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Track World Cup Round 4 - CDM

Sydney, Australia, May 16-18, 2003

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The world's best head to Sydney for the final round of the Track Cycling World Cup

Rochelle Gilmore
Photo © Tom Balks

Forty two countries will be represented when 201 of the world's top track cyclists converge on the Dunc Gray Velodrome in Sydney for the fourth and final round of the UCI World Cup Classics series. The three day event will run from May 16th to 18th and will feature world, Olympic, Commonwealth and national champions.

"There will be more cyclists on the track at the Sydney World Cup than at the Sydney Olympic Games," said Cycling Australia President, Mike Victor. "It will be one of the most exciting events Australia has ever hosted and sports fans can expect top notch racing on one of the world's best velodromes."

Cycling Australia has confirmed Australia's 14 rider team. It includes three time world kilometre champion, Shane Kelly, 31; dual Commonwealth Games champion and world championship medallist, Kerrie Meares, 20; 2001 keirin world champion and Commonwealth Games Sprint Champion, Ryan Bayley, 21, and teenage sprint sensation and four time junior world champion, Mark French, 18, who claimed the Champion of Champions trophy in his first year of senior competition at the Australian Championships in Sydney.

But Australia will face tough competition from the rest of the world with a stellar line up heading to Sydney.

Star of the future: Mark French
Photo © Tom Balks

France is sending a team of seven including nine time world champion, Arnaud Tournant, 24, who holds the current world record for the one kilometre time trial. Joining him will be eight time world and three time Olympic gold medallist, Florian Rousseau, 29, and four time world champion and Olympic gold medallist, Laurent Gane, 30. The trio claimed the team sprint gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and is keen to gain revenge on the Australians who unseated them from the number one world ranking in track cycling at last year's world championships.

Two time Olympic sprint champion, Jens Fiedler, 33, will head the German assault and Great Britain will field Jamie Staff, 30, a member of the current Team Sprint world champion trio.

Another Sydney Olympic champion heading back to Dunc Gray is American Marty Nothstein, 32. Nothstein claimed the sprint gold medal in 2000 but is now concentrating on endurance events.

The Sydney World Cup Classic presents several riders with an opportunity to claim 2003 World Cup Champion honours in individual disciplines with points awarded to tenth place. It will also decide the winning nation in the 2003 World Cup Classics Series. After the first three rounds in Moscow, Mexico and South Africa the leading nation is Germany with 289 points followed by France on 252 points, Russia on 219 points and Australia is in fourth place with 195 points.

Sixteen events will be contested over the three days of competition. The World Cup Classics are part of the qualification process for the Track Cycling world championships and several nations will be keen to gain points to secure places.

The nations competing are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei , Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, United States of America and Venezuela.

The Program

Day 1 - Friday, May 16

Men's Individual Pursuit
Men's Keirin
Men's Kilometer Time Trial
Men's Scratch Race 15 km
Women's Points Race 20 km
Women's Sprint
Women's Sprint 200m Time Trial

Day 2 - Friday, May 17

Men's Points Race 30 km
Men's Sprint
Men's Sprint 200m Time Trial
Men's Team pursuit
Women's 500m Time Trial
Women's Individual pursuit
Women's Keirin

Day 3 - Friday, May 17

Men's Madison 40 km
Men's Team Sprint
Women's Scratch 10 km
Women's Team Sprint