Track world title record for Harrie Lavreysen
Record of world track titles for Harrie Lavreysen
Holland's Harrie Lavreysen è became the most successful rider in the history of the World Track Cycling Championships by winning his 15th title in Ballerup, Denmark.
Two days after winning the team sprint with Jeffrey Hoogland and Roy van den Berg, the ""Flying Dutchman" won the non-Olympic kilometer race and overtook Frenchman Arnaud Tournant, winner of 14 world titles between 1997 and 2008.
There is a good chance that Lavreysen will further improve his record on Sunday when he competes in the individual sprint, the main event in which he already has five consecutive titles.
On the kilometer, a discipline in which he competed for the first time at the World Championships, he beat his compatriot and three-time defending champion Jeffrey Hoogland. Bronze to Britain’s Joseph Truman. The sprint king now has six world titles in the team sprint, five in the individual and four in the keirin.
At the rate of one world title a year, the tally could climb quickly, knowing that his next big goal remains the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where he aims to break British legend Jason Kenny's record of seven Olympic titles.
