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12th Paralympic Games - JO
Athens, September 18-27, 2004
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Day 5 - September 22
Another Aussie gold-rush
Day five of the Athens Paralympics saw the close of the track-cycling, with Australia continuing it's cycling dominance in the Greek capital. The Aussie paralympic cycling team won 8 of the 16 gold medals on offer, and has taken home 30% of all medals on offer in cycling thus far.
Day five saw the final of the Women's B1-3 Tandem 3km Individual Pursuit, taken out by the American team of Karissa Whitsell and Katie Compton in a time of 3.36.81 (49.811 km/h), a new world record. Silver went to the Australian pairing of Lindy Hou and Toireasa Ryan, with Australians Janet Shaw and Kelly Mccombie also taking the bronze.
In the Men's LC 1-4&CP 3/4 Bicycle Team Sprint, Australia took home the gold with the team of Peter Brooks (LC1), Greg Ball (LC4) and Peter Homann (DV4) beating the American team of Daniel Nicholson (DV3), Ron Williams (LC2) and Paul Martin (LC2) in a time of 53.968. Australian team captain Chris Scott, assisted the team to make the final but chose to step-down for the last encounter.
"Chris made a courageous decision to leave himself out of the final. It meant he didn't receive a medal, but we all know he was deserving of one and did as much as anyone to achieve gold," commented Brooks. "Our Olympic team a few weeks back warmed up the track for us and we showed this week that we could sustain the same level of success during the Paralympics."
France raced Germany in a close race for bronze, with France just pipping the Germans by 0.194 of a second.
Another race, and another gold to Australia in the Men B1-3 Tandem Kilometer Time Trial with the pair of Anthony Biddle and Kial Stewart edging out the French pair of Patrice Senmartin and Frederic Janowski by 0.36 of a second to win in a time of 1.05.14. "This is incredible; just bloody fantastic," said an excited Biddell, who competed in the High Jump in the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. "After just missing out yesterday we were determined to really turn it on… we just went for it."
The cycling medal bonanza helped push Australia into fourth placing on the overall medal tally.
The cycling now takes a day's break before the racing returns to the road with the Men's Individual Road Race at the Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre
Results
Women B1-3 Tandem 3km Ind Pursuit Round 1 Heat 1 1 Tone Gravvold (Norway) 3.44.66 (48.072 km/h) May Britt Hartwell 2 Michaela Fuchs (Germany) 3.47.92 (47.384 km/h) Eva Fuenfgeld Heat 2 1 Janet Shaw (Australia) 3.42.23 (48.596 km/h) Kelly Mccombie 2 Iryna Fiadotava (Belarus) 3.49.42 (47.074 km/h) Aksana Zviahintsava Heat 3 1 Lindy Hou (Australia) 3.38.48 (49.431 km/h) WR Toireasa Ryan 2 Yi Mei Xu (China) Xiaolei Yan Heat 4 1 Karissa Whitsell (USA) 3.39.56 (49.189 km/h) Katie Compton 2 Shawn Marsolais (Canada) Caught Lisa Sweeney Finals For gold and silver 1 Karissa Whitsell (USA) 3.36.81 (49.811 km/h) WR Katie Compton 2 Lindy Hou (Australia) 3.39.31 (49.243 km/h) Toireasa Ryan For bronze 1 Janet Shaw (Australia) 3.42.30 (48.582 km/h) Kelly Mccombie 2 Tone Gravvold (Norway) 3.46.18 (47.749 km/h) May Britt Hartwell Final classification 1 Karissa Whitsell (USA) Katie Compton 2 Lindy Hou (Australia) Toireasa Ryan 3 Janet Shaw (Australia) Kelly Mccombie 4 Tone Gravvold (Norway) May Britt Hartwell 5 Michaela Fuchs (Germany) Eva Fuenfgeld 6 Iryna Fiadotava (Belarus) Aksana Zviahintsava 7 Shawn Marsolais (Canada) Lisa Sweeney 8 Yi Mei Xu (China) Xiaolei Yan 9 Ana Miguelez (Spain) Beatriz Eva Grande 10 Yadviha Skorabahataya (Belarus) Natallia Piatrova 11 Merja Hanski (Finland) Virve Taljavirta Men LC 1-4&CP 3/4 Bicycle Team Sprint Round 1 Heat 1 1 Germany 56.939 (47.419 km/h) Tobias Graf LC3 Gotty Mueller LC2 Guenter Brechtel LC1 2 Czech Republic 57.285 (47.132 km/h) Jiri Bouska DV4 Jiri Jezek LC2 Michal Stark LC3 Heat 2 1 France 57.105 (47.281 km/h) Laurent Thirionet LC3 Patrick Ceria LC2 David Mercier LC1 2 Spain 57.427 (47.016 km/h) Amador Granado LC2 Roberto Alcaide LC2 Antonio Garcia LC3 Heat 3 1 United States 55.678 (48.493 km/h) Daniel Nicholson DV3 Ron Williams LC2 Paul Martin LC2 DNS Italy Fabrizio Macchi LC3 Andreas Gemassmer LC3 Fabio Triboli LC1 Heat 4 1 Australia 53.874 (50.116 km/h) Greg Ball LC4 Peter DV4 Homann Christopher DV4 Scott 2 Canada 1.08.81 (39.234 km/h) Marc Breton LC1 Jean DV3 Quevillon Bruce Penner LC4 Finals For gold and silver 1 Australia 53.968 (50.029 km/h) Peter Brooks LC1 Greg Ball LC4 Peter DV4 Homann 2 United States 55.606 (48.555 km/h) Daniel DV3 Nicholson Ron Williams LC2 Paul Martin LC2 Bronze 1 France 56.611 (47.693 km/h) Laurent Thirionet LC3 Patrick Ceria LC2 David Mercier LC1 2 Germany 56.805 (47.531 km/h) Tobias Graf LC3 Gotty Mueller LC2 Guenter Brechtel LC1 Final classification 1 Australia 2 United States 3 France 4 Germany 5 Czech Republic 6 Spain 7 Canada 8 Italy Men B1-3 Tandem Kilometre Time Trial 1 Anthony Biddle (Australia) 1.05.14 (55.264 km/h) Kial Stewart 2 Patrice Senmartin (France) 1.05.40 (55.042 km/h) Frederic Janowski 3 Ian Sharpe (Great Britain) 1.05.53 (54.936 km/h) Paul Hunter 4 Tatsuyuki Oshiro (Japan) 1.05.91 (54.615 km/h) Hideki Tanzawa 5 Daniel Adam Gordon (Great Britain) 1.06.64 (54.017 km/h) Barney Storey 6 Shigeo Yoshihara (Japan) 1.06.92 (53.788 km/h) Takuya Oki 7 Kieran Modra (Australia) 1.06.93 (53.782 km/h) David Short 8 Matthew King (USA) 1.07.55 (53.288 km/h) Eric Degolier 9 Raphael Ioset (Switzerland) 1.07.59 (53.256 km/h) Beat Howald 10 Stephane Cote (Canada) 1.07.82 (53.080 km/h) Pierreolivier Boily 11 Achim Moll (Germany) 1.07.82 (53.079 km/h) Torsten Goliasch 12 Brian Cowie (Canada) 1.07.91 (53.004 km/h) Murray Solem 13 Vladislav Janovjak (Slovakia) 1.08.04 (52.904 km/h) Juraj Petrovic 14 Francisco Gonzalez (Spain) 1.08.55 (52.512 km/h) Juan Suarez 15 Miguel Angel Clemente (Spain) 1.08.63 (52.451 km/h) Ignacio Soler
