Wonder Walls – Team GB cyclist flies to omnium gold on track
05-Aug-2021 09:54:04 | The Guardian
- Matt Walls, 23, takes GB’s first velodrome gold at Tokyo 2020
- Rio 2016 victor Elia Viviani of Italy earns bronze
Matt Walls won gold in the Olympic men’s omnium to deliver Great Britain’s first title in the velodrome of these Games. The 23-year-old rode smartly throughout the four-discipline event to win with a comfortable final margin of 24 points from Campbell Stewart of New Zealand.
Walls, who won the opening scratch race, went into the deciding points race with a narrow advantage of six points but gained a lap on the field early on to take control, and could then mark his rivals for the remainder of the 100-lap event.
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