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2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM
Pruszkow, Poland, March 25-29, 2009
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Stage 6 - March 28: Men: Sprint (200m TT, 1/16, 1/8, repechage); Women: Omnium (200m TT, 5km Scratch race, 2km individual pursuit)
Bauge goes fastest in sprint qualification, through to quarter finals
By Gerry McManus in Pruszkow, Poland
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Gregory Bauge (France) was the only rider who went below 10 seconds in the men's sprint qualifying time trial on Saturday morning, recording 9.93 for the 200m flying start time trial.
Bauge easily beat Miao Zhang (China) to go into the 1/8 finals. Britain’s Jason Kenny went second fastest in qualifying and beat Australia’s Daniel Ellis in the following round.
Kevin Sireau (France) was third in qualifying and is through to the 1/8 finals when he beat Japan’s Kazunari Watanabe in the 1/16 finals.
The 1/8 finals were fairly straight forward, but both German gold medallists Max Levy and Stefan Nimke could not repeat their gold medal form and were dispatched to the repechage. British pair Ross Edgar and Jason Kenny were pitched against each other in one heat with Kenny getting the verdict. Edgar came back through the repechage with a great victory against the German duo.
Fast finisher Bauge did things the hard way when he was caught out by Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang and had to get to the quarter finals via the repechage when he beat fellow countryman Michael D’Almedia and Lei Zhang (China).
Whitten in women's omnium pole position
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Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) won round one of the five-event Women’s Omnium . Hijgenaar recorded 11.4 seconds for the 200m time trial. Great Britain’s sprinter, Anna Blyth, was second with Italian Elisa Frisoni in third. Lithuania's Vilija Sereikaite was fourth and Canada’s Tara Whitten was fifth.
Round two was the scratch race where Tara Whitten was part of a three-rider breakaway group. As their lead came down, she escaped with three laps to go as her breakaway companions Sereikaite and Lada Kozlikova (Cze) were caught by the chasers. Ukrainian Lesya Kalitovska won the bunch sprint ahead of Poland’s Renata Dabrowska. Frisoni was fifth with Hijgenaar in seventh.
Sereikaite won the 2,000m individual pursuit with an amazing time of 2.20.682 but Whitten finished second to extend her lead in the overall competition. Whitten leads with eight points, Kalitoyska's in second place with 14 points and Hijgenaar lies in third with 17 points.
There are only two events left and Whitten holds the pole position heading into the points race where she should finish in the top five. The final event is the 500m time trial which is back into Hijgenaar’s territory.
Sereikaite is fourth with 18 points and the medals are far from decided.
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- France's Kevin Sireau was third in qualifying in the men's 200m sprint event.
- Great Britain’s Jason Kenny went second fastest in qualifying with a time of 10.002 in the men's 200m sprint.
- Gregory Bauge (France) was the only rider who went below 10 seconds recording 9.93 for the 200m flying start time trial.
- Gregory Bauge (France) had the fastest qualifying time in the men's 200m sprint.
- Kevin Sireau (France) easily beats Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) in the men's sprint 1/16 finals.
- Ross Edgar (Great Britain) breaks Polish hearts when he beats Lukasz Kwiatowski to advance to the 1/8 finals.
- Sireau dove under Stefan Nimke (Germany) and stole the victory to advance into the quarter finals.
- Tara Whiitten (Canada) slips away to win the scratch race in the women's omnium.
