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UCI Track Cycling World Cup - Manchester
More Gold for Great Britain. Record breaking rides and roof raising performances from the British men and women. Full report from the final session of a rip-roaring three days in Manchester, with the finals of the Men's and Women's Team Pursuit, the Men's Scratch Final, the culmination of the Women's Keirin and the JKA Keirin.
Photostream from the afternoon session
Report
MEN'S TEAM SPRINT
Final | Full Result
Britain's Sky+HD team of Staff, Edgar and Hoy took Gold in a thrilling final against their Great Britain teammates Matt Crampton, Dave Daniell and Jason Kenny. In the Bronze Medal final it was Germany who took the medal ahead of the Moscow Track Team. With both British teams producing sub 44 second rides, it was a serious demonstration of the depth of talent in the British sprinting.
GOLD - SKY+HD 43.423
SILVER - Great Britain 43.818
BRONZE - Germany 43.683
4th - Moscow Track Team 44.732
Qualifying | Full Result
Guaranteed Gold and Silver for British riders in the Team Sprint. It was another show of strength from Great Britain with Sky+HD's Edgar, Hoy and Staff and GB's Crampton, Daniell and Kenny qualifying first and second, with Germany to face the Moscow Track Team in the bronze medal rideoff.
1 SKY TEAM SKY + HD 43.598
EDGAR Ross
HOY Chris
STAFF Jamie
2 GBR Great Britain 43.804
CRAMPTON Matthew
DANIELL David
KENNY Jason
3 GER Germany 44.197
FORSTEMANN Robert
NIMKE Stefan
WACHTER Tobias
4 MTT MOSCOW TRACK TEAM 44.621
BORISOV Sergey
DMITRIEV Denis
KUCHEROV Sergey
WOMEN'S KEIRIN
Finals | Full Result
Medal Final
Simona Krupeckaite took Gold in the Women's Keirin final ahead of Guo of China and Australian Anna Meares. Pendleton attempted to come around her opponents from the back to take the win but left herself far too much work to do in the final stages. Krupeckaite, who'd battled through the repechages took a well-deserved win.
Gold - Simona Krupeckaite
Silver - Shuang Guo
Bronze - Anna Meares
7-11 Final
Elisa Frisoni of Italy took top honours in the Minor Final pipping Virginie Cueff of France on the line and earning valuable World Cup points.
2nd Round (First 3 riders progress to 1-6 final, remainder to 7-12 Final) | Full Result
Heat 1
Russian rider Victoria Baranova was disqualified for dangerous riding and the heat was restarted. In the restarted heat it was Krupeckaite taking the win with Panarina and Guo joining her in the final in a tight finish.
Heat 2
Meares led it out at the bell and held on for the victory. Meanwhile behind Vicky Pendleton came the long way around to qualify in third, with Agnes Ronner of the Netherlands slotting into 2nd
Progressing to Final
KRUPECKAITE Simona
PANARINA Olga
GUO Shuang
MEARES Anna
RONNER Agnes
PENDLETON Victoria
MEN'S SCRATCH
Final | Full Result
Russian rider Ivan Kovalev won the Men's Scratch Final in a race which was pretty much whittled down to a rideoff between six riders who broke away and took a lap early on.
Chris Newton was a marked man throughout, whose numerous attempts to get away and recoup the lap lost were hunted down mercilessly by the pack.
In the end one of the 6 lap takers, Lagkuti of the Ukraine, took an early dig for home but was reeled back in by fellow breakaway rider Kovalev of Russia, who immediately launched a late attack of his own, staying away to take the Gold.
1 KOVALEV Ivan RUS
2 BUJKO Lukasz POL
3 LAGKUTI Sergiy UKR
4 BRAMMEIER Matthew IRL
5 MORI Kazuhiro JPN
6 VIVIANI Elia ITA 1
7 NEWTON Chris GBR
MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT
Finals | Full Result
Gold Final
The GB Pursuit squad of Burke, Clancy, Tennant and Thomas took an emphatic Gold medal recording the 2nd best time ever, in front of a euphoric Manchester crowd. GB's rivals Spain were overhauled within 3kms but the GB boys pressed on, eager to show their world class form and please the appreciative crowd. They crossed the line and stopped the clock at 3.54.395 just a fraction outside of their own world record.
GOLD
GBR Great Britain
BURKE Steven
CLANCY Edward
SWIFT Ben
THOMAS Geraint
SILVER
ESP Spain
ESCOBAR ROURE Sergi
MUNTANER JUANEDA David
TAULER LLULL Antonio
TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy
Bronze Final
Going on qualifying times it promised to be a tight match between Ukraine and Germany in the fight for bronze. And indeed in the opening throes it was. However, the plot thickened when both teams lost a man but fought on. The final twist was when Germany lost a second rider, handing Bronze to Ukraine by default.
BRONZE
UKR Ukraine
FONRABE Maksym
POLISHCHUK Maksym
SHCHEDOV Vitaliy
KONONENKO Roman
4th
GER Germany
BARTKO Robert
BOMMEL Henning
KLUGE Roger
SCHÄFER Stefan
JKA KEIRIN
Finals | Full Result
1-6 Final
Matt Crampton retained his JKA Keirin title in a huge performance and after a punishing three days of racing, taking the £1000 prize money. Awang led it out followed by Volikakis but neither rider could cope with Crampton's pace who crossed the line the clear winner.
7-12 Final
Not to be outdone by teammate Crampton, Jason Kenny left it late to take a classy win in the minor final, rounding off a superb performance from the British Riders.
2nd Round (First 3 progress to final) | Full Result
In Heat 1 Christos Volikakis, Dave Daniell and Tomas Babek came through Heat 1 to take their places in the JKA Final. They were joined by Crampton, Perkins and Awang who took honours in Heat 2. Jason Kenny made a superb move to get himself out of the box and hit the front with 2 laps to go but was overcome by the late charging Shane Perkins. Crampton just had enough in the tank to maintain his sprint and progress to the final.
Progressing to Final
Christos Volikakis
Dave Daniell
Tomas Babek
Matt Crampton
Shane Perkins
Azizulhasni Awang
WOMEN'S TEAM PURSUIT
Finals | Full Result
Gold Medal Final
The GB trio of Lizzie Armitstead, Wendy Houvenaghel and Joanna Rowsell smashed the world record with an incredible 3.21.875 ride to take top honours in the Team Pursuit, once again lighting up the crowd who'd been treated to epic British performances all weekend.
Gold
GBR Great Britain 3.21.875 WR
ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth
HOUVENAGHEL Wendy
ROWSELL Joanna
Silver
GER Germany 3.26.403
BRENNAUER Lisa
JOOS Verena
SANDIG Madeleine
Bronze Medal Final
The Australian team of Downing, Goss and Tomic took bronze beating the Netherlands team by exactly 3 seconds.
Bronze
AUS Australia 3.28.005
DOWNING Tess
GOSS Belinda
TOMIC Josephine
4th
NED Netherlands 3.31.005
KOEDOODER Vera
PIETERS Amy
VAN DIJK Ellen
