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Track World Cup 06-07 Round 4 - CDM

Manchester, Great Britain, February 23-25, 2007

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Day 3 - February 25

Session 1: Men's JKA international keirin qualifying, men's madison heats, women's scratch race heats, women's keirin qualifying, men's madison final, women's scratch race final, women's keirin final, men's team sprint final, men's JKA international keirin final

By Ben Atkins in Manchester

Men's Madison

The men's Madison
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A near capacity crowd was treated to a typical six-day style Madison final at Manchester this afternoon. The first move of the race from Sergiy Laghkuti and Mykhai Radionov of Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina quickly gained a lap in the early stages. However, it proved to be too much too soon as a fast moving bunch promptly dropped them and the pair lost their initial gains almost immediately.

The team to beat throughout the first half of the race was the Great Britain duo of Rob Hayles and Geraint Thomas who took an early lead in the points but were unable to register a decisive attack and escape the bunch.

With 55 laps remaining, the Dutch pairing of Peter Schep and Jens Mouris attacked and very quickly got the lap that was to prove decisive. Hayles and Thomas continued to dominate the sprints but despite two blistering solo attacks that took them beyond sight of the bunch, the British pair just didn't have the legs to keep it going and eventually settled for consolidating their silver medal position over Nikolai Trussov and Serguei Klimov of Russia.

The young British team of Jonathan Bellis and Ben Swift riding for their UCI trade team '100% Me' scored well throughout the race and took the final sprint to claim fourth.

What could have been a positive result for the US team of Bobby Lea and Charles Bradley Huff was ruined by two consecutive problems with Huff's bike midway through the race, forcing Lea to ride on his own for extended periods. This prevented Lea from contesting any of the sprints and led eventually to them losing a lap and dropping out of contention.

Women's scratch

A serious crash just before the bell marred an exciting women's scratch race final. Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark) put in an attack almost from the gun and managed to stay away for several laps, but without help she was unable to get the lap she wanted.

Soon after Bekker was caught, a powerful attack came off the front from points race silver medallist Belinda Goss (Australia), she was quickly joined by eight others including China's Jianling Wang and Britons Elizabeth Armitstead and Kate Cullen (racing in Recycling.co.uk colours). The group of nine worked well together and quickly caught the other fifteen riders, effectively eliminating them from the race.

Coming around the final bend on the approach to the bell, a touch of wheels in the middle of the pack brought down at least half a dozen riders as they positioned themselves for the final sprint. Some riders took a long time to get up, and Christy King of the United States was taken away on a stretcher. Goss - who's no doubt improved her chances of World Championship selection this weekend - led out the sprint in the final lap, but had to settle for a second silver medal as Wang of China powered around the outside to take the victory. A mass sprint behind them saw Yumari Gonzalez Valdinieso of Cuba best of the rest to take bronze.

Women's keirin

Victoria Pendleton signed off a perfect weekend with an emphatic and dominant display of keirin sprinting surely marking her as the woman to beat in all the power events in Majorca next month.

The final saw plenty of switching for position behind the derny, and as it peeled off World Cup leader Shuang Guo of China took to the front and looked to have made the right move. At the bell however, a rampant Pendleton charged around the outside of Guo in an awesome display of power bringing Russian Osanka Grishina with her. Guo was swamped as the two riders swept past but managed to hang on for the bronze medal and her World Cup lead.

In the minor final, Anna Blyth looked to have victory assured as she powered around the final bend with daylight between her and the rest, but a strong recovery by Australian Kristine Bayley took her alongside Blyth and she just managed to overhaul the Briton on the line taking victory by around half a wheel.

Men's team sprint

Great Britain's Ross Edgar
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As expected, the Great Britain team of Craig MacLean, Ross Edgar and Chris Hoy were virtually untouchable in the men's team sprint, posting the only sub 45-second times in both qualifying and the final.

The last qualification heat featuring Great Britain and the German team of Matthias John, Maximilian Levy and Michael Seidenbacher produced the two fastest times although it may have been different but for the disqualification of the Science in Sport team of Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Matthew Crampton.

In their first qualifying attempt, both Crampton and Kenny went before the gun, but in a more controversial second start, Kenny seemed to try to go early but was held back by the starter causing his back wheel to slip around. By the time he was ready to go Kenny's feet were in the wrong position to get his gear turning he had to lay his bike down on the track. Science in Sport's opponents Japan were allowed to ride again and finished in fifth.

