DAY -- 3 SENSATIONAL VICKI PENDLETON � BRITAIN�S NEW GOLDEN GIRL

Vicki Pendleton completed an excellent World Cup for the younger GB sprinters by taking a shock gold in the women�s 10km scratch race. Following on from her own silver in the sprint and Ross Edgar�s bronze in the men�s sprint, Victoria�s win was the icing on the cake for the GB team who had only sent a small representative squad to Sydney due to the distances involved and the fact that they had already qualified for the world championships in many events.

Victoria didn�t give any indication of her later success in making it into the final with a ninth place in the morning�s second heat � ten riders went through from each heat and with only ten finishers in her race, her qualification probably went unnoticed by the favourites.

However, in the final, despite the presence of some of the world�s leading female endurance riders, including Rochelle Gilmore and Sara Ulmer, the pace was never sufficient nor sustained enough to put Victoria in trouble.

Incredibly, in her first ever international Scratch Race, she burst through the field in the final lap to win by little more than a wheel from Rochelle Gilmore. Having cleverly conserved her energy throughout the race, Victoria only led it for the final few yards � but of course, those are the ones which count!

To those who have followed Victoria�s progress over the last few years, her win will not have been such a surprise. She seems to have the happy knack of finding something extra whenever she is challenged to move up to a new level. This weekend she has set standards in sprint and endurance Track events which, of British women, only Yvonne McGregor in the Pursuit has matched in the last ten years.

GB�s other representatives on the final day were Tom White and Kristian House in the Madison, but they were unable to progress beyond their heat. Germany won the final. Elsewhere there was a shock in the men�s Team Sprint when Japan beat the home team of Ryan Bayley, Mark French and Shane Kelly. CyclingNews.com has the full story of the race. Read it here >>>

Results

Men's 20Km Madison Heat 2
 1. United States (Pearce Colby, Marty Nothstein) 

11. Britain Great (Kristian House, Tom White)
 
 
Women's Scratch Race 

Heat Heat 1
 1. Sarah Ulmer (NZl)            7:39.65

 9. Victoria Pendleton (GBr)
 
Women's 10km Scratch Race Final
 1. Victoria Pendleton (GBr)      13:35.27
 2. Rochelle Gilmore (Aus)
 3. Sarah Ulmer (NZl)

DAY 2

BRONZE MEDAL FOR EDGAR

In what has been another good day for Great Britain in the Sydney World Cup, on top of Vicki Pendleton's silver medal in the Womens Sprint, 20 year old Ross Edgar has also got himself and the team a bronze medal after "straight heating" a Japanese rider in the ride off for the bronze medal. Manager Shane Sutton was pretty pleased saying that prior to meeting Ross, the Japanese rider had taken Aussie Mark French to a best a of three. In Ross's semi final, he was beaten by the eventual winner German Renne Wolfe.

Speaking to the Great Britain Sprint coach, Iain Dyer who is very happy for the riders after all their hard work, said "thats by far and away his best ever performance and it comes at the end of a long hard World Cup campaign for me because he's done them all. He's been plugging away and this medal is the fruit of all his hard work".

Looking at why both Ross and Vicki, pupils of Frederick Magne at the Swiss Cycling School, have come into such form for the final World Cup, Iain puts it down to a number of factors. Prior to go to Sydney, they both spent a week training on the track at Manchester, a 250 metre track like the one in Sydney and this was the first time all year they had ridden on such a track with the others being bigger. So the Manchester training helped them both get comfortable on the boards again so the Sydney track was not too much a jump for them in terms of the track conditions.

"At the end of the day, because the World Cup campaign started so early for them in Moscow, they were very definitly in general preparaton at that point, racing for expereince without the benefit of having full race fitness. As the events have progressed, they have got closer and closer to getting that race fitness and even now they haven't really tapered significantly but they taper a little by backing off the weights in the week to go whereas prior to Capetown for example, they still had weight training sessions in the week of competition and if you have the courage to do that and compete and learn from from your competitions, then when the fitness comes, you're able to take full advanatage. But that takes a degree of courage and confidence that it will alll come together but Fred Magne is someone they all look up to and have a lot of confidence in what he does."

In other events, 22 year old Vicki Pendleton's top form continued when she recorded what many expect to be a British record for the 500 metre time trial, 35.360, giving her fourth place and just outside getting another medal. In previous World Cups this year, her best was 7th in this event. Prior to going to Sydney, Vicki hadn't qualified for the Sprint event (where this time she struck silver) so her turn around in form has been remarkable. Team manager Shane Sutton also tells us Vicki has made the minor final for the Keirin event, her 3rd event for the World Track Cup.

In the the heats for the Mens Points event, it was an very good ride for World Cup novice Kristain House as he finished 7th to make the final. Unfortunately due to a problem with the phones, we've been unable to get hold off Shane for further news but as soon as we, we'll bring you the latest.

Results so far ...
Men's Sprint 
Qualification-Flying 200m
 1. Jens Fiedler (Ger)          10.442 (68.952)
 2. Rene Wolff (Ger)            10.497 (68.591)
 3. Mark French (Aus)           10.512 (68.493)
 4. Florian Rousseau (Fra)      10.532 (68.363)

 6. Ross Edgar (GBr)            10.565 (68.150)
15. Jamie Staff (GBr)           10.807 (66.623)
 
 
Men's Sprint
Round of 18 Heat 6
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)             11.087 (64.941)
   Theo Bos (Ned)
 
Men's Sprint 1/8 Final
1/8 Final Heat 6
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)                11.190 (64.343)
   Tomohiro Nagatsuka (Jpn)

Men's Sprint 1/4 final

Quarterfinal Heat 3 - Race #1
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)                         10.922 (65.922)
  Theo Bos (Ned)
 
Quarterfinal Heat 3 - Race #2
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)                         11.197 (64.303)
  Theo Bos (Ned)


Men's Sprint Semifinals
 
Semifinal Heat 2 - Race #1
1. Rene Wolff (Ger)                         10.662 (67.530)
  Ross Edgar (GBr)
 
Semifinal Heat 2 - Race #2
1. Rene Wolff (Ger)                         10.830 (66.482)
  Ross Edgar (GBr)
 

Men's Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2
3rd-4th - Race #1
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)                         10.831 (66.476)
  Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn)
 
3rd-4th - Race #2
1. Ross Edgar (GBr)                         10.948 (65.765)
  Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn)
 
Men's Sprint Final Classification
1. Rene Wolff (Ger)
2. Mark French (Aus)
3. Ross Edgar (GBr)


Women's 500m Time Trial
 1. Nancy Contreras (Mex)          34.757 (51.788)

 4. Victoria Pendleton (GBr)       35.360 (50.905)



Women's Keirin Minor Final 7th-12th Result
 7. Min Hye Lee (Kor)                        12.380
 8. Victoria Pendleton (GBr)
 


Men's 15Km Points Race Qualification Heat 2
1. Ioannis Tamouridis (Gre)   47 18:57.870 (47.457km/h)

7. Kristian House (GBr)       15

Final
 1. Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus)     47 pts  36:54.240 (48.775 km/h) 
 2. Volodymyr Rybin (Ukr)      46
 3. Greg Henderson (NZl)       41

19. Kristian House (GBr)        0

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