Hoffman dominates males’s dash in Games monitor biking

Leigh Hoffman has capped his profitable Commonwealth Games monitor biking marketing campaign with gold within the males’s dash.

Hoffman was too good for skilled Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Nicholas Paul, beating him two heats to nil of their gold-medal ride-off.

Fellow Australian Tayte Ryan additionally beat England’s Harry Ledingham-Horn for bronze on Sunday morning (AEST) on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.

After Hoffman had a clear-cut win of their first warmth, Paul used his expertise to power the Australian up the monitor in warmth two and had a lead at the beginning of the bell lap.

Hoffman then powered round him to assert the ultimate.

The males’s dash was presupposed to be one of many greatest occasions on the Games.

But English rider Matt Richardson, who surprised the game by defecting from Australia to Great Britain days after the Paris Olympics, pulled out racing within the dash for England after a keirin crash earlier this week in Japan.

After Hoffman helped Australia win gold within the staff dash on day one of many monitor biking, he declared “good riddance” to his former teammate.

Hoffman certified quickest in Games-record time earlier on Saturday and had a simple development to the ultimate, beating Ryan 2-0 of their semi-final.

Paul, against this, had a 2-1 semi-final win over Ledingham-Horn.

It is Australia’s seventh gold medal in monitor biking on the Glasgow Games. Hoffman additionally gained silver within the keirin on day two on the monitor.

William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and Edward and Sophie, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, had been within the crowd for the beginning of the day-three medals session.

Australian Claudia Marcks, who gained gold within the ladies’s staff pursuit, was a shock medallist within the 1km time trial.

Showing her monitor endurance pedigree, Marcks was solely eleventh quickest after the primary of 4 laps. But she powered residence with the quickest second-half cut up and clocked one minute 5.607 seconds.

Only Welsh dash queen Emma Finucane may higher her time, clocking 1:05.285 for the gold.

Georgia Baker gained bronze within the 25km ladies’s factors race, that means it should come right down to the elimination on the final day of competitors whether or not she wins probably the most Australian biking gold medals on the Commonwealth Games.

After profitable gold within the staff pursuit and the scratch race, Baker was clearly a marked rider within the factors and no rivals would work together with her.

Anna Morris gained on 66 factors and Welsh team-mate Jessica Roberts took silver with 52, with the Australian one level behind.

Baker’s scratch win took her to 5 gold medals, becoming a member of Anna Meares, Matt Glaetzer and Brad McGee as probably the most by Australian cyclists on the Commonwealth Games.

Jess Gallagher and her pilot Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr took silver behind New Zealand within the tandem B 1km time trial.

Kane Perris and pilot Luke Zaccaria beat Malaysia within the bronze-medal ride-off for the lads’s tandem B dash.