Gold Medal for GB on Day 1 of Sydney World Cup
17th of November, 2006
UCI World Track Cup, Round 1, Sydney (Australia)
2006 World Champion Chris Hoy was triumphant in the Kilometre at the UCI Sydney World Track Cup in Sydney (Australia) today.
Kilometre
Jason Queally, Chris Hoy and Tim Veldt: (photo courtesy of Tissot Timing)
Great Britain fielded two riders in the Kilometre, both Olympic Champions and it was Hoy who managed to squeeze out Sydney Olympic Champion Jason Queally by a few hundredths of a second to win the Gold there with Jason in second place riding for SIS, giving the team two riders on the podium.
Of the two riders, Hoy started the quickest, doing an opening lap of 18.357 with Queally only 4th fastest at this point. Hoy was again quickest on the second lap with a split of 13.604 whilst Queally had obviously got up to speed by this point and was second fastest over the second lap.
On the third lap, Hoy started to die and was only the third fastest with a 14.486 to Queally's 14.446, who was the fastest rider on that lap. Hoy continued to die on the last lap, only 4th fastest but doing enough to hold off Queally who was again fastest on that final circuit of the track with a time of 15.272.
Women's Sprint
Silver medallist in the Women's Sprint at the 2006 Track Worlds, and let us not forget the Commonwealth Games Champion this year in Australia, Victoria Pendleton showed just how good her form is at the moment with some super rides in Sydney to go all the way to the final and finish second.
Victoria, World Champion in 2005, was third fastest in qualifying with a time of 11.451 to the 11.449 of the fastest rider, Simona Krupeckaite of Lithunia.
In the 1/8th finals, Victoria had little problem with Oksana Grishina of Russia and it was the same in the Quarter finals when she came up against the formidable Chinese rider, Shuang Guo, and won in two straight rides, the only rider to do so as the rest had to proceed through with a decider.
It was more of the same in the semi final when Victoria came up against a rider she has sprinted against many times, including some Revolution meetings, Yvonne Higgenaar of Holland. The rider from Stotfold, dispensed with her in two straight rides to set up a meeting with World champion, in Natallia Tsylinskya, in the final.
This was a much closer encounter with there being four rides to decide it. One of those, match C, saw Victoria fall off but a rerun was given and in that, Victoria just failed to beat her rival, and it was a silver medal for her in the competition.
Men's Keirin
The only other event Britain contested in Sydney on Day 1, was the Mens Keirin where we had Ross Edgar riding for GB and Matthew Crampton racing for SIS. In round 1, Edgar was 4th as he lost out in the battle won by French legend Arnaud Tournant and the GB rider was sent to the repechages to try and remain in the competition. Crampton meanwhile finished one place higher, 3rd, in his heat won by Olympic Champion Ryan Bayley, and so it was the same for Matthew as he had to go to the reps.
In the reps, Ross Edgar found the speed to win his heat where only the first rider goes through but for Matthew Crampton it was an early exit as he finished second to Aussie Mark French. So it was only one British rider in the second round, Ross Edgar, but for the Scotland racer, the pace of the race was too much and in a heat won by World Champion Theo Bos, Edgar was 5th and it was the minor final for him. There, he found the sparkling form we have seen many times from the Commonwealth Games champion and he won that to finish the competition in 7th place.
