Track cycling: World champion Hinze cancels participation in Champions League

Hinze won the inaugural season of the new series in 2021. The second season starts on 12 November.

Hinze had already won the World Championships almost a fortnight ago in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines after winning gold (team sprint), silver (time trial) and bronze (sprint). exhausted before the last competition and said goodbye to a holiday in Crete. "I haven't missed a major competition for three years. Now is the time to concentrate on the basics in training," said Hinze.

Hinze returns to the railway in 2023

The Olympic silver medallist from Tokyo will start the new year as planned with a training camp at the beginning of 2023 and plans to return to the track at the European Championships in Switzerland in mid-February. Qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will also begin in Grenchen. At the European Championships in Munich in August Hinze had won gold three times.

This year, the Champions League series will make its first stop in Germany at the Berlin Velodrom on 19 November. Following Hinze's cancellation, last year's runner-up Lea Sophie Friedrich is the favourite in the women's race. Stefan Bötticher is back in the men's race. Lea Lin Teutenberg and Pauline Grabosch are about to make their debut.

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