UCI Track World Cup - Copenhagen

 

Round 4, February 15-17, 2008

Day 2 Results & Images

 

Team Pursuit - Gold!

Steven Burke, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning and Ed Clancy show their medals to Gerry McManus (www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk ) .

 

Great Britain won Gold in Copenhagen when a young team captained by Paul Manning went close again to breaking the 4 minute barrier. The victory was all the sweeter because the team brought in a young and untested at this level, Steven Burke. The rider was given trial last week and impressed so much so, he was given a ride in the final and his World Cup Gold medal. Having been training at above world record pace over two kilometres, the GB team were only eight tenths off the 4 minute barrier they broke at Manchester last year and again in Majorca at the World Track Championships.

 

Interview with Paul Manning (Click Here) and Steven Burke (click here)

 

Final
1. Great Britain 4:00.884 59.779
   BURKE Steven, CLANCY Ed, GERRAINT Thomas, MANNING Paul

2. Denmark 4:02.855 59.294

3. Australia 4:05.897 58.561
GOSS Matthew, MEYER Cameron, MEYER Travis, ROBERTS Luke
4. Netherlands 4:09.539 57.706

 

Qualifying -- The pace starts to bite and Ed Clancy digs in to pull the GB riders round to finish second. In the final, GB brought in Steven Burke in place of Chris Newton and Burke helped the team win their third Gold from three World Cups. Photo from Gerry McManus for British Cycling. (www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk )

 

QUALIFYING

1. Denmark 4:03.474
2. Great Britain 4:04.358
    CLANCY Ed, GERRAINT Thomas, MANNING Paul, NEWTON Chris

 

3. Netherlands 4:07.955
4. Australia 4:09.004
    GOSS Matthew, MEYER Cameron, MEYER Travis, ROBERTS Luke

 

Men's Keirin -- Gold for Hoy

GB's Chris Hoy has won the Men's Keirin in Copenhagen, his third World Cup win of the series and his fourth straight Keirin competition win since he won the World Championship in 2007. His winning streak goes even further back than that as Chris won the big money Japanese Keirin competition in Manchester prior to the Worlds.

 

Afterwards, talking to Gerry McManus (www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk ) , Chris went through the list of Keirin competitions he had won saying it was 22 events undefeated. World Championship 2007, Four World Cups, Japanese Keirin in Manchester, two Grand Prixes in Perth (Australia) and Revolution (Manchester). On the coming programme, he says the Japanese Keirin is an added bonus to have there but that for him, the World Cup Keirin was the big one for the week.

 

"This wins takes a bit of pressure off me regarding qualification for the Olympics in Beijing, and know that I have not got anything to lose come Manchester (World Track Championships) and I can focus on being in the best form I can be in."

 

"Tomorrow (day 3)  is going to be a long day and potentially I could have 16 rides tomorrow which will make it a test of my endurance. As I have said, the Keirin is unpredictable event and the format is different tomorrow with the Japanese running a separate round for the Japanese to qualify three places for the final which will make it a Japan versus the rest of the World in the final."

 

"The Japanese riders in Japan are billionaires and parking Ferraris and Lamborghinis in the car parks in Japan and for these guys, its not the money that is the motivating factor but more the fact its their event and they want to win in front of an international crowd. For us though the money is a motivating factor but it would be nice too to win for the honour of it."

 

Asked that if there was betting on this and with Chris's record of 23 straight wins, that he would be an odds on favourite and having a lot of money bet on him. "Yes, there would be. It's interesting when you go to Japan and going into a race there as Olympic champion, I came 8th out of nine in my first race and could here a lot of abuse from the punters throwing their tickets at me. I'm just glad it was in Japanese so I didn't know what they were saying!"

 

On the Team Sprint where GB was 4th in Copenhagen, Chris says "you have to look at the Team Sprint and its components its good that we had Jamie Staff going fastest for the first lap in qualifying and second fastest in the final and that is one of the areas where we haven't been so strong at. I still think we will get it right with the right combination at Manchester. We have not yet had all three riders on form in either teams yet so the focus will be on a Gold medal."

 

His victories in the event are a good omen for the Olympics in Beijing and his World Cup overall victory means he has won a place for the Beijing Olympics for the event if he is selected by GB for Beijing. Read an in-depth interview with Chris ... Chris Hoy Interview Feb 7 - 2008

 

Above: Hoy, controlling the race. Read an interview with Chris about this pre-race  Chris Hoy Interview Feb 7 - 2008

Left: Chris Hoy is congratulated by Arnaud Tournant and right, salutes the applause from the crowd.

