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Barker stuns Wild to win world scratch title
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PRUSZKOW, Poland: Britain’s Elinor Barker stunned favourite and defending champion Kirsten Wild to win the women’s scratch title at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday.Barker sprinted away from her Dutch rival to take gold in the 40-lap (10km) race.Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore, who was third in 2017 and runner-up in 2018, edged out France’s Laurie Berthon for another medal.The medal hopes of contenders Amalie Dideriksen of Denmark and Italy’s Martina Fidanza ended when they got caught up in a fall amongst the peloton.Barker, 25, who was second in the race in 2017, won her first world title in 2013 as part of the pursuit team.The Welsh rider is also an Olympic champion having been part of the gold medal team at the 2016 Games in Rio.The Netherlands won the men’s team sprint while Australia claimed victory in the women’s version thanks to Kaarle McCulloch and Stephanie Morton.Roy van der Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland were close to the world record for the Dutch men in the sprint set at altitude by Germany in Mexico in 2013.In the end, they were just five hundreths off the record but victory still allowed the Dutch to claim a second title in the category.“We were very confident because we had run well all season,” said Hoogland. “We worked very hard and paid attention to all the details.”