Elia Viviani and partner Simone Consonni started the final day of racing in third place. The Italian pair held off the German team of Theo Reinhardt and Maximilian Beyer and the home duo of Mark Cavendish and Owain Doull.
On the sixth and final day of racing, most of the favorites were far off the pace in the team elimination race won by Denmark's Marc Hester and Oliver Wulff Frederiksen, but Viviani and Conssoni were the 250m Madison Time Trial The French pair fought back to take second place behind Brian Coquard and Donavan Grondin in the 250m Madison Time Trial.
Cavendish and Doull showed why they entered the final day as overall leaders by winning the 60-lap Delny race.
Viviani and Conssoni finished third overall, one lap behind the Cavendish/Doull and Reinhardt/Bayer teams, but ahead in points.
Once the Italians had regained one lap behind, it came down to the points in the final sprint lap, and Consonini beat Cavendish by a hannah in the final sprint. The gap between Consonini and Viviani was only eight points. The points awarded to the winner of the final sprint were 10 points.
"We knew we could make up the difference in the last 15 or 20 minutes, and we waited to make up the laps we lost yesterday. Simone and I are both fast, and we were competitive with Cav and Owain. Simone and I are both fast, and we ran with Cav and Owain. I know that Kav is super fast and I know that Owain is not so fast."
"When Owain was there, we anticipated it and tried to take the gap.
"Simone and I raced for the first time last week. We're running Madison together in the Olympics next year, and this is the beginning of our sporting relationship."
Meanwhile, a despondent Dole waxed philosophical in defeat.
"One of the downsides of leading in the final event is knowing that you are the main athlete and everyone wants to jump over you. The leads kept swapping, but unfortunately I didn't get the lead in the end."
In the women's competition over the last three days, the Scottish pair of Katie Archibald and Nair Evans took the title from Laura Kenny and Elinor Barker, while Max Levy won the sprinters' event ahead of Yuta Ohara and Robert Ferstemann.
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