Maximilian Levy sprinted to the title at the European Track Cycling Championships in Plovdiv / Bulgaria. The only German European Championship participant defeated the former Russian world champion Denis Dmitrijew in the race for gold 2-0. In the semifinals, the Cottbus player had beaten the Lithuanian Vasilijus Lendel. The Association of German Cyclists had withdrawn its entire EM team due to corona concerns. Levy, 33, three-time Olympic medalist, did not want to accept this and, in consultation with the association in the risk area, drives on his own account. In the Velodrome of Plovdiv Levy first defeated the Ukrainian Dmytro Stowbezkij in the round of 16, in the quarterfinals he was far too fast for the young Czech Jakub Stastny. Levy’s EM adventure had started bumpy. For a “hefty surcharge” he had to rebook his flight via Warsaw to Sofia, the last 150 km he drove his two high-tech bikes and his roll in dented boxes in a leased minibus.
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