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World Track Championships - CM
Stuttgart, Germany, July 30 - August 3, 2003
Event program and results Qualifying Round 1 Finals
Men's Team Sprint
Germans too good for French
By Valkerie Mangnall in Stuttgart, Germany
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The powerhouse German outfit of Carsten Bergemann, Jens Fiedler and Rene Wolff were deserving winners, riding a blistering 49.957 seconds to take out the team sprint title on the final day of competition.
The home team qualified third fastest with 50.503 behind Great Britain's 50.470 and France (50.498). But the Germans turned up the heat in the first round, posting an impressive 50.030 to set up a clash for the gold and silver medals with French trio Mickael Bourgain, Laurent Gane and Arnaud Tournant, who set a first round time of 50.125. France clocked 50.071 in taking silver, but Germany were the clear winners.
Defending champions Great Britain were pushed out into a duel with Australia for bronze, which the British team of Craig McLean, Jamie Staff and Chris Hoy won.
Photography
Images by Hennes Roth/www.roth-foto.de
- The French team in action during the Team Sprint final
- France rode well, but had to settle for silver behind Germany
- The German team sets off from the starting blocks
- Germany en route to winning the gold medal in the team sprint
- The German team could hardly breathe after their win, having gone so deep
- Jens Fiedler, Carsten Bergemann and Rene Wolff celebrate after their win in the team sprint
- Carsten Bergemann, Jens Fiedler and Rene Wolff on the podium after their win
- A photo opportunity...
- Gold tastes good for the Germans
- High fives all round for the German world champions
Images by AFP
- In the first round heats, Craig Mclean (Great Britain) swings off to allow powerhouse Jason Queally to take Great Britain into the playoff for the bronze medal.
- Rene Wolff (Germany) swings in to do the final lap in the final of the team sprint.
- The French trio of Mickaël Bourgain, Laurent Gane and Arnaud Tournant let it rip on the opening lap of the team sprint final.
- Australia's Jobie Dajka leads his team-mates Mark French and Ryan Bayley in their quest for the bronze medal.
- Jens Fielder collapses on the ground after a sterling team effort by the German trio to claim the gold medal.
- Carsten Bergemann dances around the stadium with the national flag of Germany after his team's gold medal-winning performance.
Results
Qualifying 1 Great Britain 50.470 Chris Hoy Craig Mclean Jason Queally 2 Fra - France 50.488 Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gane Arnaud Tournant 3 Germany 50.503 Carsten Bergemann Jens Fiedler René Wolff 4 Australia 50.707 Ryan Bayley Jobie Dajka Mark French 5 Spain 50.802 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez Salvador Melia José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad 6 Netherlands 50.939 Jan Bos Theo Bos Teun Mulder 7 Japan 51.195 Toshiaki Fushimi Kiyofumi Nagai Tomohiro Nagatsuka 8 Greece 52.023 Kleanthis Bargas Dimitris Georgalis Lampros Vasilopoulos 9 Poland 52.044 Rafal Furman Lukasz Kwiatkowski Damian Zielinski 10 Czech Republic 52.105 Pavel Buran Arnost Dromanek Alois Kankovsky 11 Cuba 52.619 Julio Cesar Herrera Cabrera Ahmed Lopez Michel Pedrozo 12 Colombia 53.108 Rodrigo Barros Carpintero Jonathan Marin Wilson Meneses 13 Russia 53.114 Vladimir Kiriltsev Sergey Koucherov Dmitry Leopold U.S.A. Round 1 Heat 1 1 Australia 50.631 (61.006 km/h) Ryan Bayley Jobie Dajka Mark French 2 Spain 50.742 (60.872 km/h) José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez Salvador Melia José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad Heat 2 1 Germany 50.030 (61.738 km/h) Carsten Bergemann Jens Fiedler René Wolff 2 Netherlands 50.727 (60.890 km/h) Jan Bos Theo Bos Teun Mulder Heat 3 1 France 50.125 (61.621 km/h) Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gane Arnaud Tournant 2 Japan 51.369 (60.129 km/h) Toshiaki Fushimi Kiyofumi Nagai Tomohiro Nagatsuka Heat 4 1 Great Britain 50.276 (61.436 km/h) Craig Mclean Jason Queally Jamie Staff 2 Greece 51.984 (59.418 km/h) Kleanthis Bargas Dimitris Georgalis Lampros Vasilopoulos Finals For gold and silver 1 Germany 49.957 (61.829 km/h) Carsten Bergemann Jens Fiedler René Wolff 2 France 50.071 (61.688 km/h) Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gane Arnaud Tournant For bronze 1 Great Britain 50.442 (61.234 km/h) Chris Hoy Craig Mclean Jamie Staff 2 Australia 50.653 (60.979 km/h) Ryan Bayley Jobie Dajka Mark French
