2005 Junior World Championships Day 1 (Track)

 

August 7, 2005; Austria

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MORNING SESSION

Day 1, Qualifying: On the first morning of the World Junior track championships, there were two heats in which the Great Britain riders were racing, the Scratch race (Matt Rowe) and the Points Race (Ben Swift) with both riders getting through to their first World Championship final comfortably.

 

First onto the 250 meter board track to open the championship racing program was Matt Rowe in Heat 1 of the Scratch race and although he had a few little digs, he was unable to get into a move that managed to stay away. In the end, Matt had to rely on the sprint to make sure of a place in the final, and although nervous about doing it this way, Matt handled it well, holding position just behind third wheel and doing enough to book a place in the final with 8th place.

 

Afterwards in the Great Britain pen Matt said "I didn't want to leave it to a sprint because they are always a lottery so I was trying to run off the front without attacking but it wasn't happening. With a few laps to go, I knew I wasn't going to get away but I held my position and it went alright." Matt added he was pleased to make the finals which as a first year junior is quite an achievement.

 

Once the two heats of the scratch race were done and dusted, it was the heats of the points race and Great Britain's rider in this was Ben Swift. In quite an attacking race, Ben got away in a move mid way through the race and bit by bit, tentatively even, they gained the lap which after a second and a first in
earlier sprints, put Ben into the lead with 28 points. From then on, he wisely sat back, not wasting energy in a race which was only a qualifier with no prizes for winning.

 

Afterwards he looked quite pleased with the effort. When asked how big the occasion felt, he replied "very big. It's something I've always wanted to do and the Points race is my favourite event with the Madison." Talking about the race, he explained "I just followed some moves that went and ended up in move that took a lap. If I didn't get a lap, I was just going to do every other sprint and try not to kill myself but once I got a lap, I backed off and just rode the wheels."

 

As well as booking a place in the final, Ben had also given his legs a good workout saying that they felt great during the event and the team have high hopes for both riders in the evening.

 

DAY 1, EVENING FINALS

The evening session on day one of the Junior Track Worlds did not bring any medals for Great Britain but our riders certainly did us proud with a number of fine performances that show a lot of promise for the future. Matt Rowe was first into action and he finished 8th in his final (the Scratch Race) after a promising ride, then Anna Blyth did a stormer of a ride (36.544) in the Womens 500 m Time Trial, knocking four tenths of her personal best and finally Ben Swift, 5th we think (we left before the official result sheet was issued) in the Mens Points.

 

 

The night began with the Team Sprint which GB was not involved in and where the Germans did a storming 45.488 in qualifying, a time that many senior teams would struggle to beat.

 

Once that was out of the way, it was time for first year Junior Matt Rowe to take to the track in the Mens Scratch race. The pace of the final was certainly a level up from the heats and breaks came and went until Matt Rowe slipped off the front and was quickly chased down by a Dutch rider. The two of them got as much as half a lap at one time but there wasn't the urgency or the do or die feel about it that perhaps is required to succeed and the bunch soon brought them back after which the time had run out for another break to get away.

 

For someone who doesn't like the sprint finish, Matt mixed it up with the others in the top half of the group and although back in 8th, the photos show he wasn't far away from the medals in what is his first year as a junior. "There was a lot of strong people here" he said afterwards "and you couldn't get away.

 

You get a gap, and they were straight onto you. In the sprint, it was lined out and I couldn't do any more to come round them."

 

Matt then admitted his sprint, despite his obvious speed which he used to stay in contact with the leaders in the sprint, is an area of his game that he needs to work on. Talking about the time out front with the Dutchman, Matt explained "I was going hard but not full on - with hindsight I should have goner harder." It was part of the learning experience which he knows will help him next time he does this race, and that is when you commit, you commit 110 per cent and do everything you can to make sure it pays off especially if you know there is no other way. At least by having learnt from his race, he can now move on to the Madison with Ben Swift.

 

 

Matt gets away to be joined by a Dutch rider... the move however was unsuccessful.

 

 

 

 

In the final sprint, the German as far and away quicker than the rest.

With a sprint finish not something Matt enjoys, he finishes down in 8th place but learnt many valuable lessons from the race which he can take to his next event, the madison.

Womens 500 TT

The next event on the program was the Womens 500 metre Time Trial with Anna Blyth of Great Britain in the first half of the draw. Her time of 36.544 was not only a personal best but was also far quicker than any of the others riders at the time and her time sat at the top of the leader board for quite a while. In
her ride, Anna had got everything out, finishing the race in a state of collapse, unable to talk until quite a while afterwards during which time she had warmed down and had several drinks to recover from her effort.

 

Right: Anna has trouble stopping after giving everything to try and win a medal in the Womens 500 metre Time Trial.

