December 2/10 8:46 am - Track World Cup #1: Day 1 results
Posted by Editoress on 12/2/10
The World Cup Track season kicked off today in Melbourne Australia with the Women's Team Pursuit, Women's Team Sprint, Men's Madison, Men's Team Sprint and Men's Omnium (Fyling Lap, Points, Elimination).
In the Women's Team Pursuit Canada finished 3rd in Qualifying, but was defeated by New Zealand in the final. In the Men's Omnium, Zach Bell has finished 3rd in the Flying lap, 3rd in the Points Race, 15th in the Elimination and currently sits (tied for) 3rd after the 3 events. In the Men's Team Sprint, Team Canada (Stéphane Cossette/Travis Smith/Joseph Veloce) finished 13th.
CCA Report:
The 2011 UCI Track cycling season kicked off today (December 2nd) in Melbourne, Australia, and the Canadian track cycling team narrowly missed a spot on the podium, finishing fourth in the Women's Team Pursuit. The Yukon's Zach Bell also enjoyed a good day on the track, and is currently ranked third halfway through the difficult Omnium event.
The women's team pursuit team, comprised of Tara Whitten of Edmonton, Stephanie Roorda of Vancouver, and Laura Brown also of Vancouver, conceded the bronze medal to the New Zealand team. Canada posted the third fastest time of qualifications to advance to the bronze medal race.
In this newest Olympic track cycling event, Canada's squad finished the race with a time of 3 minutes 25.402 seconds, two seconds behind the New Zealand team. Host nation Australia went on to win the event, defeating Germany in the gold medal showdown.
Zach Bell of Watson Lake, Yukon, is currently in third place of the Men's Omnium event, with three of six events already disputed. Bell placed third in both the Flying Lap race and the Points Race, before finishing 15th in the Elimination race. Three more events remain on the calendar for the Omnium tomorrow: the Individual Pursuit, the Scratch Race and the Time Trial.
In the Men's Team Sprint, Canada went on to finish in 13th place. The team was comprised of Travis Smith of Calgary, Stephane Cossette of Chicoutimi, Québec, and Joseph Veloce of Fonthill, Ontario. The powerful British team took first place.
All eyes will be turned on Canada's Tara Whitten for the second day of competition on Friday, as the Women's Omnium starts. Whitten is the current World Champion in the gruelling event comprised of six different races, from sprint events to endurance events.
| Women's Team Pursuit | |
| Qualifying | |
| 1 Australia (Katherine Bates/Sarah Kent/Josephine Tomic) | 3:24.244 |
| 2 Germany (Charlotte Becker/Lisa Brennauer/Madeleine Sandig) | 3:24.813 |
| 3 Canada (Tara Whitten/Laura Brown/Stephanie Roorda) | 3:25.138 |
| 4 New Zealand (Kaytee Boyd/Lauren Ellis/Jaime Nielsen) | 3:25.299 |
| 5 Netherlands (Vera Koedooder/Amy Pieters/Ellen Van Dijk) | 3:27.382 |
| 6 Ukraine (Lesya Kalitovska/Svitlana Galyuk/Ganna Solovey) | 3:28.564 |
| 7 United States (Dotsie Bausch/Kimberly Geist/Lauren Tamayo) | 3:29.355 |
| 8 Lithuania (Vilija Sereikaite/Vaida Pikauskaite/Ausrine Trebaite) | 3:29.385 |
| 9 Russia (Venera Absalyamova/Anastasia Chulkova/Victoria Kondel) | 3:29.403 |
| 10 Poland (Malgorzata Wojtyra/Edyta Jasinska/Katarzyna Pawlowska) | 3:30.303 |
| 11 Belarus (Tatsiana Sharakova/Alena Dylko/Aksana Papko) | 3:31.959 |
| 12 Belgium (Jolien D'hoore/Else Belmans/Maaike Polspoel) | 3:32.447 |
| 13 France (Aude Biannic/Sophie Creux/Fiona Dutriaux) | 3:32.602 |
| 14 Spain (Debora Galvez Lopez/Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro/Gloria Rodriguez Sanchez) | 3:32.615 |
| 15 Italy (Marta Bastianelli/Marta Tagliaferro/Alessandra Borchi) | 3:36.767 |
| 16 Treads.com/DFT Cycling Team (Megan Hottman/Emy Huntsman/Jennifer Triplett) | 3:38.071 |
| 17 Thailand (Panawaraporn Boonsawat/Nontasin Chanpeng/Monrudee Chapookham) | 3:54.045 |
