Olympic champion Katy Marchant has been taken to hospital after she crashed over the barrier and into the group on the UCI Observe Champions League in London on Saturday night time.
The incident occurred throughout the first spherical of the keirin, when the Brit collided with Germany’s Alessa-Catriona Pröpster, and the pair have been catapulted into the viewers on the high of the banking.
Marchant, Pröpster and 4 spectators acquired medical help on the scene. Pröpster was in a position to stroll away after round 10 minutes, whereas Marchant remained on the ground for half an hour, accompanied by her husband Rob, earlier than she was carried out of London’s Lee Valley Velodrome.
In a press release shared with Biking Weekly, British Biking stated: “Following a crash on this night’s ladies’s keirin semi-final, Katy Marchant has been handled by on-site medical workers and will likely be taken to hospital for additional evaluation and any required remedy.
“We ship our greatest needs to the riders and spectators concerned within the incident and can present an extra replace as quickly as we are able to.”
Following the crash, the ultimate spherical of the Observe Champions League was suspended, and spectators have been advised to depart the velodrome.
An official assertion from the organisers learn: “We will affirm that following an incident throughout the ladies’s keirin races tonight, the remainder of the UCI Observe Champions league racing at Lee Valley VeloPark in London has been cancelled.”
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The crash was harking back to one involving former Olympic Omnium champion Matt Partitions throughout the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, which happed on the identical bend contained in the Lee Valley Velodrome.
Partitions’s crash, which left him with minor accidents, was an element that prompted the venue to extend the peak of its security fence across the perimeter of the monitor. This weekend’s Observe Champions League rounds are solely the second occasion held on the velodrome because the taller security fences have been put in.
This summer time, Marchant grew to become Olympic champion within the staff dash, alongside her British teammates Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane. The identical trio went on to win the world title within the occasion in October, marking a dominant 12 months for the squad.
Saturday’s spherical of the Observe Champions League was the season’s ‘Grand Closing’. Earlier within the night, Katie Archibald was topped the winner of the ladies’s endurance league. on the time of Marchant’s crash, occasions nonetheless remained within the males’s endurance league and the 2 dash leagues, with winners nonetheless to be been introduced.
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