USA Elite National Track Championships - CN

USA, October 4-7, 2006

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Day 4 - October 7: Men Team Sprint, Madison, Women Team Sprint, Keirin, Scratch

Reed, Hammer complete sweep at USA Track Nationals

TIAA-CREF wins Madison, Massie and Co. Take Men's Team Sprint

By Andy Lee, USA Cycling

Jennie Reed gets a kiss by
Photo ©: Mitch Friedman

The 2006 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships concluded Saturday after Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash./Spike) and Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./Ouch) added more stars-and-stripes jerseys to their closets. Reed claimed two more national titles to sweep the women's sprint events with four victories and Hammer won the women's 15-kilometer scratch race to score a hat trick in the endurance events.

After successfully defending her sprint and 500-meter time trial victories earlier in the week, Reed won the keirin and teamed up with Liz Carlson (Jim Thorpe, Pa./East Coast Velo) to win the women's team sprint Saturday. Hammer, already the individual pursuit champion and points race winner, claimed the scratch race after pulling back a late race breakaway and holding off Becky Quinn (Quakertown, Pa./Spike) for the win. Together, Hammer and Reed were the most dominant competitors in the four-day event as one or the other stood on the top step of all six individual event podiums.

In the keirin, Reed easily sailed into the finals with wins in each of her two preliminary rounds. There she squared off against Michelle Bono (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii/Eddie B. Cycling), Kacey Manderfield (Davisburg, Mich./Wolverine-Lees McRae), Anna Lang (La Jolla, Calif./Big City Velo), Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif./The Home Depot Center) and Cari Higgins (Boulder, Colo./Hammer Racing). In the six-woman mass-start event, Reed held the front position when the pace bike peeled off the track and kept everyone at bay to hang on for her third individual title of the week.

Earlier in the evening, Reed and Carlson paired up to post a 36.19-second mark in their qualifying round to earn the top seed in the women's team sprint. In the gold-medal final, Reed and Carlson beat the second-seeded squad comprised of Martha Dunne (Coronado, Calif./Jelly Belly) and Lang for the national title. In the bronze-medal ride, Hammer and Shelby Allen (Cerittos, Calif./Major Motion) beat Higgins and Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike). Not necessarily known for her sprinting ability, Hammer's team sprint medal was her fourth of the week.

Sarah Hammer ready for gold
Photo ©: Mitch Friedman

In the women's 15-kilometer scratch race, Hammer and Quinn entered as the favorites, but when a late-race breakaway of Miranda Duff (Beaverton, Ore./CPT-Colnago), Kimberly Geist (Emmaus, Pa./Victory Brewing), Christen King (Huntington Beach, Calif./Young's Training Group) and Kori Seehafer (Louisville, Colo./Team Lipton) escaped, it looked as though an underdog would score the upset. Ultimately though, the foursome didn't have enough horsepower to fend off the Hammer-led chase from behind. The break was caught with two laps of the 40-lap race remaining and Hammer continued to lead out the sprint with Quinn on her wheel. The reigning individual pursuit world champion showed why she's one of the top endurance riders in the world, keeping the pace high enough at the front to prevent anyone from sprinting around her at the line.

In the men's team sprint event, Giddeon Massie (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike) claimed his second national title of the week with the help of Michael Blatchford (Cypress, Calif./Spike) and Kevin Selker (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike). The top-seeded trio bested the second-seeded threesome of Ben Barczewski (Breiginsville, Pa./Spike), Adam Duvendeck (Santa Barbara, Calif./Echelon Santa Barbara), and Andy Lakatosh (Trexlertown, Pa./Spike).

In the bronze medal match, Eduardo Cocina (Miami, Fla.), Ryan Nelman (Taylor Lake Village, Texas/CKR Racing) and Mike Friedman (Pittsburgh, Pa./TIAA-CREF) won to take third place ahead of Tim Luther (Vancouver, Wash./Northwest All Stars), Stephen McLaughry (Washougal, Wash./Bike Central), and Zachary Copeland (Vancouver, Wash./Northwest All Stars).

