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Australian Youth Olympic Festival
Sydney, Australia, January 9-12, 2003
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Day 3 - January 11
Braithwaite's second gold
Adelaide's Renee Braithwaite collected her second gold medal of the AYOF with a dominant performance in the women's 20km points race at the Dunc Gray Velodrome.
Braithwaite amassed 25 points by winning four of the eight sprints contested and placing second in one and third in another. She was well clear of Canberra's Jessie MacLean, 17, who claimed three sprint wins and finished on 16 points. The bronze medal went to Meg Windsor, 17, of Bathurst who finished the 80 lap event with 11 points.
Braithwaite, 17, last night won the women's scratch race event and is now favourite for a third gold medal when she contests tomorrow morning's criterium on the outdoor circuit. She also claimed a bronze medal in the women's 2km individual pursuit on the first day of competition.
Braithwaite was a 12 year old BMX rider when she was invited to compete at a South Australian primary school track cycling carnival in 1996.
"I won everything on offer at the carnival and as a result I was invited to race in the U/17 division at the South Australian State Titles," said Braithwaite who despite being the youngest in the field also dominated there. "I was a competitor in the 2001 AYOF and I was pretty much the youngest in the field so it was great experience for me."
She missed out on a medal in 2001 but has more than made up for it this time around and her ride in the points race demonstrated great tactical maturity.
"I was fairly nervous going in and wanted to get enough points to be comfortably in front but also be able to go with any one who did a flyer," explained Braithwaite who had expected MacLean to try and break away for a lap gain which would also have given her a 20 point bonus. "People were going everywhere and all the time I had to keep an eye on the top of the track in case someone attacked from up there but it didn't happen."
The men's points race was a nail biting affair with three riders in a position to win as the field headed into the final lap. Individual pursuit gold and scratch race silver medallist Andrew Wyper, 17, of Inverell in northern New South Wales had amassed 15 points to be tied for the lead with Japan's Ryuji Kanazawa of Japan. Sitting just behind them with 13 points was scratch race gold medallist Sydney's Warren Scott.
The final sprint of the event offered points of 5, 3, 2 and 1 for the first four across the line and all three contenders knew they had a chance of gold.
"When there was eight laps to go I realised it was going to be really close and that I needed to keep an eye on the Japanese guy," said Wyper but when Kanazawa launched his attack with two laps to go it seemed Wyper had missed the boat.
"I knew he'd gone but if I had chased after him myself I probably would have blown so I waited till someone else went and got on their wheel," explained Wyper who instead of panicking waited for the right opportunity and with one lap remaining surged past his rival.
He crossed the line fourth in the final sprint but the one point he gained was enough to give him the gold medal.
"I knew I just needed one point and no one else in front of me was a threat so I did what I needed," said Wyper who went into the race with no expectation of a medal let alone a win.
"I'm not really a sprinter and I had sort of hoped to maybe gain a lap (which awards a 20 point bonus) but the race was too fast for that," said Wyper who won only one of the ten sprints contested compared to Kanazawa's three sprint wins but was more consistent in placing in five other sprint. "You know I didn't think I'd get a medal in anything here so I'm really rapt to have three to take home."
Wyper, who moved to Sydney last year to pursue his cycling career, also has the chance to gain another medal for his collection when he lines up in the criterium events tomorrow. There to cheer him on, as they have been for every day of the competition, will be his parents and younger brother who drove eight hours from Inverell to support him.
In the team sprint event the Japanese trio, all aged 17, was expected to dominate with all three medallists in the men's sprint competition last night. Tsubasa Kitatsura, Yuichi Matsuda and Yudai Nitta took gold, silver and bronze respectively and Kitatsura and Matsuda also claimed gold and silver respectively in yesterday's kilometre time trial.
The trio was the only team to ride under 49 seconds in qualifying as top seeds in 48.511sec for the team sprint final where they came up against a NSW line up of Warren Scott, 17 and Phillip Stokes, 16, from Sydney and Andrew Taylor, 16, of Dubbo.
The Australians had posted the second fastest qualifying time 49.326sec to make the final and in the first lap of the three lap event only one tenth of a second separated the teams. But the Japanese cranked up the pace in the final two laps to win in a time of 48.612sec, six tenths of a second clear of the Australian silver medallist who covered the distance in 49.287sec.
A composite team made up of Canberra's Alex Bird, 17, West Australian Leigh Sunderland, 17, and Corey Heath, 16, from Katherine in the Northern Territory won the bronze medal in 50.182sec.
