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Track World Cup 08-09 Round 4 - CDM
Beijing, China, January 16-18, 2009
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Session 2 - January 17: Men: Team pursuit, Keirin, Kilometre TT, Scratch race; Women: 500m TT, Points race, Team sprint
Malaysia steals the show on day two
By Laura Weislo
The Malaysian team showed that it has become truly world class by scoring double golds on the second day of competition at the Beijing World Cup. A day after suffering the disappointment of missing out on the finals of the men's team sprint, the big-legged boys rallied to win the men's kilometre time trial, which went to 24-year-old Rizal Tisin of Malaysia, and the keirin with Azizul Hasni Awang.
Awang, who won the keirin at the Melbourne World Cup, now sits atop the World Cup rankings with four points over Frenchman Francois Pervis. Pervis did not contest the keirin, and instead took part in the kilo where he took second place to Tisin.
The victory of Tisin would have been no sup rise - he did set a new Asian record at the Victorian championships in Australia last month - had he not suffered a crash while training on his road bike last week. The New Straits Times reported that Tisin injured his hand in the wreck and had trouble pulling up on the bars.
Tisin did not come close to matching the 1:02.095 he set in Australia, but the 1:02.268 was good enough for gold by nearly four tenths of a second over Pervis. Poland's Kamil Kuczynski took bronze over World Cup leader Wen Hao Li (China).
Kiwis add gold, silver to tally
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The men in black took another gold medal thanks to Hayden Godfrey, who made an eight-man breakaway that lapped the field in the scratch race and then won the sprint to seal the victory. Great Britain's Chris Newton added a silver to his gold from the points race by also making the winning move and taking third in the finale behind Tim Veldt (Netherlands) who was a lap down.
Poland got its second bronze medal of the evening thanks to the attentive riding of Rafal Ratajczyk, who snuck in ahead of Italy's Elia Viviani to take the final podium spot. The placing earned Ratajczyk third overall in the World Cup rankings behind Tim Mertens (Belgium) and Zach Bell (Canada).
The Kiwis had to be content with silver in the men's team pursuit after setting the fastest time by far in the qualifying round. Sam Bewley, Peter Latham, Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent put in a solid 4:02.79 in the qualifiers, almost four seconds faster than the Australian Team Toshiba. But Leigh Howard, Glenn O'Shea, Rohan Dennis and Mark Jamieson rallied back to win the gold medal final with a strong 4:01.995.
The two teams went neck and neck, with the Aussies leading by half a second at the first kilometre, and the Kiwis pulling within a tenth of a second at the midpoint. During the third kilometre, the New Zealand team pulled ahead, but the Toshiba team had too much power and finished off the final kilometre strong to take the win by nearly one second.
The Russian squad Lokomotiv took the bronze medal handily over the German team, setting a 4:07.9 to the German's 4:11.78.
Krupeckaite adds two, China too
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Women's sprint winner Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania took her second gold medal of the meet in the 500m time trial, upsetting World Cup leader Jinjie Gong of China. Krupeckaite set a 33.834 to seal the win with a time that rivals any recorded since the retirement of World Record holder Anna Meares from the now non-Olympic discipline.
The Lithuanian doubled up with a silver in the women's team sprint along with teammate Gintare Gaivenyte. The pair were overtaken by the Dutch pair Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar.
China added a bronze to go along with Gong's silver by besting France in the bronze medal final.
In the women's points race, China was again on the medal stand with a surprising silver medal from Cui Wang who finished just two points shy of Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic).
The pair escaped the field ahead of the third sprint and succeeded in lapping the field to gain 20 points, which was enough to secure first and second ahead of Italian Giorgia Bronzini, who, somewhat appropriately, took bronze by winning two sprints and placing second in one. She could be consoled with the fact that her result vaulted her into the white World Cup leader's jersey for the discipline.
Australians Belinda Goss and Rochelle Gilmore were consistent in the sprints but could only manage fourth and fifth ahead of a strong fight from American Shelley Olds in sixth.
Photography
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- The New Zealand men's team pursuiters scorched the track in the qualifiers, but then fell shy of gold in the final.
- The Russian Lokomotive team on its way to bronze in the men's team pursuit.
- Team Toshiba on its way to gold in the men's team pursuit
- Action in the women's points race.
- Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis took gold in the women's team sprint.
Images by Greg Chang/Photosport International
- Yulei Xu (Max Success Pro Cycling) third in the 500m TT.
- Jinjie Gong of Team China second in the 500m TT.
- Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) first in the 500m TT.
- Jinjie Gong of Team China second in the 500m TT.
- Yulei Xu (Max Success Pro Cycling) third in the 500m TT Coach
- Team Toshiba on the podium.
- The team pursuit podium.
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) rides in the points race.
- Cui Wang (China) finished second in the points race.
- A crash in the women's points race.
- Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) won the points race.
- Russian team Lokomotiv.
- Sprint in the women's points race.
- Cui Wang (China) second on the podium.
- Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) first on the podium.
- Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) tops the points race podium.
- Giorgia Bronzini (Italy), the World Cup Leader.
- Team New Zealand finished second in the men's team pursuit.
- Toshiba in the men's team pursuit.
- New Zealand races in the men's team pursuit.
- Toshiba on the way to win the men's team pursuit.
- Toshiba on the way to first in the men's team pursuit.
- Jinjie Gong of Team China World Cup Leader in the 500m TT.
- The Dutch women won the team sprint and lead the World Cup.
- China finished third in the team sprint at home.
- The Dutch pair Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis take off.
- Lithuania received silver
- Great Britain's Chris Newton finished second in the scratch race.
- The men's scratch race in full swing.
- The sprints were hotly contested.
- Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) finished third in the men's scratch race.
- New Zealander Hayden Godfrey took the win in the scratch race.
- Chinese team sprinters on the podium.
- Yvonne Hijgenaar (l) and Willy Kanis won gold in the team sprint.
- Lithuania finished second.
- Chris Newton celebrates his silver in the scratch race.
- Godfrey won scratch gold.
- The scratchy podium (l-r) with Newton, Godfrey and Ratajczyk.
- The training for the Olympics now shows in other events.
- The men's Keirin is underway.
- In a fierce sprint Awang 's front wheel lifted off and across the finish line in first place.
- Bauge was narrowly beaten.
- Awang tried all and it was enough in the end.
- In a tight race, Dutchman Teun Mulder finished third (in orange).
- It took a while for Awang to get into position to celebrate.
- Mohd Rizal Tisin added to Malaysia's fortune with a win in the 1000m time trial.
- Rizal had the best time after one kilometre.
- François Pervis (Cofidis) finished second in the kilo.
- Kamil Kuczynski (Poland) was third.
- Awang leads the Keirin World Cup.
- The Keirin podium (l-r) with Bauge, Awang and Mulder.
- The kilo podium (l-r) with Pervis, Rizal and Kuczynski.
- Wen Hao Li of China leads the kilo World Cup.
Images by Charlie Issendorf
- Hayden Godfrey of New Zealand in the sratch race.
- Hayden Godfrey of New Zealand kept the competition in sight.
- The scratch podium
- Godfrey was all smiles after his win.
Results
Men's Keirin
First round
Heat 1
1 Azizulhasni Awang (Mas) Bike Technologies Australia
2 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
3 Mahmoud Parash (IRI) I.R. Iran
4 Carlos Julio Monroy Rubio (Col) Colombia
5 Sergey Borisov (Rus) Russia
6 Adrian Teklinski (Pol) Alks Stal Grudziaduz
Heat 2
1 Lei Zhang (Chn) China
2 Maximilian Levy (Ger) Germany
3 Teun Mulder (Ned) Netherlands
