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2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM
Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 24-27, 2005
Photography
Retrospective
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Images by
Greg Descantes
Day 4 - March 27: Men's sprint semi-finals & finals; Women's keirin 1st round,
2nd round, repechages & finals; Women's scratch 10km final; Men's Madison 50km
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Images by
Matthew Moses/www.moses-images.com
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Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
Images by
Dana Ross/www.danarossphoto.com
Images by
Russ and Nancy Wright/www.abbiorca.com
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As the board says
Women's Scratch race final
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Charlotte Becker (Ger)
takes takes a flyer in the scratch race but is reeled in eventually
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Rebecca Quinn
surounded in the scratch race
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Adrie Visser (Ned)
got 4th in the Scratch race
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Katherine Bates (Aus)
was second in the scratch race
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Crash
on the last turn of the Women's Scratch race takes out Mandy Poitras (Can), Virginie Moinard (Fra) and Rebecca Quinn (USA)
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Grégory Bauge's (France)
rear tyre blows out, resulting in a crash as Mickael Bourgain rides around him
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Grégory Bauge (France)
starting to notice the falling effect
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Grégory Bauge (France)
did not have too many options open to him at this point
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The Women's Scratch race podium:
The photographers busy capturing the moment.
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Katherine Bates,
second place scratch race finisher celebrates
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Katherine Bates
after her second place Scratch race finish
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The crowd
enjoys the Women's Keirin race
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The Madison
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The Russian team
hand-off in the madison
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Belarus
get some Madison action happening
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Slovakia
shows intensity in the Madison
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Colby Pierce (USA)
goes on a solo break away from the pack. Soon the British team bridges up and keeps going to lap the field.
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Colby Pierce (USA)
goes on a solo break away from pack
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Ouch!
One of the Kazakhstan riders crashed earlier in race but got back in to join the fun.
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Colby Pierce (USA)
hands off to Marty Nothstein in the Madison
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Mark Cavendish and Robert Hayles (GBr)
celebrate their Madison victory
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The Madison Podium:
Robert Slippens/Danny Stam (2nd), Mark Cavendish/Rob Hayles (1st), Matthew Gilmore/Iljo Keiss (3rd)
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The Women's Keirin podium:
Elisa Frisoni (Ita, 2nd), Clara Sanchez (Fra, 1st), Yvonne Hijgenaar (Ned, 3rd)
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Yes, I have a medal as well.
The Women's Keirin podium.
Day 3 - March 26: Men's sprint qualifying through 5th to 8th final; Men's
scratch 15 km final; Men's team pursuit; Women's individual pursuit; Women's
sprint semi-final & finals
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Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
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Karin Thurig (Switzerland)
put herself into the bronze medal pursuit final with a 3:42.452
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It must have been the cheese.
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Katherine Bates (Australia)
took a second off Thurig to qualify for the gold medal final
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Katie Mactier
made it an all-Australia final with a 3:38.325
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Elena Tchalykh (Russia)
went head to head against Mactier in qualifying, and it pushed her into the bronze medal final
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Rene Wolff (Germany)
squeezes out a 10.404 - a tie with Edgar of Great Britain - and a coin flip put the German in fifth seed
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Stefan Nimke (Germany) qualifies 4th for the men's sprint
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Gregory Bauge (France)
qualifies third with a 10.279
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World Cup leader Mickael Bourgain (FRance)
snaps up second seed with a 10.257
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Theo Bos (Netherlands)
turns in a 10.192 to claim top seed
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Team New Zealand
places fourth with a 4:10.698 (Jason Allen, Gregory Henderson, Peter Latham and Marc Ryan)
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Netherlands crash in warmup didn't seem to faze them
- they qualified second with a 4:09.483 (Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris, Peter Schep, Niki Terpstra)
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World Cup team pursuit points leaders Great Britain
set the standard with a 4:08.569 (Ed Clancy, Steven Cummings, Paul Manning, Christopher Newton)
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Australia closed out
the qualifying session with a small bobble that took them out of the final for gold, and into the race for bronze (Matthew Goss, Ashley Hutchinson, Mark Jamieson, Stephen Wooldridge)
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Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
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Matthew Moses/www.moses-images.com
Images by
Dana Ross/www.danarossphoto.com
Images by
Matthew Moses/www.moses-images.com
Images by
Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
Images by
Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
Images by
Russ and Nancy Wright/www.abbiorca.com
Day 2 - March 25: Men's individual pursuit; Men's keirin; Men's kilometer
TT; Women's points race 25 km; Women's sprint qualifying through to 5th to 8th
final
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Matthew Moses/www.moses-images.com
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Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
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Matthew Moses/www.moses-images.com
Images by
Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
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Vera Carrara (Italy)
goes away solo to take a late lap in the womens points race
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Olga Slyusareva (Russia)
controlled the race's sprinting, but not getting away for a lap put her fate in Carrara's hands
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Katherine Bates (Australia)
battled her way into the bronze on her sprinting ability.