Kitatsura, the undoubted star of the speed events at the AYOF cycling, backed up from the team sprint to win the keirin final ahead of Queensland's Clint Johnson with Dubbo's Andrew Taylor third.
The women's keirin gold medal went to sprint silver medallist Lucy Stewart of Canberra who, with Victorian Brigid Farrell glued to her back wheel, surged past early race leader Masumi Shinzaki of Japan. Farrell clinched the silver and Shinzaki hung on for the bronze.
The track cycling competition has now ended and the cyclists will tomorrow head outdoors to the circuit, adjacent to the Dunc Gray Velodrome, for the final two events on the program, a men's and women's criterium race. Men's heats will be staged at 9.30am with the women's final scheduled for 10.30am and the men's final expected to start at 11.15am.
Results
Men's Team Sprint (3 laps)
Qualifying Round Heat 1 1 NSW2 53.191 Thomas Atkinson Mitchell Bruce Brenton Crawley 2 SA 52.923 Joseph Depasquale Nicholas Scaife Christopher Wood Heat 2 1 Comp Team 50.599 Corey Heath Leigh Sunderland Alex Bird 2 QLD 51.597 Clint Johnson Peter Spencer Adam Tully Heat 3 1 Japan2 48.511 Tsubasa Kitatsura Yuichi Matsuda Yudai Nitta 2 NSW1 49.326 Warren Scott Phillip Stokes Andrew Taylor Heat 4 1 VIC 51.573 Mitchell Docker Shane Perkins Ben Rix 2 NZL 53.212 Joshua England Adam Coker Chris O'Connor Final Ride off for Bronze Medal 1 Comp Team 50.182 Corey Heath Leigh Sunderland Alex Bird 2 VIC 50.973 Mitchell Docker Shane Perkins Ben Rix Ride off for Gold and Silver Medals 1 Japan2 48.612 Tsubasa Kitatsura Yuichi Matsuda Yudai Nitta 2 NSW1 49.287 Warren Scott Phillip Stokes Andrew Taylor Final Summary 1 Japan2 48.612 Tsubasa Kitatsura Yuichi Matsuda Yudai Nitta 2 NSW1 49.287 Warren Scott Phillip Stokes Andrew Taylor 3 Comp Team 50.182 Corey Heath Leigh Sunderland Alex Bird
Women's 20km (80 laps) Points Race
1 Renee Braithwaite (SA) 25 pts 2 Jessie Maclean (ACT) 16 3 Meg Windsor (NSW) 11 4 Tori Freeland (Vic) 9 5 Alice King (NZL) 9 6 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 8 7 Stephanie Williams (Tas) 5 8 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 4 9 Amy Kirk (WA) 1 10 Amelia Hallam (Qld) 11 Hannah Banks (Qld) 12 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) 13 Naomi Adams (NSW) 14 Melinda Harris (NSW) 15 Nicole Hanssen (Qld) 16 Jessica Armstrong (ACT) 17 Eve Hood (NSW) 18 Skye-Lee Armstrong (NSW) 19 Genna Crean (SA) DNF Jackie Kejda (NSW) DNF Melissa Moffatt (NSW) DNF Belinda Wild (NSW) DNS Jessica Tanner (Vic) DNS Lucy Stewart (ACT) DNS Rebecca Borgo (NSW) Race time: 28.18.67
Men's 10km (40 laps) Points Race
Heat 1 1 Ben Miles (WA) 6 pts 2 Warren Scott (NSW) 5 3 Michael Ford (Vic) 5 4 Simon Clarke (Vic) 5 5 Mark Bergamin (SA) 5 6 Miles Olman (Qld) 4 7 Mathew Rex (SA) 3 8 Joshua England (NZL) 3 9 David Klyne (Tas) 2 10 Takahiko Fujino (Japan) 2 11 Christopher Young (NSW) 1 12 Callan Taylor (SA) 1 Brendan Jones (NSW) Luke Warren (NSW) Ben Fraser (NSW) Thomas Atkinson (NSW) Michael Teggelove (Vic) Peter Spencer (Qld) DNF Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) DNF Chris O'Connor (NZL) DNF Sean Anderson (NT) Race time: 12.19.25 Heat 2 1 Phillip Stokes (NSW) 6 pts 2 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) 6 3 Matthew Goss (Tas) 5 4 Shirya Sasakura (Japan) 5 5 Adam Coker (NZL) 5 6 Adam Tully (Qld) 3 7 Ryuji Kanazawa (Japan) 3 8 Andrew Wyper (NSW) 2 9 Mitchell Docker (Vic) 2 10 Joseph Depasquale (SA) 2 11 Ben Mockridge (Qld) 2 12 Dean Windsor (NSW) 1 Cameron Hope (NSW) 1 Kane Brennan (NSW) 1 Steven Evans (WA) Casey Munro (Vic) Keith Rose (NSW) Josh Wall (NSW) DNF Nicholas Scaife (SA) DNF Christopher Wood (SA) DNS Bradley Payne (Qld) Race time: 13.02.11 Men's 25km (100 laps) Points Race Final 1 Andrew Wyper (NSW) 16 pts 2 Ryuji Kanazawa (Japan) 15 3 Warren Scott (NSW) 12 4 Ben Miles (WA) 12 5 Michael Ford (Vic) 10 6 Mitchell Docker (Vic) 8 7 Adam Tully (Qld) 5 8 Simon Clarke (Vic) 3 9 Miles Olman (Qld) 3 10 Dean Windsor (NSW) 3 11 Matthew Goss (Tas) 2 12 David Klyne (Tas) 1 13 Mark Bergamin (SA) 1 14 Joseph Depasquale (SA) 15 Callan Taylor (SA) 16 Adam Coker (NZL) 17 Joshua England (NZL) 18 Phillip Stokes (NSW) 19 Mathew Rex (SA) 20 Ben Mockridge (Qld) DNF Takahiko Fujino (Japan) DNF Christopher Young (NSW) DNF Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) DNF Shirya Sasakura (Japan) Race time: 31.34.08
Women's Keirin (2000m - 8 laps)
Heats Heat 1 1 Lucy Stewart (ACT) 2 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 3 Belinda Wild (NSW) 4 Lauren Carroll (ACT) 5 Melinda Harris (NSW) 6 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) Heat 2 1 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) 2 Renee Braithwaite (SA) 3 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 4 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) DNF Alison Barbour (SA) DNF Samantha Ward (NSW) Heat 3 1 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 2 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 3 Alice King (NZL) 4 Ami Matsuo (Japan) 5 Nicole Hanssen (Qld) 6 Tori Freeland (Vic) Repechage Final 1 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 3.09.75 2 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 3 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 4 Alice King (NZL) 5 Renee Braithwaite (SA) 6 Belinda Wild (NSW) Final 1 Lucy Stewart (ACT) 3.08.97 2 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 3 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) 4 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 5 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 6 Amanda Spratt (NSW)
Men's Keirin (2000m - 8 laps)
Heats Heat 1 1 Andrew Taylor (NSW) 2.59.81 2 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 3 Shane Perkins (Vic) 4 Warren Scott (NSW) 5 Corey Heath (NT) 6 Christopher Young (NSW) Heat 2 1 Clint Johnson (Qld) 2.59.39 2 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 3 Takahiko Fujino (Japan) 4 Ben Fraser (NSW) 5 Brenton Crawley (NSW) 6 Brad Wright (NSW) Heat 3 1 Matthew Goss (Tas) 2.50.27 2 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) 3 Ben Rix (Vic) 4 Shirya Sasakura (Japan) 5 Alex Bird (ACT) 6 Nicholas Scaife (SA) Heat 4 1 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 2.55.33 2 Adam Coker (NZL) 3 Leigh Sunderland (WA) 4 Mitchell Bruce (NSW) 5 Adam Tully (Qld) 6 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) Repechage Final Heat 1 1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 2.58.43 2 Shane Perkins (Vic) 3 Warren Scott (NSW) 4 Leigh Sunderland (WA) 5 Adam Coker (NZL) 6 Mitchell Bruce (NSW) Heat 2 1 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 2.51.94 2 Takahiko Fujino (Japan) 3 Ben Rix (Vic) 4 Ben Fraser (NSW) 5 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) 6 Shirya Sasakura (Japan) Final 1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 2.48.64 2 Clint Johnson (Qld) 3 Andrew Taylor (NSW) 4 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 5 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 6 Matthew Goss (Tas)
Men's 5km (20 laps) Motor Paced Race
Non Championship Event 1 Brendan Jones (NSW) 2 Luke Warren (NSW) 3 Ben Fraser (NSW) 4 Thomas Atkinson (NSW) 5 Michael Teggelove (Vic) 6 Peter Spencer (Qld) 7 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 8 Chris O'Connor (NZL) 9 Sean Anderson (NT) 10 Cameron Hope (NSW) 11 Kane Brennan (NSW) 12 Steven Evans (WA) 13 Casey Munro (Vic) 14 Keith Rose (NSW) 15 Josh Wall (NSW) 16 Nicholas Scaife (SA) 17 Christopher Wood (SA)