| Final | |
| Ride for Gold and Silver | |
| 1 Australia (Katherine Bates/Sarah Kent/Josephine Tomic) | 3:22.171 |
| 2 Germany (Charlotte Becker/Lisa Brennauer/Madeleine Sandig) | 3:23.166 |
| Ride for Bronze | |
| 3 New Zealand (Kaytee Boyd/Lauren Ellis/Jaime Nielsen) | 3:23.477 |
| 4 Canada (Tara Whitten/Laura Brown/Stephanie Roorda) | 3:25.402 |
| Men's Omnium | |
| Qualifying | |
| Heat 1 | |
| 1 Andreas Graf (Austria) | 25 pts |
| 2 Serhei Sakavets (Belarus) | 23 |
| 3 Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) | 22 |
| 4 Shane Archbold (New Zealand) | 9 |
| 5 Luis Mansilla (China) | 8 |
| 6 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) | 7 |
| 7 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) | 6 |
| 8 Julien Duval (France) | 5 |
| 9 Edward Clancy (Great Britain) | 5 |
| 10 Kazuhiro Mori (Japan) | 5 |
| 11 Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) | 4 |
| 12 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) | 4 |
| 13 Mario Alberto Contreras (Mexico) | 2 |
| 14 Krisztian Lovassy (Hungary) | 1 |
| Konstantinos Christodoulou (Greece) | DNF |
| Heat 2 | |
| 1 Behnam Khalili Khosroshahi (Iran) | 21 pts |
| 2 Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) | 20 |
| 3 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong) | 20 |
| 4 Carlos Linarez Zambrano (Venezuela) | 11 |
| 5 Zach Bell (Canada) | 10 |
| 6 Scott Law (Australia) | 8 |
| 7 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) | 8 |
| 8 Marcel Kalz (Germany) | 7 |
| 9 Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyave (Colombia) | 5 |
| 10 Ivan Kovalev (Russia) | 5 |
| 11 Niki Byrgesen (Denmark) | 4 |
| 12 Jan Keller (Switzerland) | 4 |
| 13 Vitaliy Shchedov (Ukraine) | 3 |
| 14 Wei Cheng Lee (Action Cycling Team) | 0 |
| 15 Recep Ünalan (Turkey) | 0 |
| DNF Mohd Rizal Tisin (YSD Track Team) | |
| First 12 riders in each heat qualify to final | |
| Flying Lap | |
| 1 Edward Clancy (Great Britain) | 13.059 |
| 2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) | 13.249 |
| 3 Zach Bell (Canada) | 13.250 |
| 4 Shane Archbold (New Zealand) | 13.452 |
| 5 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) | 13.499 |
| 6 Scott Law (Australia) | 13.517 |
| 7 Julien Duval (France) | 13.596 |
| 8 Ivan Kovalev (Russia) | 13.640 |
| 9 Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyave (Colombia) | 13.728 |
| 10 Marcel Kalz (Germany) | 13.768 |
| 11 Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) | 13.769 |
| 12 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) | 13.782 |
| 13 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) | 13.787 |
| 14 Jan Keller (Switzerland) | 13.842 |
| 15 Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) | 13.845 |
| 16 Kazuhiro Mori (Japan) | 13.909 |
| 17 Niki Byrgesen (Denmark) | 13.932 |
| 18 Behnam Khalili Khosroshahi (Iran) | 14.021 |
| 19 Luis Mansilla (China) | 14.078 |
| 20 Serhei Sakavets (Belarus) | 14.147 |
| 21 Carlos Linarez Zambrano (Venezuela) | 14.224 |
| 22 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong) | 14.235 |
| 23 Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) | 14.324 |
| 24 Andreas Graf (Austria) | 14.818 |
| Points Race | |
| 1 Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) | 70 pts |
| 2 Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyave (Colombia) | 51 |
| 3 Zach Bell (Canada) | 48 |
| 4 Niki Byrgesen (Denmark) | 46 |
| 5 Shane Archbold (New Zealand) | 44 |
| 6 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) | 42 |
| 7 Luis Mansilla (China) | 33 |
| 8 Behnam Khalili Khosroshahi (Iran) | 27 |
| 9 Kazuhiro Mori (Japan) | 23 |
| 10 Serhei Sakavets (Belarus) | 21 |
| 11 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong) | 20 |
