Greig Leach

The Norwegian team had done quite a bit of work to get their man to the front. It looked like it might have been in vain when both Pascal Ackermann (Germany) and Jakub Mareczko (Italy) had the jump on the Norwegian sprinter. Ackermann had a teammate along with him, Phil Bauhaus. But it was the legs and determination to reward the work of his teammates that fired Kristoffer Halvorsen to the line. His sprint brought him from behind, just catching Ackermann, nudging pass him by less than the diameter of a front wheel. So it was Halvorsen for the Gold (and the Rainbow Jersey), Ackermann for the Silver and Mareczko for the Bronze. Bauhaus rolled across the line in fourth with the Spaniard Ivan Garcia Cortina claiming 8th. There are plenty of other sources if you want to know each riders placing. I am just relating the riders that are in this painting.