4 Adam Ptacnik (Cze) Czech Republic
5 Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine
6 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria (Spa) Cespa Euskadi
Heat 3
1 Tomokazu Sato (Jpn) Japan
2 Gregory Bauge (Fra) France
3 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia
4 Clemens Selzer (Aut) Austria
5 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol) Poland
6 Itmar Esteban Herraiz (Spa) Catalunya
Heat 4
1 Mickaël Bourgain (Fra) Cofidis
2 Yury Karzheneuski (Blr) Belarus
3 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spa) Spain
4 Travis Smith (Can) Hawk Relay Cycling
5 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Mas) Malaysia
6 Qi Tang (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling
Keirin first round repechage
Heat 1
1 Travis Smith (Can) Hawk Relay Cycling
2 Mahmoud Parash (IRI) I.R. Iran
3 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria (Spa) Cespa Euskadi
4 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol) Poland
Heat 2
1 Teun Mulder (Ned) Netherlands
2 Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine
3 Clemens Selzer (Aut) Austria
4 Adrian Teklinski (Pol) Alks Stal Grudziaduz
Heat 3
1 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia
2 Sergey Borisov (Rus) Russia
3 Adam Ptacnik (Cze) Czech Republic
4 Qi Tang (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling
Heat 4
1 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spa) Spain
2 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Mas) Malaysia
3 Carlos Julio Monroy Rubio (Col) Colombia
4 Itmar Esteban Herraiz (Spa) Catalunya
Second round
Heat 1
1 Gregory Bauge (Fra) France
2 Azizulhasni Awang (Mas) Bike Technologies Australia
3 Travis Smith (Can) Hawk Relay Cycling
4 Mickaël Bourgain (Fra) Cofidis
5 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spa) Spain
6 Maximilian Levy (Ger) Germany
Heat 2
1 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia
2 Teun Mulder (Ned) Netherlands
3 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
4 Yury Karzheneuski (Blr) Belarus
5 Tomokazu Sato (Jpn) Japan
6 Lei Zhang (Chn) China
Final
1 Azizulhasni Awang (Mas) Bike Technologies Australia
2 Gregory Bauge (Fra) France
3 Teun Mulder (Ned) Netherlands
4 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
5 Travis Smith (Can) Hawk Relay Cycling
6 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia
Place 7-12
7 Maximilian Levy (Ger) Germany
8 Tomokazu Sato (Jpn) Japan
9 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spa) Spain
10 Yury Karzheneuski (Blr) Belarus
11 Mickaël Bourgain (Fra) Cofidis
12 Lei Zhang (Chn) China
Place 13-21
13 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Mas) Malaysia
13 Sergey Borisov (Rus) Russia
13 Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine
13 Mahmoud Parash (IRI) I.R. Iran
17 Clemens Selzer (Aut) Austria
17 Carlos Julio Monroy Rubio (Col) Colombia
17 Hodei Mazquiaran Uria (Spa) Cespa Euskadi
17 Adam Ptacnik (Cze) Czech Republic
21 Itmar Esteban Herraiz (Spa) Catalunya
21 Qi Tang (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling
21 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol) Poland
21 Adrian Teklinski (Pol) Alks Stal Grudziaduz
Men's team pursuit qualifying
1 New Zealand 4.02.793 (59.309 km/h)
Sam Bewley
Peter Latham
Marc Ryan
Jesse Sergent
2 Team Toshiba 4.06.389
Leigh Howard
Glenn O'shea
Rohan Dennis
Mark Jamieson
3 Lokomotiv 4.10.341
Artur Ershov
Valery Kaykov
Leonid Krasnov
Vladimir Shchekunov
4 Germany 4.11.876
Henning Bommel
Marcel Kalz
Roger Kluge
Fabian Schaar
5 Denmark 4.12.461
