3-3: ARCHIBALD-LAVREYSEN, BATTLE OF THE GOATS 

With three overall wins each, Katie Archibald (Great Britain) and Harrie Lavreysen (the Netherlands) are the most successful riders in the history of the UCI Track Champions League. They triumphed in the same years (2021, 2023 and 2024) and both came 2nd (to Jennifer Valente from the USA and Matthew Richardson, representing Australia at that time) when the overall victory escaped them, in 2022. 

The iconic duo have won the highest number of events: 22 for Lavreysen (a hit ratio of 59.5%), 18 for Archibald (47.4%). Richardson is the third rider with most wins (10, 37.0%). Lavreysen also has the highest tally of points (685, or 18.5 points per race) and Archibald the second-best (622 points, 16.4 points per race). Richardson follows with 491 points (16.9 points per race).

6/9: LYSENKO STORMS THE WOMEN’S SPRINT 

Newcomer Alina Lysenko achieved the most dominant season in the history of the Women’s Sprint League with: 

• 6 victories out of 9 events, including 5 wins in a row. Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand) won 5 races last year, with a run of 4 consecutive wins.
• 17.4 points per race. The best average recorded in previous editions is Ellesse Andrews’ 17.3 points per race in 2023.
• 8 podiums, the same number as Andrews in 2023, with 10 events raced that year. 

1,510: DYLAN BIBIC FLEXES HIS MUSCLES 

Already crowned in 2023, Dylan Bibic (Canada) became the first rider to claim two overall victories in the Men’s Endurance Sprint League, historically the most open in the series, with three different overall winners and 19 different race winners across four seasons (17 in the Women’s Endurance League, 11 in the Women’s Sprint League and 5 in the Men’s Sprint League). 

Bibic went up to 1,510 watts (his peak power this season) to win the Scratch race in Round 4 (London) and take a significant edge on his rivals, before he sealed the deal with a peak power of 1,396 watts and a max heart rate of 194 beats per minute in the Grand Finale Scratch race.

2,216: LAVREYSEN’S DECISIVE PUSH

Harrie Lavreysen took a decisive edge on his rivals as he won the Keirin of Round 4 of the 2024 UCI Track Champions League, thus achieving his first “perfect night” (40 points) in this edition. To power past his rivals, the Dutch icon hit his highest power recorded in the 2024 UCI Track Champions League - a mighty 2,216 watts. 

The next day, Lavreysen consistently went over 2,000 watts to seal the deal: 2,113W to get the action going in the first round of the Sprint, 2,064 in the semis and eventually 2,056 in the Sprint final. Only one rider recorded a higher peak power in this edition: Lavreysen’s teammate Jeffrey Hoogland (the Netherlands) who went up to 2,461 watts in Round 3 (in Apeldoorn). 

10: NEWCOMERS SHINE IN LYSENKO’S WAKE 

Among the 30 riders who participated for the first time in the UCI Track Champions League, Alina Lysenko was the most successful, but not the only one to claim victory, with 10 wins for the newcomers of the series: 

• 6 - Alina Lysenko
• 2 - Peter Moore (USA)
• 1 - Yareli Acevedo (Mexico), Cristian Ortega (Colombia)

Moore took two spectacular Scratch wins (rounds 3 and 4), Acevedo impressed as she got the better of Archibald in the very final elimination of the season in London and Ortega was the only sprinter to find the way to victory against Harrie Lavreysen and Matthew Richardson.

13.7: FINUCANE BREAKS THE GLASS CEILING 

Along with the four newcomers who rapidly found their way to success, three more riders took their first UCI Track Champions League win in 2024, after previous participations with no victory: Emma Finucane (Great Britain), Tobias Hansen (Denmark) and Petra Ševčíková (Czechia). 

The British sprinter’s progression was the most significant, rising from 2.6 points per race in her first season (2022) to 13.7 in 2024, after she averaged 11.4 points per race in 2023. In between her first and last participation to date, Finucane became a UCI World Champion and an Olympic Champion. After she kicked off the 2024 UCI Track Champions League in winning fashion in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris, France), she delighted her home crowds with personal victories number 2 and 3 in London, where she hit her peak power in this campaign: 1,253 watts to win the last Sprint of the season. 

217: PUSHING TO THE LIMIT 

With its unique format, the UCI Track Champions League pushed the riders to their limits, as illustrated by Oscar Nilsson-Julien’s (France) maximum heart rate in the Scratch races of round 2 and 3: 217 beats per minute, much higher than his rivals, but just below the potential maximum the 22-year-old declared before the season (224 bpm).

At 30 years old, Katie Archibald announced a maximum of 190 bpm… and she went up to 191 bpm in the first Scratch race in London.

1,879: ORTEGA RISES UP 

Cristian Ortega’s peak power perfectly illustrates how the UCI Track Champions League leads to breakthrough performances as the Colombian sprinter set a personal best of 1,879 watts (+3.2% compared to the 1,820 watts he declared before the season). As he won the Keirin in Round 2, in Apeldoorn, Ortega became one of the happy few winners of an event in the Men’s Sprint:

• 22 for Harrie Lavreysen
• 10 for Matthew Richardson
• 3 for Stefan Bötticher (Germany)
• 1 for Cristian Ortega and Kevin Quintero (Colombia)

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