Germany star in the World University Cycling Championships

Kasper, a 27-year-old student from the University of Leipzig - who also rides for the Dutch professional Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team - won the women's road race and the women's criterium event, while 21-year-old Wiedenroth won a pair of mountain bike golds during a historic weekend in the Philippines.

The championships marked the first time the event has taken place outside Europe, with 120 participants entering from 16 countries and five continents over four days of action.

Kasper's first gold medal came in the criterium which took place on a highly selective course set in the Canyon Woods Resort outside Tagaytay. Runner-up in the Ladies Tour of Qatar in February, Kasper came home three minutes ahead of her nearest rival, silver medallist Nikol Plosaj of Poland.

A second Polish cyclist, Monika Brzena, took the bronze in the 40-kilometre race, which included four sprints. Kasper managed to finish the race with a total of 23 points over her Polish rivals and Shoko Kashiki of Japan.

Kasper was once again the overwhelming favourite for the women's 80km road race - and she lived up to her top billing in style. Leading from start to finish, Kasper crossed the line in a time of two hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds to complete her sweep of the women's road events.

For the second time in as many days, the silver medal went to Poland's Plosaj, who finished four minutes and 12 seconds back on Kasper after pipping local Filipino rider Marella Salamat in a tight sprint.

Salamat, a gold medallist in the women's individual time trial at the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore last year, held off the challenge from Poland's Brzena but but had to settle for the bronze after Plosaj pulled clear in the final metres.

With two gold medals off the back of her success in Qatar, Kasper underlined her credentials ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics this summer.

The men's 120km road race was animated by a decisive attack by Australian Cyrus Monk, who had surprised with a bronze medal a day earlier in the criterium. Monk, an unheralded 19-year-old from Victoria, made his move on the steepest slopes of the course and held off a spirited chase to solo to gold.

Mongolia's Maral-Erdene Batmunkh, the 23-year-old Asian time trial champion, led the chase in a group that included the men's criterium winner, Boots Ryan Cayubit of the Philippines, and the criterium runner-up, Alexander Weifenbach of Germany.

Batmunkh finished second to take the silver ahead of Weifenbach in bronze, while Cayubit narrowly missed making the podium. Despite the disappointment, Cayubit had nevertheless given the locals something to cheer having already won the criterium event by one point ahead of Weifenbach, with surprise package Monk occupying the third place on the podium.

Benefitting from a recent training block in Sierre Madre, Cayubit, a business administration sophomore at St. Clare in Caloocan City, had checked in first after the 12th and 18th lap of the 1.8km circuit. A bout of cramps saw Cayubit yield the 24th and 30th laps to Weifenbach, but he had done enough to hold his German rival at bay.

Following the road cycling programme the focus shifted to the mountain bike competitions at the Ultimate Mountain Bike Park in Silang, Cavite, where the German medal haul continued apace.

Wiedenroth defied sweltering temperatures to double Kasper's tally by winning two gold medals of her own with victories in the women's cross country Olympic event as well as the eliminator event.

Having won the time trial and heats en route to the final, the 21-year-old from Augsburg won Saturday's eliminator ahead of Poland's Marta Turobos and Japan's Seika Ainota. A day later, Wiedenroth took her gold tally to two while adding a fourth for Germany's women with victory in the cross country Olympic event.

Using her supreme climbing skills and downhill ability, Wiedenroth finished the five-lap, 5.3km race in a time of one hour, 16 minutes, 43.14 seconds. Poland's Aleksandra Podgorska took the silver more than two minutes in arrears, while the bronze medal went to another Pole, Turobos, who edged Japan's Ainota.

Awe-inspired assistant program director Anthony Go described Wiedenroth's high-speed cornering and bike-handling skills as "a virtual clinic on science-enhanced riding efficiency".

In the men's MTB events there was a Polish one-two in the cross country Olympic event with compatriots Piotr Kurczab and Marcin Kawalec going shoulder-to-shoulder right to the bitter end, with just one-hundredth of a second separating the pair at the finish.

But it was Kurczab who took the gold after pipping his compatriot to the line in a time of one 1:31:20.60. Louis Wolf of Germany took the bronze in a seven-lap race that only seven riders completed.

Earlier, Poland's Marcin Kawalec won the men's eliminator race by a few seconds ahead of Wolf and Kohei Maeda of Japan. The 2017 World University Cycling Championships returns to Europe to be held in the Portuguese city of Braga.