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Track World Cup Round 3 - CDM
Cape Town, South Africa, April 11-13, 2003
Day 1 - April 11
Van Zyl comes good
By Annemarie Penderis
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SA track star, Jean-Pierre Van Zyl did not disappoint his supporters this weekend, taking a silver medal in front of the home crowd on the first day of competition in the UCI Track World Cup in Capetown.
It was the first time that South Africa hosted this prestigious event that attracted 250 athletes from a record 39 countries. This event was the third leg of the competition that will see the cyclists move to Sydney, Australia for the final stage before the World Championships in China in July.
Spectators were treated to record breaking performances by defending world champions in the various disciplines, including British cyclist Chris Hoy who broke the 1km time trial record in a time of 1.03.302, with an average speed of 56.87 km/h.
But all performances were eclipsed by the pride of South Africans in JP Van Zyl's performance, taking a the silver medal in front of a home crowd behind Alexander Aeschbach of Switzerland. "This has been one of the most amazing evenings in our lives," said an emotional Hilda van Zyl, Van Zyl's's mother and number one fan.
"When he won the gold in Italy and received the freedom of Milan, we weren't there. When he won the bronze in Australia - we weren't there. It is so difficult to describe the feelings you experience when you watch your son going up against some of the top names in racing." During the final lap of the 15 kilometre scratch race, four riders went down and Iijuma Makoto of Japan was hospitalised for observation.
In the 30km Points race the following day, Van Zyl did not fare as well, only managing ninth.
Men's Kilometer Time Trial
1 Chris Hoy (GBr) 1.03.302 (56.87 km/h) 2 Stefan Nimke (Ger) 1.04.623 3 Shane Kelly (Aus) 1.04.736 4 Herve Gane (Fra) 1.05.419 5 Grzegorz Krejner (Pol) 1.05.446 6 Ahmed Lopez (Cub) 1.05.447 7 Ruben Donet Gregori (Spa) 1.05.799 8 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukr) 1.06.050 9 Masaki Inoue (Jpn) 1.06.206 10 Jan Lepka (Svk) 1.06.214 11 Garen Bloch (RSA) 1.06.342 12 Teun Mulder (Ned) 1.06.513 13 Benjamin Martinez (Bol) 1.06.630 14 Wilson Meneses (Col) 1.06.778 15 Christian Stahl (USA) 1.07.241 16 Janis Balevics (Lat) 1.07.269 17 Neil Campbell (NZl) 1.07.517 18 Richeze Maximiliano (Arg) 1.07.852 19 Anthanasios Mantouranis (Gre) 1.07.854 20 Jeong-Wook Choi (Kor) 1.08.368 21 Mario Alberto Sanchez (Mex) 1.09.921 22 Dor Ming Chau (HKg) 1.14.004
Men's Individual pursuit
Qualification 1 Luke Roberts (Aus) 4.33.802 (52.593 km/h) 2 Jerome Neuville (Fra) 4.34.922 3 Sergi Escobar Roure (Spa) 4.35.914 4 Oleksandr Symonenko (Ukr) 4.38.369 5 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) 4.38.862 6 Vasil Kiryiemla (Blr) 4.40.601 7 Robert Karsnicki (Pol) 4.42.574 8 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) 4.43.057 9 Kristian House (GBr) 4.43.759 10 Peter Schep (Ned) 4.44.396 11 Tyler Farrar (USA) 4.44.954 12 Ioannis Tamouridis (Gre) 4.45.713 13 Jose Serpa (Col) 4.47.043 14 Stefano Marenco (Ita) 4.47.440 15 Ilia Krestianinov (Rus) 4.50.024 16 Jean-Francois Laroche (Can) 4.50.555 17 Morten Rejnhold (Den) 4.51.101 18 Aurel Vig (Hun) 4.52.625 19 John Van Den Abeele (Bel) 4.56.382 20 Siu Lun Ho (HKg) 4.59.995 Final classification 1 Luke Roberts (Aus) 2 Jerome Neuville (Fra) 3 Sergi Escobar Roure (Spa) 4 Oleksandr Symonenko (Ukr) 5 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) 6 Vasil Kiryiemla (Blr) 7 Robert Karsnicki (Pol) 8 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) 9 Kristian House (GBr)
