Day 2 - Women's Scratch | Women's Team Sprint | Men's Team Sprint | Men's Points | Men's Omnium | Women's Team Pursuit (Finals) | Men's Kilometre TT
Day two on the London Track World Cup saw a capacity crowd witness stellar performances from Great Britain's athletes. The team pursuit squad of Joanna Rowsell, Laura Trott and Dani King broke the world record on their way to gold in the team pursuit, while Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish did likewise in the Team Sprint. Ross Edgar, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy took bronze in the Men’s Team Sprint while Matt Crampton and Ben Swift were in action in the Kilo and Omnium.
Images by Luke Webber
WOMEN'S TEAM PURSUIT FINALS
Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell smashed the world record to win gold in the Women’s Team Pursuit, beating Canada in an epic final. The Great Britain team overturned a big deficit from qualifying, pulling an incredible performance out of the bag. A few minutes before, the Australians had broken the world record with a 3:19.164 to claim bronze, but Trott, Rowsell and King shaved a further second off the record posting a stunning 3:18.148.
GB were up from the start, 0.6 seconds ahead on the opening lap but Canada came back a little in the middle of the race. However GB’s finish was devastating, Trott, King and Rowsell piled on the pressure with huge support from the home crowd, eventually finishing 8 tenths ahead of the Canadians, whose time would have been world record material just minutes before.
Great Britain also won the overall World Cup competition ahead of New Zealand and Ukraine.
Laura Trott said: “We knew we had it in us. It’s just about riding it right. It drives me on having the crowd behind us, it’s amazing. The last kilometre was so hard but to have the crowd behind you is amazing. I was suffering so much but they just spur you on.”
Joanna Rowsell added: “We calmed down a bit tonight. I think we got carried away last night with the crowd and the atmosphere. It’s really difficult with the atmosphere not to get carried away and to control your emotions.
“It’s great to win and to set the world record as well. We knew it was possible, as in training we were riding well above world record pace.”
Results
1 GBR Great Britain 3:18.148 WR
TROTT Laura
KING Danielle
ROWSELL Joanna
2 CAN Canada 3:18.982
WHITTEN Tara
CARLETON Gillian
GLAESSER Jasmin
3 AUS Australia 3:19.164
EDMONDSON Annette
CURE Amy
TOMIC Josephine
4 NED Netherlands 3:21.992
WILD Kirsten
KOEDOODER Vera
VAN DIJK Ellen
Final World Cup Standings
1 GREAT BRITAIN GBR 24pts
2 NEW ZEALAND NZL 22pts
3 UKRAINE UKR 21pts
4 NETHERLANDS NED 20pts
5 AUSTRALIA AUS 20pts
6 CHINA CHN 19pts
7 BELARUS BLR 18 pts
8 LITHUANIA LTU 17pts
9 CANADA CAN 14pts
10 UNITED STATES USA 14pts
MEN'S TEAM SPRINT
Great Britain’s Ross Edgar, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy took bronze in the Team Sprint, posting a 43.781 second time and beating their Australian rivals in a tight race. Gold was taken by Germany, who overturned a qualifying deficit to beat the French team of Bauge, Sireau and D’Almeida.
Earlier in qualifying Great Britain had set the early benchmark in the fourth heat, with a 43.876 second time taking the lead in the early stages. However it didn’t stand for long as the trio from Australia shaved hundredths off Hoy, Edgar and Kenny’s time, posting a 43.969 and going first.
It was France who stamped their authority on qualifying posting a 43.606, with Bauge’s 17.4 opener the critical difference. Germany threatened to go faster, going sub 17.4 on their opening lap but faded to finish second. But it was a different story come the final with a blistering 17.325 opening lap from Germany sealing the deal.
Speaking after the event Chris Hoy said, “When you look at what the Germans did (to win gold), I think we’re only about a bike length and a half behind them. We’re not making excuses. This is a new formation for us. We got a medal here. We have a lot to be proud of. Bring on the Olympics.”
Man one Ross Edgar added, “The crowd support is just tremendous. We know we have to improve, but there’s time. Now we can look forward to the world and beyond.” Man two Jason Kenny concurred with Edgar and Hoy; “We’re coming back. I think we’ve been messing around a bit with the formation. When you look at the gap between these guys (the Germans) who won gold, it’s only a few hundredths of a second. We’ll see if we can close that down in time for the worlds.”
