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Sydney Track World Cup - CDM
Sydney, Australia, May 14 - 16, 2004
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Day 2 round-up
Afternoon session
The afternoon session of the second day of the Sydney track World Cup mostly comprised qualifiers, with elimination and selection occuring for the men's sprint; men's team pursuit; Women's IP; and men's points. In the session's only final, the women's 500m time trial gold went, rather nicely, to a rider celebrating her birthday today!
Evening session
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Saturday evening saw a near-capacity crowd turn out at Dunc Gray to watch a packed evening of finals. After a tense bronze medal ride-off came down to a photo in the team pursuit, the British squad gave a fine display of well-drilled teamwork to take the gold - though they admit they'll have to go faster to repeat the feat in Melbourne or Athens.
Next up were the finals of the women's individual pursuit and her home crowd cheered Australian Alexis Rhodes to the bronze, coming back from almost a second down, then adopted New Zealander Sarah Ulmer who repaid the favour by riding a personal best and getting within four-tenths of a second of the world record.
The men's points race was one of the fastest and most exciting of its kind ever as American Colby Pearce rode a hard, attacking race to lap the field twice and score a classy victory.
The women's keirin went from start to finish in the evening session and was teken out by China's Shuang Guo - who said she'd rather have had th sprint!
Finally, the men's sprint turned into a European showdown as the two Japanese riders who'd made the final four were both eliminated in the semis, leaving Craig Maclean (Great Britain) to take on and best Spain's José Antonio Villanueva.
Photography
Evening session
Images by John Stevenson/Cyclingnews
- Sean Eadie psyches up - helped by the menacing pink shoes behind him
Images by Mark Gunter
- The GB pursuit team demonstrate formation flying
- Team GB, led here by Paul Manning look like a serious medal threat for Melbourne
- Alexis Rhodes (Australia) gets her game face on
- Sarah Ulmer (New Zealand) on the way to a PB and near-record in a storming pursuit victory
- Colby Pearce (USA) rode an attacking points race, lapping the field twice
- Colby Pearce (USA) celebrates a well-earned victory
- Colby Pearce (USA) on the podium as the Star Spangled Banner is played
- An action-packed points race entertained a near-capacity crowd
- Heads down, no-nonsense, mindless boogie as Craig Maclean (GB) gets the better of Antonio Villanueva (Spain) in the sprint final
- Shuang Guo (China) powers to the win in the the women's keirin
Morning session
Images by Mark Gunter
- Jose Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) posted the quickest time this morning in the flying 200m
- The Aussies have a go in the team persuit qualifications
- The team from Great Britain are the fastest ahead of tonight's final
- Alexis Rhodes (Australia) is racing for bronze tonight in the 3 km individual persuit
- Sarah Ulmer (New Zealand) was flying today and is the favourite for gold
- Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) won the 500m time trial
- Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) couldn't repeat yesterday's silver and came in fifth
- World champ Franz Stocher(Austria) battles it out with Sven Teutenberg(GER) in the first heat of the points race
