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Sydney Track World Cup - CDM
Sydney, Australia, May 14 - 16, 2004
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Day 1 round-up
Afternoon session
The final round of the track world cup series kicked off at Sydney's Dunc Gray Velodrome this afternoon with qualifying events in the men's keirin, women's sprint; men's 4000m individual pursuit and men's scratch race.
Notable performances of the afternoon session came from Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukraine) qualifying fastest in the men's 4000m with a time of 4.28.504 and Kyung Bang Song (Korea) and Mathie Ladagnous (France) winning their heats in the men's scratch.
Evening session
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A crowd of about 2000 turned out to watch an eventful evening's racing in the second session of the Sydney World Cup which saw finals in the men's scratch, women's points race, men's individual pursuit, women's sprint, men's kilometer t.t and men's keirin.
Australian junior Miles Olman rode a crowd-pleasing race in the men's scratch, but was unable to stay away and the Netherlands' Robert Slippens took gold.
The women's points race saw the standout ride of the night as Alexis Rhodes (Australia) charged away from the opposition not once but twice to lap the field and amass an unassailable lead - to the delight of the home crowd.
Brit Paul Manning was rewarded for the long flight out from the UK with a gold medal in the men's individual pursuit ahead of Ukrainian Volodymyr Dyuda, while his almost-countryman, Scot Chris Hoy, lit up a frankly lacklustre kilo time trial by powering to the gold medal in 1.02.399, over two seconds faster than runner-up Ahmed Lopez (Cuba).
Finally, the host nation took another gold in the men's keirin as Jobie Dajka, fresh from racing the International Keirin Series in Japan, powered from mid-pack with a third of a lap to go and made beating José Antonio Villaneuva (Spain) and Anthony Peden (New Zealand) look effortless.
Photography
Images by Mark Gunter
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- Tanya Lindenmuth explaining what went wrong in her heat of the women's sprint
- Things were pretty tight in the semis of the men's scratch race
- Michael Ford came in fifth in the 4km individual pursuit qualification
- Clara Sanchez (France) and Katrin Meinke (Germany) battle it out in the womens sprint
- Volodymyr Dyuda (Ukraine) had the fastest time today in the individual pursuit
- Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) was fastest in the qualifications for the flying 200
Images by Mark Gunter
- Barry Ford (Barbados) picked up some nasty scrapes in qualifying
- Jobie Dajka (Australia) came from mid-field to take a dominating win in the keirin
- The keiren final was a tightly fought contest but Dajka came out on top
- Paul Manning (Great Britain) won gold in the ITT
- Chris Hoy (Great Britain) was way too good and powered to an easy win in the 1 km time trial
- The field start to spread out as the attacks start
- Miles Olman (Australia) put in a valiant effort but couldn't quite stay away in the men's scratch race
- Robert Slippens (Netherlands) took the win in the 15km scratch
- Alexis Rhodes (Australia) earned her win the hard way, lapping the field twice
- Alexis Rhodes worked hard for a win in the points race
- Alexis Rhodes leads the field
- The final of the women's sprint was a crowd pleaser
- Anna Meares (Australia) and Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) battled it out in the final of the women's sprint
- Anna Meares enjoyed her win
