American cycling star Chloe Dygert won the women’s pursuit title at the track world championships in a new world record time on Saturday but admitted she was “bummed” not to have gone faster.
Showing improving form as the Tokyo 2020 Games swing into view, the 23-year-old cross-discipline champion trimmed more than three seconds off the old 3km time set in 2018, winning the world title in 3min 16.937sec. The American pulverised German rival Lisa Brennauer, who came in over six seconds adrift.
“Today I really wanted to get a ’14’ (3min 14sec) so I’m a little bummed,” she told cycling website Velonews.
“My all-time goal, I want to break 3min 10sec. I think there are some huge gains to be made.”
The women’s 3km pursuit is not on the Olympic roster but Dygert aims to race the team pursuit in Tokyo as well as the road race individual time-trial.
