Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen made history in Glasgow on Monday by winning his fifth consecutive world title in sprint, the premier event of track cycling, at the World Championships. He is the first sprinter in history to win five world championship titles, in a row, since the start of the professional era in 1992. The Frenchman Grégory Baugé, current coach of the tricolor sprint, had won four, but not in a row.
At 26, Lavreysen continues to fill his trophy cabinet with this thirteenth planetary coronation in total. The double Olympic champion from Tokyo, who came to the track after starting out in BMX, now has five in individual, five in team sprint, where the Netherlands recovered their crown on Friday, and three in keirin, another Olympic discipline. .
He will be the big favorite to win three gold medals next year at the Paris Olympics. In Glasgow, he made short work of all his opponents, including Nicholas Paul, representing Trinidad and Tobago, in the final.
