Report-Results: Day 1- UCI Track Cycling World Cup

Two Gold (Women’s Team Sprint and Team Pursuit) plus a Silver medal in the Men’s Team Sprint made it a good night for the British team in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome (Glasgow).

RST Cycle Clothing & Trigon Bikes

Great Britain Crash from Team GB

Evening Session – Double Gold for Great Britain

The first Gold came in the Women’s Team Sprint where the GB duo of Jess Varnish and Becky James were half a second faster than their rivals from Spain. The Spanish team got off the line a fraction quicker than the Brits, completing the first lap two thousandths of a second faster but then it was all GB as they completed the second lap seven tenths faster to win decisively.

The win was the second for the girls in this season’s Track Cycling World Cup after they’d done the same in Cali a month ago. Jess Varnish said afterwards “It’s really good to be back on the podium and really exciting to be riding with Becky as well. It’s a bonus as well to be doing this in front of our home crowd. They gave us a fantastic reception in this amazing facility and just to have the crowd behind us tonight was great.”

Becky meanwhile said “it’s been so good in front of a home crowd and getting a feel for the track before the Commonwealth Games are here. It is such a good feeling as I love riding the Team Sprint with Jess and we don’t get to do it very often. I had a PB tonight as well so I’m really chuffed”.

Women’s Team Pursuit
The second Gold medal came in the Women’s Team Pursuit in a really exciting final where for a lot of the first half of the race, the Australians were a couple of tenths ahead and holding the gap. But the GB trio of Elinor Barker, Laura Trott and Dani King fought back and went up on their rivals as they approached the final kilometre.

The Aussies then showed some real fighting spirit to narrow the gap again but the Brits kept battling too and for a lot of that final kilometre, the race appeared to be an all out sprint between the two teams.

At the end of the 3,000 metres though, the GB trio had the upper hand and crossed the line in a time of 3:21.043 to the 3:22.026 of the Australians. The GB team with two of the World Record Holders and Olympic Champions had got their act together after a scrappy qualifying ride and showed the World they are not a team to be messed with.

Dani King “I did a terrible ride in the qualifier so I had to pull something out of the bag this evening in the final. But we’ve won again and it’s an amazing feeling. This was the first race back after the Olympics and we’re now back into training and got into the final. After winning Gold, I’m happy now.”

Laura Trott admitted she hadn’t felt great out there after heaping praise on Elinor Barker for slotting into the team so well and at short notice. “That was really hard and it was ten seconds slower than what we did in the Olympics but we’re here, loving the home crowd and we’re enjoying it. That’s all we can do. When it really means something like the World Championships, we’ll commit to it and race but for now, we just want to enjoy it.”

Elinor Barker “I was really happy with the result out there. During training the last few weeks, I have made so many improvements in such a short space of time. It was massively intimidating to come in and ride with the World and Olympic champions and I’ve had to take on board the things I am learning. The girls said they went ten seconds slower than they did at the Olympics but I went ten seconds faster than I have ever ridden and that felt really good!”

Men’s Team Sprint
Whilst the Gold went to the Germans in this event, the performance by the Brits having added a double Olympic champion in the Team Pursuit to their line-up was astounding.

Whilst the likes of Olympic Champions in this event, Hindes and Kenny, did their job as expected, the ride by Clancy, only five hundreths slower than the Germans third lap after very little time preparing for a sprint event, shows just what a legend Clancy is on the track.

Afterwards Hindes said “It was good to be back racing again on a home track. We had a break after the Olympics and it was quite hard to get the fitness back and find the speed but it was good considering the training we have done.”

Jason Kenny meanwhile said “I’m happy with how it went out there. I think we have a winning formula with the three of us and I think we nailed it getting it all out on the track. At the end of the day we just weren’t quick enough to win the Gold.”

“For the Worlds, we just need to do what we did today but half a second quicker each and then we should win! I’m riding everything this weekend and going to get stuck in and see what I get out of it. Hopefully a few more medals, golds and silvers hopefully.”

Ed Clancy was the real star. Taking the place of Sir Chris Hoy in the Olympic line up, the pressure and eyes of the world were on him and as ever, he was as cool as they come. “Qualifying went really well and dare I say it, was a little too easy to get on the wheel after we’d geared accordingly for that”.

“I sort of ran out of legs a little bit on the last lap so for this evening we put the gear up a little bit and it was a real battle to hang on to Jason down the back straight”.

“It was good though and I enjoyed it. I have a different perspective on this event than these two after never have ridden an international Team Sprint before and I feel like I have had a pretty good day. We’ve been living like a rock star since the Olympics and I think we have a pretty good place to start off from. We were never going to come here and set the world on fire but this is a good place to move on from.”

Other Events
In the Men’s Scratch race, there was two top 10s for British riders with Simon Yates finishing fifth in the sprint to the line whilst Jon Mould was 10th. The third round of the Men’s Omnium was also held, the Elimination Race and Jon Dibben managed to hold out from being caught out at the back until around the halfway mark before he got his marching orders. The result placed him 10th in the race and after three events, he sits in 11th overall.

Jess Varnish had her a second event of the night, the 500 metre Time Trial but fatigue from the Team Sprint which she had won Gold in, saw her opening lap well short of what she would normally do and that perhaps cost her a medal with Jess ending the event in 6th place with Olga Panarina winning the race on a British Dolan bike.

Session 1

The first session on day 1 of the Glasgow Track Cycling World Cup ended with the British Team in several finals for Gold medals but also licking their wounds after a big crash in the Team Pursuit.

The GB foursome of Sam Harrison, Joe Kelly, Andy Tennant and Owain Doull were in second place when it appears, according to reports on the web, as though Joe Kelly has touched wheels with the leading rider Owain Doull and the resulting crash has brought both Harrison and Tennant down.

