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Six-times Olympic champion Kenny was making his
international return after taking a break from the sport
following the 2016 Rio Games but could not mark it with another
gold.
The flying Dutch trio of Nils van 't Hoenderdaal, Harrie
Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland won the final by half a second
from Britain with France beating Russia for the bronze medal.
Earlier in Apeldoorn velodrome, 35-year-old Kirsten Wild won the
women's 10km scratch race ahead of Belgium's Jolien D'Hoore to
take her haul of world championship medals to seven.
Denmark's Amelie Dideriksen was third.
Wild chased down an early attack by Ireland's Lydia Gurley and
went solo to the line.
"It's really, really nice to win, for my own people, it's
amazing," Wild said. "It's the best riders of the world to
compete and I can't believe that I won solo.
"My tactic was to stay really calm in the peloton and wait for
the sprint, but it didn't go quite to my plan."
The Dutch could not quite make it a clean sweep of the golds on
day one as they had to settle for silver in the women's team
sprint won by the Kristina Vogel-powered German team.
"We did a very good job, and it is just incredible to win the
gold medal and be world champions," said Vogel who won the
individual sprint gold in Rio.
"It has been four years since we won the gold medal (in the team
sprint) so it is very special."
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)
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