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Track World Cup 07-08 Round 1 - CDM
Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 2, 2007
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Session 5 - December 2: Men: Qualifying: Sprint, Madison; Women: Qualifying: Team pursuit, Keirin
Australia V Russia for inaugural women teams pursuit
By Karen Forman
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Tonight's final session of the Sydney Track World Cup being played out this weekend at Dunc Gray Velodrome will feature a sizzling Women's Team Pursuit final between the host nation and Russia.
The Australian contingent of Belinda Goss, pursuit gold medalist Katie Mactier and Josephine Tomic will be looking to turn the tables tonight after finishing second to Russia's 3.33.868 in this afternoon's qualifying event.
While the Russians (Eugeniya Romanyuta, Olga Slyusareva and Anastasiay Chulkova) raced at an average speed of 50.498, the Aussies averaged a slightly slower 50.455kmh to record 3.34.052.
Vying for the bronze will be the Ukraine team of Svetlana Galuk, Lesya Kalitovska and Lyubov SHulika (3.34.128) and New Zealand (Catherine Cheatley, Joanne Kiesanowski and Alison Shanks), which rode 3.37.029 this afternoon.
Adding to the excitement is the fact that this is the first time women's teams' pursuit has been staged at a Track World Cup fixture, so at this point the Russian team's qualifying time is the current World Cup record.
And while both teams bring proven talent to the track tonight - Slyusareva was the 2004 World Cup scratch race and Olympic points race champion; Mactier just picked up the gold for the individual pursuit this weekend, this new team's pursuit for the girls is wide open.
With the men's version being one of the biggest crowd pleases in track racing, the crowd tonight should really get into the spirit of the event and enjoy being part of history in the making.
Almost 400 of the world's best cyclists from 48 countries, including 27 professional teams, 15 reigning world champions and nine 2004 Olympic gold medalists, have descended on Sydney for the biggest track cycling event ever staged.
Sydney is the first of four rounds of the UCI World Cup Classics (Sydney, Beijing, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen) to be followed by the World Championships in Manchester in March with Olympic Games qualification points on the line at all five events.
Other finals on tonight's program, set to start at 4.30pm and wind about at around 7.30pm, will include the women's keirin, men's sprint and the grand finale: the men's Madison.
Stay tuned on Cyclingnews for stories and images of the finals as they happen!
Photography
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- The Australian Women on their way to qualifying second
Results
Men's Sprint Qualifying 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 10.179 (70.733 km/h) 2 Gregory Bauge (France) 10.188 (70.671 km/h) 3 Mickaël Bourgain (Cofidis) 10.193 (70.636 km/h) 4 Kévin Sireau (Cofidis) 10.215 (70.484 km/h) 5 Ryan Bayley (Team Toshiba) 10.243 (70.291 km/h) 6 Mark French (Australia) 10.264 (70.148 km/h) 7 François Pervis (France) 10.271 (70.100 km/h) 8 Shane Perkins (Australia) 10.280 (70.038 km/h) 9 Ross Edgar (Scienceinsport.Com) 10.307 (69.855 km/h) 10 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 10.312 (69.821 km/h) 11 Stefan Nimke (Www.Rad-Net.De) 10.353 (69.545 km/h) 12 Carsten Bergemann (Germany) 10.355 (69.531 km/h) 13 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.357 (69.518 km/h) 14 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 10.361 (69.491 km/h) 15 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.365 (69.464 km/h) 16 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) 10.367 (69.451 km/h) 17 Lam Josiah