December 9/99 5:46 am - Australian Track Meet, Birthdays

Posted by Editor on 12/9/99
 

Oceania International Cycling GP Track Meet - Sydney, Australia

Note: Some Olympic qualifying events are split for 'Oceania' competitors (eg, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) and International (non-Oceania) teams.

Day 1

Oceania Individual Pursuit - Men's Final

Gold - Bradley McGee (Aus) 4:27.051
Silver - Graham Brown (Aus) 4:35.398
Bronze - Mathew Randall (NZL) 4:34.185

International Individual Pursuit - Men's Final

Gold - Alexei Markov (Rus) 4:30.996
Silver - Damien Pommerau (Fra) 4:31.822
Bronze - Mike Tillman (USA) 4:37.370

Women's 500m Time Trial

1 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) 35.622 seconds
2 Lyndell Higginson (Aus) 36.169
3 Michelle Ferris (Aus) 36.386
4 Tanya Dubnicoff (Can) 36.556
5 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 36.558

Men's Kilometre Time Trial - Oceania

1 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) 1:04.390
2 Jeff Hopkins (Aus) 1:05.160
3 Olivier Haas (NCL) 1:05.366

Men's Kilometre Time Trial - International

1 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) 1:02.397
2 Shane Kelly (Aus) 1:03.964
3 Grzegorz Krejner (Pol) 1:05.383
4 Domenico Mei (Ita) 1:06.514
5 Mattia Vecchi (Ita) 1:08.416


Day 2

Women's Individual Pursuit - Final

Gold - Annalisa Farrell (NZL) 3:46.571
Silver - Kate Bates (Aus) 3:50.626
Bronze - Sandra Smith (Aus) 3:55.009

Men's Team Pursuit - Final

1 Australia 4.14.080
2 New Zealand (caught)

Women's Sprint - Qualifying

1 Tanya Dubnicoff (Can) 11.578
2 Lyndelle Higginson (Aus) 11.812
3 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 11.855
4 Michelle Ferris (Aus) 11.856
5 Magali Faure-Humbert (Fra) 11.867

12 Becky Quinn (USA) 13.081

Men's Olympic Sprint - International Final

Gold - France 45.677
Silver - Australia 2 46.055
Bronze - Australia 1 46.297


Birthdays

We have a bunch of birthdays to catch up on:

December 1 - Mountain biker Ruedi Schnyder
December 3 - Mountain biker Marc Sonntag
December 8 - Schwinn/Veltec guy Chris Burke
December 10 - Mountain biker Linda Robichaud