 

Then, with her coach Iain Dyer sat next to her going through the ride, Anna nervously watched the rides of the other girls and then it happened as Anna's time was beaten, and then beaten again and then the cruelest one of all when a third girl beat it to drop her out of the medals. Anna was not best pleased but two more also beat her time which meant the first year junior finished in 6th place out of the 25 that started. It was though a great ride and one that impressed her National coach.

 

"That was a really good performance from Anna, outstandingly professional, really well controlled and as you can see as she rides around after her ride, she's still really gassed. She was able to tap into everything she had and when you have that ability, you can go along way. I'm really pleased for her". 

 

 

Above: Anna in full flight on her second lap in the 500 -- her time was good enough to take her to the top of the leader board for a good half an hour afterwards...

Anna meanwhile was pleased with her ride, saying "It was fourth tenths off what I did in Italy and technically it was good as well. It gives me a lot of confidence for next year." Asked what drives her to get so much out of her ride as she did, Anna replied "I feel worse if I don't try hard so I have to get
it all out. Feeling like I do now is part of what I have to do."

"If you had told me last year I would be doing times like this, I wouldn't have believed you and I have to keep chipping away at them." On whether she felt nervous in her ride, Anna said "if anything I was more nervous at the Europeans. Today, I knew what I could do and I just went out and did it. I can't control what my rivals do so all I had to do was make sure I went as fast as I could."

 

My final question to her seeing that she obviously has a lot of potential to go further with this, was that like the other seniors in the team, doing this for a living would make a nice job to which Anna smiled and replied, "it would be lovely wouldn't it...". After seeing her ride her tonight, we may well yet see Anna go a lot further and make this her career as a sprint athlete.

 

Mens Points

 

 

Above: Final corner on the track and Ben Swift shows just how much speed he has coming from a few lengths back as seen here to win this sprint, one of two he won.

The final event was the Mens Points and in this, Ben Swift was GB's hope. It was certainly an attacking race from the moment it started with one rider, Jursys, taking a lap very early on. Then little moves came and went as they do but Ben was certainly showing he had plenty of speed as we won two sprints and climbed to second on the leader board. He then got in a move which looked promising but was soon being pulled back and when Ben saw the group coming back to him, he sat up only to watch a former member of the break counter as the junction was about to be made.

While a new break formed and took a lap, Ben was marooned in the group, unable to take many points after the effort of his time in the earlier break and it was with around 17 to go he went again in a group of two. A lapped rider sat on them and then promptly out sprinted them on the final sprint but despite getting some more points, it was never going to be enough to catch the points tallies of the riders who had lapped the field, so it was 5th, the same as he finished in at the Europeans.

His ride had certainly got the nod of approval from the coaches and managers but what did Ben think of it? "I think I really attacked them too hard" he replied. "I carried my speed from the sprint and then I just tried to keep it going. Luckily two others came across but we didn't really work well enough and
the bunch was chasing. When the bunch got within 10 metres of us, I swung off and went back to the bunch and the Frenchie kept going."

"I felt good in the sprints but that bit out on my own trying to get the lap - that's what I need to work on." Ben admits he wasn't aware he was that high up (2nd) in the table when the break he missed had gone away even though he knew he must have been doing all right. Asked how hard the race overall was, he replied, "It was so fast, faster than any other points race I have done."

Finally, talking about the final sprint where he attacked with around 17 to go, and stayed away until the end, he explained "I was supposed to go the sprint before but I was recovering a bit still but when we got so close to the end, I knew I had to try something and do it." Which is what Ben did and although he didn't get a medal, he showed a lot of promise that perhaps one day, he will get a medal in this event but in the meantime, his next event is his other  favourite race, the Madison with Matt Rowe. We wish all the riders the best of luck for the up coming events.

Ben with a Dutchman at the end of the race where he put in a do or die effort to try and salvage something from a race he rode well but one small mistake may have cost him a medal.

More Photos

 

ODP coach Darren Tudor runs Matt Rowe up the track at the start of the first heat of the Juniors Mens Scratch race.

Start of the Scratch race with Matt Rowe

 

 

Just as Matt slipped off the front, at the back two riders collided including one of the Belgiums. Both riders got straight up and back in the race.



Matt drifting off the front using the banking to gain speed and run off the front in the hope someone would come across but the European Champion wasn't finding it that easy to find some allies in this heat.

Bell lap and Matt Rowe is well position in the group chasing a couple of riders off the front. Matt finished 8th in the race to make the final.

The final sprint and Matt is 3rd or 4th with a small group of riders off the front.



Ben Swift lining up for the Mens Points race qualifier.

A Russian rider perhaps trying to follow in the footsteps of the Current Olympic Points champion, goes off the front.



GB 1, Germany 0 -- Ben takes the sprint for 2nd place (a Russian is away) to score his first lot of points.