 

Chris Hoy wins his heat by a country mile to go through to the second round. Photo by Gerry McManus. (www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk )

 

Round 1
1. HOY Chris GBR
2. FUSHIMI Toshiaki JPN
3. PERKINS Shane AUS
4. JESSEN Kasper Lindholm DEN

5. GAO Yahui HKP

 

1. TOURNANT Arnaud COF
2. BORISOV Sergey RUS
3. ESCUREDO RAIMONDEZ José Antonio ESP
4. CHOI Lae Seon KOR
5. SMITH Travis CAN

 

1. BAUGE Gregory FRA
2. MULDER Teun NED
3. NIMKE Stefan RAD
4. ESTEBAN HERRAIZ Itmar CAT
5. ZIELINSKI Damian POL

 

1. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
2. BERGEMANN Carsten GER
3. LARRINAGA Haitz EUS
4. FENG Yong CHN
5. AHMED METIN Ahmed BUL

 

1. VYNOKUROV Andriy UKR
2. VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE
3. MASSIE Giddeon CRT
4. PARASH Mahmoud IRI
5. ALONSO CASTILLO David ILB

 

1. EDGAR Ross SIS
2. NG ONN LAM Josiah MAS
3. LYNCH Ricardo JAM
4. DUVENDECK Adam USA
5. SELZER Clemens AUT

 

2nd Round
1. HOY Chris GBR
2. LYNCH Ricardo JAM
3. BERGEMANN Carsten GER
4. EDGAR Ross SIS
5. PERKINS Shane AUS
6. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA

 

1. BAUGE Gregory FRA
2. TOURNANT Arnaud COF
3. NIMKE Stefan RAD
4. VYNOKUROV Andriy UKR
5. ESCUREDO RAIMONDEZ José Antonio ESP
REL VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE

 

Final (Gold, etc)
1. HOY Chris GBR
2. LYNCH Ricardo JAM
3. TOURNANT Arnaud COF
4.  NIMKE Stefan RAD
5. BERGEMANN Carsten GER
6. BAUGE Gregory FRA

 

Final 7-12
7. CHIAPPA Roberto ITA
8. VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE
9. PERKINS Shane AUS
10. VYNOKUROV Andriy UKR
11. EDGAR Ross SIS
12. ESCUREDO RAIMONDEZ José Antonio ESP

Women's Team Sprint  - Gold for Victoria and Shanaze

After qualifying second fastest, the British World Champions for this event, Victoria Pendleton and Shanaze Reade, reigned supreme in the final going under 34 seconds and winning the gold despite both riders having a very mixed few weeks leading up to the competition.

 

Gerry McManus (www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk ) , in Copenhagen for British Cycling, spoke to Shanaze Reade and asked 'A mixed couple of days for you'? "Definitely" replied Shanaze. "I have been ill recently where I been getting over one illness, getting faster and then getting ill again and going slower and so have been up and down this last month or so. I came here and was open minded and didn't expect to see my best here. Today was up and down too but I finished on a high and there is certainly plenty more to come from me."

 

"I have only been on a track bike a week and half so there hasn't been a lot of time to prepare for a competition like this where everyone is up for the Olympic Games qualification whilst I have just come in off the back of a BMX phase. I just need more time and for the Manchester World's I will definitely be back going faster than ever."

 

"I come to these things for the experience where everyone around me is so professional and pulling me through this massive learning curve and that can only do me good. I look back at my BMX career and I don't think I have had a bad day for 10 years so to have one after that long, and to come out of it with a Gold, I can't complain about it."

Victoria and Shanaze with their Gold medals and flowers after yet another great performance from the true champions.

 

Final

1. SCIENCEINSPORT.COM 33.944 53.028
   PENDLETON Victoria, READE Shanaze

 

2. Netherlands 34.001 52.939
   HIJGENAAR Yvonne, KANIS Willy

 

3. France 34.722
4. RAD WWW.RADNET.DE 35.017 51.403

 

Qualifying
1. Netherlands 34.147  (1)
2. SCIENCEINSPORT.COM 34.166
    PENDLETON Victoria, READE Shanaze

3. France 34.710
4. WWW.RADNET.DE 35.077

 

Women's 500m Time Trial

 

Left Anna Blyth, right, Shanaze Reade

1. GONG Jinjie GPC 34.619
2. CLAIR Sandie FRA 34.653
3. WELTE Miriam GER 34.896
4. SHULIKA Lyubov UKR 35.189

5. BLYTH Anna GBR 35.205
8. READE Shanaze SIS 35.505

 

Men's Kilometre

Matt Crampton was an excellent 4th only just out of the medals.

 

Result

1. PERVIS François FRA 1:02.084
2. BOLIBRUKH Yevgen UKR 1:02.234
3. LI Wen Hao CHN 1:02.984
4. CRAMPTON Matthew SIS 1:03.206
5. VELDT Tim NED 1:03.263