Ng Onn (Malaysia) 10.386 (69.324 km/h) 18 Adam Duvendeck (United States Of America) 10.412 (69.150 km/h) 19 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan) 10.424 (69.071 km/h) 20 Matthias John (Www.Rad-Net.De) 10.425 (69.064 km/h) 21 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) 10.448 (68.912 km/h) 22 Wen,Hao Li (People's Republic of China) 10.471 (68.761 km/h) 23 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine) 10.475 (68.735 km/h) 24 Sergey Borisov (Russian Federation) 10.479 (68.708 km/h) 25 Daniel Ellis (Team Toshiba) 10.508 (68.519 km/h) 26 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.524 (68.415 km/h) Men's Sprint 1/8 Finals Heat 1 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 10.732 (67.089 km/h) 2 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) Heat 2 1 Gregory Bauge (France) 10.716 (67.189 km/h) 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (Cofidis) 10.763 (66.895 km/h) 2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) Heat 4 1 Kévin Sireau (Cofidis) 10.604 (67.898 km/h) 2 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) Heat 5 1 Carsten Bergemann (Germany) 10.780 (66.790 km/h) 2 Ryan Bayley (Team Toshiba) Heat 6 1 Mark French (Australia) 10.833 (66.463 km/h) 2 Stefan Nimke (Www.Rad-Net.De) Heat 7 1 François Pervis (France) 10.922 (65.921 km/h) 2 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) Heat 8 1 Shane Perkins (Australia) 10.599 (67.930 km/h) 2 Ross Edgar (Scienceinsport.Com) Men's Sprint Quarterfinals Heat 1 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 10.807 (10.784 km/h) 2 Shane Perkins (Australia) Heat 2 1 Gregory Bauge (France) 10.750 (10.582 km/h) 2 François Pervis (France) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (Cofidis) 10.538 (10.769 km/h) 2 Mark French (Australia) Heat 4 1 Kévin Sireau (Cofidis) 10.795 (10.764 km/h) 2 Carsten Bergemann (Germany) Men's Sprint Quarterfinals B Heat 1 1 Ross Edgar (Scienceinsport.Com) 10.937 (65.831 km/h) 2 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) Heat 2 1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 10.634 (67.707 km/h) 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 3 1 Stefan Nimke (Www.Rad-Net.De) 11.193 (64.325 km/h) 2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) Heat 4 1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.642 (67.656 km/h) 2 Ryan Bayley (Team Toshiba) Men's Sprint Semifinals B Heat 1 1 Ross Edgar (Scienceinsport.Com) 10.682 (67.403 km/h) 2 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) Heat 2 1 Stefan Nimke (Www.Rad-Net.De) 10.859 (66.304 km/h) 2 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) Men's Sprint Race for 5th - 8th 5 Mark French (Australia) 10.520 (68.441 km/h) 6 François Pervis (France) 7 Carsten Bergemann (Germany) 8 Shane Perkins (Australia) Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying 1 Russian Federation 3.33.868 (50.498 km/h) Eugeniya Romanyuta Olga Slyusareva Anastasiay Chulkova 2 Australia 3.34.052 (50.455 km/h) Belinda Goss Katie Mactier Josephine Tomic 3 Ukraine 3.34.128 (50.437 km/h) Svetlana Galuk Lesya Kalitovska Lyubov Shulika 4 New Zealand 3.37.029 (49.762 km/h) Catherine Cheatley Joanne Kiesanowski Alison Shanks 5 Cuba 3.38.035 (49.533 km/h) Yoanka Gonzalez Perez Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso Yudelmis Dominguez Masague 6 Italy 3.41.032 (48.861 km/h) Vera Carrara Silvia Castoldi Tatiana Guderzo 7 Drapac Porsche Development Program 3.42.248 (48.594 km/h) Tess Downing Lisa Friend Camille Pallett Women's Keirin First Round Heat 1 1 Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 2 Victoria Pendleton (Scienceinsport.Com) 3 Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 4 Kerrie Meares (Australia) 5 Elizabeth Carlson Reap (United States Of America) 6 