Track World Cup 08-09 Round 3 - CDM

Cali, Colombia, December 11-13, 2008

Photography

Session 3 - December 13: Men: Madison, Sprint; Women: Team Pursuit, Keirin,

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Antonio Miguel is ready to start his event.
The Colombian women's pursuit team during its 3,000m event.
Colombia finished third at home in the team pursuit.
Colombia staff was excited and happy for both men and women's pursuit teams.
Colombia trophy and a podium with men and women celebrating.
The women's keirin series was hotly contested.
Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) was atop the women's keirin podium and Clara Sanchez (France, l) and Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba) were beaten.
The Madison World Cup leaders Ingmar de Poortere (r) and Tim Mertens.
The Madison podium (l-r) Colombia, Belgium and Russia.
The sprints were dominated by France with winner Kévin Sireau in the centre. His Cofidis teammate and compatriot Mickaël Bourgain (r) won the third place ride. Only German Stefan Nimke (l) in second place could shake up the podium a bit.
The sprints always start out slowly but they build up to an exciting climax.
The Colombian women's team pursuit team gave the fans something to cheer.
The women's team pursuit podium was topped by Cuba, ahead of Colombia (l) and Italy.

Session 2 - December 12: Men: Kilometre TT, Team Pursuit, Keirin, Scratch race; Women: 500m TT, Points race, Team Sprint,

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Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) took the gold in the women's 500m time trial, ahead of Cuban Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (l) and Sandie Clair (France).
Each team had their own little castle.
Team pursuit gold went to Russia who beat Spain (l) and host Colombia.
German Stefan Nimke won the 1,000m podium ahead of World Cup leader Yevhen Bolibrukh (Ukraine) and Wenhao Li (China).
Leonardo Narvaez Romero of Colombia celebrates his Keirin gold.
Nimke shows his gold medal.
Giorgia Bronzini (Italy) won gold in the points race and relegated Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba, l) to second and Tara Whitten (Canada) to third place.
Sergi Escobar Roure (Spain) won the ind. pursuit gold ahead of Valery Kaykov (Russia, l) and Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia, r)
Russia took the team pursuit title.
The Lithuanian strong lady Simona Krupeckaite won another gold in the sprint, ahead of Clara Sanchez (France) and Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba).
Russia in the team pursuit
Tim Mertens of Belgium leads the World Cup in the scratch event.
France won the women's team sprint ahead of Germany (l) and Lithuania.

Session 1 - December 11: Men: Points race, Team sprint, Individual pursuit; Women: Sprint, Scratch race, Individual pursuit,

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Inaki Anzizar (Navarra) warms up before his event
Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) qualified fourth fastest in the men's IP
Renata Dabrowska (Poland) finished well down the order in the women's sprint qualifying
Colombia's Diana Maria Garcia Orrego took sixth in the women's sprint
Lithuanin rider Gintare Gaivenyte waits for her turn to ride against the clock
The German men's team sprint outfit qualified fastest
Martin Hacecky (Czech Republic) was sixth in IP qualifying
Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite made it through to the sprint finals
Maria Luisa Calle Williams of Colombia took the silver in the women's individual pursuit
Colombian veteran Maria Luisa Calle Williams readies herself to ride the gold medal final
Australian sprinter Caarle McCulloch made the long trip to Colombia for Team Toshiba
The first heat of the men's points race went to Jaime Gustavo Suaza Lopez of Colombia
Clara Sanchez (l) and Sandie Clair of France went head to head in the quarter finals of the women's sprint
And Clara Sanchez prevailed
Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) gets as much power down as she can
The repechage of the women's sprint was won by Sandie Clair
Dutch rider Arno Van Der Zwet looked good in the men's individual pursuit
Mexico's Jessica Fernanda Jurado waits for the final of the women's scratch race
Maria Luisa Calle Williams of Colombia was riding well in the IP and took silver
Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Colombia) is set to ride off for the gold medal
Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) rode to bronze in the men's IP
Arles Antonio Castro Laverde on the podium after taking third in the men's IP
Cofidis took bronze in the team sprint
Italy's Annalisa Cucinotta won gold in the women's scratch race
Local boy Leonardo Duque of Cofidis won the men's points race
Cofidis rider Leonardo Duque took out the men's points race
Sergi Escobar Roure (Spain) won the gold medal race in the men's individual pursuit
Germany's team sprint crew took the gold medal in Cali
Carlos Hernandez Santana (Mexico) rides the men's points race off the front
UCI vice-president Ray Godkin sits amongst the dignitaries in Cali's velodrome
Valery Kaykov (Russia) leads the world cup standings in the men's IP
Valery Kaykov (Russia) with the silver medal he won in the men's IP
Valery Kaykov (Russia) rode to silver against Spain's Sergi Escobar
The leaders in the men's points race
The men's points race podium (l-r): Peter Kennaugh, Leonardo Duque and Carlos Torrent Tarres
Riders wait to get the signal to kick off the men's points race
The field in the men's points race trying to decide what it wants to do
The attacks start to come in the men's points race
Jaime Gustavo Suaza Lopez (Colombia) attacks mid-way through the men's points race
Some lovely local ladies wait with the medals for the men's individual pursuit
The women's individual pursuit podium (l-r): Maria Luisa Calle Williams, Vilija Sereikaite and Tara Whitten
The women's scratch race podium (l-r): Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso, Annalisa Cucinotta and Gema Pascual Torrecilla
The women's sprint podium (l-r): Clara Sanchez, Simona Krupeckaite and Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez
The men's team sprint podium (l-r): Team Toshiba, Germany and Cofidis
The Australian trio of Sunderland, Niblett and Daniel Ellis leads the world cup standings in the team sprint
Australian Scott Sunderland throws a cheeky smile to someone watching the podium ceremony
The women's individual pursuit podium (l-r): Maria Luisa Calle Williams, Vilija Sereikaite and Tara Whitten