International Paralympic Committee World Cycling Championships-CM

Altenstadt, Germany, August 5-12, 2002

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Day 4 - August 8 track

Fernandes Breaks World Record to Claim 2nd Gold

Blind cyclist Pam Fernandes (Boston, Mass.) and pilot Mark Garrett (Arcadia, Calif.) won their second gold medal and set a world record in the process at the International Paralympic Committee's World Cycling Championships in Altenstadt, Germany. Fernandes and Garrett won the mixed tandem sprint (200 meters) in a record 11.36 seconds. The tandem had captured the 1 km time trial the previous day.

"We're both thrilled," Fernandes said. "It always feels great to win, but it just means so much more when you're representing your country." Fernandes, who lost her sight to diabetes at age 20, competes using a tandem bicycle guided by a sighted "pilot," in this case, Garrett, a California Highway Patrol officer and former member of the U.S. national cycling team.

"Mark and I mesh really well on the bike," said Fernandes, who just began riding with Garrett a couple years ago. "We've been training really hard for this competition, and everything just seemed to fall in place (for the world record)."

Fernandes and Garrett will get a couple days off before resuming competition in the road race divisions. Dan Nicholson (Richmond, Va.) also won his second gold medal of the competition, winning the CP3 3 km pursuit in 4.15.40. Nicholson broke the world record for his classification in the event during Tuesday's semifinal with a time of 4.13.22. Al Michini (Salt Lake City, Utah) placed fourth in the CP4 3 km pursuit in 4.01.5.

In the women's 3 km pursuit, which was contested Tuesday, Barb Buchan (Bend, Ore.) and Allison Jones (Colorado Springs, Colo.) continued Team USA's dominance in women's cycling by finishing first and second respectively. Times were not provided because they were adjusted depending on each athlete's disability classification.

In the LC2 4 km pursuit for cyclists with a single-leg, below-the-knee amputation, Dory Selinger (Oakland, Calif.) turned in the fastest qualifying time with an American record 5.00.20. Paul Martin (Boulder, Colo.) and Ron Williams (Birmingham, Ala.) failed to advance out of the semifinals. Martin finished fifth overall, and Williams was seventh. Selinger will race in the gold-medal match-up Thursday morning.

Results

Women's Tandem 3 km Pursuit - Final
 
1 Karissa Whitsell/Katie Compton (USA)                      3.41,612
2 Sarnya Parker/Toireasa Ryan (Australia)                   3.44,435
3 Janet Shaw /Fiona Scarff (Australia)
4 Christine Fisher/Geneviève Warriner (Australia)
5 Iryna Sianko/Volha Mikhailova (Belarus)                   4.13,725
6 Anne Tveten/Marianne Bruun (Norway)                       4.25,692
 
Mixed Tandem 3 km Pursuit - Final
 
1 Uschi Rössle/Stefan Klimek (Germany)                      3.32,580
2 Lidia Parra Sanchez/Ivan Fermosel Lopez (Spain)           3.35,590
3 Yadvina Skarabahataya/iktar Labaty (Belarus)              3.38,518
4 Abraham Metola Lopez/Nuria Del Cano (Spain)               3.38,843
5 Iryna Fiadotava/Aliaksandr Danilik (Belarus)              3.40,664
6 Julie Cournoyer/Christophe Cheseaux (Canada)              3.42,138
7 Lyn Lepore/Edmund Hollands (Australia)                    3.43,658
8 Natalia Quevedo Gato/Alfonso Martin Escudero (Spain)      3.50,142

