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Track World Cup 06-07 Round 4 - CDM
Manchester, Great Britain, February 23-25, 2007
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Day 3 - February 25
Session 1: Men's JKA international keirin qualifying, men's madison heats, women's scratch race heats, women's keirin qualifying, men's madison final, women's scratch race final, women's keirin final, men's team sprint final, men's JKA international keirin final
By Ben Atkins in Manchester
Men's Madison
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A near capacity crowd was treated to a typical six-day style Madison final at Manchester this afternoon. The first move of the race from Sergiy Laghkuti and Mykhai Radionov of Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina quickly gained a lap in the early stages. However, it proved to be too much too soon as a fast moving bunch promptly dropped them and the pair lost their initial gains almost immediately.
The team to beat throughout the first half of the race was the Great Britain duo of Rob Hayles and Geraint Thomas who took an early lead in the points but were unable to register a decisive attack and escape the bunch.
With 55 laps remaining, the Dutch pairing of Peter Schep and Jens Mouris attacked and very quickly got the lap that was to prove decisive. Hayles and Thomas continued to dominate the sprints but despite two blistering solo attacks that took them beyond sight of the bunch, the British pair just didn't have the legs to keep it going and eventually settled for consolidating their silver medal position over Nikolai Trussov and Serguei Klimov of Russia.
The young British team of Jonathan Bellis and Ben Swift riding for their UCI trade team '100% Me' scored well throughout the race and took the final sprint to claim fourth.
What could have been a positive result for the US team of Bobby Lea and Charles Bradley Huff was ruined by two consecutive problems with Huff's bike midway through the race, forcing Lea to ride on his own for extended periods. This prevented Lea from contesting any of the sprints and led eventually to them losing a lap and dropping out of contention.
Women's scratch
A serious crash just before the bell marred an exciting women's scratch race final. Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark) put in an attack almost from the gun and managed to stay away for several laps, but without help she was unable to get the lap she wanted.
Soon after Bekker was caught, a powerful attack came off the front from points race silver medallist Belinda Goss (Australia), she was quickly joined by eight others including China's Jianling Wang and Britons Elizabeth Armitstead and Kate Cullen (racing in Recycling.co.uk colours). The group of nine worked well together and quickly caught the other fifteen riders, effectively eliminating them from the race.
Coming around the final bend on the approach to the bell, a touch of wheels in the middle of the pack brought down at least half a dozen riders as they positioned themselves for the final sprint. Some riders took a long time to get up, and Christy King of the United States was taken away on a stretcher. Goss - who's no doubt improved her chances of World Championship selection this weekend - led out the sprint in the final lap, but had to settle for a second silver medal as Wang of China powered around the outside to take the victory. A mass sprint behind them saw Yumari Gonzalez Valdinieso of Cuba best of the rest to take bronze.
Women's keirin
Victoria Pendleton signed off a perfect weekend with an emphatic and dominant display of keirin sprinting surely marking her as the woman to beat in all the power events in Majorca next month.
The final saw plenty of switching for position behind the derny, and as it peeled off World Cup leader Shuang Guo of China took to the front and looked to have made the right move. At the bell however, a rampant Pendleton charged around the outside of Guo in an awesome display of power bringing Russian Osanka Grishina with her. Guo was swamped as the two riders swept past but managed to hang on for the bronze medal and her World Cup lead.
In the minor final, Anna Blyth looked to have victory assured as she powered around the final bend with daylight between her and the rest, but a strong recovery by Australian Kristine Bayley took her alongside Blyth and she just managed to overhaul the Briton on the line taking victory by around half a wheel.
Men's team sprint
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As expected, the Great Britain team of Craig MacLean, Ross Edgar and Chris Hoy were virtually untouchable in the men's team sprint, posting the only sub 45-second times in both qualifying and the final.
The last qualification heat featuring Great Britain and the German team of Matthias John, Maximilian Levy and Michael Seidenbacher produced the two fastest times although it may have been different but for the disqualification of the Science in Sport team of Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Matthew Crampton.
In their first qualifying attempt, both Crampton and Kenny went before the gun, but in a more controversial second start, Kenny seemed to try to go early but was held back by the starter causing his back wheel to slip around. By the time he was ready to go Kenny's feet were in the wrong position to get his gear turning he had to lay his bike down on the track. Science in Sport's opponents Japan were allowed to ride again and finished in fifth.
Both medal races went the way of the qualification times. The Great Britain team couldn't quite match their qualifying effort but the margin of victory was just as emphatic with their average speed topping 61 km/h for the three laps, surely making them favourites for the World Championships.
After the first half lap, the British team were marginally behind but soon overhauled the deficit and pulled out a two tenths lead by 250m. The lead continued to build steadily during Edgar's leg and a seemingly invincible Chris Hoy finished them off with a final lap of under thirteen and a half seconds to beat the Germans by nearly a second.
