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World Track Championships - CM
Copenhagen, Denmark, September 25 - 29, 2002
Photography
Men's Pursuit Keirin Women's Pursuit Men's Team Pursuit Men's Scratch Men's Kilo TT Women's 500m TT Teams Sprint Women's Sprint Women's Scratch Women's Points Men's Madison Men's Sprint
Keirin
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- Florian Rousseau (Fra) rides ahead of Viesturs Berzins (l) during the men's keirin qualifiers
- Celine Nivert (Fra) on the ground after falling during the women's keirin qualifiers
- Ryan Bayley of Australia rides during the men's keirin qualifiers
- China's Li Na and France's Clara Sanchez celebrate after the final of the women's Keirin
- Jobie Dajka raises his hands after winning gold in the keirin
- China's gold medallist Na Li smiles on the podium
- Silver medallist Clara Sanchez poses during the award ceremony of the women's Keirin
- Now smile for the camera
- All lined up and waiting for the break
- Jobie Dajka (AUS) is congratulated after his win in the Keirin
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Felicia Ballanger on the other side of results
- Jose Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (ESP) made the final six
- Jose Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (ESP) joined him in the final
- Jobie Dajka (AUS) awaits the Keirin start
- Laurent Gane (FRA) in the Keirin staging pen
- Jens Fiedler (GER) concentrates
- Fiedler drew the obligation to lead it all out with his teammate Rene Wolff at the top
- Escuredo (ESP) moves to the front with two to go
- Dajka (AUS) gives the full Elvis throw at the line even thought the field lags behind.
- Dajka gets one more for Australia
- Two laps to go and Grankovskaia, Yanovych and Gonzales are all lined up.
- Nothing slowed China's Li Na as she moved to the front for the win.
- Meet Li Na - Chinas' first gold medalist at Worlds.
- The women's keirin podium.
- Jobie Dajka (AUS), men's keirin champ.
- Men's keirin podium
Men's Pursuit
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- Brad McGee (Aus) was today's fastest qualifier
- Luke Roberts (Aus) rode the second best time of 4'21.131
- Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukr) qualified third
- Jens Lehmann (Ger) rides during qualifying
- Bradley Wiggins (GBr) rode a good time of 4'24.378
- Jerome Neuville (Fra) France's best qualifier
- Sergi Escobar Roure (Spa) qualified in sixth place
- Sebastian Siedler (Ger) was the last rider to qualify in the top 8
- Mike Tillman (USA) Missed out on the qualification cut
Images by AFP
- Australian cyclist Brad McGee celebrates after winning the final of the men's individual pursuit
- Australian cyclists Brad McGee and Luke Roberts pose with their medals after the men's individual pursuit
- Brad McGee is congratulated by his wife Sharni and baby Tahlia
- McGee and Roberts celebrate their 1-2 win in the Pursuit
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Brad McGee before start
- McGee at full flight
- Jens Lehmann in the Bronze medal ride
- Luke Roberts rides into silver
- McGee celebrates his win
- McGee from another angle
- McGee continues his celebration
- Mens Pursuit Podium - Roberts, McGee, Lehmann
Women's Pursuit
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- Sara Symington (GBR) 8th
- Erin Mirabella (USA) passes Masa Mazeikyte (Ltu) on the way to seventh place
- Elena Tchalykh (Rus) 6th
- Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Col) 5th in Pursuit qualifying
- Emma Davies (GBR) 4th
- Katherine Bates (Aus) 3rd
- Olga Slioussareva(Rus) 2nd
- Leontien Zijlaard - Van Moorsel (Ned) 1st
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- Australian Katherine Bates rides during the women pursuit first round
- Katherine Bates on her way to silver in the Women's Pursuit
- Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel defends her World Championship title
Men's Team Pursuit
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Australia down to three
- Germany in full flight
- Great Britain finishes up with Brad Wiggins at the front
- Ukraine led in by Oleksandr Symonenko
Images by AFP
- The French team rides during the team pursuit qualifiers
- A commissaire times the Colombia's team during the team pursuit qualifiers
- Great Britain's team rides during the team pursuit qualifiers
- The German team fly past in the Team Pursuit
- The Australian team celebrates their Team Pursuit win
- The Aussies on their way to gold
- Great Britain takes home the bronze
- One high, three low
- The start of Australia's gold medal run
- Great Britain is overtaken by Australia
- Sean Eadie with his aerodynamic beard
Images by Rochelle Gilmore
- Clear winners in the Team Pursuit
- Gold Medallists in the Team Pursuit
- Some very happy Australians
Men's Scratch
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- Swiss Franko Marvulli beats British cyclist Tony Gibb and German Stefan Steinweg to win the men's 15 km scratch race
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Marty Nothstein (USA) had high hopes for the 15k Scratch race.