Results
Men's Sprint
Qualifying 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 0.09.930 (72.507 km/h) 2 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 0.10.002 3 Kévin Sireau (France) 0.10.010 4 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 0.10.040 5 Shane Perkins (Australia) 0.10.074 6 Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) 0.10.105 7 Lei Zhang (People's Republic of China) 0.10.116 8 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 0.10.175 9 Michaël d'Almeida (France) 0.10.184 10 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 0.10.198 11 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 0.10.202 12 Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia) 0.10.210 13 Mohd Rizal Tisin (Malaysia) 0.10.232 14 Robert Forstemann (Germany) 0.10.270 14 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 16 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 0.10.294 17 Scott Sunderland (Australia) 0.10.314 18 Andrii Vynokurov (Ukraine) 0.10.407 19 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia) 0.10.439 20 Valentin Savitskiy (Russian Federation) 0.10.453 21 Christos Volikakis (Greece) 0.10.464 22 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) 0.10.488 23 Daniel Ellis (Australia) 0.10.489 24 Miao Zhang (People's Republic of China) 0.10.496 25 Denis Dmitriev (Russian Federation) 0.10.513 26 Jason Niblett (Australia) 0.10.534 27 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) 0.10.565 28 Sergey Ruban (Russian Federation) 0.10.584 29 Christopher Sellier (Trinidad and Tobago) 0.10.601 30 Travis Smith (Canada) 0.10.603 31 Leonardo Alfredo Narvaez Romero (Colombia) 0.10.608 32 Wen Hao Li (People's Republic of China) 0.10.644 33 Edward Dawkins (New Zealand) 0.10.654 34 Tomas Babek (Czech Republic) 0.10.658 35 Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand) 0.10.666 36 Filip Ditzel (Czech Republic) 0.10.709 37 Alfredo Moreno Cano (Spain) 0.10.728 38 Clemens Selzer (Austria) 0.10.747 39 Hernan Sanchez Castillo (Colombia) 0.10.805 40 Jonathan Marin Cermeno (Colombia) 0.10.826 41 Kazuya Narita (Japan) 0.10.829 42 Juan Peralta Gascon (Spain) 0.10.837 43 Yondi Schmidt (Netherlands) 0.10.869 44 Itmar Esteban Herraiz (Spain) 0.11.141 1/16 final Heat 1 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 0.10.959 2 Miao Zhang (People's Republic of China) Heat 2 1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 0.11.095 2 Daniel Ellis (Australia) Heat 3 1 Kévin Sireau (France) 0.10.945 2 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) Heat 4 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 0.10.500 2 Christos Volikakis (Greece) Heat 5 1 Shane Perkins (Australia) 0.10.943 2 Valentin Savitskiy (Russian Federation) Heat 6 1 Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) 0.10.615 2 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia) Heat 7 1 Lei Zhang (People's Republic of China) 0.10.536 2 Andrii Vynokurov (Ukraine) Heat 8 1 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 0.11.138 2 Scott Sunderland (Australia) Heat 9 1 Michaël d'Almeida (France) 0.10.744 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 10 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 0.10.737 2 Robert Forstemann (Germany) Heat 11 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 0.10.671 2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) Heat 12 1 Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia) 0.11.167 2 Mohd Rizal Tisin (Malaysia) 1/8 final Heat 1 1 Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia) 0.10.535 2 Grégory Bauge (France) Heat 2 1 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 0.10.406 2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) Heat 3 1 Kévin Sireau (France) 0.10.622 2 Stefan Nimke (Germany) Heat 4 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 0.10.787 2 Michaël d'Almeida (France) Heat 5 1 Shane Perkins (Australia) 0.10.732 2 Maximilian Levy (Germany) Heat 6 1 Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) 0.10.726 2 Lei Zhang (People's Republic of China) 1/8 final repechage Heat 1 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 0.10.371 2 Michaël d'Almeida (France) 3 Lei Zhang (People's Republic of China) Heat 2 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 0.10.839 2 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 3 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
Women's Omnium
200m TT 1 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 0.11.400 (63.157 km/h) 2 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 0.11.552 3 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 0.11.622 4 Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 0.11.800 5 Tara Whitten (Canada) 0.11.882 6 Josephine Tomic (Australia) 0.11.942 7 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 0.11.981 8 Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 0.12.015 9 Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) 0.12.139 10 Olga Slyusareva (Russian Federation) 0.12.214 11 Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China) 0.12.344 12 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 0.12.376 13 Dalila Rodriguez Hernandez (Cuba) 0.12.381 14 Charlotte Becker (Germany) 0.12.390 15 Kaytee Boyd (New Zealand) 0.12.769 16 Andrea Botero Coy (Colombia) 0.12.828 5km Scratch Race 1 Tara Whitten (Canada) 2 Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) 3 Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 4 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 5 Dalila Rodriguez Hernandez (Cuba) 6 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 7 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 8 Josephine Tomic (Australia) 9 Andrea Botero Coy (Colombia) 10 Charlotte Becker (Germany) 11 Kaytee Boyd (New Zealand) 12 Olga Slyusareva (Russian Federation) 13 Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 14 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 15 Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China) 16 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 2km Individual Pursuit 1 Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 2.20.682 (51.179 km/h) 2 Tara Whitten (Canada) 2.23.950 3 Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) 2.24.094 4 Josephine Tomic (Australia) 2.25.841 5 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 2.26.037 6 Charlotte Becker (Germany) 2.27.078 7 Kaytee Boyd (New Zealand) 2.27.283 8 Dalila Rodriguez Hernandez (Cuba) 2.27.450 9 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 2.27.757 10 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 2.27.918 11 Olga Slyusareva (Russian Federation) 2.29.295 12 Andrea Botero Coy (Colombia) 2.30.419 13 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 2.30.815 14 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 2.31.658 15 Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 2.32.060 16 Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China) 2.44.123
