2007 UCI World Track Championships
29th of March to 1st April
Palma de Mallorca
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Women's Sprint
Saturday
Victoria proudly shows off her rainbow jersey...
Evening Session: Victoria simply blew Shuang Guo away in the first heat of the women's sprint final, passing her as though she was standing still. Surely Guo had more to offer, but the second heat went exactly the same way with Pendleton clearly in a class of her own. It was a totally convincing win and one which reinforces the impression of having moved up a level that Pendleton gave at the Manchester World Cup in February.
At no time in the competition did Pendleton appear likely to lose a single heat and the final was one of the most one-sided there can ever have been. Menawhile, in the ride-off for bronze Anna Meares was too strong for Lisa Rodriguez.
Victoria and Iain Dyer doing some pre race planning in the GB pit.
Victoria Pendleton: “I feel like I deserve this title!. I took confidence in having beaten her before but I definitely didn’t take it for granted and was focused on what I wanted to do. I have demons with certain riders I guess, and then there are other people I am more confident with so I went in quite confident.”
“On the success by the athletes in GB, she says, “its brilliant isn’t it. Winning medals now is expected.” Victoria then apologised if the sprinting looked boring as she dispensed with her opponents with ease.
On whether there was a specific round that was more difficult than any other, Victoria said “I think Tsylinskaya. Although I knew looking at her 200 metre times she wasn’t going as fast as usual, obviously she is one of the strongest sprinters around, a multiple world champion, and so for me to come up against her in the earlier rounds was quite tough as it was a ride I expected to do in a final, not in an early round.”
“The last few years have seen a gradual progression and I have an amazing support team about me now. Jan van Eijden is my coach, the sports scientists at the EIS all working to help us to give us every possible chance in every area. With Beijing to come the main goal, I’ll keep working to cut my times down and do my very best as its only next year. Its nice to have this under my belt now to give me the confidence.”
“Two events, two golds, its great. I’ll just try hard tomorrow to see what I can do. I feel great and everyone is the same boat so we’ll see what happens”.
'Head' coach Steve Peters talks to Victoria before a heat in the final.
Morning Session: Victoria Pendleton breezed into the final of the Women's Sprint competition by disposing of Lisa Rodrigue of Cuba in two straight rides. In the final, this evening, she'll meet Shuang Guo of China who had to come back from losing the first heat to beat Anna Meares 2 heats to one.
Victoria cruised past the Cuban rider enroute to the final for Gold and now meets the girl she beat in Manchester, Guo of China.
Semi finals
GUO Shuang CHN beat MEARES Anna AUS 2-1
PENDLETON Victoria GBR beat GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 2-0
5 - 8 Place Ride-off
5 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
6 MUCHE Christin GER
7 TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR
8 SANCHEZ Clara FRA DNS
Friday
Evening Session: Vicky Pendleton made relatively untroubled progress through to the semi-finals. She took her first quarter-final heat with some great tactical riding, winning by a length from Natallia Tsylinskaya who tried everything she could to usettle Vicky. The second heat was a lot easier as Vicky simply rode away from the defending champion, who appeared to accept that she was up against a better rider!
Morning Session: Vicky Pendleton made untroubled progress through to the Quarter Finals of the Women's Sprint, beating team-mate Anna Blyth on the way. Blyth then just failed to go through in the Repechages. Earlier, Pendleton had qualified third fastest and Blyth tenth.
Anna Blyth in qualifying.
Victoria Pendleton in qualifying.
After being hooked in the bend, Victoria easily beats Kristine Bayley.
16th final and Anna Blyth dispatches US rider Jennnie Reed.
Anna gave Victoria a good run in their 18th final.
Anna almost beat the odds and it took a photo finish to deny her a path back into the competition.
Results
200m Time Trial
1 GUO Shuang CHN 11.149
2 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 11.191
3 PENDLETON Victoria GBR 11.194
4 SANCHEZ Clara FRA 11.270
5 MEARES Anna AUS 11.278
6 TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 11.346
7 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 11.365
8 KANIS Willy NED 11.408
9 GRANKOWSKAJA Swetlana RUS 11.444
10 BLYTH Anna GBR 11.497
11 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 11.503
12 LARREAL Daniela Grelui VEN 11.541
13 GONG Jinjie CHN 11.563
14 MUCHE Christin GER 11.610
15 REED Jennie USA 11.617
16 ZHENG Lulu CHN 11.656
17 GL֓S Dana GER 11.667
18 GERISCH Jane GER 11.679
19 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL 11.682
20 WELTE Miriam GER 11.743
21 GRISHINA Oksana RUS 11.809
22 BAYLEY Kristine AUS 11.957
23 DABROWSKA Renata POL 11.972
24 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP 12.596
25 ABASSOVA Tamilla RUS 14.561
1/16 Finals
GUO Shuang CHN beat CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP
KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU beat DABROWSKA Renata POL
PENDLETON Victoria GBR beat BAYLEY Kristine AUS
SANCHEZ Clara FRA beat GRISHINA Oksana RUS
MEARES Anna AUS beat WELTE Miriam GER
TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR beat GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL
GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB beat GERISCH Jane GER
GL֓S Dana GER beat KANIS Willy NED
GRANKOWSKAJA Swetlana RUS beat ZHENG Lulu CHN
BLYTH Anna GBR beat REED Jennie USA
MUCHE Christin GER beat HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED REL
LARREAL Daniela Grelui VEN beat GONG Jinjie CHN
1/8 Finals
GUO Shuang CHN beat LARREAL Daniela Grelui VEN
KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU beat MUCHE Christin GER
PENDLETON Victoria GBR beat BLYTH Anna GBR
SANCHEZ Clara FRA beat GRANKOWSKAJA Swetlana RUS
MEARES Anna AUS beat GL֓S Dana GER
TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR beat GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB
1/8 final Repechages
Winner through to 1/4 Finals
Heat 1
1 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB
2 GRANKOWSKAJA Swetlana RUS
3 LARREAL Daniela Grelui VENHeat 2
1 MUCHE Christin GER
2 BLYTH Anna GBR
3 GL֓S Dana GER
Quarter Finals
GUO Shuang CHN beat MUCHE Christin GER 2-0 (12.136 & 12.162)
GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB beat KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 2-0 (11.707 & 11.822)
PENDLETON Victoria GBR beat TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR (11.974 & 11.678)
MEARES Anna AUS beat SANCHEZ Clara FRA 2-1
