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Yeah, no offense but strong and stiff are not the same thing - you can build a soft rim up strongly, given the right spoke count and tension. Doing sprint efforts on them is something else - rub rub rub rub. Definitely not a rim I would ever consider for a track bike.
Also 78kg is not that heavy - if Thrust is 103kg he will definitely make them move. A worse rim than an Open Sport IMO.
Is this bike for the track, or tarck? If track - don't bother with wide rims (unless you can afford 404's), you're not going to be dropping the pressure for comfort anyway. You just want them to be a stiff as possible.