September 28/02 4:37 am - Track Worlds Day 4 & Report

Posted by Editor on 09/28/02
 

Track World Championships - Copenhagen, Denmark
Courtesy Kurt Innes

Mandy Poitras was our lone competitor in the women's points race tonight. The field of 20 women took to the start of the 100 Lap event (25 KM) and after the first 2 sprints it became very evident that Olga Slouserava (RUS) was going to be the woman to beat. For those in the sport who know that name, you will realize that she still holds the women's flying 200 meter world record (10.831, set in 1993). Slouserava scored in 9 of the 10 sprints, winning 5 of them, and placing 2nd in 3 other sprints. Although 2 riders were able to gain a lap on the field and cash in on the brand new rule which grants riders 20 points for alap, Slouserava was still hands down the majority winner on points. This new rule has totally changed the race, as in the men's race which was won by a Great Britian rider with a huge point total over 70 points (he gained 3 laps on the field).

Mandy seemed to struggle today in the race, and after trying her legs out at the midway points sprint (lap 50) she was held at 0 points until the last sprint. In this last sprint she was able to muster up enough speed to gain 2 points (3rd across the line). Mandy has stated that her objective here is the Scratch Race, and that this Points Race would serve as a warm up event for her. The dissapointment of today will hopefully be removed with a great race tomorrow by Poitras.

Overall impression of the race was that it was it seemed a bit 'average'. With many laps at 35 -37 km /hour average speed for the first 20 laps. The fastest sprint lap maxed out at 54 km/hr in the race. The middle 40 laps the speed increased to average 42 km/hr. and Slouserava was able to dominate the race and nobody was able to match her in the sprints. NO major attacks were attempted , except for the two riders who gained a lap just after half distance.

It will be very interesting tomorrow in the women's Scratch Race where many of these same women will try and overcome the speed of Slouserava.


Day 4 Results

Men's Sprint

Qualifier (top 18 move on)

1 Jamie Staff (GBR) 10.130
2 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) 10.216
3 Jens Fiedler (Ger) 10.238
4 Laurent Gane (Fra) 10.307
5 Sean Eadie (Aus) 10.326
6 Jobie Dajka (Aus) 10.352
7 Mickael Bourgain (Fra) 10.384
8 Rene Wolff (Ger) 10.393
9 Ryan Bayley (Aus) 10.408
10 Jose Anton Villanueva Trinidad (Esp) 10.423
11 Florian Rousseau (Fra) 10.431
12 Matthias John (Ger) 10.438
13 Viesturs Berzins (Lat) 10.528
14 Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn) 10.542
15 Theo Bos (Ned) 10.545
16 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol) 10.552
17 Ainars Kiksis (Lat) 10.610
18 Jeffrey Labauve (USA) 10.642
19 Salvador Melia Mangrinan (Esp) 10.646
20 Peter Bazalik (Svk) 10.647
21 Pavel Buran (Cze) 10.648
22 Jaroslav Jerabek (Svk) 10.694
23 Arnost Drcmanek (Cze) 10.717
24 Sergiy Ruban (Ukr) 10.929
25 Michael Pedrozo Moreno (Cub) 10.951
26 Alex Rasmussen (Den) 11.024

1/16 Finals (top 9 plus 3 Repechage winners move on)

Heat 1
1 Jamie Staff (GBR) 11.317
2 Jeffrey Labauve (USA)

Heat 2
1 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) 10.844
2 Ainars Kiksis (Lat)

Heat 3
1 Jens Fiedler (Ger) 10.751
2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol)

Heat 4
1 Laurent Gane (Fra) 10.985
2 Theo Bos (Ned)

Heat 5
1 Sean Eadie (Aus) 11.182
2 Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn)

Heat 6
1 Jobie Dajka (Aus) 11.121
2 Viesturs Berzins (Lat)

Heat 7
1 Matthias John (Ger) 11.006
2 Mickael Bourgain (Fra)

Heat 8
1 Florian Rousseau (Fra) 10.822
2 Rene Wolff (Ger)

Heat 9
1 Jose Anton Villanueva Trinidad (Esp) 11.402
2 Ryan Bayley (Aus)

1/16 Final Repechage

Heat 1
1 Ryan Bayley (Aus) 10.721
2 Viesturs Berzins (Lat)
3 Jeffrey Labauve (USA)

Heat 2
1 Ainars Kiksis (Lat) 10.999
2 Mickael Bourgain (Fra)
3 Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn)