Ying,Huang Ting (Chinese Taipei) 7 Jocelyn Rastrick (New Zealand) Heat 2 1 Daniela Grelui Larreal (Venezuela) 2 Christin Muche (Www.Rad-Net.De) 3 Sandie Clair (France) 4 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 5 Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine) 6 Helena Casas Roige (Catalunya) 7 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) Heat 3 1 Jennie Reed (Momentum Cycling) 2 Clara Sanchez (France) 3 Valentina Alessio (Italy) 4 Oksana Grishina (Russian Federation) 5 Natasha Hansen (New Zealand) 6 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico) 7 Fatehah Mustapa (Malaysia) 8 Miriam Welte (Germany) Heat 4 1 Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) 2 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia) 3 Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba) 4 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russian Federation) 5 Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia) 6 Hyo Seong Noh (Korea) 7 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) Women's Keirin First Round Repechage Heat 1 1 Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 2 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russian Federation) 3 Jocelyn Rastrick (New Zealand) 4 Helena Casas Roige (Catalunya) 5 Natasha Hansen (New Zealand) Heat 2 1 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 2 Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine) 3 Sandie Clair (France) 4 Oksana Grishina (Russian Federation) 5 Ying,Huang Ting (Chinese Taipei) Heat 3 1 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 2 Valentina Alessio (Italy) 3 Fatehah Mustapa (Malaysia) 4 Hyo Seong Noh (Korea) 5 Elizabeth Carlson Reap (United States Of America) Heat 4 1 Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia) 2 Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba) 3 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico) 4 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 5 Kerrie Meares (Australia) 6 Miriam Welte (Germany) Men's Madison Qualifying Heat 1 1 Netherlands 7 pts Peter Schep Jens Mouris 2 Poland 5 Mariusz Wiesiak Rafal Ratajczyk 3 Argentina 5 Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Fernando Perez 4 Russian Federation 4 Nikolay Trusov Alexei Markov 5 ASC Dukla Praha 4 Milan Kadlec Martin Blaha 6 Germany 4 Olaf Pollack Leif Lampater 7 Tsl 3 Michael Friedman Colby Pearce 8 Ukraine 3 Volodymyry Rybin Poland 9 Great Britain 2 Mark Cavendish Bradley Wiggins 10 France 1 Christophe Riblon Jérôme Neuville 11 Canada 1 Ryan Mckenzie Martin Gilbert 12 Portugal 0 Mitchell Docker Travis Meyer 13 Illes Balears 0 Toni Tauler Llull Miquel Alzamora Riera 14 Switzerland 0 Loïc Perizzolo Maxime Bally 15 New Zealand 0 Romania Greg Henderson 16 Korea 0 Jung Hwan Youm Sun Jae Jang 17 Hong Kong, China 0 Kampo Wong Ho Ting Kwok One lap down 18 Belarus 5 Aliaksandr Lisouski Yauhen Sobal Men's Madison Qualifying Heat 2 1 Spain 0 pts Joan Llaneras Rossello Carlos Torrent Tarres One lap down 2 Belgium 10 Tim Mertens Kenny De Ketele 3 Denmark 7 Michael Morkov Alex Rasmussen 4 Team 100% Me 5 Ben Swift Jonathan Bellis 5 Moscow 5 Alexey Shmidt Ivan Kovalev 6 Australia 4 Luke Roberts Graeme Brown 7 United States Of America 3 Bradley Huff Charles Bobby Lea 8 Team Focus 3 Henning Bommel Roger Kluge 9 Team Toshiba 3 Cameron Meyer Zakkari Dempster 10 Japan 2 Kazuhiro Mori Makoto Iijima 11 Czech Republic 2 Alois Kankovsky Petr Lazar 12 Colombia 0 Carlos Alzate Escobar Juan Pablo Forero Carreno 13 Austria 0 Andreas Graf Roland Garber 14 Chile 0 Luis,Fernando Sepulveda Antonio Arriagada Marco 15 Slovakia 0 Jozef Zabka Martin Liska Two laps down 16 Islamic Republic Of Iran 0 Mehdi Sohrabi Amir Zargari DNF Uruguay 0 Milton Wynants Vazquez Perera,Jorge Soto DNF Kazakhstan 0 Vadim Vdovinov Andrey Bozhko