An all Australian bronze medal match pitched the Australian national team of Daniel Ellis, Mark French and Joel Leonard against the SouthAustralia.com/AIS trio of Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland and Ryan Bayley. For two laps it looked as though the National team might reverse the qualification result and pip their compatriots to the medal, but a fast last lap from Olympic champion Ryan Bayley hauled back the AIS squad by less than a tenth of a second.
JKA international keirin
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Chris Hoy's near perfect weekend - only defeat in yesterday's sprint final by Arnaud Tournant has blotted his result sheet - ended with the Great Britain rider taking the big cash prize in the Japanese Keirin Association's international keirin, the final event of this year's Manchester World Cup.
Hoy took the front in both the semi-final and final using the stamina that makes him such a force in the kilometre to prevent anyone from coming past him. In the final round, Hoy got himself to the front behind the derny, but left a gap that team mate Ross Edgar edged in to. In the next few hundred metres the pair of them exchanged places leaving Hoy a clear track when the derny pulled over, and as soon as it did he unleashed his sprint which no one was able to respond to.
Edgar, in second wheel was unable to prevent a fast finishing Teun Mulder (Netherlands) from coming past him in the final metres, but the result was all about Hoy as he took victory several lengths ahead of the Dutchman.
The semi-final rounds were soured slightly by a crash on the final bend before the bell when Gregory Bauge's rear tyre blew at speed. Thankfully no-one else was taken down, as Edgar took the sprint from Mulder, but Bauge stayed on the floor for sometime before limping off. He was unable to start the final for 7th - 12th places.
Photography
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Images by Larry Hickmott/British Cycling
- Chris Hoy celebrates after winning the JKA International Keirin race and 15,000 euros first prize.
- Great Britain's Ross Edgar hits the front in the men's team sprint final.
- American Charles Bradley Huff takes a breather in the men's Madison final.
- The Dutch team are crowned World Cup champions.
- Great Britain's Geraint Thomas puts Rob Hayles into the Madison.
- Chris Hoy wins the JKA International Keirin and 'loadsa money'!
Images by Gerry McManus/www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk
- The USA's Bobby Lea goes high to accelerate back into the race.
- The men's Madison in full swing.
- Ben Swift slings team mate Jonathan Bellis into the fray.
Images by AFP Photo
- Ross Edgar (Great Britain) follows the derny in the men's international keirin.
- Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) wins the final for 7th - 12th places.
- Shane Perkins (Australia) takes out heat 1 in the first round of the international keirin.
- Men's Madison qualifying.
- Through the bubble of Manchester velodrome.
- Hinichi Ota (Japan) in the men's international keirin.
- Mickael Bourgain (France) glued to the wheel of Mark French (Australia).
- Great Britain's team sprint squad blast out of the blocks.
- Craig MacLean (Great Britain) goes flat out for the first lap.
- The strain shows in MacLean's face.
- MacLean peels off after one lap leaving Ross Edgar and Chris Hoy to finish off.
- The legs of Jamie Staff (Great Britain).
- Bobby Lea (USA) goes high in the Madison.
- Vasyl Yakolev (Ukraine)
- Chris Hoy takes the home crowd's applause and the tidy sum of £10,000 for winning the JKA international keirin.
- Hoy and Edgar look pretty happy with first and third places respectively.
- Yeah... show me the money!
- Hoy was on blistering form this weekend in Manchester.
- Gregory Baugé (France) is helped to his feet after crashing out of the international keirin.
- Gregory Baugé was in some pain after the crash.
- Hoy totally dominated... winning all rounds of the international keirin.
- Great Britain's team sprint squad on the podium.
- British woman Anna Blyth shows some grunt in the keirin.
- Victoria Pendleton riding for the Science in Sport trade team won the women's keirin.
