The third day of competition at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, saw the first multiple winners of these Championships. Kristina Vogel of Germany, who won the Team Sprint title earlier in the week won the women's Sprint title, tying her with the great Anna Meares for the most world titles, at 11. Kirsten Wild took the women's Omnium title for the host nation, adding to her Points Race title. Italy and Australia won the other two competitions for the day.

Wild was the dominant rider for the four event Omnium, winning the first, third and fourth events, for a total of 121 points. Amalie Dideriksen of Denmark, after a late race surge in the final Points Race moved up to second with 112 points, followed by Rushlee Buchanan of New Zealand in the bronze medal position with 106 points.

Kirsten Wild

"I'm super, super happy," said Wild. "Yes, they [crowd] give me so much energy. It's amazing. Thank you everybody. I've trained so hard for this. All the people who helped me. It's really amazing that it worked out today. The way to win an Omnium is to stay at the front. If you're in the back you won't win. I think that's the only tactic that works."


The women's Sprint gold medal final saw Vogel go up against Stephanie Morton of Australia, the fastest qualifier in the competition. Vogel won the first heat, but Morton came back with a win in the second race, putting Vogel in the unusual situation of having to race a tie-breaker. The German rider controlled the final race from start to finish to win the title. Vogel's team mate Pauline Sophie Grabosch won the bronze medal in two straight rides over Lee Wai Sze of Hong Kong, China

Asked about equally the record of Anna Meares, Vogel said, "At the moment and on this day I'm not counting. It was very hard at the end and it took me three final heats to get the gold medal. Today it took everything to make it to the finish line. I'm just proud to make this World title."