Day 8: 2012 UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships

Report, Results and photos from the Final day of competition at the 2012 UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome …

October 6-14, 2012 | 400 entries from 27 countries | Saturday, October 12, 2012

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Men’s 135+ Team Sprint

World Best 47.845 Willmott, White, Stoker(AUS) Championship(2009) Sydney(AUS)

The popular Team Sprint event saw yet another battle between Australia and Britain with the Aussies winning by the narrowest of margins to add to their growing collection of Gold medals from this event.

With two of the record holding riders in the Aussie trio, the Australian’s were favourites but the British riders Neil Potter, Neil Campbell and back after his high speed crash the other day, Dave Le Grys, had the crowd on their side and hunger for the Gold.

It showed as they gave it everything and went quicker in the final but then so did the Aussies and it was them that got the rainbow jerseys to take back to the other side of the world.

British trio led out by Dave Le Grys on their way to a silver medal.

The Aussies, winners of the Team Sprint..

Final
1. Australia 48.042
2. Team Silvia (GB) 48.148
3. Brooks Cycles 49.453
4. USA 49.626

Qualifying
1 Australia I 19.508 (1) 33.827 (1) 48.510
WHITE Gavin, MURRAY Chris, STOKER Geoff

2 Team Silvia 19.672 (2) 34.015 (2) 48.558
CAMPBELL Neil, POTTER Neil, LEGRYS David

3 Brooks Cycles – Blue – GBR 20.227 (6) 34.641 (4) 49.649
WELCH Adam, HOULTON Phil, CRONSHAW Steve

4 USA Team #1 20.100 (5) 34.506 (3) 49.652
STEIN Brent, LACORTE Andrew, VOSS Rich

5 Adey, John & Ben – GBR 19.712 (3) 34.726 (5) 49.690
ELLIOTT Benedict, SAYSELL John, DENT Adrian

6 Australia II 19.943 (4) 35.454 (8) 50.745
PASCUZZI Lou, TOWNSEND Alan, O’CONNELL Gerard

7 Brinton Technik 20.690 (10) 35.708 (9) 51.135
BRINTON David, KLIPPER David, BERTET Joel

8 USA Team AMA 21.214 (13) 36.010 (11) 51.177
VUGRINCIC Allen, PAULIN Michael, SEIKEN Aron

9 Italy 20.409 (7) 35.428 (7) 51.220
PICCO Alessandro, ALBERTI Fabio, VESCHETTI Ferruccio

10 ioptixs 20.498 (8) 35.945 (10) 51.247
SHELDON Alan, CLARK Andy, REID Ivor

11 Brooks Cycles – Orange 20.522 (9) 36.193 (12) 51.742
BAGNALL John, BROOKS Tony, SMITH Dave

12 USA RPT 20.969 (11) 36.446 (13) 52.310
LARABEE Patrick, KICEY Ted, GILDEA Raymond

13 V-Sprint – 22.285 (14) 38.674 (14) 55.398
ALDRIDGE Andy, WINSTANLEY Jeff, BERRY Peter

14 The Fat Lads 23.757 (15) 40.601 (15) 56.778
GITTINS Paul, HORTON John, WATERS Graeme

Relegated
15 Denmark – 21.060 (12) 35.396 (6) 49.965 52.758
NIELSEN Lars Brian, JØRGENSEN Claus, FRANZPÖTTER Bernhard
(Denmark, relegated to last place for incorrect change (end of lap one)

Men 60-64 Pursuit

American visitor Steven Worley won the Men’s 60-64 Pursuit in a see sawing battle in the final with Frenchman Gérard-Louis Robert who has been at the forefront of every race he has ridden this week.

Another rider who’s also been at the sharp end of the races in this category, Britain’s Steve Davies won the Bronze medal after a week where he explained he’s not been well and riding under par. That hasn’t stopped him winning two medals in his events. Davies beat Wendell Bole of South Africa.

Britain’s Steve Davies

Gold
1. WORLEY Steven USA 2:29.218 48.252
2. ROBERT Gérard-Louis FRA 2:29.902 48.031

Bronze
3. DAVIES Steve GBR 2:30.099 47.968
4. BOLE Wendell RSA 2:36.361 46.047

Qualifying
1. WORLEY Steven USA 2:28.562
2. ROBERT Gérard-Louis FRA 2:32.356
3. DAVIES Steve GBR 2:32.604
4. BOLE Wendell RSA 2:32.769
5. MULICA David USA 2:35.168
6. CLASOHM Malcolm AUS 2:35.833
7. TRUELOVE Graham GBR 2:36.412
8. WOLFF Larry USA 2:36.930
9. CHRISTIANSEN Bent DEN 2:39.900
10. DUPIN Claude FRA 2:49.677
11. DAVIES Paul GBR 2:50.084
12. JONES Brian GBR 2:53.204
13. HAINES Vic GBR 2:53.618
14. OLASKOAGA Jose ESP 3:01.811

Men 65-69 Pursuit

Steffen Munch Hansen added yet another Gold to his collection this week by decisively winning the Men’s 65-69 Pursuit against Britain’s Michael Allen. In the race for the Bronze medal, Frenchman Michel Briat saw off the challenge of David Rutherford in a race that went down to the wire.

