UCI World Track Championships 2008
Manchester, 26-30 of March 2008 | World Championships Home: News, Features etc
Reports: Phil Ingham & Eddie Allen
Photography & additional reporting: Larry Hickmott & Richard Robotham
Hundreds of Photos from a glorious week at the National Cycling Centre. We now have photo albums available for the racing at the Manchester World Track Championships from every Golden event for the GB Team. Re-live all those magic moments here and more! At the top each report is a gallery button or two. Click it to display the album for that event!
| Day 5 - Sunday March 30 |
Men Omnium: Godfrey of New Zealand took the gold in a grueling competition which saw a fine performance's from GB's Steven Burke in the Points race and Kilometre Time Trial. Report
Women Keirin: USA's Jenny Reed takes Gold. Anna Blyth and Vicki Pendleton both make the final with Pendleton claiming Silver in a battling photo finish. Report
Men's Kilo: A fine early performance from GB's Matt Crampton kept British viewers on the edge of their seats. But Matt was finally edged out of medal contention with Netherland's Teun Mulder taking Gold. Report
Women's Scratch: Netherland's Van Dijk takes a fine solo win in the scratch race. Report
Day 4 - Saturday March 29
Men Madison: Great Britain made it eight gold medals with a rip-roaring win in the Men's Madison. The pairing of Brad Wiggins and Mark Cavendish rode their hearts out and pulled off another famous victory which seemed unlikely for much of the race, so closely were they marked by the other teams: Report
Men Keirin: Chris Hoy continued his remarkable run in this event, and GB's wonderful championships by successfully defending his Keirin title with a series of strong man rides off the front. He went undefeated through the competition and only in the final did he come remotely close to being beaten, but even then he once again showed that special quality which makes him such a great champion: Report
Women Sprint: GB's Victoria Pendleton picked up the team's 7th gold of the championships, beating Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania in a remarkably one-sided final, successfully defending her title in the process. Jennie Reed of the USA took bronze: Report
Women Points Race: The wonderfully talented Dutch rider Marianne Vos won a fine Women's Points Race with a great all-round display of riding, adding her first senior Track title to her recent Road and Cyclo-Cross successes: Report
| Day 3 - Friday March 28 |
Men Sprint: Chris Hoy enjoyed perhaps his finest win of a stellar career by claiming the world sprint title, and so completing the full set of sprint titles in his career: Report
Women Team Pursuit: GB wrapped up a sensational a clean sweep of the Pursuit competitions as they dominated the final of the first ever Women's Team Pursuit World Championship, beating Ukraine: Report
Men Points: The Men's Points Race went to the Belarus rider Vasili Kiryienka who just took it from Frenchman Christophe Riblon who came close to claiming gold with a brave late attack: Report
| Day 2 - Thursday March 27 |
Women's Pursuit: Rebecca Romero made history by claiming her first cycling world title, beating last year's champion Sarah Hammer of the USA. Team-mate Wendy Houvenaghel just missed out on a medal: Report
Men's Team Pursuit: The Danes blew the whole competition apart with a stunning 3.57.734 in qualifying. GB then came out and rode out of their skins to grab both the world title and the world record: Report
Women's Team Sprint: The GB duo of Reade and Pendlton successfully defended their world title throwing in a new world best time in the process -and making it three golds for GB in the day: Report
Paralympic Omnium: A special event featuring some of the countyr's best riders Report
| Day 1 - Wednesday March 26 |
Men's Individual Pursuit: An exciting and absorbing first day of competition saw Brad Wiggins claim gold for GB in the 4000m Individual Pursuit after having to give best to Jenning Huizenga in their afternoon heat: Report
Men's Team Sprint: There was a second medal for the GB Team as they once again took silver behind France in the fastest Team Sprint competition of all time. Report
Women's 500m Time Trial: with the world champion and record holder out with injury, this was one of the closest and best ever 500m Time Trials Report
Men's Scratch Race: A mini classic of a race, which ebbed and flowed before a very exciting finale which had the crowd on their feet: Report
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