Hong Kong cyclist Yeung Cho falls short at World Championships debut in Paris as France and Germany surge
- Surging Hong Kong cyclist Yeung Cho finished 31th with a personal best of 11.345, but it was not enough to get her into the knockout stages
- Despite not competing, bronze medal Sarah Lee still has her sights set on the postponed Hangzhou Asian Games and, potentially, the Paris Olympics
While Hong Kong cyclist ace Sarah Lee Wai-sze is focusing on her university studies, her rivals Germany and France stole the show at the UCI Worlds at the National Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines with impressive performances in the sprint events.
Just two days after winning gold in the team sprint by breaking world record, the German team moved on to the individual sprint, with two of the cyclists, Lea Friedrich and Emma Hinze, reaching the semi-finals on Friday.
France’s Mathilde Gros went on to take podium honours, with Friedrich in second and Hinze in third place.
Lee’s rivals showed their class in the 200m flying start, where Friedrich took first place with a time of 10.357 seconds. Gros finished second with 10.401 and Hinze placed sixth in 10.401.
China’s sole competitor, the 17-year-old Yuan Liying, finished 15th in the individual sprint, but was eliminated in the first round by Japanese Mina Sato, the 2021 Worlds’ keirin silver medallist.
