Gold for Team Sprint on First Day of Competition

 

Day 1, March 24 |  2005 UCI World Track Championships

 

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Great Britain win Gold in the Team Sprint

 

 

Jamie Staff, Chris Hoy and Jason Queally, riding for Great Britain, have won a Gold medal at the 2005 UCI World Cycling Championships being held in the Home Depot Velodrome in Los Angeles (USA). The trio started their World Championship campaign by comfortably beating Japan in the qualifying round, covering the three laps of the track in 44.337, over three tenths fastest than the next team, a huge margin in this event.

As the fastest qualifier, the team went through to the final for gold and silver where they came up against Holland with World Sprint Champion Theo Bos among their trio. The biggest hurdle they had though was when a pedal broke and after a few frantic minutes where GB mechanic Ernie Feargrive changed the pedal at the side of the track, everything went to plan with Jamie Staff actually going quicker on the opening lap in the final they he had an hour before in the qualifier.

 

It was a sweet comeback for the Great Britain team that saw Jamie Staff come in to ride Man 1, a position normally occupied by Craig MacLean. The Scottish rider has been suffering from flu and although here as a reserve, he was unable to beat Jamie in a ride off for the man one position in training prior to the championships starting.

Staff, based in the US only 90km from the track, has been training at the centre for the last three months after a break following the Olympics. He combined well with the other two GB riders who have both won the Olympic title in the Kilometre at the last two Olympics, Jason Queally (2000) and Chris Hoy (2004).

The result was just what the team needed after it all went wrong for them in Athens in the Team Sprint and they can now look to rebuilding for the next Olympics in 2008 with a renewed enthusiasm. Two of the three racing tonight had already won this title back in 2002 in Denmark and in World Championships, have not been out of the medals since 1999.

This year however, after a virus for Craig Maclean and Jamie Staff being out injured, the team were unsure how the event would go for them but with Staff having prepared well at the World Championship track and Queally and Hoy being in great form after preparing at home, everything came together well in an event that is one of the key races for the team.

Talking to Olympic champion Chris Hoy first, he said of the win "we rode well together. I was really pleased with the two change overs, and the pressure we

were under, it would have been a disaster if we had been second. There is only one result we wanted there. I was disappointed for Craig (MacLean) because he would have loved to be have been up there. He's been a great team player all these years and he should be back again soon."

Talking about Jason Queally who had never won a World Championship, Chris said "He looks good standing there with a rainbow jersey. I think he'll enjoy being called World Champion and not former Olympic champion. He rode a really impressive lap there and will be up there in the Kilo tomorrow."

Jason Queally speaking afterwards said "It's fantastic. I have never been world champion before. It was a big surprise because the whole Team Sprint scenario coming into these world championships was one where I wasn't sure if we would be competitive. What with Craig being sick and Jamie being over here and not having been competing since Athens. But typical Jamie, he goes out, rides his BMX and pops out a 17.6 and 17.7 which is just incredible. He's an amazing guy. Its disappointing for Craig he wasn't on the podium with us. Off the back of a long long season to come here it proves what a strong team we are."

Jamie speaking afterwards said "The first round I did 17.8 and I was hoping to go a bit quicker than that. In my trial last week I did 17.7 so I knew I had more in me so I just got a lot more aggressive down the back straight and really gritted my teeth. It certainly seem to work well, and I did 17.7 and Shane (Sutton) said I was the only guy in the competition who went faster in the second round so that is definitely a positive."

On the subject of the broken pedal he had at the start which caused a delay, and whether that rattled him, Jamie replied "not at all".

 

Mens Team Sprint 2005 Result

Qualifying
1. Great Britain 17.829 (3) 30.829 (3) 44.337 (60.897km/h)
Chris Hoy, Jason Queally, Jamie Staff

2. Netherlands 17.681 (2) 30.739 (1) 44.575 (60.572km/h)
Theo Bos, Teun Mulder, Tim Veldt

3. France 17.576 (1) 30.793 (2) 44.632 (60.494km/h)
Micka묠Bourgain, Gr駯ry Bauge, Arnaud Tournant

4. Germany 17.833 (4) 31.057 (4) 44.756 (60.327km/h)
Matthias John, Stefan Nimke, Ren頗olff

5. Poland 17.960 (5) 31.496 (5) 45.460 (59.392km/h)
Rafal Furman, Lukasz Kwiatkowski, Damian Zielinski

6. Japan 18.354 (6) 31.945 (6) 46.389 (58.203km/h)
Kazuya Narita, Yusho Oikawa, Kazunari Watanabe

7. Greece 18.386 (7) 32.234 (7) 46.536 (58.019km/h)
Kleanthis Bargkas, Athanasios Mantzouranis, Panagiotis Voukelatos

8. Czech Republic 18.887 (11) 32.720 (11) 46.597 (57.943km/h)
Pavel Buran, Alois Kankovsky, Ivan Vrba

9. Russia 18.824 (10) 32.610 (10) 46.752 (57.751km/h)
Vladimir Kiriltsev, Dmitry Leopold, Sergey Ruban

10. Canada 18.669 (8) 32.584 (9) 46.860 (57.618km/h)
Cam Mackinnon, Yannik Morin, Travis Smith

11. Ukraine 18.801 (9) 32.546 (8) 46.861 (57.617km/h)
Vitaliy Kulachkovskiy, Maksym Lopatyuk, Andrei Vynokurov

FINALS

Gold
1. Great Britain 17.779 (2) 30.870 (2) 44.379 (60.839km/h)
Chris Hoy, Jason Queally, Jamie Staff

