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2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM
France, April 13-16, 2006
Men's sprint
Men's sprint qualifying and 1/16 finals
By Mal Sawford in Bordeaux
On another cool morning at the Bordeaux velodrome, the world's fastest sprinters posted some very impressive times, with the top six all under 10.2 seconds. Fastest of all was 2004 world champion Theo Bos, in 10.100 seconds; but at the other end of the scale was 2005 champion Rene Wolff who recorded the slowest time of all, 11.001. With a mammoth 43 starters, the top 24 progressed through to the 1/16 finals, and apart from Wolff, all the favourites advanced.
The 1/16 finals generally saw the fastest seeded rider advance, the only exception was the defeat of French team sprint star, Gregory Bauge, who was beaten by Italian veteran Roberto Chiappa, much to the disgust of the vocal French crowd. Chiappa seemed to thrive on the crowd's disappointment, however, and let everyone know he was the number one rider on the track.
Results
Qualifying - 200m TT 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.100 (71.287 km/h) 2 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 10.111 3 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.116 4 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.149 5 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.177 6 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.189 7 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.230 8 Grégory Bauge (France) 10.237 9 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.238 10 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.256 11 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.276 12 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 10.339 13 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spain) 10.346 14 Matt Crampton (Great Britain) 10.348 15 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 10.377 16 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.404 17 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) 10.427 18 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.427 19 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine) 10.506 20 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) 10.510 21 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) 10.512 22 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan) 10.542 23 Christian Stahl (USA) 10.551 24 Qiming Wang (China) 10.553 25 Zhang Lei (China) 10.553 26 Takashi Kaneko (Japan) 10.589 27 Pavel Noskov (Russia) 10.591 28 Denis Dmitriev (Russia) 10.608 29 Sergey Borisov (Russia) 10.618 30 Lin Feng (China) 10.648 31 Steven Alfred (USA) 10.657 32 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) 10.657 33 Josiah Ng On Lam (Malaysia) 10.666 34 Benjamin Wittmann (Germany) 10.688 35 Kasper Jessen (Denmark) 10.709 36 Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) 10.806 37 Krzysztof Szymanek (Poland) 10.834 38 Ivan Vrba (Czech Republic) 10.836 39 Vasileros Reppas (Greece) 10.852 40 Wilson Meneses Gutierrez (Colombia) 10.890 41 Benjamin Barczewski (USA) 10.924 42 Kostantinos Pentarakis (Greece) 10.977 1/16 Finals Heat 1 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 11.410 2 Qiming Wang (China) Heat 2 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 11.169 2 Christian Stahl (USA) Heat 3 1 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.906 2 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan) Heat 4 1 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.755 2 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) Heat 5 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.870 2 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) Heat 6 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.723 2 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine) Heat 7 1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.864 2 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) Heat 8 1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.682 2 Grégory Bauge (France) Heat 9 1 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.929 2 Travis Smith (Canada) Heat 10 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.924 2 Matt Crampton (Great Britain) Heat 11 1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.800 2 Matt Crampton (Great Britain) Heat 12 1 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 11.038 2 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spain) 1/8 finals Heat 1 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.623 2 Ryan Bayley (Australia) Heat 2 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 10.978 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.822 2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) Heat 4 1 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.919 2 Damian Zielinski (Poland) Heat 5 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.692 2 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) Heat 6 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) dead heat in 10.827 1 Arnaud Tournant (France) Heat 6 rerun 1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.904 2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 1/8 repechage Heat 1 1 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.869 2 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 3 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Heat 2 1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) dead heat for 1-2 in 10.888 1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 3 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) Heat 2 rerun for 1-2 1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.989 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 1/4 finals Heat 1 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.540 10.778 2 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) Heat 2 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 10.753 10.691 2 Damian Zielinski (Poland) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.895 10.771 2 Arnaud Tournant (France) Heat 4 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 11.082 10.468 2 Maximilian Levy (Germany) For 5th-8th Semi-finals Heat 1 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.801 10.376 2 Stefan Nimke (Germany) Heat 2 1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 10.465 10.785 2 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.464 Finals For gold and silver 1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.374 10.510 2 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) For bronze 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.576 10.683 2 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
