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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

The New Zealand men's team pursuiters
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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

Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis
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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.

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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               

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