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After winning gold in the team sprint, Lea Sophie Friedrich now also celebrated the longed-for individual title
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Lea Sophie Friedrich won her second title at the European Track Cycling Championships in Munich.
After the success with Emma Hinze and Pauline Grabosch in the team sprint, the defending champion won the combat sprint Keirin on Tuesday.
With a splendid final round, the world champion in this discipline relegated the Polish Urszula Los and Olena Starikova from the Ukraine to the following places.
Then Maximilian Dörnbach won silver in the keirin.
Only Frenchman Sebastian Vigier was faster than Dörnbach.
Marc Jurczyk from Erfurt finished eighth.
The German Cyclist Association (BDR) won seven gold, four silver and one bronze at the track competitions before the final Madison race for men (also with a German medal chance).
»We were able to present ourselves very well in front of the local audience and are satisfied.
That's a great record," said BDR sports director Patrick Moster.
However, he also restricted that the strongest competition was not at the start in all disciplines.
»This is a position determination, which turns out to be positive.
But it also showed us a thing or two that we need to work on further,« he judged.
With a view to the World Championships from October 12th to 16th in Paris, the performance gives "a huge self-confidence".
The path taken with the new national coaches Jan van Eijden (sprint) and Tim Zühlke (endurance) is the right one.
Everything harmonized well.
"That surprised me personally too," said Moster.
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