Results
Finals
1 GER Germany 43.562
ENDERS Rene
FÖRSTEMANN Robert
LEVY Maximilian
2 FRA France 43.631
BAUGE Gregory
D'ALMEIDA Mickael
SIREAU Kevin
3 GBR Great Britain 43.781
EDGAR Ross
KENNY Jason
HOY Chris
4 AUS Australia 43.954
GLAETZER Matthew
PERKINS Shane
SUNDERLAND Scott
Qualifying
1 FRA France 43.606
BAUGE Gregory
D'ALMEIDA Mickael
SIREAU Kevin
2 GER Germany 43.650
ENDERS Rene
FÖRSTEMANN Robert
LEVY Maximilian
3 AUS Australia 43.869
GLAETZER Matthew
PERKINS Shane
SUNDERLAND Scott
4 GBR Great Britain 43.876
EDGAR Ross
KENNY Jason
HOY Chris
5 NZL New Zealand 44.002
6 CHN China 44.424
7 MTT MOSCOW TRACK TEAM 44.597
8 JPN Japan 44.791
9 NED Netherlands 44.792
10 ERD TEAM ERDGAS 2012 44.836
Final World Cup Standings
1 GERMANY GER 31pts
2 MOSCOW TRACK TEAM MTT 25pts
3 FRANCE FRA 25pts
4 TEAM ERDGAS.2012 ERD 22pts
5 NETHERLANDS NED 17pts
6 VENEZUELA VEN 16pts
7 CHINA CHN 15pts
8 NEW ZEALAND NZL 14pts
9 POLAND POL 13pts
10 GREAT BRITAIN GBR 12pts
Images by Guy Swarbrick
WOMEN'S TEAM SPRINT
The Great Britain duo of Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish won gold in the Women’s Team Sprint final, with a stunning ride that broke the world record, set only hours before by their Australian rivals Kaarle McCulloch and Anna Meares. Varnish opened with an 18.792 lap, bettering her PB that she set in qualifying earlier. However, Australia posted an 18.5 opener so Pendleton had work to do in the closing lap. However she did not disappoint, pulling a 13.962 second lap out of the bag, beating her Australian adversary, claiming Great Britain's first gold in the London venue and setting a new world record. Bronze went to Guo and Gong of China who followed up a strong qualifying performance to overcome Clair and Sanchez of France.
Earlier in the day in qualification, Pendleton and Varnish produced a new British record, a PB for Varnish (18.855) and their first ever sub 33 second ride to claim their place in the gold medal final. The British duo posted 32.966 and narrowly missed out on the top spot, taken by Meares and McCulloch who broke the world record posting a 32.828 in a stunning ride. It looked as if the imperious form of the Australian pair would follow through to the final but Pendleton and Varnish pulled something extraordinary out of the bag to claim victory.
Speaking after the win, Pendleton said “We worked really hard together. It says that all the hard work has paid off. I didn’t think we were going to go faster in the final but we did. We’re a fairly new team. We tried something different in the final and it worked.”
China claimed the overall World Cup victory with their consistent finishing throughout the four World Cup rounds.
Results
Finals
1 GBR Great Britain 32.754 WR
VARNISH Jess
PENDLETON Victoria
2 AUS Australia 32.945
MEARES Anna
MCCULLOCH Kaarle
3 CHN China 33.060
GONG Jinjie
GUO Shuang
4 FRA France 33.433
CLAIR Sandie
SANCHEZ Clara
Qualifying
1 AUS Australia 32.828 WR
MEARES Anna
MCCULLOCH Kaarle
2 GBR Great Britain 32.966 BR
VARNISH Jess
PENDLETON Victoria
3 CHN China 33.178
GONG Jinjie
GUO Shuang
4 FRA France 33.516
CLAIR Sandie
SANCHEZ Clara
Final World Cup Standings
1 CHINA CHN 29pts
2 GERMANY GER 26pts
3 UKRAINE UKR 25pts
4 AUSTRALIA AUS 22pts
5 RUSSIA RUS 22pts
6 GREAT BRITAIN GBR 20pts
7 LITHUANIA LTU 20pts
8 NETHERLANDS NED 18pts
9 FRANCE FRA 13pts
10 GIANT PRO CYCLING GPC 9pts
MEN'S 1KM TIME TRIAL
Matt Crampton, riding in the colours of trade team Sky Track Cycling, finished just outside the medals in the 1km Time Trial, taking fourth place. Crampton, riding in heat eight of twelve, took the lead after first Eilers of Germany and then Zhang of China held the lead, Crampton posting a 1:02.378.
Crampton wasn’t on the top step for long, with D’Almeida of France going fractionally quicker before German powerhouse Stefan Nimke blew the competition wide apart with a 1:01.211. It looked like Crampton would hold on for bronze with just two heats remaining, but in the final heat New Zealander Van Velthooven produced a ride that just got better and better, snatching bronze on the back of a stunning last 250 metres.
Results
1 NIMKE Stefan GER 1:01.211
2 D'ALMEIDA Mickael FRA 1:02.036
3 VAN VELTHOOVEN Simon NZL 1:02.048
4 CRAMPTON Matthew SKY 1:02.378
5 ZHANG Miao CHN 1:02.718
6 EILERS Joachim ERD 1:03.037
7 BUCHLI Matthijs NED 1:03.281
8 KUBEEV Andrei RUS 1:03.431
9 TEKLINSKI Adrian POL 1:03.443
10 ESTERHUIZEN Bernard RSA 1:03.486
Final World Cup Standings
1 VAN VELTHOOVEN Simon NZL 18pts
2 NIMKE Stefan GER 12pts
3 PERVIS Francois FRA 12pts
4 EILERS Joachim ERD 12pts
5 D'ALMEIDA Mickael FRA 10pts
6 DITZEL Filip CZE 8pts
7 CRAMPTON Matthew SKY 7pts
8 ZHANG Miao CHN 6pts
9 CECI Francesco ITA 6pts
10 HAAK Hugo NED 5pts
MEN’S OMNIUM
Great Britain’s Ben Swift opened his Omnium account on day two, making it through the qualifying heats and tackling the first three events – the flying lap, points and elimination race. At the midway point of the six event discipline, Swift lay in 8th position on 27pts, while Arango of Colombia led on 8pts.