Men's Tandem 4 km Pursuit - Final
 
1 Abelardo Gandia Valdes/José Antonio Munoz Navarro (Spain) 4.30,337
2 Christian Venge Balboa/David Llaurado Caldero (Spain)     4.31,250
3 Emanuele Bersini/Fabrizio Di Somma (Italy)                4.30,195
4 Juan Fernandez Martinez/Ignacio Soler Siles (Spain)       4.33,119
5 Jan Mulder/Pascal Schoots (Netherlands)                   4.38,323
6 Dennis Mungoven/Anthony Biddle (Australia)
7 Stephane Cote/Pierre-Oliver Boily (Canada)
8 Raphael Ioset/Beat Howald (Switzerland)
9 Tatsuyuki Oshiro/Hideki Tanzawa (Japan)                   4.41,273
10 Randy Hampton/William Ramsey (USA)                       4.46,748
11 Toni De Biasi/Peter Müller (Switzerland)                 4.48,729
12 Richard Marsolais/Craig Deveer (Canada)                  4.49,410
13 Jason Bryn/Andrie Du Vall (USA)                          4.50,143
14 Brian Cowie/Gary Alexander (Canada)                      4.50,202
15 Robert Boguszewski/Piotr Sugier (Poland)                 4.53,921
16 Mattis O Eriksen/lmvik, Björn (Norway)                   4.54,669
17 Akihio Motohashi/Masatoshi Ichikawa (Japan)              5.00,190
18 Bogdan Wardak/Andrzej Buchert (Poland)                   5.04,750
 
Mixed 3 km Pursuit LC4 - Final
 
1 Michael Teuber (Germany)                                         -
2 OleHerman Ronnevig (Norway)                                      -
3 Hans-Peter Beier (Germany )                               4.24,385
4 JuanJose MendezFernandez (Spain )                         4.31,772
5 Alison Jones (SA )                                        4.48,480
6 Erich Winkler (Germany)                                   5.14,885
 
Mixed 3 km Pursuit LC3 - Final
 
1 Beat Schwarzenbach (Switzerland)                          3.58,767
2 Laurent Thirionet (France)                                4.02,142
3 Fabrizio Macchi (Italy)                                   3.59,678
4 JoseAndres Blanco Sanchez (Spain)                         4.04,739
5 Andreas Gemassmer (Italy)
6 Michal Stark (Czech Republic)
7 Antonio Garcia Martinez (Spain)
8 Thomas Schmid (Austria)
9 Norbert Ippisch (Germany)                                 4.14,506
10 Victor Marquez (Venezuela)                               4.15,404
11 Tobias Graf (Germany)                                    4.16,303
12 Noel Sens (Australia)                                    4.18,385
13 Glen Jarvis (Australia)                                  4.19,971
14 Bradley Cobb (USA)                                       4.21,343
15 Paul Jesson (New Zealand)                                4.27,074
16 Will Elrick (Australia)                                  4.29,245
17 Oswald Kydd (SouthAfrica)                                4.46,391
18 Bin Xu (China)                                           4.59,889
19 Kveta Uchvatova (Czech Republic)                         5.19,492
 
Mixed 4 km Pursuit LC2 - Final
 
1 Roberto Alcaide Garcia (Spain)                            4.59,340
2 Dory Selinger (USA)                                       5.00,654
3 Jiri Jezek (Czech Republic)                               5.01,814
4 Gottfried Müller (Germany)
5 Paul Martin (USA)                                         5.06,188
6 Ronald Williams (USA)
7 Roland Spahr (Switzerland)
8 Amador Granado Alkorta (Spain)
9 Panagiotis Paterakis (Greece)                             6.24,919
10 Daqiu Xu (China)                                         6.36,912
 
Mixed 4 km Pursuit LC1 - Final
 
1 Wolfgang Eibeck (Austria)
2 Francisco Trujillo (France)
3 Günther Brechtel (Germany)                                4.59,261
4 Peter Brooks (Australia)                                  5.00,855
5 Mathew Gray (Australia)                                   5.02,470
6 Ivan Renggli (Switzerland)                                5.03,050
7 Jiri Kalousek (Czech Republic)
8 Fabio Triboli (Italy)
9 Jose Maria Valladolid Rodriguez (Spain)                   5.15,929
10 Graham Diesel (SouthAfrica)                              5.23,586
11 Scott Duvall (Australia)                                 5.26,554
12 Petr Kocman (Czech Republic)                             5.29,466
13 Zhonghe Zhang (China)                                    5.36,512
14 Tamoyuki Takahashi (Japan)                               5.38,410
15 Teruo Takemura (Japan)                                   5.43,572
16 Liu Pu (China)                                           5.45,418
17 Song Zhao (China)                                        5.55,445
18 Akio Sakuma (Japan)                                      5.55,897
19 Fengzhen An (China)                                      6.11,544
20 Lihong Leng (China)                                      6.30,208
21 Jing Liu (China)                                         6.49,646
 
Tandem Mixed Sprint World Record Attempt

New world record:

1 Pamela Fernandes/Mark Garrett (USA)                         11,211