Track cyclist Fabio Van den Bossche has brought Team Belgium’s medal tally to 6 after taking bronze in the Men’s Omnium on Thursday evening. Van den Bossche performed impressively and was even in the lead at one time.
6th medal for Team Belgium at the Paris Olympic: Fabio Van den Bossche takes bronze in the Men’s Omnium
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Omnium is a track cycling discipline consisting of scratch, speed race, elimination race and points race. Points are awarded for each sub-section. Van den Bossche surprised many by taking the lead after the tempo race. He defended his lead during the elimination race. However, during the points race the favourites lived up to expectations and the Belgian finally finished third.
The gold medal went to the French cyclist Benjamin Thomas with 164 points. Portugal's Iuri Leitao won silver with 153 points, while Fabio Van den Bossche took third place and bronze with 131 points.
It was 6th medal for Belgium at the Paris Olympics. 5 of these have been won by cyclists. Remco Evenepoel won gold in the men’s time trial and road race, Wout Van Aert took bronze in the men’s time trial and Lotte Kopecky won bronze in the women’s road race. The only medal not won by a cyclist is the bronze medal won by the judoka Gabriella Willems.