Men's Scratch 15 km
1 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 2 Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 3 Jeroen Straathof (Ned) 4 Said Haddou (Fra) 5 Roland Garber (Aut) 6 Marco Menin (Ita) 7 Mark Renshaw (Aus) 8 Dimitri De Fauw (Bel) 9 Walter Fernando Perez (Arg) 10 Mark Ernsting (Can) 11 Vasileios Anastopoulos (Gre) 12 Andreas Muller (Ger) 13 Alex Rasmussen (Den) 14 Vasyl Yakovlev (Ukr) 15 Audras Szabo (Hun) 16 Miguel Alzamora Riera (Spa) DNF Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) DNF Petr Lazar (Cze) DNF Makoto Iijima (Jpn) DNF Martin Liska (Svk)
Men's Keirin
1 Jose Escuredo Ramondes (Spa) 11.393 2 Martin Benjamin (Ned) 3 Peter Bazalik (Svk) 4 Jonathan Marin (Col) 5 Pavel Buran (Cze) 6 Jamie Staff (GBr) 7 Mickael Bourgain (Fra) 8 Matthias John (Ger) 9 Stephen Alfred (USA) 10 Mark French (Aus)
Women's Points race 20 km
1 Svetlana Ivakhonenkova (Blr) 42 pts 2 Vera Carrara (Ita) 34 3 Cathy Moncassin (Fra) 27 4 Christina Becker (Ger) 24 5 Erin Mirabella (USA) 23 6 Anouska Van Der Zee (Ned) 20 7 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spa) 11 8 Kate Bates (Aus) 9 9 Mandy Poitras (Can) 5 10 Yulia Arustamova (Rus) 5 11 Ine Wannijn (Bel) 2 12 Adrie Visser (Ned) 2 13 Mette Andreasen (Den) 2 14 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) 2 15 Eleftheria-Mari Ellinikaki (Gre) 0 16 Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukr) 0 17 Sari Saarelainen (Fin) 0 18 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) 0 19 Anke Wichmann (Ger) 0 DNF Sarah Uhl (USA) 0
Women's Sprint
Qualification - 200m time trial 1 Daniela Lorreal (Ven) 11.723 (61.418 km/h) 2 Svetlana Grankovskaya (Rus) 11.761 3 Natallia Tsilinskaya (Blr) 11.784 4 Katrin Meinke (Ger) 11.834 5 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 11.972 6 Anna Meares (Aus) 12.077 7 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) 12.107 8 Na Li (Chn) 12.109 9 Kerrie Meares (Aus) 12.120 10 Tamilla Abassova (Rus) 12.147 11 Kathrin Freitag (Ger) 12.156 12 Nancy Llarely Contreras (Mex) 12.170 13 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) 12.244 14 Celine Nivert (Fra) 12.262 15 Iryna Yanovych (Ukr) 12.266 16 Yvonne Hilgenaar (Ned) 12.293 17 Elizabeth Williams (NZl) 12.388 18 Simone Krupeckaite (Ltu) 12.487 19 Diana Garcia (Col) 12.541 20 Sarah Uhl (USA) 12.545 21 Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukr) 12.553 22 Katarzyna Jagusiak (Pol) 12.810 DNS Tomoko Endo (Jpn) Final classification 1 Svetlana Grankovskaya (Rus) 2 Katrin Meinke (Ger) 3 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) 4 Daniela Lorreal (Ven) 5 Kerrie Meares (Aus) 6 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 7 Tamilla Abassova (Rus) 8 Na Li (Chn) 9 Anna Meares (Aus) 10 Kathrin Freitag (Ger)