QUALIFICATION
Swift made it through Omnium qualification comfortably with a punchy performance in his points heat. The Sky Pro Cycling road pro was out of the points in the first sprint but then scored solidly throughout the remainder of the heat, avoiding getting tangled in a crash involving Dane Folsach and Archbold of New Zealand. Three riders, Agarov, Tereul and Coquard took laps but Swift had done enough to finish 4th and move onto the Omnium proper.
The second heat was won by Viviani of Italy in a heat punctuated by a big four rider crash which forced the race to be neutralised for a long period while track repairs took place. All four riders who crashed, including Ireland’s Martin Irvine, completed the heat, Irvine picking himself up after a heavy fall and winning the next sprint.
Results - Qualifying for Omnium
Heat 1
1 MANSILLA Luis CHI 28pts
2 TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy ESP 28pts
3 AGARKOV Yuriy UKR 25pts
4 SWIFT Benjamin GBR 6pts
5 FOLSACH Casper DEN 5pts
6 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 5pts
7 COQUARD Bryan FRA 5pts
8 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL 5pts
9 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 5pts
10 CHO Ho Sung KOR 4pts
11 KOVALEV Ivan RVL 4pts
12 STROETINGA Wim NED 3pts
Heat 2
1 VIVIANI Elia ITA 8pts
2 BELL Zach CAN 7pts
3 KLUGE Roger GER 7pts
4 LIU Hao MSP 5pts
5 IRVINE Martyn IRL 5pts
6 VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL 5pts
7 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB 4pts
8 MORI Kazuhiro JPN 3pts
9 LEA Bobby USA 2pts
10 KWOK Ho Ting HKG 1pt
11 DIAZ Enrique Luis VEN -13pts
12 SUTER Gael SUI -13pts
FLYING LAP
Zach Bell of Canada posted a 13.295 in the 200m flying lap to take an early lead in the Omnium competition. The lead was held for much of the event by Arango of Colombia before Bell deposed him with just a few riders remaining. GB’s Ben Swift was good enough for 11th with a time of 13.591.
Results
1 BELL Zach CAN 13.295
2 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 13.316
3 LIU Hao MSP 13.425
4 COQUARD Bryan FRA 13.428
5 CHO Ho Sung KOR 13.448
6 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL 13.464
7 VIVIANI Elia ITA 13.467
8 KLUGE Roger GER 13.519
9 IRVINE Martyn IRL 13.521
10 LEA Bobby USA 13.547
11 SWIFT Benjamin GBR 13.591
POINTS RACE (30KM)
Great Britain’s Ben Swift was back in action for the second event of the Men’s Omnium, the Points Race. However the GB rider didn’t have things his own way, in a race dominated by Spain’s Teruel Rovira, who lapped the field twice and scored consistently to take victory ahead of the impressive and combative Arango of Cololmbia.
Swift looked feisty at moments throughout the race; taking points in the second sprint, bridging solo to tack onto the lead group mid-race and winning sprint 10. However, the 24 year old Sky Pro Cycling rider missed the critical lap gain moves which eventually shaped the top of the leaderboard, Swift eventually finishing in 13th position.
Results
1 TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy ESP 51pts
2 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 41pts
3 MANSILLA Luis CHI 36pts
4 VIVIANI Elia ITA 35pts
5 KOVALEV Ivan RVL 30pts
6 IRVINE Martyn IRL 28pts
7 KLUGE Roger GER 28pts
8 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 23pts
9 CHO Ho Sung KOR 20pts
10 COQUARD Bryan FRA 9pts
13 SWIFT Benjamin GBR 5pts
ELIMINATION
The Omnium Elimination race concluded day two’s action and saw GB’s Ben Swift finish in a fine 3rd after a gutsy performance. The race was won by Viviani of Italy from Coquard of France after a dramatic crash saw a rider nearly going over the barriers and into the crowd.
Swift managed to stay out of trouble until just three riders remained but repeated full on sprints by the Brit had taken their toll and Swift had no answer to Viviani and Coquard’s final kick.
Results
Elimination
1 VIVIANI Elia ITA
2 COQUARD Bryan FRA
3 SWIFT Benjamin GBR
4 MANSILLA Luis CHI
5 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL
6 CHO Ho Sung KOR
7 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL
8 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL
9 SUTER Gael SUI
10 VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL
Overall standings after 3 events
1 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 9pts
2 VIVIANI Elia ITA 12pts
3 COQUARD Bryan FRA 16pts
4 CHO Ho Sung KOR 20pts
5 BELL Zach CAN 26pts
6 MANSILLA Luis CHI 26pts
7 IRVINE Martyn IRL 27pts
8 SWIFT Benjamin GBR 27pts
9 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 29pts
10 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL 30pts
