2007 UCI World Track Championships

 

29th of March to 1st April
Palma de Mallorca

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Men's Points race

 

Juan Llaneras leads the bunch past his fan club after taking another lap, this time on his own -- one feels he was riding with the strength of two out there such was his domination.

 

Medals, tears and plenty of emotion on the podium as Llaneras posed for the worlds press with Ilio Keisse (left, 2nd) and a rider who has made a big splash on the road this year, Russian Olympic Champion Mikhail Ignatiev, who showed yet again he is a force to be reckon with on the track. 

 

Final

In the Points Race 37 year old Juan Llaneras took a hugely emotional win in front of his home crowd. Perhaps the greatest Points rider of all time, Llanares took his fourth win in this event with a very impressive display that left the result in little doubt from the half way stage onwards.

Of course, Llanares's victory was all the more emotional coming as it did only months after the tragic death of his Madison partner Isaac Galvez and the Spaniard was in tears as he crossed the line.

It was an incredible race with action non-stop from the gun. Llanares built his win on taking three laps over the field, an awesome performance in such a competitive field. Runner-up Ilio Keisse scored well in the sprints but missed the big moves and only took one lap. Young Russian Olympic Champion Mikhail Ignatiev was third.

1 LLANERAS ROSELLO Joan ESP 76 points
2 KEISSE Iljo BEL 55
3 IGNATIEV Mikhail RUS 52
4 MEYER Cameron AUS 46
5 KADLEC Milan CZE 43
6 LADAGNOUS Matthieu FRA 39
7 KIRYIENKA Vasil BLR 39
8 SCHEP Peter NED 32
9 CURUCHET Juan Esteban ARG 28
10 POLIVODA Oleksandr UKR 5
11 WONG KamPo HKG 5
12 AESCHBACH Alexander SUI 4
13 MADSEN JensErik DEN 2
14 IIJIMA Makoto JPN 8
15 GRAF Andreas AUT -19
16 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB -20
17 TAMOURIDIS Ioannis GRE -20
17 ALZATE ESCOBAR Carlos COL DNF
22 O'LOUGHLIN David IRL DNF
23 OSS Daniel ITA DNF
24 ROULSTON Hayden NZLDNF
25 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL DNF

Qualifying: Chris Newton, world champion back in 2002, went out of the Points Race competition, failing to qualify from the second heat and leaving GBR without a representative in the final.

 

Chris gets a 'fan' to help him keep cool before the start.

 

Chris gave it everything in the sprints but was unable to dominate them like we have seen him do so on the past.

 

Results

Qualifying

First 11 into final

 

Heat 1

1 KADLEC Milan CZE 21
2 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB 20
3 KIRYIENKA Vasil BLR 20
4 WONG KamPo HKG 20
5 CURUCHET Juan Esteban ARG 10
6 AESCHBACH Alexander SUI 10
7 MEYER Cameron AUS 9
8 SCHEP Peter NED 9
9 LLANERAS ROSELLO Joan ESP 8
10 KEISSE Iljo BEL 8
11 IIJIMA Makoto JPN 5
12 KONOVALOVAS Ignatas LTU 3
13 BENGSCH Robert GER 2
14 CREED Michael USA 1

 

Heat 2

1 TAMOURIDIS Ioannis GRE 43
2 ALZATE ESCOBAR Carlos COL 27
3 POLIVODA Oleksandr UKR 25
4 ROULSTON Hayden NZL 22
5 OSS Daniel ITA 21
6 O'LOUGHLIN David IRL 21
7 GRAF Andreas AUT 20
8 IGNATIEV Mikhail RUS 20
9 LADAGNOUS Matthieu FRA 14
10 MADSEN JensErik DEN 13
11 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 9
12 BELL Zachary CAN 7
13 NEWTON Chris GBR 4