Day Three
Alayna Burns of Australia recovered from a fall during the women's points race to finish in second place and lead her team to the team title at the second stop on the EDS World Cup of Track Cycling Sunday at the EDS Superdrome in Frisco, Texas.
Burns was among a half dozen riders who crashed on lap 41of the 80-lap race. Three riders were injured, but Burns returned to the competition with some scrapes and finished second in the final lap to earn runner-up honors and earned 10 points towards the team competition. Australia registered 83 team points to win the team crown, followed closely by the United States and France, who both compiled 81 points.
U.S. cyclists Karen Dunne and Erin Veenstra, both of Colorado Springs, Colo., finished fourth and fifth, respectively in the points race.
"We had good team balance, and did not win many overall events (one, team pursuit), but we earned a lot of top-eight finishes, and those points add up quickly," said Burns, who also finished fifth in the individual pursuit on Saturday. "We did not expect to win the team title this week, but it was a great team effort.
Meanwhile, Laurent Gane of France won his second medal of the three-day event with a victory in the Keirin, an eight-lap race, which is paced for the first half with a motorized bicycle. On Saturday, Gane defeated American Marty Nothstein to capture the match sprint title.
"I got in the front which is my style, and I rode hard," said Gane. "I felt very strong today, and since I did not compete in Mexico last week, I knew I had an advantage over the other riders."
In the women's 500-meter time trial, defending world champion Felicia Ballanger of France also won her second title in as many days and set an EDS Superdrome record with a time of 35.053, eclipsing the mark set earlier in the event by Cuihua Jiang of China (35.417). Ballanger has won the only three world titles in this event. Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.) was the top finishing American (eighth).
1996 Olympic silver medalist Brian Walton won the men's points race with 13 points, edging Luis Sepulveda of Chile by a point, eating France in the finals. Walton captured two laps to earn 10 points in the 40-kilometer race. Defending world champ Juan Llaneras of Spain finished in sixth place, while the lone U.S. entry, Brian Whitcomb (Chula Vista, Calif.) finished 12th.
The 40-kilometer Madison event was captured by the brother duo of Gabriel and Juan Curuchet of Argentina, as they joined Spain in a breakaway one-third of the way through the 160-lap race and lapped the entire field of 19 countries. Spain earned second-place honors, while the U.S. tandem of Brian Whitcomb (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Tommy Mulkey (Winterville, Ga,) captured eighth-place accolades.
"We turned in some strong performances individually, and we are pleased with our overall performance," said Sean Petty, USA Cycling Director of Athlete Performance. "We swept the individual pursuit races (Christian Vande Velde won the men's and Erin Veenstra won the women's), and we helped ourselves towards earning the maximum number of qualifiers for the World Championships (Oct. 20-24 in Berlin, Germany)."
The United States, which captured the initial World Cup event of the campaign last week in Mexico City, returns to international competition in mid-June at the third stop of the World Cup season in Spain.
Women, 500-m time trial Finals: 1. Felicia Ballanger (Fra) 35.053 2. Tanya Dubnicoff (Can) 35.291 3. Cuihua Hiang (Chn) 35.417 4. Oksana Grichina (Rus) 35.932 5. Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mex) 36.306 6. Lyndelle Higginson (Aus) 36.325 7. Fiona Ramage (NZ) 36.432 8. Jennie Reed (USA) 36.655 9. Natalia Markaunichanka (Blr) 37.043 10. Szilvia Szabolcsi (Hun) 37.158 11. Karelia Machado (Ven) 37.326 12. Julie Forrester (GB) 37.395 13. Rita Razmaite (Lit) 37.764 14. Mira Kasslin (Fin) 37.824 15. Eleftheria Ellinikaki (Gre) 39.155 16. Tracey Van Niekerk (RSA) 39.288 17. Agnieszka Wilczynska (Pol) 41.078 Men, Points Race, 30 kms: 1. Brian Walton (Can) 13 points 2. Luis Sepulveda (Chi) 12 3. Franz Stocher (Aut) 8 4. Fabio Masotti (Ita) 8 5. Fernando Avila Vazquez (Mex) 7 6. Joan Llaneras (Spa) 5 7. Koji Yoshii (Jap) 3 8. Francis Moreau (Fra) 0 9. Franco Marvulli France 15 (-1) 10. Marlon Perez (Col) 13 (-1) 11. Luke Roberts (Aus) 8 (-1) 12. Brian Whitcomb (USA) 8 (-1) 13. Garen Bloch (RSA) 7 (-1) 14. Jukka Heinikainen (Fin) 6 (-1) 15. Walter Perez (Arg) 6 (-1) 16. Lubor Tesar (Cze) 6 (-1) 17. Matthijs Van Bon (Ned) 6 (-1) 18. Glen Thomson (NZ) 5 (-1) 19. Viktor Repinski (Blr) 4 (-1) 20. Christian Bach (Ger) 2 (-1) 21. Vasilios Anastopoulos (Gre) 1 (-1) 22. Zbigniew Wyrzykowski (Pol) 0 (-1) 23. Robert Wood (GB) 0 (-1) 24. Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) 0 (-1) 25. Miguel Ubeto (Ven) 0 (-1) Men Keirin Finals: 1. Laurent Gane France 2. Roberto Chiappa (Ita) 3. Jan Van Eijden (Ger) 4. Marty Nothstein (USA) 5. Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 6. Ainars Kiksis (Lat) 7. Shane Kelly (Aus) 8. Pavel Buran (Cze) 9. John Jaime Gonzalez (Col) 10. Martin Benjamin (Ned) 11. Jose Antonio Escuredo (Spa) 12. Grzegorz Trebski (Pol) Women Points Race Finals 20 kms: 1. Olga Slioussareva (Rus) 26 points 2. Alayna Burns (Aus) 19 3. Anke Wichmann (Ger) 13 4. Karen Dunne (USA) 11 5. Erin Veenstra (USA) 8 6. Rawea Greenwood (NZ) 5 7. Maureen Kaila-Vergara (ElS) 5 8. Sarah Ulmer (NZ) 4 9. Edita Kubelskiene (Lit) 4 10. Anouska Van der Zee (Ned) 2 11. Maria Luisa Calle (Col) 1 12. Teodora Ruano (Spa) 0 13. Eleftheria Ellinikaki (Gre) 0 14. Natalia Karimova (Rus) 0 15. Annie Gariepy (Can) 0 16; Vera Carrara (Ita) 0 17. Marion Clignet (Fra) 0 18. Christina Becker (Ger) 1 (-2) 19. Andrea Hannos (Can) 0 (-3) Men Madison Finals 40 kms: 1. Argentina (Gabriel Curuchet Juan Curuchet) 5 points 2. Spain (Isaac Galvez Miguel Alzamora) 3 3. Austria (Roland Garber Franz Stocher) 18 (-1) 4. Australia (Graeme Brown Luke Roberts) 17 (-1) 5. Russia (Oleg Grichkine Andrei Minachkine) 14 (-1) 6. Netherlands (Danny Stam Robert Slippens) 14 (-1) 7. Slovakia (Martin Liska Jozef Zabka) 9 (-1) 8. United States (Tommy Mulkey Brian Whitcomb) 8 (-1) 9. Great Britain (James Notley James Taylor) 5 (-1) 10. Italy (Mauro Trentini Marco Villa) 3 (-1) 11. New Zealand (Timothy Carswell Gary Anderson) 2 (-1) 12. Czech Republic (Tomas Lejska Michal Kalenda) 0 (-1) 13. Mexico (Juan Juarez Serrano Luis Vento) 0 (-2) Men Olympic Sprint Finals: 1. Poland (Konrad Czajkowski Marcin Mientki Grzegorz Krejner) 46.152 * 2. Australia (Danny Day Gary Neiwand Shane Kelly) 46.443 3. Germany (Jan Van Eijden Rene Wolff Soren Lausberg) 46.181 4. Great Britain (Chris Hoy Craig MacLean Jason Queally) 46.189 5. Czech Republic (Pavel Buran Martin Polak Ivan Vrba) 46.545 6. Spain (Salvador Melia Diego Ortega Jose Antonio Villanueva) 46.636 7. United States (Marcelo Arrue Johnnh Bairos Nathan Rogut) 46.815 8. New Zealand (Anthony Peden Nathan Seddon Matthew Sinton) 46.894 9. Greece (Bargakas Chimonetos Vasilopoulos) 46.894 10. France (Laurent Gane Frederic Lancien Arnaud Tournant) 47.013 11. Slovakia (Peter Bazalik Haroslav Jerabek Jan Lepka) 47.392 12. South Africa (Garen Bloch Craig Corbett Jean-Pierre Van Zyl) 47.904 13. Switzerland (Michael Lato Patrik Merk Claudio Treig) 47.988 14. Canada (Douglas Baron Keith Bruneau Jim Fisher) 48.245 15. Latvia (Viesturs Berzins Ainars Kiksis Martins Yrbr) 48.319 16. Argentina (Sebastian Alexandre Oscar Ammendola Juan Jose Haedo) 48.530 17. Japan (Akihiro Isezaki Toshiya Koizumi Hideyuki Kojo) 49.279 18. Trinidad & Tobago (Clinton Grant Ako Kellar Michael Phillips) 49.389 19. Venezuela (Alexander Cornieles Ivan Lopez Hector Rodriguez) 49.801 * Previous record (Aus) 46.250 May 30 1999 preliminaries Team Scoring: 1. Australia 83 2. United States 81 3. France 81 4. Germany 52 5. New Zealand 42 6. Russia 42 7. Canada 36 8. Italy 31 9. Spain 30 10. China 23 10. Poland 23 EDS Superdrome Records - New Record - Old Mark 500-meter time trial - Felicia Ballanger, France, 35.053 - Tanya Dubnicoff, 35.751 (Apr. 29, 1999) 4,000-meter Individiual Pursuit - Christian Vande Velde, LeMont, Ill., 4:27.047 -Dylan Casey, Mountain View, Calif., 4:29.684 (July 1, 1998) 4,000-meter team pursuit - Australia, 4:10.808 - United States (Tommy Mulkey, Mike Tillman, Adam Laurent, Christian Vande Velde), 4:12:532 (May 29, 1999) 200-meter flying start - Tanya Dubnicoff, Canada, 11.439 - Jennie Reed, Kirkland, Wash., 11.676, July 1, 1998 Olympic Sprint - Poland, 46.152 - Australia, 46.250 (May 29, 1999, preliminaries)