RESULTS
MENS KILOMETRE
1. HOY Chris GBR 1:02.242
2. QUEALLY Jason SIS 1:02.362
3. VELDT Tim NED 1:03.314
4. KANG Dong Jin KOR 1:03.808
5. D'ALMEIDA Micka묠FRA 1:04.136
6. LEONARD Joel AUS 1:04.258
7. BERGMANN Carsten GER 1:04.293
8. FENG Yong CHN 1:04.522
9. BOLIBRUKH Yevgen (19830815) UKR 1:04.819
10. OIKAWA Yusho JPN 1:05.437
11.ALONSO RUBIO Alvaro ESP 1:06.036
12. VARPOSHTI Hassanali IRI 1:06.635
13. MOHD NOR Mohd Faisal MAS 1:07.147
14. LIAO Kuo Lung TPE 1:07.449
15. KELOGLOU Panagiotis GRE 1:07.697
16. CLUA Jose A. CAT 1:08.425
17. KREUTZFELDT Daniel DEN 1:08.878
WOMENS SPRINT
Final
1. TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 2:12. PENDLETON Victoria SIS
Semi Final
1. TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 11.891 12.013
2. SANCHEZ Clara FRA
1. PENDLETON Victoria SIS 12.275 12.082
2. HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED
1/4 Final
1. SANCHEZ Clara FRA 11.820 11.983
2. KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 11.906
1. HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 11.873 11.804
2. REED Jennie USA 12.419
1. PENDLETON Victoria SIS 11.747 12.193
2. GUO Shuang CHN
1. TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 11.932 11.709
2. MEARES Anna AUS 11.827
1/8TH Final
1. KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 12.143 59.293
2. CUEFF Virginie FRA
1. HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 12.940 55.641
2. MEARES Kerrie AUS
1. PENDLETON Victoria SIS 12.035 59.825
2. GRISHINA Oksana RUS
1. MEARES Anna AUS 12.211 58.963
2. GERISCH Jane GER
1. TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 12.086 59.573
2. GONG Jinjie CHN
1. GUO Shuang CHN 12.078 59.612
2. GRNKOVSKAYA Svetlana MOS
1. REED Jennie USA 12.357 58.266
2. SHULIKA Lyubov UKR
1. SANCHEZ Clara FRA 11.975 60.125
2. GLOSS Dana GER
Qualifying
1. KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 11.449
2. HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 11.450
3. PENDLETON Victoria SIS 11.451
4. MEARES Anna AUS 11.465
5. TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 11.475
6. GUO Shuang CHN 11.484
7. SHULIKA Lyubov UKR 11.553
8. SANCHEZ Clara FRA 11.649
MENS KEIRIN
Final 1-6
1. BOS Theo NED
2. BAYLEY Ryan AIS
3. WOLFF Ren頇ER
4. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
5. NG ON LAM Josiah MAS
REL 7 FRENCH Mark AUS
Final 7-12
7. EDGAR Ross GBR
8. ZIELINSKI Damian POL
9. NARITA Kazuya JPN
10. VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE
11. TOURNANT Arnaud FRA
12. BORISOV Serguei RUS
SECOND ROUND
1. BAYLEY Ryan AIS
2. FRENCH Mark AUS
3. NG ON LAM Josiah MAS
4. ZIELINSKI Damian POL
5. BORISOV Serguei RUS
REL 81 VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE
1. BOS Theo NED
2. WOLFF Ren頇ER
3. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
4. TOURNANT Arnaud FRA
5. EDGAR Ross GBR
6. NARITA Kazuya JPN
REPS
1. BORISOV Serguei RUS
2. MELIA Salvador ESP
3. ESTEBAN HERRAIZ Itmar CAT
1. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
2. KARZHENEUSKI Yury BLR
3. DUVENDECK Adam USA
1. EDGAR Ross GBR
2. SMITH Travis CAN
3. PTACNIK Adam CZE
4. LIN Kun Hung TPE
1. FRENCH Mark AUS
2. CRAMPTON Matthew SIS
3. VYNOKUROV Andrei UKR
4. WU Dan CHN
ROUND 1
1. ZIELINSKI Damian POL
2. BOS Theo NED
REL BORISOV Serguei RUS
DNF FRENCH Mark AUS
DNF PARASH Mahmoud IRI
DNF PTACNIK Adam CZE
1. TOURNANT Arnaud FRA
2. VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE
3. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
4. EDGAR Ross GBR
5. KARZHENEUSKI Yury BLR
6. HERRERA CABRERA Julio Cesar CUB
1. WOLFF Ren頇ER
2. NG ON LAM Josiah MAS
3. SMITH Travis CAN
4. DUVENDECK Adam USA
5. ESTEBAN HERRAIZ Itmar CAT
6. WU Dan CHN
1. BAYLEY Ryan AIS
2. NARITA Kazuya JPN
3. CRAMPTON Matthew SIS
4. MELIA Salvador ESP
5. VYNOKUROV Andrei UKR
6. LIN Kun Hung TPE
