Taylor Phinney wins world pursuit championship and set new US record
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COPENHAGEN (AP) Taylor Phinney of the United States and Eleonora van Dijk of the Netherlands won the pursuit races at cycling’s Track World Cup finals on Friday.
Phinney, the son of 1984 Olympic medalists Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Davis Phinney, took the men’s race ahead of David O’Loughlin of Ireland.
The 18-year-old Phinney finished with 22 points and second in the final overall standings, won by Volodymyr Dyudya of Ukraine with the same number of points. It was Phinney’s first World Cup win of the season.
Phinney, who’s been working out with Lance Armstrong, shattered the U.S. national record in the men’s 4,000-meter pursuit, clocking 4 minutes, 15.223 seconds in the qualifying round to surpass the previous mark of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996.
Van Dijk won the first gold medal of the finals, beating Canada’s Tara Whitten in the women’s pursuit final.
In other races, Kam-Po Wong of Hong Kong won the men’s points race; Victoria Pendleton took the women’s sprint and British teammate Elizabeth Armistead won the scratch event.
Eight Olympic gold medalists are competing in the meet that was first held in Chicago in 1893. It ends on Sunday.
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