2. Netherlands 17.708 (1) 30.854 (1) 44.713 (60.385km/h)
Theo Bos, Teun Mulder, Tim Veldt

Bronze
1. Germany 17.872 (2) 31.005 (2) 44.790 (60.281km/h)
Matthias John, Stefan Nimke, Ren頗olff

2. France, 17.670 (1) 30.948 (1) 44.835 (60.22km/h)
Mickael Bourgain, Gregory Bauge, Arnaud Tournant

 

Womens 500 Metre Time Trial

 Victoria Pendleton finishes 5th in the Womens 500 metre Time Trial World Championship Stotfold's Victoria Pendleton finished 5th in the Womens 500 metre Time Trial World Championship tonight. It was one of her best ever performances in the event after an ideal build up, first in Manchester and then on the track in Los Angeles. The day before, the young lady who has twice finished 4th in the Womens Sprint championship, recorded some of her best times in training and her manager in the team, Shane Sutton was quietly confident she would come out and do a good ride.

And what a ride it was. Starting 11th in the field of 18, Victoria came out of the starting gate meaning business and continued to increase her pace right the way through the opening lap where she continued to hold on to record a time of 35.088. The ride took her to second place at the stage and riders came and went and were unable to beat it until the the final three who pushed Victoria down into fifth place.

Women 500m time trial

1. Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) 19.453 (2) 34.738 (51.816km/h)
2. Anna Meares (Australia) 19.484 (3) 34.752 (51.795km/h)
3. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 19.703 (4) 34.928 (51.534km/h)
4. Willy Kanis (Netherlands) 19.233 (1) 35.056 (51.346km/h)
5. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 19.815 (5) 35.088 (51.299km/h)
6. Tamilia Abassova (Russia) 19.954 (8) 35.109 (51.268km/h)
7. Lori-Ann Muenzer (Canada) 19.824 (6) 35.217 (51.111km/h)
8. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 19.941 (7) 35.376 (50.881km/h)
9. Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 20.085 (11) 35.395 (50.854km/h)
10. Nivert C鬩ne (France) 19.996 (9) 35.628 (50.522km/h)
11. Clara Sanchez (France) 20.186 (15) 35.730 (50.377km/h)
12. Tian Fang (China) 20.183 (14) 35.974 (50.036km/h)
13. Rebecca Conzelman (USA) 20.057 (10) 36.074 (49.897km/h)
14. Susann Panzer (Germany) 20.129 (12) 36.122 (49.831km/h)
15. Nancy Contreras (Mexico) 20.159 (13) 36.343 (49.528km/h)
16. Magdalena Sara (Poland) 20.727 (16) 36.983 (48.671km/h)
17. Alena Prudnikova (Russia) 20.908 (17) 37.497 (48.003km/h)

Chris Newton goes close to a medal in the Points

 Great Britain's Chris Newton, World Points champion in 2002, said he was just going to come to the track in LA and race hard in this years World Points championship and that's exactly what the rider from Stockton on Tees did tonight in the ADT Event Centre in Los Angeles.

Newton has spent most of his time here preparing for the Team Pursuit but as it has in the past, that preparation suited his needs for the Points race and he was on the pace from the moment the gun fired in the early evening. For a lot of the event he was on the podium, second and third places as sprints came and went, but was edged out in the final sprints.

Mens Points Race Result

1. Volodymyr Rybin (Ukraine) 38 pts
2. Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 36
3. Juan Llaneras Rossello (Spain) 34
4. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 32
5. Guido Fulst (Germany) 31
6. Gregory Henderson (New Zealand) 31
7. Sean Finning (Australia) 31
8. Alexander Aeschbach (Switzerland) 25
9. Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) 23
10. Yauheni Sobal (Bielorussia) 20
11. Peter Schep (Netherlands) 17
12. Juan Esteban Curuchet (Argentina) 12
13. Colby Pearce (USA) 8
14. Wouter Van Mechelen (Belgium) 8
15. Petr Lazar (Czech Republic) 5
16. Angelo Ciccone (Italy) 5
17. Kam-Po Wong (Hong-Kong) 5
18. Mikhail Ignatiev (Russia) 5
19. Ilya Chernyshov (Kazakhstan) 3
20. Jozef Zabka (Slovakia)

Sprints (GB results)
140 laps to go
1. Peter Schep (Netherlands) 5 pts
2. Chris Newton (Great Britain) 3


100 laps to go
1. Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 5 pts
2. Gregory Henderson (New Zealand) 3
3. Ilya Chernyshov (Kazakhstan) 2
4. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 1

90 laps to go
1. Sean Finning (Australia) 5 pts
2. Gregory Henderson (New Zealand) 3
3. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 2


60 laps to go
1. Colby Pearce (USA) 5 pts
2. Alexander Aeschbach (Switzerland) 3
3. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 2

30 laps to go
1. Peter Schep (Netherlands) 5 pts
2. Volodymyr Rybin (Ukraine) 3
3. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 2


10 laps to go
1. Juan Llaneras Rossello (Spain) 5 pts
2. Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 3
3. Christopher Newton (Great Britain) 2