- Franco Marvulli (SUI) initiated the first successful break.
- Marvulli joined by Stefan Steinweg (GER).
- Volodomyr Rybin (UKR) and Tony Gibb (GBR) join the break and help it take a lap. Then all hell breaks loose.
- The officials discuss how to solve the problem of ringing the bell with 29 laps remaining when the rules state the race is supposed to go 60.
- The race neutralised, the lapped riders removed, the four riders a lap up alone on the track with the lap counter at four laps to go.
- Marvulli takes the final sprint.
- Marvulli can't believe it.
- Hey mom! Oh no - it's just the answering machine!
Men's Kilo TT
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- Ben Kersten of Australia vies in the men's kilometer time trial final
- Anything can happen in one thousandth of a second, as Arnaud Tournant found out
- Chris Hoy wins the gold medal in the men's 1km time trial
- Australian Shane Kelly rides during the 1km time trial
- Even on the podium, Arnaud Tournant can't hide his dissapointment
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Shane Kelly (AUS) ready to rock at an early start position in the Kilo Final.
- Shane Kelly in full flight.
- Chris Hoy (GBR) got a rise out of the crowd with each split.
- Hoy, obviously happy with his clocking.
- Arnaud Tournant (FRA) - so confident he'll win he seems to be smiling.
- Tournant sees his time on the big screen.
- He's not smiling now.
- The rush to get the first quotes from the giant killer.
Women's 500m TT
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- Australian cyclist Kerrie Meares rides in the final of the women's 500m time trial
- Lights are reflected in the helmet of Mexican Nancy Reyes Contreras during the final of the women's 500m time trial
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR) 1st
- Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 5th
- Kerrie Meares (AUS) 3rd
- Katrin Meinke (GER) 4th
- Nancy Contreras Reyes (MEX) 2nd
Teams Sprint
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- Germany (Fiedler, Lausberg, Bergemann) 2nd
- Australia's Ryan Bailey lines up for the Team Sprint
- Jobie Dajka of Australia
- Sean Eadie of Australia
- Eadie leads out the Australian effort (4th place)
- Arnaud Tournant of France is the anchor leg of team France
- Florian Rousseau if France's second
- Mickael Bougain is the starter for France
- Great Britain flies to the fastest time of the meet and gold
- France in full flight.
Images by Rochelle Gilmore
- Team Sprint silver medallists
- The Aussies celebrate the silver
Women's Sprint
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Tanya Lindenmuth keeps the US hopes alive by coming through the first round match sprint repechage
- Tatiana Makarova (RUS) rolls through with one lap to go as her teammate and team enforcer Oxana Grichina tries in vain to take down Li Na of China.
- Grichina gathers her thoughts after failing to crash Li Na.
- Li Na is coached by Frederic Magne of France, the UCI's in-house coach from the World Center for Cycling development program
- The Russians have their way in the restart of the repechage ride against China's Li Na.
- Natallia Tsylinskaya (Blr) covers Kerrie Meares (Aus) attack with one lap to go in ride #1 of the Women's Sprint Finals.
- Meares (Aus) had to come the long way around in ride #1 of the Finals, but Tsylinskaya of Belarus held her off at the line.
- Katrin Meinke met Kathrin Freitag in the all-Germany sprint finals for the Bronze medal.
- Both rides went easily to Meinke.
- Tsylinskaya (Blr) beats Meares (Aus) to the line a second time to claim the Gold Medal.
- Tsylinskaya celebrates her world title with Meares.
Images by Rochelle Gilmore
- Kerrie Meares on the podium
- The women's sprint medallists
Women's Scratch
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- Emma Davies crashes with Greek Eleftheria Ellinikaki during women's scratch final
- The women's scratch podium
- Riders in the women's scratch race
- Czeckh gold medallist Lada Kozlikova in the women's scratch
- Great Britain's Emma Davies is evacuated after falling during the women's scratch
- Emma Davies on the ground after falling during the women's scratch
- Emma Davies and Elefthria Ellinikaki lay on the ground after falling
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Olga Slioussareva (RUS) holds up the action by wearing the same number as Colombia's rider.
- This is what it looks like to be marked by every woman in the world.
- When the action started, the only way any breaks would be brought back was if Slioussareva chased.
- Emma Davies (GBR) before the fall.
- Becky Quinn (USA) was glued to Slioussareva's hip for the entire race.
- Rochelle Gilmore (AUS) kept a close eye on the leaders.
- Lada Kozlikova (Cze) seized the opportunity and took off on her own.
- Lada Kozlikova (Cze) just before gaining a lap and locking up Gold in the Women's Scratch Race.
- Cathy Moncassin (Fra) shoots for the Silver with one lap to go.
- Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) waited patiently for her chance, making Slioussareva pay for all her time at the front.
