Hoogland powers to third successive 1km time trial gold

Dutchman Jeffrey Hoogland claimed a third successive 1km time trial world title to continue his country’s dominance in the men’s sprints at the UCI Cycling World Championships on Tuesday.
After Australian Matthew Glaetzer had put himself in first place with a national record time of 58.526, Hoogland completed his four laps of the Chris Hoy Velodrome in 58.222 to snatch the gold medal.
Australia’s Thomas Cornish was the third fastest rider.
It was the 30-year-old Hoogland’s second gold medal of this year’s championships after he helped the Dutch to win the team sprint last week.
The Netherlands are now second in the medals table with three golds compared to the four of Britain.
Hoogland’s teammate Harrie Lavreysen won the men’s sprint for the fifth time in a row on Monday.
Meanwhile, Switzerland successfully defended their team time trial mixed relay crown at the world championships yesterday despite a crash for Marlen Reusser.
The Swiss were the last squad - which consists of three women and three men - to tackle the 40.3-kilometre circuit in Glasgow and were under pressure after France set the fastest time.
Stefan Bissegger, Stefan Kung and Mauro Schmid had a good start before they handed it over to the women’s team consisting of Reusser, Elise Chabbey and Nicole Koller, when Reusser lost valuable time after a crash.
Reusser is one of the favourites for the individual time trial but she did manage to quickly get back on her bike to continue.
The crash did little to hurt their chances as Switzerland eventually finished with a time of 54 minutes and 16.20 seconds, a full seven seconds ahead of France while Germany were third.
“I’m good. I’m sorry for my team that I frightened them a bit. I hope for every spectator I made it a bit more interesting to watch,” Reusser joked after her ride.
“I think we can be really proud of this win. It’s one thing to win once. Twice shows that we have the strength and the skills. We are a good team.”
Küng later talked about the Swiss men’s race tactics. “We know each other really well. We did the last two editions together.
“We trusted each other but also know that we don’t have to overcook it. Otherwise, it happens what happened to Marlen and plenty of other teams; that you go down,” he said yesterday.
“We just wanted to leave it on the good track and give them some advantage.”
Britain were fourth, more than a minute behind, while Italy were fifth after Silvia Persico lost time due to a mechanical.