Results
Men's JKA international keirin
First round
Heat 1
1 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
2 Gregory Bauge (France)
3 Christos Volikakis (Greece)
4 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
5 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
6 Shinichi Ota (Japan)
7 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
Heat 2
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
4 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
5 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
6 Ryan Bayley (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
7 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
Heat 3
1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
2 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
3 Mark French (Australia)
4 Masaki Inoue (Japan)
5 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
6 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)
7 Damian Zielinski (Poland)
First round repecharge
Heat 1
1 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
2 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
3 Ryan Bayley (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
4 Damian Zielinski (Poland)
5 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
Heat 2
1 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
2 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
3 Mark French (Australia)
4 Mickaël Bourgain (France)
5 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)
Heat 3
1 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
2 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
3 Christos Volikakis (Greece)
4 Shinichi Ota (Japan)
5 Masaki Inoue (Japan)
Second round
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
3 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
4 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
5 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
6 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
2 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
4 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
5 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
DNF Gregory Bauge (France)
Finals
For 1st - 6th
1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
4 Shane Perkins (Aus) SouthAustralia.com/AIS
5 Kazuya Narita (Japan)
6 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)
For 7th - 12th
7 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
8 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
9 Keiichiro Yaguchi (Japan)
10 Kiyofumi Nagai (Japan)
11 Maximilian Levy (Germany)
12 Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's Madison
Qualifying heat 1
1 Denmark 0 pts
Daniel Kreutzfeldt
Michael Faerk Christensen
2 Ukraine 0
Oleksandr Klymenko
Vasyl Yakovlev
3 Netherlands 0
Peter Schep
Jens Mouris
4 ASC Dukla Praha 0
Milan Kadlec
Jiri Hochmann
One lap down
5 Team 100% Me 8
Jonathan Bellis
Ben Swift
6 New Zealand 8
Timothy Gudsell
Hayden Roulston
7 Italy 7
Matteo Montaguti
Gianpaolo Biolo
8 United States 7
Bobby Lea
Charles Bradley Huff
9 France 6
Nicolas Rousseau
Andy Flickinger
10 Cespa Eustrak.Com 6
Aitor Alonso Granados
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur
11 Plowman Craven Evans 2
Anthony Gibb
Jason Allen
Two laps down
12 Hungary 0
Andras Berkesi
Gergely Ivanics
DNS Germany
Roger Kluge
Sebastian Frey
Qualifying heat 2
1 Australia 6
Travis Meyer
Mitchell Docker
2 Russia 1
Nikolai Trussov
Serguei Klimov
3 Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina 0
Mykhaylo Radionov
Sergiy Lagkuti
4 Spain 0
Antonio Miguel Parra
Carlos Torrent Tarres
One lap down
5 Poland 8
Kamil Kuczynski
Hubert Tulacz
6 Brazil 8
Marcos Novelo
Armando Camargo Filho
7 Great Britain 8
Robert Hayles
Gereint Thomas
8 Argentina 6
Juan Esteban Curuchet
Walter Perez
9 Czech Republic 5
Petr Lazar
Alois Kankovsky
10 Switzerland 2
Tobias Baumgartner
Alain Lauener
11 Hong Kong 0
Kampo Wong
Ho Ting Kwok
Final
1 Netherlands 5
Peter Schep
Jens Mouris
One lap down
2 Great Britain 18
Robert Hayles
Gereint Thomas
3 Russia 13
Nikolai Trussov
Serguei Klimov
4 Team 100% Me 12
Jonathan Bellis
Ben Swift
5 Czech Republic 9
Petr Lazar
Alois Kankovsky
6 Argentina 5
Juan Esteban Curuchet
Walter Perez
7 Denmark 4
Daniel Kreutzfeldt
Michael Faerk Christensen
8 New Zealand 3
Timothy Gudsell
Hayden Roulston
9 France 3
Nicolas Rousseau
Andy Flickinger
10 Australia 1
Travis Meyer
Mitchell Docker
11 Ukraine 1
Oleksandr Klymenko
Vasyl Yakovlev
12 Spain 0
Antonio Miguel Parra
Carlos Torrent Tarres
Two laps down
13 United States 0
Bobby Lea
Charles Bradley Huff
DNF ASC Dukla Praha 5
Milan Kadlec
Jiri Hochmann
DNF Arda Natura Pinarello Ukraina
Mykhaylo Radionov
Sergiy Lagkuti
DNF Brazil
Marcos Novelo
Armando Camargo Filho
DNF Poland
Kamil Kuczynski
Hubert Tulacz
Women's scratch race
Qualifying heat 1
1 Natalia Boyarskaya (Russia)
2 Neva Day (USA)
3 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
4 Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso (Cuba)
5 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)
6 Belinda Goss (Australia)
7 Marllijn Binnendijk (Netherlands)
8 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
9 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain)
10 Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain)