Images by Rochelle Gilmore
- The women's scratch podium
- Women's Scratch winners pose for photos
Women's Points
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- Competitors ride in the women's point race
- The women's point race podium
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Kathy Bates (AUS) and Olga Slioussareva (RUS) pace the field in the 100 lap Women's Points Race. Imagine this photo 80 more times.
- Olga Slioussareva placed 1st or 2nd in 8 out of 10 sprints, and Australia's Kathy Bates looked podium-bound until...
- Lada Kozlikova (Cze) initiated a solo break, Vera Carrara (Ita) bridged, and when no one would help Slioussareva chase, they gained a lap, both were awarded 20 points (new rules), not the race win (under the old rules).
Men's Madison
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- Fabio Masotti and Marco Villa ride during the madison event
- Frenchmen Jerome Neuville and Franck Perque Show off their medals
- Jerome Neuville and Franck Perque celebrate after winning the madison
- Jerome Neuville and Franck Perque on the podium
- Neuville and Perque race during the madison
- Neuville and Perque celebrate their win
- Madison slingshot by Neuville and Perque
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Colombia, Leonardo Duque and Victor Herrera Ramos
- Denmark, Morten Christiansen and Jimmy Hansen
- Italy, Marco Villa and Fabio Masotti
- Australia, Graeme Brown and Scott McGrory
- France, Jérôme Neuville on the way to France taking a lap.
- France, Franck Perque on the way to France taking a lap.
- Austria, Roland Garber and Franz Stocher
- Spain's Juan Llaneras Rossello powers the chase to keep France from going up a lap.
- USA, Colby Pearce and Michael Tillman
- Switzerland, Franco Marvulli and Alexander Aeschbach
- Spain, Juan Llaneras Rossello and Isaac Galvez Lopez
- France, Franck Perque and Jérôme Neuville
- Netherlands, Robert Slippens and Danny Stam
- Great Britain, Tony Gibb and Bryan Steel
- Argentina, Juan Curuchet and Edgardo Simon
Men's Sprint
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- Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant await the all-France Bronze Medal Final in front of a full House at Siemens Arena
- Arnaud Tournant drew the obligation and leads out ride one
- Florian Rousseau simply had more speed this week that the worlds fastest man
- Sean Eadie leads out Jobie Jajka in the all-Australia Final for the Gold Medal
- The photo finish had to be called in for ride one - which showed Dajka on top over Eadie
- Floriam Rousseau leads out ride two against Tournant
- Florian Rousseau sets a fast pace for Tournant at one lap to go
- Tournant pops in the last turn, handing the Bronze to Rousseau
- Jobie Dajka leads out Eadie in the rubber match
- Eadie jumps on Dajka with one lap to go
- Eadie's powerful attack forces a third and deciding ride
- A hiresuit Eadie prepares for the deciding ride
- Dajka awaits the start of ride three
- Eadie talks over the final ride with himself
- Dajka rolls out the first lap
- Gold Medal on the line. Leaping to its feet in reaction to Eadie's 10.602 final charge, the crowd witnessed a blistering finish
- Sean Eadie accepts the adulation of the crowd
- Now done as a salute - Eadie celebrates by grooming his beard
- Your new World Match Sprint Champion - Sean Eadie
- One last look at the beard
- The podium - Dajka, Eadie and Rousseau
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Sean Eadie (AUS) blasts past in the Men's Sprint quarters
- Jens Fiedler (GER) in his Sprint heat
- Laurent Gane (FRA) lost to Eadie in the quarters
- Arnaud Tournant's winning streak stopped in the semi-final
- Jamie Staff (GBR) top seed
- Staff and Labauve in the first ride. It looked like this for three laps.
- Sean Eadie , or Brutus as he is sometimes known.
- Renee Wolff (GER) over Mickael Bourgain (FRA) in the first round.
- Labauve and Berzins (LAT) trail Bayley in the repechage, but the pair made for a better shot that the threesome.
- Rousseau and Staff in ride one of the best of three 1/4 finals
- It was close, but Staff couldn't hold onto his top seeding in his first full Worlds program.
- Rene Wolff pips Tournant, but the finish was overturned due to a slight bump on the second lap.
- Sean Eadie had Gane's number in ride one.
- Staff tried leading out the second ride against Rousseau.
- Same result as ride one - Rousseau has the advantage in the full program.
- Tournant left no doubt in ride two versus Wolff.
- Dajka let Jens Fiedler lead out the second heat, but had plenty of power in reserve to finish the job.
- Dajka celebrates making the 1/2 finals.
- Eadie polishing off Gane in fine form.
Images by Rochelle Gilmore
- Arnaud Tournant prepares to clip
- The clippers do their job
- Sean Eadie warms up
- Sean on the podium
- The new Men's Sprint world champ
- Eadie is mobbed by the media