Michael Faerk Christensen
Daniel Kreutzfeldt
Martin Frost Lollesgaard
Christian Ranneries
6 Isdsport Donetsk 4.13.801
Yuriy Agarkov
Volodymyr Diudia
Maksym Polischuk
Vitaliy Popkov
7 Ireland 4.13.947
Paul Healion
Martyn Irvine
David Mc Cann
David O'loughlin
8 China 4.16.061
Libin Chen
Wei Li
Teng Ma
Xuelong Qu
9 Ukraine 4.16.644
Roman Kononenko
Oleksandr Mazur
Roman Morozov
Vitaliy Shchedov
10 Netherlands 4.17.029
Ismaël Kip
Roy Pieters
Arno Van Der Zwet
Sipke Zijlstra
11 Russia 4.18.387
Evgeny Kovalev
Ivan Kovalev
Alexander Petrovskiy
Valery Valynin
12 Italy 4.18.883
Alex Buttazzoni
Angelo Ciccone
Alessandro De Marchi
Elia Viviani
13 Poland 4.20.625
Pawel Brylowski
Dawid Glowacki
Piotr Kasperkiewicz
Adrian Kurek
14 Iran 4.24.603
Mehdi Sohrabi
Amir Zargari
Abbas Saeidi Tanha
Hossein Nateghi
DSQ Max Success Pro Cycling
Xiao Quan Hui
Gang Xu
Yong Sheng Yan
Hui Zhang
Men's team pursuit finale
For gold
1 Team Toshiba 4.01.995 (59.505 km/h)
Leigh Howard
Glenn O'shea
Rohan Dennis
Mark Jamieson
2 New Zealand 4.02.890
Sam Bewley
Peter Latham
Marc Ryan
Jesse Sergent
3 Lokomotiv 4.07.919
Artur Ershov
Valery Kaykov
Leonid Krasnov
Vladimir Shchekunov
4 Germany 4.11.789
Henning Bommel
Marcel Kalz
Roger Kluge
Fabian Schaar
5 Denmark
6 ISD Sport
7 Ireland
8 China
9 Ukraine
10 Netherlands
11 Russia
12 Italy
13 Poland
14 Iran
Men's scratch race
1 Hayden Godfrey (NZl) New Zealand
2 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain
3 Rafal Ratajczyk (Pol) Poland
4 Elia Viviani (Ita) Italy
5 Roger Kluge (Ger) Germany
6 Stanislav Volkov (Rus) Lokomotiv
7 Zachary Bell (Can) Canada
8 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan
9 Carlos Torrent Tarres (Spa) Spain
10 Ho Ting Kwok (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling
11 Mark Christian (GBr) Team 100% Me
One lap behind
12 Tim Veldt (Ned) Netherlands
13 Georg Tazreiter (Aut) Austria
14 Oleksandr Martynenko (Ukr) Isdsport Donetsk
15 Sergiy Minashkyn (Ukr) Ukraine
16 Airan Fernandez Casasola (Spa) Catalunya
17 Matti Pajari (Fin) Finland
18 Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) I.R. Iran
19 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Russia
20 Kampo Wong (HKg) Hong Kong
Men's 1000m time trial
1 Mohd Rizal Tisin (Mas) Malaysia 1.02.268 (57.814 km/h)
2 François Pervis (Fra) Cofidis 1.02.642
3 Kamil Kuczynski (Pol) Poland 1.03.020
4 Wen Hao Li (Chn) China 1.03.687
5 Miao Zhang (Chn) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 1.03.938
6 Thierry Jollet (Fra) France 1.04.099
7 Mathias Stumpf (Ger) Germany 1.04.117
8 Yondi Schmidt (Ned) Netherlands 1.04.204
9 Filip Ditzel (Cze) Czech Republic 1.05.000
10 Takashi Sakamoto (Jpn) Japan 1.05.184
11 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukr) Isdsport Donetsk 1.05.679
12 Adrian Teklinski (Pol) Alks Stal Grudziaduz 1.05.850
13 Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Russia 1.06.071
14 Clemens Selzer (Aut) Austria 1.06.108
15 Junyue Wang (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling 1.06.555
16 Alireza Ahamadi Ashjerdi (IRI) I.R. Iran 1.06.636
17 Paul Healion (Irl) Ireland 1.06.656
18 Roman Kononenko (Ukr) Ukraine 1.08.519
Women 500m time trial final
1 Simona Krupeckaite (Ltu) Lithuania 0.33.834 (53.200 km/h)
2 Jinjie Gong (Chn) China 0.34.941
3 Yulei Xu (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling 0.35.109
4 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Ned) Netherlands 0.35.485
5 Virginie Cueff (Fra) France 0.35.831
6 Fang Tian (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 0.35.955
7 Elisa Frisoni (Ita) Italy 0.36.199
8 Fatehah Mustapa (Mas) Malaysia 0.36.284