Both medal races went the way of the qualification times. The Great Britain team couldn't quite match their qualifying effort but the margin of victory was just as emphatic with their average speed topping 61 km/h for the three laps, surely making them favourites for the World Championships.

After the first half lap, the British team were marginally behind but soon overhauled the deficit and pulled out a two tenths lead by 250m. The lead continued to build steadily during Edgar's leg and a seemingly invincible Chris Hoy finished them off with a final lap of under thirteen and a half seconds to beat the Germans by nearly a second.

An all Australian bronze medal match pitched the Australian national team of Daniel Ellis, Mark French and Joel Leonard against the SouthAustralia.com/AIS trio of Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland and Ryan Bayley. For two laps it looked as though the National team might reverse the qualification result and pip their compatriots to the medal, but a fast last lap from Olympic champion Ryan Bayley hauled back the AIS squad by less than a tenth of a second.

JKA international keirin

Chris Hoy wins
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Chris Hoy's near perfect weekend - only defeat in yesterday's sprint final by Arnaud Tournant has blotted his result sheet - ended with the Great Britain rider taking the big cash prize in the Japanese Keirin Association's international keirin, the final event of this year's Manchester World Cup.

Hoy took the front in both the semi-final and final using the stamina that makes him such a force in the kilometre to prevent anyone from coming past him. In the final round, Hoy got himself to the front behind the derny, but left a gap that team mate Ross Edgar edged in to. In the next few hundred metres the pair of them exchanged places leaving Hoy a clear track when the derny pulled over, and as soon as it did he unleashed his sprint which no one was able to respond to.

Edgar, in second wheel was unable to prevent a fast finishing Teun Mulder (Netherlands) from coming past him in the final metres, but the result was all about Hoy as he took victory several lengths ahead of the Dutchman.

The semi-final rounds were soured slightly by a crash on the final bend before the bell when Gregory Bauge's rear tyre blew at speed. Thankfully no-one else was taken down, as Edgar took the sprint from Mulder, but Bauge stayed on the floor for sometime before limping off. He was unable to start the final for 7th - 12th places.

Photography

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Images by Larry Hickmott/British Cycling

Images by Gerry McManus/www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk

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Results

Men's JKA international keirin

First round

Heat 1

1 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
2 Gregory Bauge (France)
3 Christos Volikakis (Greece)
4 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
5 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
6 Shinichi Ota (Japan)
7 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)

Heat 2

1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
4 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
5 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
6 Ryan Bayley (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
7 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)

Heat 3

1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
2 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
3 Mark French (Australia)
4 Masaki Inoue (Japan)
5 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
6 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)
7 Damian Zielinski (Poland)

First round repecharge

Heat 1

1 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
2 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
3 Ryan Bayley (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
4 Damian Zielinski (Poland)
5 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)

Heat 2

1 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
2 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
3 Mark French (Australia)
4 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
5 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)

Heat 3

1 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
2 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
3 Christos Volikakis (Greece)
4 Shinichi Ota (Japan)
5 Masaki Inoue (Japan)

Second round

1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
3 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
4 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
5 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
6 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
4 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
5 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
DNF Gregory Bauge (France)

Finals

For 1st - 6th

1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
4 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
5 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
6 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)

For 7th - 12th

7 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
8 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
9 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
10 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
11 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
12 Gregory Bauge (France)

Men's Madison

Qualifying heat 1

1 Denmark                                        0 pts
   Daniel Kreutzfeldt
   Michael Faerk Christensen
2 Ukraine                                        0
   Oleksandr Klymenko
   Vasyl Yakovlev
3 Netherlands                                    0
   Peter Schep
   Jens Mouris
4 ASC Dukla Praha                                0
   Milan Kadlec
   Jiri Hochmann

One lap down

5 Team 100% Me                                   8
   Jonathan Bellis
   Ben Swift
6 New Zealand                                    8
   Timothy Gudsell
   Hayden Roulston
7 Italy                                          7
   Matteo Montaguti
   Gianpaolo Biolo
8 United States                                  7
   Bobby Lea
   Charles Bradley Huff
9 France                                         6
   Nicolas Rousseau
   Andy Flickinger
10 Cespa Eustrak.Com                             6
    Aitor Alonso Granados
    Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur
11 Plowman Craven Evans                          2
    Anthony Gibb
    Jason Allen

