2024-05-21 07:15:49
Though the climate in Rock Hill was overcast on the day of the climax of the World Championship, it managed to do with out vital precipitation. For the decisive day, six athletes from Latvia had certified, who had been decided to struggle for the massive finals within the girls’ elite, girls’ and males’s U23, in addition to boys’ and ladies’ junior teams.
Within the ladies’s U23 group, Veronika Monika Stūriška was solely fifth after the beginning within the quarter-finals of her race within the competitors of 5 individuals. Nevertheless, within the continuation, he overtook two of the opponents and entered the semi-finals because the third quickest of the race.
Within the struggle for the grand last, the consultant of “Silva ziķeru” began from the eighth monitor. This didn’t stop her from being the quickest within the first straight. On the first bend in Armala, the Twelfth-grade pupil of Jaunpiebalga Excessive College was compelled to lose the consideration of the chief for a second. Nevertheless, the convincing efficiency on the monitor allowed Veronika to regain the consideration of the chief on the finish of the end line and win the victory.
Additionally within the grand last, Stūriška was trustworthy to the eighth monitor. In her debut 12 months within the U23 group, Veronika was glorious from the primary meters. They had been by far the quickest, expertly transitioning to the within on the first flip. Within the continuation of the monitor, our driver solely strengthened his place, not for a second doubting his possibilities to win. No errors had been made on the end line both, which allowed Veronika to triumph within the World Championship for the second 12 months in a row. An awesome success, which might be written in golden letters within the historical past of Latvian BMX.
Within the males’s U23 group, Emīls Mārtiņš Treimanis (“AKSSC Valmiera/ Tālava VSS”), who certified for the quarterfinals after third place within the spherical of 16, began from the second lane. Within the six-rider competitors, the person from Valmia left the beginning because the fifth. Till the final straight, the coed of coach Olaf Lakuča didn’t handle to climb increased. Nevertheless, the tenacious Treimanis didn’t intend to surrender. With a wonderful ending straight, he overtook two sturdy Dutch drivers directly and entered the coveted semi-final.
Within the semifinals, Treimanis, ranging from the center lane, entered the primary flip because the fourth quickest. On the exit of the flip, there was a giant fall in entrance, during which the present chief of the journey fell. He additionally took the second and third place winners with him. Treimanis virtually prevented a fall, however all the things was ruined by the falling bike of the Australian rider, which landed on high of our rider. Consequently, Treimanis additionally fell. On the end, he needed to accept seventh place. On the finish of the competitors, the consultant of “AKSSC Valmiera/ Tālava VSS” took a decent thirteenth place.
This competitors was essential for our elite driver Vineta Peterson. It was a possibility to struggle for a ticket to the Olympic Video games in Paris. To be able to do that, Vineta needed to be the very best among the many riders of the international locations that didn’t qualify based on the Olympic rating of countries, or was the very best based on this criterion on the 2023 World Championship. The consultant of “Silva ziķeru”, who certified for the quarter-finals after the second place within the final likelihood race, began within the very sturdy third race with such riders as – Alice Willoughby and two-time Olympic champion Mariana Pahon.
Firstly, Vineta didn’t fully succeed within the first bounce, after which she ended up in eighth place. Within the additional a part of the monitor, the participant continued to struggle to enhance her place. She managed to outrun Judy Bava from the Netherlands and Thalia Burfold from Switzerland. Sixth place on the end, which gave Vineta twenty third place on the finish of the competitors. A number of drivers from international locations that didn’t qualify for the Paris Olympic Video games had been forward of Vineta based on the nationwide rating, which didn’t give our driver an opportunity to qualify for an important sports activities occasion of the quadrennial after the results of the world championship.
Within the junior competitors for boys, two Latvian drivers – Edgars Langmanis and Kristers Apels – competed within the quarter-finals. Krister began within the first of 4 quarterfinals. Within the first straight, he fought exhausting for fourth place. Being within the fifth place, one of many opponents fell proper in entrance of him in the midst of the straight. Our athlete had too little time and area to go across the fallen rider. A pupil of coach Edžus Treimanis touched the bike and fell himself, later not reaching the end line. On the finish of the competitors, twentieth place was shared.
Sadly, Krister’s coaching companion Edgars Langmanis from “BMX Rīga/ RRS” additionally skilled a giant disappointment. Having began within the second race of the quarter-finals from the primary monitor, final 12 months’s seventh place winner unsuccessfully carried out the primary springboard, the place he barely stayed on the bike and left the monitor. Opponents in entrance didn’t make errors, stopping the Latvian from getting into the semi-finals. On the end, our driver completed in sixth place, which in the long run gave him nineteenth place.
Paula Kibare, who represents the junior ladies’ group “BMX Rīga/RRS” every day, began from the sixth monitor and took the fourth place within the first straight within the competitors of six riders. Within the first flip, Kibare performed the surface edge, after which the Riga lady ended up in sixth place. Within the continuation, the Italian lady in entrance fell. Paula completed in fifth place, one step in need of the semi-finals. Ultimately, she took 18th place.
Within the males’s elite, the place the Latvians stopped within the spherical of 16, the French BMX legend Joriss Dodet received the grand last, leaving the Dutchman Niek Kimman in second place, whereas one other French rider Sylvain Andre accomplished the highest three.
2024-05-21 07:15:49