Cycling, European Youth Track Championships: Italy starts with 3 golds

Italy got off to a good start at the youth European track championships (junior and Under 23) which started on Tuesday in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands. Three gold medals immediately arrived from the girls of coach Dino Salvoldi. Chiara Consonni (Simone’s sister, Olympic gold medalist in the quartet in Tokyo 2020), Silvia Zanardi and Valentina Basilico won the title respectively in the elimination and individual pursuit of women U23 and in the scratch juniores. In addition, in the men’s field, Stefano Moro took bronze in the under 23 individual pursuit. And Lorenzo Ursella is silver in the junior scratch.

MEDALS – The blue track sector has returned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which gave the historic gold in the quartet, which had been missing for 61 years, thanks to Filippo Ganna, Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon and Jonathan Milan, also authors of the new world record ( in the final against Denmark) by 3’42 ”032. Plus Viviani’s bronze in the omnium five years after the title won in Rio de Janeiro.