CHIARA & CHLOÉ COLLECT RAINBOWS & MEDALS AT TRACK WORLDS

It was a rewarding expedition to the 2025 UCI Track World Championships in Santiago, Chile, for Chiara Consonni and Chloé Dygert.

Chiara and a composed Italian squad claimed victory in Wednesday’s Team Pursuit, pulling on coveted rainbow jerseys – the second world title of Chiara’s elite track career. 

It’s a discipline that unfolds over three stages: qualifying, the first round, and the finals. Chiara’s Italian team topped qualifying with a sharp 4:09.609, but were just 0.256 seconds ahead of Great Britain and 1.853 seconds clear of Germany. In the first round, the Squadra Azzurra comfortably booked their place in the gold medal final, defeating fourth-seeded Australia by over 7 seconds. In the final against Germany, their rivals opened strongly, but the Italians took control around the halfway mark and held firm to claim victory in 4:09.569 – the winning margin a slender 0.382. The average speed for the blue train was a blistering 57.7km per hour. Although Chiara didn’t ride in the final (the squad had five riders on rotation), she was as happy as ever to celebrate trackside with her teammates – maybe with even more energy than if she had ridden!

On Saturday, Chiara teamed up with Vittoria Guazzini, her partner in the reigning Olympic Madison Champion duo, to claim bronze in a dramatic race marked by multiple crashes, including an early tumble that brought Chiara down. The pair rallied impressively to get back into contention and secure third place.

Also on Saturday’s penultimate day of racing, Chloé powered to bronze in the Individual Pursuit. Her impressive qualifying time of 4:26.127 over the newly extended 4000m distance left her less than one second shy of the gold medal ride. In the bronze medal final against Federica Venturelli (ITA), Chloé left nothing to chance and caught her opponent to end the race early, sealing the last remaining medal. It was a Great Britain one-two that topped the standings, with Anna Morris successfully defending her 2024 title from Denmark, where Chloé had finished second. With four previous world titles in the Individual Pursuit, Chloé previously stood on the top step in 2023.

Here’s what the American and Italian pairing had to say about their respective campaigns at this year’s Track World Championships.

Chiara Consonni 

“I really liked this track worlds in Chile – especially to share a title with my friends that was have grown with me through the sport. Together, we really worked on the team pursuit in these past two months, so I’m really satisfied. I crashed in the Madison and that was not the best thing, but I’m still really happy about my two medals.”

Chloé Dygert

“Chile has been pretty neat. We’re staying on top of the largest mall in all of South America from what I’ve been told, so that was fun to explore.

I’m hardly ever satisfied, even when I win. I always find reasons to be better. I feel like I’ve just become a different rider in the past two years that I’m not proud of. I’m just very happy to have a break coming up to really figure out what I need to do to be the rider I’m supposed to be again.

I’m not going to sit here and say I’m happy to get bronze because I’m not. But I continue to take the past two years as lessons learned in the hope of bettering myself for the future.”