Heat 3
1 Rene Wolff (Ger) 10.916
2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol)
3 Theo Bos (Ned)

1/8 Finals (top 6 plus 2 Repechage winners move on)

Heat 1
1 Jamie Staff (GBR) 11.119
2 Rene Wolff (Ger)

Heat 2
1 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) 11.042
2 Ainars Kiksis (Lat)

Heat 3
1 Jens Fiedler (Ger) 10.561
2 Ryan Bayley (Aus)

Heat 4
1 Laurent Gane (Fra) 11.132
2 Jose Anton Villanueva Trinidad (Esp)

Heat 5
1 Sean Eadie (Aus) 10.893
2 Florian Rousseau (Fra)

Heat 6
1 Jobie Dajka (Aus) 10.783
2 Matthias John (Ger)

1/8 Finals Repechages

Heat 1
1 Matthias John (Ger) 10.800
2 Jose Anton Villanueva Trinidad (Esp)
3 Rene Wolff (Ger)

Heat 2
1 Florian Rousseau (Fra) 10.791
2 Ainars Kiksis (Lat)
3 Ryan Bayley (Aus)

Quarter Finals

Heat 1
1 Florian Rousseau (Fra) 10.696 & 11.131
2 Jamie Staff (GBR)

Heat 2
1 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) 10.873 & 11.031
2 Matthias John (Ger) REL

Heat 3
1 Jobie Dajka (Aus) 10.777 & 10.668
2 Jens Fiedler (Ger)

Heat 4
1 Sean Eadie (Aus) 10.958 & 10.840
2 Laurent Gane (Fra)


Women's Sprint

Semi Finals

Heat 1
1 Kerrie Meares (Aus) 12.178 & 12.154
2 Katrin Meinke (Ger)

Heat 2
1 Natallia Tsylinskaya (Blr) 11.972 & 12.276
2 Kathrin Freitag (Ger)

9th-12th Ride Off
1 Tamilla Abbassova (Rus) 12.516
2 Susan Panzer (Ger)
3 Tatiana Malianova (Rus)
4 Tatiana Makarova (Rus)

5th-8th ride Off
1 Svetlana Grankovskaia (Rus) 12.180
2 Szilvia Szabolcsi (Hun)
3 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA)
4 Rosealee Hubbard (Aus)

Bronze Medal Final
3 Katrin Meinke (Ger) 12.408 & 12.729
4 Kathrin Freitag (Ger)

Gold Medal Final
1 Natallia Tsylinskaya (Blr) 12.597 & 12.347
2 Kerrie Meares (Aus)


Points Race

Men

1 Chris Newton (GBR) 76 points
2 Franz Stocher (Aut) 50
3 Juan Curuchet (Arg) 49
4 Bruno Risi (Sui) 39
5 Serguei Kudentsov (Rus) 31
6 Leonardo Duque (Col) 31
7 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) 26
8 Volodymyr Rybin (Ukr) 25
9 Milton Wynants (Uru) 24
10 Juan Llaneras Rossello (Esp) 24
11 Matthew Gilmore (Bel) 23
12 Milan Kadlec (Cze) 23
13 Franck Perque (Fra) 23
14 Colby Pearce (USA) 3
15 Jukka Heinikainen (Fin) 1
16 Wilco Zuijderwijk (Ned) 1
17 Marco Villa (Ita) 1

at 1 lap:
18 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) 3
19 Juan De La Rosa (Mex) 3
20 Andreas Muller (Ger) 0
21 Remigijus Lupeikis (Ltu) 0
22 Lars Thomsen (Den) 0
DNF Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA)
DNF Graeme Brown (Aus)

Women

1 Olga Slioussareva (Rus) 35 points
2 Lada Kozlikova (Cze) 20
3 Vera Carrara (Ita) 20
4 Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukr) 15
5 Katherine Bates (Aus) 12
6 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Esp) 11
7 Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Col) 7
8 Anke Wichmann (Ger) 6
9 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mex) 5
10 Cathy Moncassin (Fra) 4
11 Mette Andreasen (Den) 4
12 Joanne Marie Kiesanowski (NZl) 3
13 Sarah Uhl (USA) 3
14 Mandy Poitras (Can) 2
15 Edita Kubelskiene (Ltu) 0
16 Eleftheria Ellinikaki (Gre) 0
17 Adrie Visser (Ned) 0
18 Evelyn Garcia ESA 0
19 Maaria Siren (Fin) 0
DNF Sara Symington (GBR)