Manchester UCI World Track Cup (2008)

November 2

Manchester Velodrome, Great Britain

DAY 3 PHOTOS (WOMEN'S EVENTS) (larryhickmott@britishcycling.org.uk)

To view the photo albums, go to the top of the page:

Women's Team Pursuit       Gallery 1,

Women's Keirin                   Gallery 2

WOMEN'S TEAM PURSUIT

Germany (Silver), 100% ME (GB) first and Ukraine (Bronze)

Joanna Rowsell is congratulated by Academy women's coach Simon Cope

World Champion Joanna Rowsell watches the clock as they wait to start in the final

A rider who is surely destined to be World Champion, Lizzie Armitstead, leads the team round the velodrome and onto a Gold medal, her third of the World Cup!

The Brits, Gold, Lizzie Armitstead, Joanna Rowsell and Katie Colclough

Spain during qualifying

Poland during qualifying

Eventual winners, 100% ME with World Champion Joanna Rowsell (Centre), Katie Colclough (leading) and Lizzie Armitstead

Joanna Rowsell leads the team around

Belgium during qualifying

Belarus in qualifying

Germany

Ukraine

WOMEN'S KEIRIN

Podium for the Women's Keirin L-R Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia), Victoria Pendleton (GB - Team Sky + HD)  and Jinjie Gong (China)

Key part of any Keirin is the start and getting the position required behind the derny.

Round 1, and Victoria Pendleton comes to the head of the race as the bell rings out for one lap to go

Round 1 and Jessica Varnish makes sure she has pole position behind the bike

Jess Varnish, the 17 year still at school, and showing what an accomplished rider she is at world level

View of the Women's Keirin from the posh box in the morning

Virginie CUEFF leads out a repecharge of the Women's Keirin

Young Russian leads out a heat with Jess Varnish ready to come at her

Jess Varnish makes it through to the next race

Anna Blyth on the charge

Another race and another victory for Victoria Pendleton

Virginie CUEFF gets advice from the French coach

A packed velodrome during the Women's Keirin

Round 2, after Jess Varnish had led the field out, and is swamped at the bell, Anna Blyth gets ready to make her run

Anna Blyth is second and in the final for 1-6

Jess Varnish is second in the minor final and very pleased (and rightly so) with her efforts on the day

Victoria Pendleton wins the final of the Women's Keirin