Gold
1. HANSEN Steffen Munch DEN 2:34.868 46.491
2. ALLEN Michael GBR 2:37.519 45.709

3. BRIAT Michel FRA 2:37.761 45.639
4. RUTHERFORD David GBR 2:38.097 45.542

Qualifying
1 HANSEN Steffen Munch DEN 2:34.980 46.458
2 ALLEN Michael GBR 2:35.959 46.166
3 BRIAT Michel FRA 2:37.509 45.712
4 RUTHERFORD David GBR 2:37.682 45.662
5 LE QUERE Marcel FRA 2:39.815 45.052
6 MOORE Willi GBR 2:40.144 44.960
7 ICKE Terry GBR 2:43.718 43.978
8 WILLIAMS Michael USA 2:46.479 43.249
9 MOSS John RSA 2:49.156 42.564
10 MOYANO Enrique Edelmiro ARG 2:49.315 42.524
11 BUCKLEY Phil GBR 2:54.103 41.355
12 JONES Roger GBR 2:56.148 40.875
13 GRANT George GBR 2:57.202 40.632
14 MERIADEC Albert FRA 3:08.065 38.285

Men 70-74 Pursuit

Defending champion Guido Lupo was beaten to the Gold medal in the final of the Men’s 70-74 Pursuit by Leo Mensetrina of the USA in a close tussle over the 2,000 metres. In the all British final for the Bronze medal, Peter Robertson just scrapped through by the odd tenth of a second against Brian Newton.

Gold
1. MENESTRINA Leo USA 2:39.989 45.003
2. LUPO Guido ITA 2:41.202 44.6645

Bronze
3. ROBERTSON Peter GBR 2:50.126 42.3216
4. NEWTON Brian GBR 2:50.310 42.2758

Qualifying
1 LUPO Guido ITA 2:41.391 44.612
2 MENESTRINA Leo USA 2:42.010 44.442
3 ROBERTSON Peter GBR 2:45.239 43.573
4 NEWTON Brian GBR 2:51.081 42.085
5 JOHNSTON Gordon GBR 2:51.484 41.986
6 WOODINGS Derrick GBR 2:51.975 41.867
7 ROWE Alan GBR 2:52.980 41.623
8 ROGER Langlois FRA 2:54.982 41.147
9 MASON John GBR 2:57.327 40.603
10 DACEY Brian GBR 2:58.982 40.228
11 POSSEE Victor GBR 3:00.249 39.945

Men 75+ Pursuit

With only three qualifiers, all the riders were assured of a medal but for the two fastest, a second ride was required to find out who would win what colour. With the Bronze going to Roy Savery as the third fastest qualifier, the Gold/Silver final saw a France versus Britain final. In the end though it was an easy victory for the Frenchman Raymond Pelle, almost five seconds quicker than David Sankey.

Gold
1 PELLE Raymond FRA 2:53.696 41.452
2. SANKEY David GBR 2:58.201 40.404

3. SAVERY Roy GBR

Qualifying
1 PELLE Raymond FRA 2:52.927 41.636
2 SANKEY David GBR 2:58.554 40.324
3 SAVERY Roy GBR 3:04.283 39.070

MURATTI CUP

One of the most historic cups to race for in cycling is the Murrati Cup and this year’s event when to an Australian, Daniel Hennsey. The race with riders of all ages and a woman too, Siobhan Mullen, didn’t take long to get going with two riders going clear and for a while the race was in chaos as the chase for them saw the field split all over the place.

The frantic action was too much for many and the number of riders on the track started to shrink as many pulled off the track completely spent by the speed on the boards. The two leaders and then four chasers soon lapped the field which meant that if things stayed that way, the race would stay be between those six riders; Brinton, Campbell, Ahumada, Ravasio, Williams, and Hennessy.

With historic footage of the original Muratti Cup showing on the big screen, there was brief lull before it all kicked off again after the mid race sprint for a cash prize and soon there were four riders going for another lap. The four were already a lap up but being greedy for more leeway over their rivals, they pushed the pace up another notch and were soon on their way to gaining another lap.

The four, Hennesy, Williams, Ravasio and Ahumada soon made the junction and the race, with less than 20 laps left, seemed to be between these four riders.

Everything seemed to be heading for a sprint between them when a crash with only eight laps to go reduced the field even more and saw the race neutralised for a while. Once the fallen were up on their feet, the race resumed and in the rush to the line, John McClelland was quickest but at two laps down, that was only good enough 7th place while of the four leaders, Daniel Hennessy was the quickest to the line to take the win and the prize of this famous trophy.

1. HENNESSY Daniel AUS
2. WILLIAMS Kenny USA
3. RAVASIO Guiseppe ITA
4 AHUMADA Rolando ARG

@ 1 lap
5. BRINTON David USA 1
6. CAMPBELL Neil GBR 1

@ 2 laps
7. MCCLELLAND John GBR
8. STEIN Brent USA
9. PICCO Alessandro ITA
10. 17 LILLEY Ralph GBR
11. ELLIS Christian GBR
12. MULLEN Siobhan GBR

Women’s Team Sprint (Pilot event)

Bronze medallists South Africa

Final

1. Great Britain – GBR 36.494
BIRKMYRE Janet, CHISHOLM Alison

2. Silver Brooks Belles – GBR 36.970
COOPER Julie, CAPEWELL Deborah
3. South Africa – RSA 38.038
GIANCHINO Elisa, WENHOLD Annerine

4. Team Bush – GBR 39.375
MULLAN Siobahn, SAINSBURY-MUNN Emma

Qualifying
1 Great Britain (GBR)
Janet BIRKMYRE & Alison CHISHOLM 36.967,

2 Brookes Belles (GBR)
Julie COOPER & Deborah CAPEWELL 37.589.

3 – South Africa (RSA)
Elisa GIANCHINO/Annerine WENHOLD 38.152,
4 – Team Bush (GBR)
Siobahn MULLAN/Emma SAINSBURY-MUNN 39.281

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