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2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM
Pruszkow, Poland, March 25-29, 2009
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Stage 8 - March 29: Men: Omnium (200m TT, 7.5km Scratch race, Individual pursuit); Women: Keirin (Round 1, Repechage)
Godfrey starts defence of Omnium title
By Gerry McManus in Pruszkow, Poland
Reigning men's omnium world champion Hayden Godfrey made a fine start to his title defence when the New Zealander won the 200m individual time trial with a time of 10.502 beating sprint specialist Tim Veldt (Netherlands). Canada's Zachary Bell was third, with Aussie Howard Leigh in fourth.
The 'pentathlon' of cycling sees an interesting mix of sprinters and endurance riders racing for the overall title with the rider with the lowest number of points taking the gold medal.
It was Leigh who went top of the leader board when he finished second the round two scratch race won by German Robert Bartko. Zachary Bell (Canada) had created a breakaway group with Godfrey being the last man to cross over and finishing 8th in the sprint.
Bartko finished fifth in the 3,000m individual pursuit won by Ukrainian Volodymyr Diudia and now leads the overall standings with 12 points after three events with two to go. Taylor Phinney could only manage second place in the pursuit with Russia's Atur Ershov in third.
Bell lies second overall with 13 points with Leigh third on 14 so it is all to play for heading into the points race. Godfrey is fifth with 19 points and should give good value for money in the final event in the kilometre time trial
Pendleton and Kanis back in contention via the repechage
No one would blame Britain's Victoria Pendleton if she didn't ride the Keirin on the final day of the championships. She picked up her third medal of the championships last night when she beat Wily Kanis (Netherland) to retain her title as world sprint champion but still lined up for the Keirin first round this morning.
Both Pendleton and Kanis lost out in the first round but find will compete against each other again this afternoon in round two after they won their repechage heats.
Guo Shuang (China), Clara Sanchez (France) and Simona Krupeckaite (Lituania) all won their heats in the first round.
Results
Men's Omnium
200m TT 1 Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand) 0.10.502 (68.558 km/h) 2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 0.10.534 3 Zachary Bell (Canada) 0.10.756 4 Leigh Howard (Australia) 0.10.915 5 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) 0.10.917 6 Robert Bartko (Germany) 0.10.968 7 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) 0.11.119 8 Angel Dario Colla (Argentina) 0.11.129 9 Stijn Steels (Belgium) 0.11.147 10 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) 0.11.215 11 Artur Ershov (Russian Federation) 0.11.227 12 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain) 0.11.280 13 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine) 0.11.283 14 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Denmark) 0.11.339 15 Jonathan Bellis (Great Britain) 0.11.407 16 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus) 0.11.588 17 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong, China) 0.11.624 18 Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) 0.11.629 7.5km Scratch Race 1 Robert Bartko (Germany) 2 Leigh Howard (Australia) 3 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine) 4 Zachary Bell (Canada) 5 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong, China) 6 Angel Dario Colla (Argentina) 7 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) 8 Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand) 9 Artur Ershov (Russian Federation) 10 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain) 11 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Denmark) 12 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus) 13 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) 14 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) 15 Jonathan Bellis (Great Britain) 16 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 17 Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) One lap behind 18 Stijn Steels (Belgium) 3km Individual Pursuit 1 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine) 3.17.055 (54.807 km/h) 2 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) 3.17.387 3 Artur Ershov (Russian Federation) 3.19.501 4 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 3.19.819 5 Robert Bartko (Germany) 3.20.005 6 Zachary Bell (Canada) 3.21.113 7 Jonathan Bellis (Great Britain) 3.22.014 8 Leigh Howard (Australia) 3.22.025 9 Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain) 3.23.544 10 Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand) 3.23.563 11 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Denmark) 3.25.597 12 Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) 3.27.102 13 Jan Dostal (Czech Republic) 3.29.488 14 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) 3.30.527 15 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus) 3.30.927 16 Angel Dario Colla (Argentina) 3.31.565 17 Ho Ting Kwok (Hong Kong, China) 3.36.082
Women's Keirin
Round 1 Heat 1 1 Shuang Guo (People's Republic of China) 2 Sandie Clair (France) 3 Kristina Vogel (Germany) 4 Olga Streltsova (Russian Federation) 5 Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 6 Renata Dabrowska (Poland) Heat 2 1 Clara Sanchez (France) 2 Anna Meares (Australia) 3 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia) 4 Jessica Varnish (Great Britain) 5 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 6 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 7 Lulu Zheng (People's Republic of China) Heat 3 1 Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 2 Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba) 3 Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia) 4 Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 5 Miriam Welte (Germany) 6 Jutatip Maneephan (Thailand) 7 Monique Sullivan (Canada) First round repechage Heat 1 1 Angel Dario Colla (Argentina) 2 Miriam Welte (Germany) 3 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 4 Jessica Varnish (Great Britain) Heat 2 1 Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 2 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 3 Monique Sullivan (Canada) 4 Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 5 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia) Heat 3 1 Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 2 Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia) 3 Olga Streltsova (Russian Federation) 4 Lulu Zheng (People's Republic of China) 5 Jutatip Maneephan (Thailand)