Mike Friedman slings in
Photo ©: Mitch Friedman

In the final team event of the competition, TIAA-CREF added a second team victory to its list with a win in the men's madison. Friedman and Brad Huff (Fair Grove, Mo.) joined forces to score 22 points and win the gold medal over a second TIAA-CREF team of Chad Hartley (Boulder, Colo.) and Rahsaan Bahati (Los Angeles, Calif.) Huff and Friedman joined with Will Frischkorn (Boulder, Colo.) and Michael Creed (Colorado Springs, Colo.) to give TIAA-CREF a win in the team pursuit Friday.

Photography

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Images by Mitchell Clinton/www.clintonphoto.com

Team Spike, Gideon Massie, Michael Blatchford and Kevin Selker dominated the team sprint
Liz Carlson (East Coast Velo) prepares for the start of the team sprint
Jennie Reed (Spike) prepares for the start of the team sprint
Jennie Reed (Spike) coming to the line in the team sprint
Jennie Reed (Spike) easily wins the women's Kierin with Anna Lang (Big City Velo) and Michelle Bono (Eddie B Cycling)
Rahsaan Bahati and Chad Hartley known as "Team Mocha"
Mike Friedman and Brad Huff, team TIAA-CREFF execute an exchange
Mike Friedman and Brad Huff, team TIAA-CREFF execute an exchange
Chad Hartley (TIAA-CREFF)
Neva Day (South Bay Wheelmen)
Lara Kroepsch (Lipton)
Kari Seehafer (Lipton) and Kimberly Geist (Victory)
Sarah Hammer (Ouch Pro Cycling) celebrates her win in the scratch race

Images by Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com

Ben Barczewski leads Adam Dubendeck and Spencer Hartfeld of Team ECHELON in the Team Sprint Qualifying
The Big Boy’s Team is Eduardo Cocina, Ryan Nelman and Mike Friedman
Cari Higgins leads the way for Katherine Compton in Women Team Sprint action
Northwest all stars team of Tim Luther, Stephen McLaughry and Zachary Copeland in the Bronze ride of team sprint
Ryan Nelman leads Mike Friedman in the bronze ride of Team Sprint
Adam Duvendeck leads Andrew Lakatosh in the gold ride of Team Sprint. They just missed out with the silver
Mike Blatchford and Kevin Selker won the gold with Giddeon Massie in team sprint
Shelby Allen pulls off as Sarah Hammer pulls through in team sprint for women
Grabbing the GOLD in Women Team Sprint Liz Carlson and Jennie Reed
Jennie Reed leads Anna Lang and Michelle Bono for Gold in the Women’s Kierin
Madison action
Mike Friedman slings in Brad Huff for the GOLD
Jennie Reed gets a kiss by teammate and Gold winner Liz Carlson
Cindy Lakatosh gets ready
Sarah Hammer ready for gold
Road Girls at the front, Lara Kroepsch(TEAm Lipton), Kimberly Geist (Victory Brewing) and Sima Trapp (Colavita Cooking)
Kori Seehafer (TEAm Lipton) goes over the top of Miranda Duff (CPT)
Mike Friedman has a question mark on his chest for the Joker and Brad Huff just has the arrow up to his face
Spike team of Kevin Suhr and Ryan Luttrell got fourth overall
Chad Hartley slings in Rahsaan Bahati in the Madison
Sarah Hammer takes the win in the Scratch final
Team Spike had the biggest team
Sima Trapp ready for the scratch final
TEAm Lipton’s Lara Kroepsch

