Wild takes third gold as Dutch top medals table

FILE PHOTO - Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands poses with her silver medal on the podium at the end of Women Elite Road Race in the UCI Road World Championships 2016, in Doha, Qatar October 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ibrahem Alomari

(Reuters) - Kirsten Wild completed a hat-trick of gold medals and Jeffrey Hoogland won the men’s 1km time trial to give hosts the Netherlands a table-topping haul of five gold and 12 medals altogether at the Track Cycling World Championships on Sunday.

In the two other finals on the last day of the event in Apeldoorn, Germans Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt won the men’s madison and Belgian Nicky Degrendele the women’s keirin.