Ben leads the break of three which took a lap midway through the race.



Top of the tree... Ben's position in the race before he backed off to save his legs for the evening racing.



A good mornings work... Ben Swift and Matt Rowe warm down before riding back to the Hotel.



The venue for the World Junior Champions, in Vienna on a track the same size as Manchester but with very short straights.

RESULTS

Mens Scratch

Qualifying

Heat 1
1 Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia) 9.44.861 (46.165km/h)
2 Alexandr Silaichev (Kazakhstan)

One lap behind
3 Jonathan Lahoun (France)
4 Takayuki Kawanishi (Japan)
5 Fabrizio Braggion (Italy)
6 Matthew Pettit (Australia)
7 Nateghi Hossein (Iran)
8 Matthew Rowe (Great Britain)
9 Daniel Holloway (USA)
10 Dave Mertens (Belgium)
11 Reniell Matthysen (South Africa)
12 Eliot Crowther (New Zealand)
13 Eligijus Dalisanskas (Lithuania)
14 Svetlin Radev (Bulgaria)
15 Yury Yurchanka (Belarus)
DNF Lukas Goc (Slovakia)

Heat 2
1 Jin Woo Lee (Korea) 9.14.107 (48.727km/h)
2 Tomasz Krysztofik (Poland)
3 Lars Jun (Netherlands)

One lap behind
4 Filip Hanslian (Czech Republic)
5 Oleksandr Polivoda (Ukraine)
6 Vasileios Galanis (Greece)
7 Cristian Benages Tosca (Spain)
8 Philipp Klein (Germany)
9 Josúílfredo Flores (Guatemala)
10 LoPerizzolo (Switzerland)
11 Alexander Gushchin (Russia)
12 Maurice O'Brien (Ireland)
13 Viktor Farkas (Hungary)
14 Stefan Patzl (Austria)
DNS Haseem McLean (Trinidad And Tobago)


Final
1 Philipp Klein (Germany) 11.50.121 (50.696km/h)
2 Oleksandr Polivoda (Ukraine)
3 LoPerizzolo (Switzerland)
4 Jin Woo Lee (Korea)
5 Reniell Matthysen (South Africa)
6 Vasileios Galanis (Greece)
7 Alexander Gushchin (Russia)
8 Matthew Rowe (Great Britain)
9 Dave Mertens (Belgium)
10 Jonathan Lahoun (France)
11 Cristian Benages Tosca (Spain)
12 Fabrizio Braggion (Italy)
13 Nateghi Hossein (Iran)
14 Matthew Pettit (Australia)
15 Eliot Crowther (New Zealand)
16 Lars Jun (Netherlands)
17 Jarlinson Pantano (Colombia)
18 Filip Hanslian (Czech Republic)
19 Takayuki Kawanishi (Japan)
20 Alexandr Silaichev (Kazakhstan)
21 Tomasz Krysztofik (Poland)
22 Daniel Holloway (USA)
DNF Josúílfredo Flores (Guatemala)
DNF Maurice O'Brien (Ireland)


Women's 500m TT
1 Guerra Lizandra (Cuba) 35.500 (50.704km/h)
2 Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine) 35.804 (50.274km/h)
3 Sandie Clair (France) 36.105 (49.855km/h)
4 Chloe Macpherson (Australia) 36.116 (49.839km/h)
5 Elodie Henriette (France) 36.122 (49.831km/h)
6 Anna Blyth (Great Britain) 36.544 (49.256km/h)
7 Malindi Maclean (New Zealand) 37.298 (48.260km/h)
8 Bridgette Broad (New Zealand) 37.707 (47.736km/h)
9 Viktorija Lomsargyte (Lithuania) 37.713 (47.729km/h)
10 Helena Casas Roige (Spain) 37.719 (47.721km/h)
11 Anja Drotleff (Germany) 37.760 (47.669km/h)
12 Hayley Wright (Australia) 37.813 (47.603km/h)
13 Yulia Kosheleva (Russia) 37.846 (47.561km/h)
14 Anastasia Rozhkova (Russia) 38.126 (47.212km/h)
15 Cynthia Lakatosh (USA) 38.291 (47.008km/h)
16 Paulina Cieslik (Poland) 38.343 (46.945km/h)
17 Eunmi Park (Korea) 38.375 (46.906km/h)
18 Janowiak Marta (Poland) 38.406 (46.868km/h)
19 Johanna Preisler (Germany) 38.504 (46.748km/h)
20 Nozomi Oka (Japan) 38.554 (46.688km/h)
21 Zuzana Galandova (Slovakia) 40.123 (44.862km/h)
22 Roxane Knetemann (Netherlands) 40.586 (44.350km/h)
23 Veronika Barakova (Czech Republic) 41.015 (43.886km/h)
24 Kira Kalmakova (Belarus) 42.080 (42.776km/h)
25 Alena Charnyshova (Belarus) 42.291 (42.562km/h)

