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European Derny Championships
Newport, South Wales, Great Britain, November 14, 2003
Wiggins claims Euro derny title
By Nick Rosenthal
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The brand new velodrome in Newport, South Wales, hosted the European Derny championship on Friday 14 November as part of a gala opening race meeting that featured many of Europe's top track riders.
A glut of entries for the Derny title meant that the start of the race meeting had to be brought forward to allow time for two heats to be run, the fastest three riders from each heat going through to the final, along with the fastest of the two fourth place riders.
The first heat was won by Rob Slippens, from Brad Wiggins and Steven De Neef. Heat two saw Walter van Mechelen win from Marco Villa, with Patrick Kops in third place. Mario Vonhof was the fastest fourth-place man, to make up the field in the final.
The final of the European Derny Championship was dominated from start to finish by Britain's reigning world pursuit champion, Bradley Wiggins. Paced by Joop Zijlaard, Wiggins looked comfortable and relaxed from start to finish. Second place went to Belgium's Steven De Neef, with the Netherlands' Rob Slippens in third place.
Photography
Images by Nick Rosenthal/fatnick.com
- The Newport velodrome early in the evening
- UCI chief Hein Verbruggen gets ready to cut the ribbon and open the new cycle track at the magnificent Newport Velodrome
- Bradley Wiggins (GBr) sits comfortably behind pacer Joop Zijlaard during the European Derny Championships in Newport, Wales
- Rob Slippens (Ned) tucks in close behind Derny pacer Bruno Walrave
- Belgium's Steven De Neef heads for a silver medal, paced by Mr Vaarten
- Swiss ace Franco Marvulli grits his teeth and tries to get back behind the derny, while Sweden's Magnus Backstedt shows what a REALLY big track frame looks like!
- The Dernies roar round the banking at Newport track
- A bird's eye view of the action
- The closing phases of the Derny title race. Wiggins is already ahead, out of the shot, but the silver and bronze medallists are seen with Mario Vonhof following
- The podium: Rob Slippens (3rd), Brad Wiggins & Joop Zijlaard (1st) and Steven De Neef (2nd)
- Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel shows how to ride a pursuit
- Mirjam Melchers chose to ride her first ever pursuit race at Newport
- The Mayor of Newport presents flowers to Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel (L) and Mirjam Melchers (R). Tony Doyle lends a hand from behind.
- Close-quarters action from the points race at Newport with Marvulli and Franck Perque fighting for the overall victory
- Switzerland's Franco Marvulli celebrates a win in the points race at Newport
- Graeme Obree (former world pursuit champion, former world hour record holder) dusted off "old faithful" and did a few laps of the new Newport track ... still oozing class
- Flanked by two attractive ladies and a bunch of flowers, Graeme Obree gives us a winning smile. Obree was at Newport to promote his new autobiography.
Results
International Sprint Omnium 4 Lap Sprint 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 2 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 3 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) 4 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 5 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 6 Arnost Dromanek (Czech Republic) Elmination Race 1 Franco Marvulli (Switzerland) 2 Jos Pronk (Netherlands) 3 John Van den Abeele (Belgium) 4 Bas Gilling (Netherlands) Sprint Heats Heat 1 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 12.270 2 Arnost Dromanek (Czech Republic) Heat 2 1 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 13.116 2 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) Heat 3 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 13.825 2 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) Sprint Repechage 1 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) 11.873 2 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 3 Arnost Dromanek (Czech Republic) Youth Omnium 15 lap Scratch Race 1 Steven Burke 2 Jack Hibberd 3 Mike Partridge 4 Ross Dingley 5 James Cruikshank 6 Rhys Lloyd 7 Luke Rowe 8 Mark Bell 9 Matt Rowe 10 Michael Giverin 11 James Griffin 12 Andrew Davies 13 Harry Penn 14 Tom Price 1 lap behind 15 Jenny Middlehurst 16 Helen Scott 17 Sarah Byrne 18 Jessica Varnish 8km Scratch Race 1 Huw Pritchard (Wales) 9.41.373 2 Franco Marvulli (Switzerland) 3 Tom Smith (Wales) 4 Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) 5 Jon Norfolk (Yasimitsu Schlapp) 6 Dominique Perissi (Belgium) 7 Andrew Russell (Wales) 8 Chris Richardson (Scunthorpe Poly CC) 9 Joby Ingram-Dodd (Wales) 10 Matthew Crampton (Sportcity Velo) 11 Anthony Malarczyk (Wales) 12 Tom Walters (Dataphonics RT) 13 Jos Pronk (Netherlands) 14 Nick Kenwright (Wales) 15 Andrew Hoskins (Wales) 16 Ben Swift (Scunthorpe Poly CC) 17 Tom White (VC De Londres) 18 Geraint Thomas (Wales) 19 Matthew Haynes (City Of Edinburgh RT) 20 Eric Voetnam (Netherlands) Youth Omnium Sprint Heat 1 1 James Griffin (Manchester) 21.586 2 Jessica Varnish (Halesowen) 3 Tom Price (Newport) Heat 2 1 Steve Burke (Manchester) 20.761 2 Harry Penn (Halesowen) 3 Jo Tinsley (Newport) Heat 3 1 Josh Hargreaves (Manchester) 19.041 