Overview
- Mexico’s Yareli Acevedo won the women’s elimination race in Perth, finishing ahead of Norway’s Anita Yvonne Stenberg with Hong Kong’s Sze Wing Lee in third.
- Acevedo said a technical confusion during the race nearly jeopardized her victory.
- Acevedo and Sofía Arreola earned bronze in the women’s Madison with 19 points, trailing Japan’s Kakita and Uchino and Australia’s Alyssa Polites and Maeve Plouffe.
- The Perth meet at the SpeedDome is the first round of the restructured UCI Track Cycling World Cup that replaces the Nations Cup and delivers UCI ranking points.
- Acevedo is set to contest the omnium on Sunday, with the World Cup series moving to Hong Kong and Nilai, Malaysia, in April.