Men's points race

Heat 1
1 Guillaume Perrot (France) 30 pts
2 Rigoberto Uran (Colombia) 29
3 Ben Swift (Great Britain) 28
4 Jun Kanehira (Japan) 26
5 Egidijus Jursys (Lithuania) 26
6 Krisztian Lovassy (Hungary) 23
7 Hubert Tulacz (Poland) 22

One lap behind
8 Marcel Kalz (Germany) 8
9 Roman Maximov (Russia) 6
10 Ihar Shashkouski (Belarus) 4
11 Logan Hunn (New Zealand) 4
DNF Richard Schenk (USA) 0
DNS Jin Woo Lee (Korea) 0

Heat 2
1 Michel Kreder (Netherlands) 48 pts

One lap behind
2 Dieter Verbeek (Belgium) 34
3 Michael Murray (Ireland) 24
4 Yuriy Agarkov (Ukraine) 21
5 Berik Kupeshov (Kazakhstan) 20
6 Georg Lauscha (Austria) 20

Two laps behind
7 Zdenek Machac (Czech Republic) 12
8 Marco Benfatto (Italy) 10
9 Zakkari Dempster (Australia) 9
10 Tristan Marquet (Switzerland) 4
11 Pedro Jose Fructuoso Bastida (Spain) 4
12 Ivano Siebrits (South Africa) 0
13 Hristomir Angelov (Bulgaria) 0

Final
1 Egidijus Jursys (Lithuania) 52 pts

One lap behind
2 Michel Kreder (Netherlands) 34
3 Roman Maximov (Russia) 31
4 Guillaume Perrot (France) 25

Two laps behind
5 Ben Swift (Great Britain) 13
6 Jun Kanehira (Japan) 8
7 Zakkari Dempster (Australia) 6
8 Yuriy Agarkov (Ukraine) 6
9 Rigoberto Uran (Colombia) 6
10 Dieter Verbeek (Belgium) 6
11 Marcel Kalz (Germany) 5
12 Hubert Tulacz (Poland) 5
13 Marco Benfatto (Italy) 3
14 Berik Kupeshov (Kazakhstan) 3
15 Tristan Marquet (Switzerland) 2
16 Michael Murray (Ireland) 2
17 Krisztian Lovassy (Hungary) 2
18 Ihar Shashkouski (Belarus) 1
19 Georg Lauscha (Austria) 0
20 Zdenek Machac (Czech Republic) 0


Men's team sprint

Qualifying
1 Germany 45.488 (59.356km/h)
Rene Enders
Maximilian Levy
Benjamin Wittmann

2 France 46.005 (58.689km/h)
Micka¹¨D'Almeida
KÙÐn Sireau
Alexandre Volant

3 Korea 46.489 (58.078km/h)
Lae Seon Choi
Dong Jin Kang
Jae Yeol Ryu

4 Australia 46.580 (57.965km/h)
Daniel Ellis
Jeremy Hogg
Scott Sunderland

5 Greece 47.532 (56.804km/h)
Konstantinos Iordanidis
Vasileios Reppas
Christos Volikakis

6 Russia 47.597 (56.726km/h)
Andrey Chernopyatov
Pavel Noskov
Maxim Tarakanov

7 Poland 47.683 (56.624km/h)
Dawid Glowacki
Rafal Poper
Krzysztof Szymanek

8 Japan 47.905 (56.362km/h)
Rikiya Abe
Yoshinori Sasaki
Masamichi Kohara

9 USA 48.077 (56.160km/h)
Benjamin Barczewski
Spencer Hartfeld
Mike Schnabel

10 Czech Republic 48.411 (55.772km/h)
Tomas Babek
Pavel Kapr
Jan Vackar

11 Spain 48.541 (55.623km/h)
Raul Baez De Aguilar Gome
Hodei Mazcuiaran Uria
Angel Sixto Garcia

12 Austria 51.478 (52.450km/h)
Patrick Gelosky
Matthias Krizek
Conrad Sammer

13 Belarus 53.948 (50.048km/h)
Siarhei Sakavets
Aliaksei Savenkou
Yury Yurchanka

Final for 3rd & 4th
1 Australia 46.593 (57.949km/h)
Daniel Ellis
Jeremy Hogg
Scott Sunderland

2 Korea 46.815 (57.674km/h)
Lae Seon Choi
Dong Jin Kang
Jae Yeol Ryu

Final for 1st & 2nd
1 Germany 45.481 (59.365km/h)
Rene Enders
Maximilian Levy
Benjamin Wittmann

2 France 46.062 (58.617km/h)
Micka¹¨D'Almeida
KÙÐn Sireau
Alexandre Volant