11 Pascale Jeuland (France)
12 Jessica Jurado (Mexico)
13 Aksana Papko (Belarus)
14 Trine Schmidt (Denmark)
15 Wei Li (China)
16 Louise Moriarty (Ireland)
17 Eleftheria Maria Ellinikaki (Greece)
18 Julia Bradley (Can) Team R.A.C.E.
Qualifying heat 2
1 Kate Cullen (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
2 Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (Cuba)
3 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mexico)
4 Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark)
5 Vera Carrara (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
6 Jianling Wang (China)
7 Catherine Sell (New Zealand)
8 Martina Ruzickova (Czech Republic)
9 Christy King (USA)
10 Iona Wynter (Jamaica)
11 Andrea Wolfer (Switzerland)
12 Kelly Druyts (Belgium)
13 Debora Galvez Lopez (Spain)
14 Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spa) Cespa Eustrak.Com
15 Silvia Castoldi (Italy)
16 Anastasia Tchulkova (Russia)
17 Fabienne Sandig (Germany)
Final
1 Jianling Wang (China)
2 Belinda Goss (Australia)
3 Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso (Cuba)
4 Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain)
5 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)
6 Kate Cullen (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
7 Belem Guerrero Mendez (Mexico)
8 Marllijn Binnendijk (Netherlands)
9 Catherine Sell (New Zealand)
10 Natalia Boyarskaya (Russia)
11 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain)
12 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
13 Iona Wynter (Jamaica)
14 Pascale Jeuland (France)
15 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
16 Jessica Jurado (Mexico)
17 Vera Carrara (Ita) Safi Pasta Zara Manhattan
18 Martina Ruzickova (Czech Republic)
19 Neva Day (USA)
20 Kelly Druyts (Belgium)
21 Yoanka Gonzalez Perez (Cuba)
DNF Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark)
DNF Andrea Wolfer (Switzerland)
DNF Christy King (USA)
Women's keirin
First round
Heat 1
1 Shuang Guo (China)
2 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
3 Virginie Cueff (France)
4 Helena Casas Roige (Spain)
5 Magdalena Sara (Poland)
Heat 2
1 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
2 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
3 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
4 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
5 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russia)
6 Daniela Larreal (Venezuela)
Heat 3
1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Sandie Clair (France)
3 Renata Dabrowska (Poland)
4 Jinjie Gong (China)
5 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
Heat 3
1 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
2 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)
3 Lenka Valova (Czech Republic)
4 Liz Carlson (USA)
5 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
First round repecharge
Heat 1
1 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
2 Virginie Cueff (France)
3 Daniela Larreal (Venezuela)
4 Liz Carlson (USA)
5 Magdalena Sara (Poland)
6 Annalisa Cucinotta (Italy)
7 Renata Dabrowska (Poland)
Heat 2
1 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
2 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
3 Lenka Valova (Czech Republic)
4 Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russia)
5 Jinjie Gong (China)
6 Helena Casas Roige (Spain)
Second round
1 Shuang Guo (China)
2 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
3 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
4 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
5 Sandie Clair (France)
6 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
3 Virginie Cueff (France)
4 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
5 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
6 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)
Final
For 1st - 6th
1 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport
2 Oksana Grishina (Russia)
3 Shuang Guo (China)
4 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia)
5 Willy Kanis (Netherlands)
6 Virginie Cueff (France)
For 7th - 12th
7 Kristine Bayley (Australia)
8 Anna Blyth (Great Britain)
9 Nancy Contreras Reyes (Mexico)
10 Tian Fang (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
11 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands)
12 Sandie Clair (France)
Men's team sprint
Qualifying
1 Great Britain 44.155 (61.148 km/h)
Ross Edgar
Chris Hoy
Craig Maclean
2 Germany 45.147 (59.804 km/h)
Matthias John
Maximilian Levy
Michael Seidenbecher
3 SouthAustralia.com/AIS 45.239 (59.683 km/h)
Shane Perkins
Scott Sunderland
Ryan Bayley
4 Australia 45.286 (59.621 km/h)
Daniel Ellis
Mark French
Joel Leonard
5 Japan 45.326 (59.568 km/h)
Masaki Inoue
Kazuya Narita
Kazunari Watanabe
6 Greece 45.981 (58.719 km/h)
Athanasios Mantzouranis
Vasileios Reppas
Panagiotis Voukelatos
7 Ukraine 46.252 (58.375 km/h)
Yevgen Bolibrukh
Yuriy Tsyupyk
Andriy Vynokurov
8 Czech Republic 46.691 (57.826 km/h)
Tomas Babek
Denis Spicka
Ivan Vrba
9 Malaysia 46.712 (57.800 km/h)
Josiah Ng Onn Lam
Mohd Rizal Tisin
Azizulhasni Da Md
10 Poland 46.771 (57.728 km/h)
Maciej Bielecki
Pawel Kosciecha
Tomasz Schmidt
11 Switzerland 48.230 (55.981 km/h)
Patrik Merk
Cédric Stoller
Tristan Marquet
12 Trinidad & Tobago 48.298 (55.902 km/h)
Christopher Sellier
Azikiwe Kellar
Haseem Mclean
Final
1 Great Britain 44.163 (61.137 km/h)
Ross Edgar
Chris Hoy
Craig Maclean
2 Germany 45.149 (59.801 km/h)
Matthias John
Maximilian Levy
Michael Seidenbecher
3 South Australia.Com 45.172 (59.771 km/h)
Shane Perkins
Scott Sunderland
Ryan Bayley
4 Australia 45.270 (59.642 km/h)
Daniel Ellis
Mark French
Joel Leonard