Two laps down

12 Hungary                                        0
    Andras Berkesi
     Gergely Ivanics
DNS Germany
     Roger Kluge
     Sebastian Frey

Qualifying heat 2

1 Australia                                      6
   Travis Meyer
   Mitchell Docker
2 Russia                                         1
   Nikolai Trussov
   Serguei Klimov
3 Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina                  0
   Mykhaylo Radionov
   Sergiy Lagkuti
4 Spain                                          0
   Antonio Miguel Parra
   Carlos Torrent Tarres

One lap down

5 Poland                                         8
   Kamil Kuczynski
   Hubert Tulacz
6 Brazil                                         8
   Marcos Novelo
   Armando Camargo Filho
7 Great Britain                                  8
   Robert Hayles
   Gereint Thomas
8 Argentina                                      6
   Juan Esteban Curuchet
   Walter Perez
9 Czech Republic                                 5
   Petr Lazar
   Alois Kankovsky
10 Switzerland                                   2
    Tobias Baumgartner
    Alain Lauener
11 Hong Kong                                     0
    Kampo Wong
    Ho Ting Kwok

Final

1 Netherlands                                    5
   Peter Schep
   Jens Mouris

One lap down

2 Great Britain                                  18
   Robert Hayles
   Gereint Thomas
3 Russia                                         13
   Nikolai Trussov
   Serguei Klimov
4 Team 100% Me                                   12
   Jonathan Bellis
   Ben Swift
5 Czech Republic                                 9
   Petr Lazar
   Alois Kankovsky
6 Argentina                                      5
   Juan Esteban Curuchet
   Walter Perez
7 Denmark                                        4
   Daniel Kreutzfeldt
   Michael Faerk Christensen
8 New Zealand                                    3
   Timothy Gudsell
   Hayden Roulston
9 France                                         3
   Nicolas Rousseau
   Andy Flickinger
10 Australia                                     1
    Travis Meyer
    Mitchell Docker
11 Ukraine                                       1
    Oleksandr Klymenko
    Vasyl Yakovlev
12 Spain                                         0
    Antonio Miguel Parra
    Carlos Torrent Tarres

Two laps down

13 United States                                 0
    Bobby Lea
    Charles Bradley Huff
DNF ASC Dukla Praha                              5
     Milan Kadlec
     Jiri Hochmann
DNF Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina
     Mykhaylo Radionov
     Sergiy Lagkuti
DNF Brazil
     Marcos Novelo
     Armando Camargo Filho
DNF Poland
     Kamil Kuczynski
     Hubert Tulacz

Women's scratch race

Qualifying heat 1

1 Natalia Boyarskaya (Russia)
2 Neva Day (USA)
3 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
4 Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso (Cuba)
5 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)
6 Belinda Goss (Australia)
7 Marllijn Binnendijk (Netherlands)
8 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
9 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain)
10 Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain)
11 Pascale Jeuland (France)
12 Jessica Jurado (Mexico)
13 Aksana Papko (Belarus)
14 Trine Schmidt (Denmark)
15 Wei Li (China)
16 Louise Moriarty (Ireland)
17 Eleftheria Maria Ellinikaki (Greece)
18 Julia Bradley (Can) Team R.A.C.E.

Qualifying heat 2

1 Kate Cullen (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
2 Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (Cuba)
3 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mexico)
4 Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark)
5 Vera Carrara (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
6 Jianling Wang (China)
7 Catherine Sell (New Zealand)
8 Martina Ruzickova (Czech Republic)
9 Christy King (USA)
10 Iona Wynter (Jamaica)
11 Andrea Wolfer (Switzerland)
12 Kelly Druyts (Belgium)
13 Debora Galvez Lopez (Spain)
14 Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spa) Cespa Eustrak.Com
15 Silvia Castoldi (Italy)
16 Anastasia Tchulkova (Russia)
17 Fabienne Sandig (Germany)

