Eight-time track cycling world champion Lea Sophie Friedrich reached the sprint final at the World Championships in Glasgow, while teammate Emma Hinze was eliminated in the semi-finals.
Eight-time track cycling world champion Lea Sophie Friedrich reached the sprint final at the World Championships in Glasgow, while teammate Emma Hinze was eliminated in the semi-finals.
Friedrich confidently won her two semifinals against the New Zealand keirin world champion Ellesse Andrews. In the final, Friedrich now meets the British Emma Finucane, who also prevailed against Hinze in two runs.
After gold in the team sprint and two bronze medals in the 500-meter time trial and in the keirin, Friedrich now has her fourth medal in the title fights in Scotland. The ninth world title of her career beckons against Finucane. At the same time, after Anna Meares and Hinze, she would be the third woman with world titles in all four short-term disciplines.
Source: Stern
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