Track World Cup 07-08 Round 1 - CDM

Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 2, 2007

Photography

Race 6 - December 2: Men: Madison, Sprint; Women: Team pursuit, Keirin

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Images by Ross Harding - VELO SportZ Media/www.velosportz.com.au

French & Perkins (Australia) try to rider over the top of Pervis from France in the Men's Keirin
Pervis (France) giving everything he's got!
The Slovakian Madison team looking very focused during a sling
The Japanese Madison team swapping turns in the heat of the Madison.
Gregory Bauge (France) beating his countryman by the narrowest of margins.
Women's sprint final , J Gong from China Vs Hijgenaar from the Netherlands start the sprint
Phil Thuaux (Drapac Porsche) rides to a 4:23 in the individual pursuit qualifying in second place to later ride off for gold
Christensen (Denmark) going head to head with Phil Thuaux
M Ryan (New Zealand) in the 4000m individual Pursuit Qualifier
N Novikov (Mockba) gives the Pursuit Qualifying everything he has while riding against Ryan from New Zealand

Images by John Veage

The final fof the men's sprint was a ride off between two team mates.
The men's sprint podium.
Psyching your opponent out before a race is par for the course on the track.
Gregory Bauge lost out to Mickaël Bourgain for the final.
The Netherlands won the overall teams prize.
A very happy Dutch squad.
The women's keirin came down to the wire.
But was eventually won by the world champion, Victoria Pendleton.
Pendleton got off to a good start to take the Derny's wheel.
One lap to go in the women's keirin.
The first ever podium for the womens team pursuit.
Russia got stronger and stronger as they went.
Thumbs up from the Russian coach.
The madison podium: Spain, Holland, Denmark.
The winnners, Jen Mouris and Peter Schep.
The winning team mid sling.
The Spanish team looked to have the madison wrapped up until 20 laps to go..

Race 5 - December 2: Men: Qualifying: Sprint, Madison; Women: Qualifying: Team pursuit, Keirin

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The Australian Women on their way to qualifying second

Race 4 - December 1: Men: Keirin, Team pursuit, Scratch race; Women: Points race, 500m TT, Team Sprint

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Michaël D'Almeida (France) on his way to gold in the kilo
Hao Li Wen (China) and Michaël D'Almeida (France) with third place Yevgen Bolibrukh (Ukraine) on the men's kilo podium
Yevgen Bolibrukh (Ukraine) on his way to bronze in the kilo
Tour runner up Cadel Evans was on hand in the Dunc Gray Velodrome
The first nights' gold medal winners are presented before the evening's session
Josiah Ng (Malaysia) and Hoy go head to head in the keirin
Chris Hoy and Theo Bos share a joke before the men's keirin
New Zealand surprised takes the men's keirin
Plenty of fans were on hand to witness the men's scratch race
Roger Kluge (Germany) takes the men's scratch race
New Zealand surprised to take second in the team pursuit
The British pursuit team powers to gold
The womens' points race was hotly contested
Yan Li took the sprint but was relegated to second by the judges
Giorgia Bronzini (center) took the win in the points race over Yan Li (China) who was relegated. Czech rider Jarmila Machacova was third
The women's team sprint podium Australia, Netherlands and France
The winning Dutch team Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar
Kerrie Meares and Kaarle Mcculloch took silver in the team sprint
Meares, the reigning World Champ wins the 500m TT
Anna Meares (Team Toshiba) gets the gold in the 500m TT
The women's 500m TT podium Lisandra Guerra (Cuba, 2nd), Anna Meares (Australia) 1st and Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 3rd

Race 2 - November 30: Men: Individual pursuit, Team sprint, Points race, Kilometre TT; Women: Individual pursuit, Sprint, Scratch race

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Images by John Veage

Dyudya on the way to gold in the men's individual pursuit. The Ukranian also rides on the road for Team Milram.
Phillip Thuaux (Drapac Porsche) battles in the gold medal final. He took second to Ukranian Volodymyr Dyudya.
Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukraine) took gold in the individual pursuit
Henderson leads the field in the men's points race.
Cameron Meyer (Toshiba) keeps an eye on the competition in the points race. Meyer took third.
Kiwi Greg Henderson beat Spaniard Toni Tauler to win the men's points race
Greg Henderson (New Zealand) gave the Kiwis their first gold of the World Cup
The Australians on Team Toshiba get started in the team sprint
Team Toshiba takes a victory lap
The Australian Team Toshiba tops the podium with Germans radnet.de in second and Cofidis (France) in third
Team Toshiba heads toward gold in the men's team sprint
Mactier in action on her way to a repeat gold at the Sydney World Cup
Katie Mactier (Australia) listens to the national athem atop the podium
Katie Mactier (Australia) rides to gold in the women's individual pursuit
Willy Kanis (Netherlands) takes the women's sprint gold medal
The women's sprint podium: Anna Meares (2nd), Willy Kanis (1st), Natallia Tsylinskaya (3rd)
Anna Meares (Team Toshiba) watches Dutch woman Willy Kanis
World Champion Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso waits for her moment in the scratch race
Out of the last turn in the women's scratch race, Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso takes the lead
Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) won the women's scratch race
Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) poses before the medal ceremony

Images by Stoyan Vassev

Mikhail Ignatiev (Russian Federation) riding the points race.
Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) takes the hard finish in women's scratch race.
Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) fighting for victory in the quarterfinals of women's sprint.
Cofidis team fights for third place in men's team sprint.
Team Toshiba after taking the first place in men's team sprint.
Volodymyr Dyudya (Ukraine) tops the men's individual pursuit podium.
Willy Kanis (Netherlands) won the women's sprint.
Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) and Denis Dmitriev (Russian Federation) after the award ceremony in women's sprint.