2 Will Penn (Halesowen) 3 Rachel Davis (Newport) Heat 4 1 Jack Hibbard (Halesowen) 19.659 2 Christian Lyte (Manchester) 3 Andrew Davis (Newport) International Sprint Omnium Semi Finals Heat 1 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 11.776 2 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) Heat 2 1 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 11.750 2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Final Ride off for 5th & 6th 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 2 Armost Dromanek (Czech Republic) Ride off for 3rd & 4th 1 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) 2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Ride off for 1st & 2nd 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 2 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) Welsh Open 25km Points Race 1 Franco Marvulli (Switzerland) 68 pts 2 Franck Perque (France) 59 3 Jos Pronk (Netherlands) 46 4 Russell Anderson (Classic Walls CRT) 45 5 Magnus Backstedt (Sweden) 45 6 Kenny De Ketele (Belgium) 44 7 Anthony Malarczyk (Wales) 40 8 Rob Hayles (Great Britain) 30 9 Jerome Neuville (France) 8 10 Paul Sheppard (Wales) 5 11 Bas Gilling (Netherlands) 5 12 Tom White (VC De Londres) 3 13 James Taylor (City Of Edinburgh RT) 3 14 Bryan Taylor (VC De Londres) 2 15 Ed Clancy (Wheelspin Cycles) 2 16 Julian Winn (Great Britain) 1 17 Tom Smith (Wales) 0 18 Huw Pritchard (Wales) 0 International Sprint Omnium Final Ride off for 5th & 6th 5 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 11.553 6 Armost Dromanek (Czech Republic) Ride off for 3rd & 4th 3 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 11.641 4 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) Ride off for 1st & 2nd 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 12.013 2 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 2km Handicap Heat 1 1 Chris Richardson 2.14.770 2 Ed Clancy 3 Andrew Russell 4 Geraint Thomas 5 Bas Gilling 6 Jerome Neuville 7 Kenny De Ketele 8 Jon Norfolk 9 James Notley Heat 2 1 Ben Swift 2.15.247 2 Tom White 3 Tom Walters 4 Franck Perque 5 Russell Anderson 6 Steve Schets 7 Ray Clarke 8 Nick Kenwright 9 Rob Hayles Heat 3 1 Ingmar De Poortere 2.20.259 2 Mark Cavendish 3 Anthony Malarczyk 4 Matthew Crampton 5 Joby Ingram-Dodd Heat 4 1 Matthew Haynes 2.21.804 2 John Van den Abeele 3 James Taylor 4 Huw Pritchard 5 Tom Smith 6 Magnus Backstedt 7 Dominique Perissi 8 Andrew Hoskins 9 Paul Sheppard Youth Omnium Team Sprint Heat 1 - Newport 1 Mike Partridge 1.14.124 2 Matt Rowe 3 Rhys Lloyd 4 Luke Rowe Heat 2 - Halesowen 1 Helen Scott 1.12.846 2 Jack Hibberd 3 Ross Dingley 4 Tom Hibberd Heat 3 - Manchester 1 Steven Burke 1.10.051 2 James Griffin 3 Christian Lyte 4 Josh Hargreaves International Sprint Omnium Keirin 1 Jamie Staff (Great Britain ) 11.865 2 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 3 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 4 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 5 Arnost Dromanek (Czech Republic) 6 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Final result 1 Jamie Staff (Great Britain ) 2 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 3 Pavel Buran (Czech Republic) 4 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 5 Arnost Dromanek (Czech Republic) 6 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Newport International Challege 3km Individual Pursuit 1 Leontien Zjilaard/Van Moorsel (Netherlands) 3.44.865 2 Miriam Melchers (Netherlands) 3.56.436 Youth Omnium - 6km Points Race 1 Steven Burke (Manchester) 21 pts 2 Jack Hibberd (Halesowen) 8 3 Ross Dingley (Halesowen) 8 4 Josh Hargreaves (Manchester) 7 5 Luke Rowe (Newport) 6 6 James Griffin (Manchester) 3 7 Mark Bell (Halesowen) 2 8 Michael Giverin (Manchester) 2 9 Matt Rowe (Newport) 2 10 Mike Partridge (Newport) 1 11 Tom Hibberd (Halesowen) 1 12 Andrew Davies (Newport) 0 13 Harry Penn (Halesowen) 0 14 Sarah Byrne (Manchester) 0 15 Rhys Lloyd (Newport) -7 16 William Penn (Halesowen) -8 17 Jo Tinsley (Newport) -10 18 Jenny Middlehurst (Manchester) -10 Youth Omnium - Final Result 1 Manchester 2 Halesowen 3 Newport 2km Handicap 1 Ben Swift 2 Chris Richardson 3 Matthew Haynes 4 John Van den Abeele 5 Ed Clancy 6 Mark Cavendish 7 Ingmar De Poortere 8 Tom White European Derny Paced Championship Heat 1 - 20 km 1 Robert Slippens (Netherlands)/Walrave 18.55.191 2 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)/Zjilaard 3 Steven De Neef (Belgium)/Vaarten 4 Mario Vonhof (Germany)/Dippel 5 Franck Perque (France)/Persyn Heat 2 - 20 km 1 Walter van Mechelen (Belgium)/Vaarten 18.53.065 2 Marco Villa (Italy)/Walrave 3 Patrick Kops (Netherlands)/Fack 4 Franco Marvulli (Switzerland)/Aebi 5 Rob Hayles (Great Britain)/Durst 1 lap behind 6 Magnus Backstedt (Sweden)/Bauerlein 7 Jerome Neuville (France)/Persyn Final - 30km 1 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)/Zjilaard 1 lap behind 2 Steven De Neef (Belgium)/Vaarten 2 laps behind 3 Robert Slippens (Netherlands)/Walrave 4 Mario Vonhof (Germany)/Dippel 5 Marco Villa (Italy)/Durst 3 laps behind 6 Walter van Mechelen (Belgium)/Persyn Team Sprint 1 Great Britain Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 47.911 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) Jamie Staff (Great Britain) 2 International Team Pavel Buran (Cze) 49.877 Martin Benjamin (Ned) Arnost Dromanek (Cze)