Final

1 Jianling Wang (China)
2 Belinda Goss (Australia)
3 Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso (Cuba)
4 Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain)
5 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)
6 Kate Cullen (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
7 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mexico)
8 Marllijn Binnendijk (Netherlands)
9 Catherine Sell (New Zealand)
10 Natalia Boyarskaya (Russia)
11 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain)
12 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
13 Iona Wynter (Jamaica)
14 Pascale Jeuland (France)
15 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
16 Jessica Jurado (Mexico)
17 Vera Carrara (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
18 Martina Ruzickova (Czech Republic)
19 Neva Day (USA)
20 Kelly Druyts (Belgium)
21 Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (Cuba)
DNF Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark)
DNF Andrea Wolfer (Switzerland)
DNF Christy King (USA)

Women's keirin

First round

Heat 1

1 Shuang Guo (China)
2 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
3 Virginie Cueff (France)
4 Helena Casas Roige (Spain)
5 Magdalena Sara (Poland)

Heat 2

1 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
2 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
3 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
4 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
5 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russia)
6 Daniela Larreal (Venezuela)

Heat 3

1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Sandie Clair (France)
3 Renata Dabrowska (Poland)
4 Jinjie Gong (China)
5 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)

Heat 3

1 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
2 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)
3 Lenka Valova (Czech Republic)
4 Liz Carlson (USA)
5 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)

First round repecharge

Heat 1

1 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
2 Virginie Cueff (France)
3 Daniela Larreal (Venezuela)
4 Liz Carlson (USA)
5 Magdalena Sara (Poland)
6 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
7 Renata Dabrowska (Poland)

Heat 2

1 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
2 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
3 Lenka Valova (Czech Republic)
4 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russia)
5 Jinjie Gong (China)
6 Helena Casas Roige (Spain)

Second round

1 Shuang Guo (China)
2 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
3 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
4 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
5 Sandie Clair (France)
6 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling

1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
3 Virginie Cueff (France)
4 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
5 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
6 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)

Final

For 1st - 6th

1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
3 Shuang Guo (China)
4 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
5 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
6 Virginie Cueff (France)

For 7th - 12th

7 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
8 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
9 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
10 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
11 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)
12 Sandie Clair (France)

Men's team sprint

Qualifying

1 Great Britain                                  44.155 (61.148 km/h)
   Ross Edgar
   Chris Hoy
   Craig Maclean
2 Germany                                        45.147 (59.804 km/h)
   Matthias John
   Maximilian Levy
   Michael Seidenbecher
3 SouthAustralia.com/AIS                         45.239 (59.683 km/h)
   Shane Perkins
   Scott Sunderland
   Ryan Bayley
4 Australia                                      45.286 (59.621 km/h)
   Daniel Ellis
   Mark French
   Joel Leonard
5 Japan                                          45.326 (59.568 km/h)
   Masaki Inoue
   Kazuya Narita
   Kazunari Watanabe
6 Greece                                         45.981 (58.719 km/h)
   Athanasios Mantzouranis
   Vasileios Reppas
   Panagiotis Voukelatos
7 Ukraine                                        46.252 (58.375 km/h)
   Yevgen Bolibrukh
   Yuriy Tsyupyk
   Andriy Vynokurov
8 Czech Republic                                 46.691 (57.826 km/h)
   Tomas Babek
   Denis Spicka
   Ivan Vrba
9 Malaysia                                       46.712 (57.800 km/h)
   Josiah Ng Onn Lam
   Mohd Rizal Tisin
   Azizulhasni Da Md
10 Poland                                        46.771 (57.728 km/h)
    Maciej Bielecki
    Pawel Kosciecha
    Tomasz Schmidt
11 Switzerland                                   48.230 (55.981 km/h)
    Patrik Merk
    Cédric Stoller
    Tristan Marquet
12 Trinidad & Tobago                             48.298 (55.902 km/h)
    Christopher Sellier
    Azikiwe Kellar
    Haseem Mclean

Final

1 Great Britain                                  44.163 (61.137 km/h)
   Ross Edgar
   Chris Hoy
   Craig Maclean
2 Germany                                        45.149 (59.801 km/h)
   Matthias John
   Maximilian Levy
   Michael Seidenbecher
3 South Australia.Com                            45.172 (59.771 km/h)
   Shane Perkins
   Scott Sunderland
   Ryan Bayley
4 Australia                                      45.270 (59.642 km/h)
   Daniel Ellis
   Mark French
   Joel Leonard