Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2025

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Men's 1K

 

 

 

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Men's 4K Individual Pursuit

 

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Women' Omnium

 

 

 

Stadium.is at about 2000m of altitude, so naturally  has the advantage of the conditions.  

 

And Women's Match Sprint

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2025 by Grassmarket

[copravolley 635]

There are Dutch users here, so perhaps someone could explain what's happened to Dutch sports since the beginning of the 21st century? This progress in selected summer and winter disciplines (look at the medal standings from the another Olympics) is simply incredible. Especially since the population isn't particularly large +  they haven't hosted any games in the meantime. Has funding for sports there increased dramatically over the last 20 years? There's no other explanation for this + of course, the immense skill of training dominant athletes in selected disciplines – I don't know if it's even possible to plan the creation of a dominant athlete like Wiebes, but in their case, it can't be accidental, because it happens too often.

[Dennis 845]

4 hours ago, copravolley said:

There are Dutch users here, so perhaps someone could explain what's happened to Dutch sports since the beginning of the 21st century? This progress in selected summer and winter disciplines (look at the medal standings from the another Olympics) is simply incredible. Especially since the population isn't particularly large +  they haven't hosted any games in the meantime. Has funding for sports there increased dramatically over the last 20 years? There's no other explanation for this + of course, the immense skill of training dominant athletes in selected disciplines – I don't know if it's even possible to plan the creation of a dominant athlete like Wiebes, but in their case, it can't be accidental, because it happens too often.

Since the 1990s, the Dutch Olympic Committee has treated sport like a business. Funding is directed toward disciplines with real medal potential (sailing, rowing, (track) cycling, hockey) rather than being spread thin across every sport. These sports that receive the most funding also happen to not be among the most popular Olympic sports if you look on a global scale, so less competition.
 

Sports that we’re not particularly good at but where the competition is high, such as badminton and table tennis get no funding, whereas breakdance, darts and freerunning did get some funding this year. 

 

At the same time, I think sports seemed to have become less important in the eyes of the governments of other (mainly Eastern European) countries such the former Soviet countries, Cuba, Romania and Bulgaria. As larger nations such as Russia and Germany restructured their sports systems after the Cold War, the Netherlands really invested in world-class facilities like Papendal and built expertise in these more niche Olympic sports. At Papendal for example, the Netherlands has built strong links between universities, scientists, and sports federations, turning athletes into data-driven projects focused on small gains. 
 

So yes, funding has increased, but mainly for the more niche sports that we have medal chances in. I think the investments in facilities like Papendal and having a lot of the top athletes and talents be centralized at those facilities where they can live, train and go to school, play a much bigger role. 

[CCB 622]

What an incredible tournament for the Dutch team. I'm especially happy that Lorena Wiebes is making such great progress in the omnium. But let's be honest: it's a post-Olympic year. The biggest competitors (Wollaston, Kopecky, Valente amongst others) aren't participating, many countries aren't here with their strongest riders, and the Netherlands is. We'll see what these results are worth next year. But still: I'm enjoying this Championships a lot 

[George_D 1,631]

4 hours ago, Dennis said:

Since the 1990s, the Dutch Olympic Committee has treated sport like a business. Funding is directed toward disciplines with real medal potential (sailing, rowing, (track) cycling, hockey) rather than being spread thin across every sport. These sports that receive the most funding also happen to not be among the most popular Olympic sports if you look on a global scale, so less competition.
 

Sports that we’re not particularly good at but where the competition is high, such as badminton and table tennis get no funding, whereas breakdance, darts and freerunning did get some funding this year. 

 

At the same time, I think sports seemed to have become less important in the eyes of the governments of other (mainly Eastern European) countries such the former Soviet countries, Cuba, Romania and Bulgaria. As larger nations such as Russia and Germany restructured their sports systems after the Cold War, the Netherlands really invested in world-class facilities like Papendal and built expertise in these more niche Olympic sports. At Papendal for example, the Netherlands has built strong links between universities, scientists, and sports federations, turning athletes into data-driven projects focused on small gains. 
 

So yes, funding has increased, but mainly for the more niche sports that we have medal chances in. I think the investments in facilities like Papendal and having a lot of the top athletes and talents be centralized at those facilities where they can live, train and go to school, play a much bigger role. 

The same it seems that goes for winter spirts also where they have invested exclusively or mainly in speed skating

[dodge 1,041]

3 hours ago, CCB said:

What an incredible tournament for the Dutch team. I'm especially happy that Lorena Wiebes is making such great progress in the omnium. But let's be honest: it's a post-Olympic year. The biggest competitors (Wollaston, Kopecky, Valente amongst others) aren't participating, many countries aren't here with their strongest riders, and the Netherlands is. We'll see what these results are worth next year. But still: I'm enjoying this Championships a lot 

Wiebes is on the way to becoming one of the greatest cyclists of all time. She beats all of these handily in the omnium format

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34 minutes ago, George_D said:

The same it seems that goes for winter spirts also where they have invested exclusively or mainly in speed skating

They have a big slice of luck in that cycling & speed skating are the two most compatible winter & summer sports so they can switch talent between the two.

[Noorderling29 236]

2 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

They have a big slice of luck in that cycling & speed skating are the two most compatible winter & summer sports so they can switch talent between the two.

On the top of my head I can think of just three Dutch athletes in the last 30 odd years that have competed at the Olympics at both cycling and speedskating. All three were sprinters, two of them won at least one medal over 1000 metres speedskating, the third won medals in the sprint event on the cycling track and in the points race.