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Slyusareva wins the final sprint
but Carrara can celebrate the race win with second place at the line
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Carrara celebrates
her points race win.
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Staff, Escuredo and Kelly slip by
as Wolff, Dajka and Tournant tangle in the mens keirin second round
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Carrara of Italy
awaits her gold medal
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The women's points race podium
- Olga Slyusareva (Russia), Vera Carrara (Italy), Katherine Bates (Australia)
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Vera Carrara
- gold tastes GOOD!
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Levi Heimans (Netherlands)
bronze in the individual pursuit is well worth the effort
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Robert Bartko (Germany)
rolls to pursuit gold against Spain
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Sergi Escobar (Spain)
digs down deep for silver in the pursuit
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Jason Queally (Great Britain)
hauls in silver in the kilometer TT
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Theo Bos (Netherlands)
brought the crowd to its feet with every split on the way to gold in the kilometer
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Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
rode last but only could lock down bronze in the kilometer final
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Shane Kelly (Australia)
lets the group bunch up as he leads out the keirin final for gold
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Mulder and Forde
move to the front with one lap to go in the keirin final
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Mulder takes the keirin
win over Forde and Kelly
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The mens pursuit podium
Sergi Escobar (Spain), Robert Bartko (Germany), Levi Heimans (Netherlands)
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The keirin minor final sprint
- Wolff, Villanueva, & Edgar battle it out
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Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
awaits the keirin final start
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Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
celebrates the keirin win
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Queally, Bos and Hoy
mug for the cameras after the kilometer awards
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Forde, Mulder and Kelly
on the men's keirin podium
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Russ and Nancy Wright/www.abbiorca.com
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Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
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Dana Ross/www.danarossphoto.com
Day 1 - March 24: Men's points race 40 km final; Men's team sprint qualifying
& finals; Women's 500m TT final
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Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
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Natallia Tsylinskaya of Belarus
started fourth from last, and turned in the first sub-35 second ride - which held up for gold.
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The Netherlands Yvonne Hijgenaar
started next and moved into second temporarily.
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Australia's Anna Meares
started last and bumped Hijgenaar to Bronze.
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The men's points race field
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Vladimir Rybin of Ukraine
settles into the lead with two sprints to go
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Juan Llaneras of Spain
only figured in two sprints until working to take a lap 25 laps to go
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Ioannis Tamouridis of Greece
had one sprint win (sixth) before joining Llaneras in a breakaway
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Tamouridis and Llaneras take a lap
with only 4 laps remaining
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Rybin takes a moment
to celebrate his Points Race win.
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Great Britain
in the team sprint qualifying (Staff, Queally, Hoy)
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Team Germany
in the team sprint finals for bronze (John, Wolff, Nimke)
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France goes down
to Germany in the bronze medal ride (Bourgain, Bauge, Tournant)
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Jamie Staff of GBR snapped
the clamping spring of his SPD-R, which caused a minor delay before the final for Gold
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The Netherlands
races against Great Britain in the Team Sprint Final (Mulder, Veldt, Bos)
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Jamie Staff leaves the lane
a bit early, but Great Britain holds on to take Gold (Staff, Queally, Hoy)
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Staff, Queally and Hoy
accept the cheers of the crowd at Theo Bos and Ray Godkin look on
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Staff, Queally and Hoy
in full regalia
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Becky Conzelman of the USA
got the crowd on its feet in the Women's 500m
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Russ Wright/www.abbiorca.com
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Dana Ross/www.danarossphoto.com
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Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
Riders practice - March 24
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