| 12 Edward Clancy (Great Britain) | 13 (lapped) |
| 13 Jan Keller (Switzerland) | 11 (lapped) |
| 14 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) | 8 (lapped) |
| 15 Marcel Kalz (Germany) | 7 (lapped) |
| 16 Julien Duval (France) | 3 (lapped) |
| 17 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) | 2 (lapped) |
| 18 Carlos Linarez Zambrano (Venezuela) | 1 (lapped) |
| 19 Scott Law (Australia) | 0 (lapped) |
| 20 Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) | 0 (lapped) |
| 21 Andreas Graf (Austria) | 0 (lapped) |
| 22 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) | 0 (lapped) |
| 23 Ivan Kovalev (Russia) | 0 (lapped) |
| 24 Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) | -38 (lapped) |
| Elimination Race | |
| 1 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) | |
| 2 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) | |
| 3 Luis Mansilla (China) | |
| 4 Shane Archbold (New Zealand) | |
| 5 Julien Duval (France) | |
| 6 Edward Clancy (Great Britain) | |
| 7 Scott Law (Australia) | |
| 8 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) | |
| 9 Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) | |
| 10 Kazuhiro Mori (Japan) | |
| 11 Jan Keller (Switzerland) | |
| 12 Marcel Kalz (Germany) | |
| 13 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) | |
| 14 Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyave (Colombia) | |
| 15 Zach Bell (Canada) | |
| 16 Carlos Linarez Zambrano (Venezuela) | |
| 17 Niki Byrgesen (Denmark) | |
| 18 Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) | |
| 19 Ivan Kovalev (Russia) | |
| 20 Behnam Khalili Khosroshahi (Iran) | |
| 21 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong) | |
| 22 Serhei Sakavets (Belarus) | |
| 23 Andreas Graf (Austria) | |
| DNS Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) |
| Men's Team Sprint | |
| Qualifying | |
| 1 Great Britain (Matthew Crampton/Chris Hoy/Jason Kenny) | 43.939 |
| 2 New Zealand (Edward Dawkins/Ethan Mitchell/Sam Webster) | 44.278 |
| 3 Germany (Rene Enders/Stefan Nimke/Michael Seidenbecher) | 44.301 |
| 4 Team Jayco AIS (Daniel Ellis/Jason Niblett/Shane Perkins) | 44.409 |
| 5 Japan (Kazuki Amagai/Tsubasa Kitatsuru/Kazunari Watanabe) | 44.731 |
| 6 Netherlands (Teun Mulder/Yondi Schmidt/Roy Van Den Berg) | 44.740 |
| 7 Team ERdgas.20132 (Carsten Bergemann/Joachim Eilers/Robert Forstemann) | 44.842 |
| 8 Australia (Alex Bird/Matthew Glaetzer/Peter Lewis) | 44.856 |
| 9 China (Changsong Cheng/Yong Feng/Miao Zhang) | 44.864 |
| 10 Poland (Maciej Bielecki/Kamil Kuczynski/Damian Zielinski) | 44.948 |
| 11 Moscow Track Team (Sergey Borisov/Denis Dmitriev/Sergey Kucherov) | 44.992 |
| 12 YSD Track Team (Mohd Rizal Tisin/Azizulhasni Awang/Muhammad Edrus Md Yunos) | 45.170 |
| 13 Canada (Stéphane Cossette/Travis Smith/Joseph Veloce) | 45.210 |
| 14 Czech Republic (Tomas Babek/Adam Ptacnik/Denis Spicka) | 45.310 |
| 15 Russia (Sergey Polynskiy/Valentin Savitskiy/Pavel Yakushevskiy) | 45.466 |
| 16 Ukraine (Artem Frolov/Sergiy Omelchenko/Andrii Vynokurov) | 46.027 |
| 17 Greece (Sotirios Bretas/Christos Volikakis/Zafeiris Volikakis) | 46.542 |
| 18 Spain (Sergio Aliaga Chivite/Itmar Esteban Herraiz/Juan Peralta Gascon) | 46.590 |
| 19 Italy (Valerio Catellini/Francesco Ceci/Luca Ceci) | 46.732 |
| DSQ Iran (Farshid Farsi Nejadian/Mohammad Parash/Hassanali Varposhti) | |
| Final | |
| Ride for Gold and Silver | |
| 1 Great Britain (Matthew Crampton/Chris Hoy/Jason Kenny) | 43.829 |
| 2 New Zealand (Edward Dawkins/Ethan Mitchell/Sam Webster) | 44.339 |
| Ride for Bronze | |
| 3 Team Jayco AIS (Daniel Ellis/Jason Niblett/Shane Perkins) | 44.545 |
| 4 Germany (Rene Enders/Stefan Nimke/Michael Seidenbecher) | 44.938 |
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