9 Wai Sze Lee (HKg) Hong Kong 0.36.505
10 Aleksandra Drejgier (Pol) Poland 0.37.018
11 Helena Casas Roige (Spa) Spain 0.37.245
12 Na Li (Chn) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 0.37.365
13 Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Thailand 0.37.882
14 Kaytee Boyd (NZl) New Zealand 0.38.400
Women's team sprint qualification
1 Netherlands 0.34.253 (52.550 km/h)
Yvonne Hijgenaar
Willy Kanis
2 Lithuania 0.34.435
Gintare Gaivenyte
Simona Krupeckaite
3 China 0.34.511
Jinjie Gong
Lulu Zheng
4 France 0.34.811
Sandie Clair
Virginie Cueff
5 Max Success Pro Cycling 0.35.094
Li Huang
Yulei Xu
6 Poland 0.35.543
Renata Dabrowska
Aleksandra Drejgier
7 Hong Kong 0.36.672
Wai Sze Lee
Zhao Juan Meng
8 Russia 0.37.103
Evgeniya Romanyuta
Olga Streltsova
9 Thailand 0.38.141
Sutharat Boonsawat
Wathinee Luekajorn
Women's team sprint final
For gold
1 Netherlands 0.34.077 (52.821 km/h)
Yvonne Hijgenaar
Willy Kanis
2 Lithuania 0.34.311
Gintare Gaivenyte
Simona Krupeckaite
For bronze
3 China 0.34.490
Jinjie Gong
Lulu Zheng
4 France 0.34.777
Sandie Clair
Virginie Cueff
5 Max Success Pro Cycling
6 Poland
7 Hong Kong
8 Russia
9 Thailand
Women's points race
Qualification - 10km
Heat 1
1 Feiyan Sun (Chn) China 8 pts 13.41.157 (43.840 km/h)
2 Olga Slyusareva (Rus) Russia 8
3 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 8
4 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Hp Teschner 5
5 Belinda Goss (Aus) Australia 5
6 Lang Meng GPC Giant Pro Cycling 5
7 Shelley Olds (USA) US National Team 4
8 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spa) Spain 1
9 Catherine Cheatley (NZl) New Zealand
10 Andrea Wolfer (Swi) Switzerland
11 Chanpeng Nontasin (Tha) Thailand
12 Svetlana Paulikaite (Ltu) Lithuania
13 Ilze Bole (RSA) South Africa
14 Laura Dittmann (Ger) Germany
DSQ Martina Ruzickova (Cze) Czech Republic
DNS Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cub) Cuba
DNS Xiao Juan Diao (HKg) Hong Kong
Heat 2
1 Malgorzata Wojtyra (Pol) Poland 8 pts 13.19.666 (45.018 km/h)
2 Wan Yiu Wong (HKg) Hong Kong 5
3 Evgeniya Romanyuta (Rus) Russia 5
4 Cui Wang (Chn) China 5
5 Josephine Tomic (Aus) Australia 5
6 Debora Galvez Lopez (Spa) Spain 3
7 Elke Gebhardt (Ger) Germany 3
8 Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic 3
9 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 2
10 Amy Pieters (Ned) Netherlands 2
11 Svitlana Galyuk (Ukr) Ukraine 2
12 Peta Mullens (Aus) Hp Teschner 1
13 Na Zhao (Jpn) Giant Pro Cycling
14 Theresa Cliffryan (USA) US National Team
15 Thatsani Wichana (Tha) Thailand
DNS Jessica Fernanda Jurado (Mex) Mexico
Women's points race final
1 Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic 25 pts
2 Cui Wang (Chn) China 23
3 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Italy 13
4 Belinda Goss (Aus) Australia 12
5 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Hp Teschner 9
6 Shelley Olds (USA) US National Team 7
7 Catherine Cheatley (NZl) New Zealand 6
8 Svetlana Paulikaite (Ltu) Lithuania 5
9 Malgorzata Wojtyra (Pol) Poland 5
10 Olga Slyusareva (Rus) Russia 5
11 Amy Pieters (Ned) Netherlands 4
12 Andrea Wolfer (Swi) Switzerland 3
13 Feiyan Sun (Chn) China 3
14 Peta Mullens (Aus) Hp Teschner 3
15 Marta Tagliaferro (Ita) Italy 2
16 Josephine Tomic (Aus) Australia 1
17 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spa) Spain 1
18 Evgeniya Romanyuta (Rus) Russia 1
19 Wan Yiu Wong (HKg) Hong Kong
20 Chanpeng Nontasin (Tha) Thailand
21 Svitlana Galyuk (Ukr) Ukraine
22 Debora Galvez Lopez (Spa) Spain
23 Lang Meng (Jpn) Giant Pro Cycling
DNF Elke Gebhardt (Ger) Germany
