Track Cycling World Championships
Hinze wins silver in the 500 meters and drops out
Emma Hinze won the silver medal in the 500 meter time trial at the Track Cycling World Championships. photo
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Emma Hinze won the silver medal in the 500 meter time trial at the track cycling world championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The 25-year-old then ended her World Championship early and will no longer compete in the keirin competition on Sunday.
Emma Hinze won the silver medal in the 500 meter time trial at the track cycling world championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The 25-year-old then ended her World Championship early and will no longer compete in the keirin competition on Sunday.
A day after the 25-year-old was dethroned as the sprint world champion, gold was again not enough in the 500-meter final. In 33.051 seconds, Hinze surprisingly had to admit defeat to the French Taky Marie Divine Kouame (32.835). This made Hinze the second driver after Anna Meares to miss all four short-term titles (sprint, keirin, 500 meters and team sprint).
“When you’re first in qualifying, it’s a bit of a shame. I just thought I could go even faster. When I wasn’t, I was disappointed. Nevertheless, I fought my way through yesterday and was as only German in the final and won silver,” said Hinze.
In qualifying, Hinze set the best time on the wooden oval, but in the final the enthusiastically celebrated Frenchwoman surpassed herself. For Hinze it was the third medal at this World Championships. She had previously won gold in the team sprint and bronze in the sprint on the Olympic track in Paris 2024. She will no longer start in the Keirin on Sunday: “I don’t think that’s going to do me any good. I wanted to drive again. I notice that my body has given me a sign and I just have to accept that. It’s no use to me if After that I just walk backwards.”
The Chinese Yufang Guo from China (33.214) took third place over the 500-meter distance. Lea Sophie Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch and Alessa-Catriona Pröpster, on the other hand, missed the final in 9th, 10th and 15th place. Friedrich, who was second in the sprint on Friday, had won the world title over 500 meters in the past two years.