italy, and bronze within the males’s Madison for Hinds and Thompson, as Eric Igual and Eñaut Urcaregui of Spain have been victors.
“[I] don’t assume I might have dreamed of a greater week of racing successful the omnium and backing it up with the kilo the subsequent day, after choosing up silver within the crew pursuit with the lads only a couple days earlier than,” Hobbs posted on Instagram on Monday night.
“The most important due to the help crew and coaches at British Biking and the GB Biking Workforce for making the journey attainable and offering the subsequent degree teaching to get me in a spot to win these sorts of races,” he continued.
Hobbs grew to become the primary junior rider to brush all six endurance occasions on the Junior British Nationwide Monitor Championships earlier this month, and is a world document holder within the particular person pursuit at junior degree on his method to gold eventually month’s Junior European Championships.
Boothman, in the meantime, already a two-time world champion final yr, and a three-time European champion, wrote that she was “tremendous proud” to defend her two titles from 2024, though she was dissatisfied to overlook out on the omnium after crashing out of the factors race. The 18-year-old presently holds three world data at junior degree.
“To win the TP with the women this yr was a dream come true, we’ve got labored so arduous as a crew this yr,” she stated on Instagram. “So [I] couldn’t be happier to interrupt our personal world document from Euros and win the coveted rainbow jersey.”
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