Images by Mark Legg

Mike Creed sits on the back of the race waiting to make another attack.
Spike Sprinters warming up
Giddeon Massie focused on winning the sprint title
Ben Barczewski shares a joke with his father.
Michael Blatchford awaits the start.
Giddeon Massie leading a kierin heat with a lap to go.
Battle scars
Spike riders ready to do battle against eventual Kierin winner Adam Duvendeck
Jennie Reed prepares for a sprint round.
The Spike team had a lot of fans in the stadium.
Brad Huff, TIAA Cref, warms up for the Madison.
Spike rider Ryan Luttrell and Nerac rider Todd Yezefski suffer in the points race.
It’s not as easy as it appears for Points race winner Mike Creed.
The happy winner
Giddeon Massie keeps loose and focused before taking the Sprint title.
Becky Quinn gets her race number pinned before the scratch race.
Mike Friedman of TIAA Cref tests the Superman position on the track.
Spike rider Kevin Selker takes the sprint from Ryan Nelman.
A busy infield for the day’s racing at the ADT Centre
Carrie Higgins of Hammer team finishes the 500m time trial.
Spike rider Jennie Reed is 36.458 seconds away from a 500m title.
Adam Duvendeck takes the second heat from eventual winner Giddeon Massie.
Giddeon Massie prepares to win the third heat in the men's sprint final.
Team Lipton rider Kori Seehafer warms up for the scratch race after a long season on the road.
Spike Katie Compton raced the National track Championships before starting her cyclocross season.
Giddeon Massie installs his go fast wheel.
Jennie Reed races a kierin heat against Liz Carlson.
Cari Higgins races her first kierin at Track Nationals.
Reid Pike of Raleigh shakes hands with the first place team in the Team Sprint.
Happy Spike Team Sprint winners (from left to right) Kelvin Selker, Giddeon Massie, and Michael Blatchford
The Madison starts in full swing with the Spike team.
Sarah Hammer on the way to winning another national title in the women’s scratch race
Becky Quinn races to a silver medal in the women’s scratch race.
Team Sprint medallists Cari Higgins and Katie Compton applaud the winners.
Men’s Madison winners Brad Huff and Mike Friedman enjoy another day at work.
The Spike team had a very successful Nationals Championships.

Results

Women's Keirin

1 Jennie Reed (Kirkland, WA)                                                    12.538    57.425 km/h
2 Anna Lang (La Jolla, CA)
3 Michelle Bono (Kailua Kona, HI)
4 Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, CA)
5 Kacey Manderfield (Davisburg, MI)
6 Cari Higgins (Boulder, CO)

Women's Scratch Race

1 Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif.)
2 Becky Quinn (Quakertown, Pa.)
3 Theresa Clif-Ryan (Cedar Springs, Mich.)
4 Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif.)
5 Anna Webb (San Diego, Calif.)


Men's Team Sprint

1 Team Sprint (Kevin Selker, Giddeon Massie, Michael Blatchford)
2 Echelon (Benjamin Barczewski, Andrew Lakatosh, Adam Duvendeck)
3 The Silent Huches (Ryan Nelman, Eduardo Cocina, Mike Friedman)
4 Northwest All-Stas (Stephen Mclaughry, Tim Luther, Zachary Copeland)
5 Rubicon (Steve Beardsley, Dean Tracy, Brian Abers)
6 ZS Bikes/Clemente Cy (David Espinoza, Antony Galvan, Mike Lifshotz)
7 Velo Europa (Kelyn Akuna, Giovanni Rey, Ryan Watson)
8 Hammer Racing (Eugene Chacherine, Rich Voss, Randy Mclain)
9 Eddy Boyz (Thomas Valentine, Bill Ziegler, Victor Copeland)

Women's Team Sprint

1 SPIKE (Jennie Reed, Liz Carlson)
2 Jelly Belly/Bigcit (Anna Lang, Martha Dunne)
3 Major Motion/Ouch (Sarah Hammer, Shelby Allen)
4 Hammer (Katherine Compton, Cari Higgins)
5 Bike Central/Bicyc (Jen Featheringill, Kara Vidaca)
6 Rubicon/Chinook (Heather Vanvalkenburg, Donna Smith)
7 Proman/Paradiem (Lorraine Jarvis, Shelley Olds)
 
Madison

1 TIAA - CREF (Brad Huff, Mike Friedman)
2 Team Mocha (Chad Hartley, Rahsaan Bahati)
3 IU Bikes/CA Pools (Dan Vogt, Austin Carroll)
4 SPIKE (Kevin Suhr, Ryan Luttrell)
5 Echelon SB (Scott Zwizanski, Cody O'reilly)
6 Crca Sakonnet Tech.U (David Wiswell, Guy East)
7 Tri-State (Jackie Simes, Taylor Brown)
8 Top Gun (Brian Crosby, Luke Winger)
9 FUJI (Nik Reinert, Richard Schenck)
10 CMG (Steve Beardsley, Mikkel Bossen)
DNF Jelly Belly (Kirk Albers, David Mccook)
DNF Richardson Bikemart (Andrew Armstrong, Steen Rose)
DNF (Luke Cavender, Dave Koesel)