Jason Kenny turned the primary Briton to win seven Olympic gold medals with a spectacular defence of his males’s keirin title – however spouse Laura’s reign as girls’s omnium champion has ended.
Laura, GB’s most profitable feminine athlete, recovered from a crash in her first occasion to complete sixth in her bid for a 3rd successive omnium title.
Jason surprised the lads’s keirin discipline as he sprinted clear with three laps remaining to say victory.
It’s a ninth Olympic medal for him.
The 33-year-old, who gained silver within the workforce dash to develop into GB’s most embellished Olympian earlier this week on the Izu Velodrome.
His tally of seven golds is another than former team-mate Chris Hoy.
Jason Kenny is essentially the most profitable British Olympian, whereas Laura Kenny is Britain’s most profitable feminine Olympian
Jason caught his 5 rivals abruptly with a long-range assault and held on to complete 0.763 seconds away from Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang, with the Netherlands’ reigning world champion Harrie Lavreysen taking bronze.
Lavreysen made it three medals in Tokyo however had been aiming to emulate Kenny’s achievement of 5 years in the past by profitable all three males’s dash occasions.
Kenny progressed from a semi-final that additionally included compatriot and particular person dash bronze medallist Jack Carlin, however the 24-year-old didn’t qualify for the ultimate after ending fourth.
Contesting the race to determine the minor positions, Carlin completed second to say an eighth-placed general end.
Within the omnium, Laura arrived on the fourth and closing occasion – the factors race – down in ninth place and 38 factors adrift of high place after a fall within the scratch occasion.
Introduced down in a pile-up on the penultimate lap of the competitors’s first of 4 disciplines, Kenny then got here out on high within the tempo race earlier than ending a disappointing thirteenth within the elimination race – extensively thought-about her specialist occasion.
The Briton – together with 9 others – acquired 16 factors because the officers determined to award the fallen riders the following obtainable variety of factors within the opening scratch race, putting Kenny 24 factors behind the early lead.
The five-time Olympic gold medallist, who turned the primary British lady to win gold at three Olympic Video games when she and Katie Archibald gained the madison on Friday, recovered to fifth on the midway stage after profitable the tempo.
Nonetheless, she was left with an excessive amount of to do within the closing factors race as American Jennifer Valente took gold from Japan’s Yumi Kajihara and Dutch rider Kirsten Wild.
Between them, Jason (9) and Laura Kenny (six) have gained 15 Olympic medals
