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2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM

France, April 13-16, 2006

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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)