The team were said not be riding on the limit at the time having gone faster in training during over paced efforts but then travelling at 60k an hour with little separating the riders, it doesn’t take a lot for a mistake like that to happen if the pace of any of the riders changes or there’s a wheel overlapping situation.

The worst injured was World Champion Andy Tennant who had to have medical treatment on cuts to his legs and quipped later his shoes were now in the British colours thanks to the red blood on the white and blue shoes.

The GB team were also looking a lot less polished in the Women’s Team Pursuit where splits in the trio appeared as they raced to the second fastest time. In the first major competition back for two of the Olympic Champions in the line up (Trott & King) riding with a Junior World Champion Elinor Barker, the team finished 10 seconds slower than their time in London, just a few tenths down on the Aussies but still in the hunt for Gold.

In the Women’s Team Sprint however, there were no such problems as Jess Varnish led the team away to a great start with Becky James finishing off the job to record the fastest time by some way and set up a Gold medal ride in the final later on. The duo won Gold in round 1 of the World Cup in Cali.

In the Men’s Team Sprint, GB finished second fastest using an experimental line-up. Double Olympic champion in the Team Pursuit, Ed Clancy was a shade slower than the German third man but astonishingly Clancy’s final lap was still the second fastest of all in his first Team Sprint competition.

Olympic champion Phillip Hindes first lap of 17.7 was sluggish by his standards while Jason Kenny did a rapid 12.855 second lap. That just left Ed Clancy and he recorded a super 13.5 to Germany’s third lap of 13.4!

After doubts whether Clancy could ‘get on’ the wheel of the two Olympic Champion sprinters, he did his job superbly to set up another Germany versus Great Britain final.

In the Men’s Omnium, Jon Dibben who was riding as a Junior for Hargroves Cycles until joining the GB Academy in October, did himself proud with a fifth place in the first round of the Men’s Omnium. With the World Champion from Australia (Glenn O’Shea) in the event, Dibben’s 13.511 was a few hundreths slower than Dutch sprinter Tim Veldt. Dibben then backed that up with 14th in the hardest event of the six rounds, the Points race where lap taking was the order of the day in what was called as a lack lustre race on the boards.

In the penultimate event of the session, the qualifying rounds of the Men’s Scratch Race, the GB academy rider Simon Yates got the packed crowd on their feet with a win to go through to the final of that event in the evening. In the second qualifying heat, Jon Mould, riding the Welsh team, finished that in eighth place to join his former Academy teammate Simon Yates in the final.

RESULTS

WOMEN’S TEAM SPRINT

Final
1 Great Britain 33.428
2 Spain 34.102

3 France 34.197
4 Russia 34.376

Qualifying
1. Great Britain 33.526
Jess Varnish & Becky James

2. Spain 34.318
3. France 34.424
4. Russia 34.511
5. Petroholding Leningrad 34.565
6. China 34.615
7. Netherlands
8. Japan 35.329
9. Venezuela 36.575
10. Reyno De NavarraTelcoMConor

MEN’S TEAM SPRINT

Final

1. Germany 43.887
2. Great Britain 44.175

3 France 44.803
4. Poland 45.491

Qualifying
1 Germany 43.790
ENDERS, FOERSTEMANN & BOETTICHER

2 Great Britain 44.134
Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny, Ed Clancy

3 France 44.750
PALMA, SIREAU, LAFARGUE

4 Poland 45.191
5 Russia 45.229
6 Netherlands 45.291
7 Petroholding Leningrad 45.333
8 Czech Republic 45.463
9 Japan 46.182
10 Greece 46.586

WOMEN’S TEAM PURSUIT

Finals
1. Great Britain 3:21.043
2. Australia 3:22.026

3. Belarus 3:25.737
4. Lithuania 3:27.104

Qualifying

1. Australia 3:24.161
ANKUDINOFF, CURE, HOSKINS

2 Great Britain 3:24.657
Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Dani King

3 Belarus 3:25.626
4 Lithuania 3:27.571
5 Poland 3:27.927
6 Belgium 3:34.380

MEN’S OMNIUM (6 events)

Flying Lap (250 metres) Round 1
1. LISS Lucas GER 13.252
2. BEER Olivier SUI 13.349
3. O’SHEA Glenn AUS 13.354
4. VELDT Tim NED 13.447
5. DIBBEN Jonathan GBR 13.511
6. DE KETELE Kenny BEL 13.538
7. ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai ESP 13.589
8. RYBIN Ondrej CZE 13.653
9. BRISSE Vivien FRA 13.662
10. LYALKO Alexey KAZ 13.879
11. TSISHKOU Raman BLR 13.887
12. STRAHOV Dmitry LOK 13.984
13. KRIGBAUM Mathias Wichmann DEN 14.116
14. HASHIMOTO Eiya JPN 14.132
15. KWOK Ho Ting HKG 14.137
16. SANIKWATHI Thanawut THA 14.342
17. BRICEÑO Manuel VEN 14.404
18. KOGUT Volodymyr UKR 14.475
19. ROBERTS Boyd INT 14.979

Points Race – Round 2

1 KOGUT Volodymyr UKR 107
2 ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai ESP 103
3 DE KETELE Kenny BEL 94
4 BEER Olivier SUI 73
5 KWOK Ho Ting HKG 60
6 BRISSE Vivien FRA 52
7 LYALKO Alexey KAZ 51
8 HASHIMOTO Eiya JPN 51
9 LISS Lucas GER 42
10 KRIGBAUM Mathias Wichmann DEN 30
11 RYBIN Ondrej CZE 22
12 O’SHEA Glenn AUS 13
13 VELDT Tim NED7
14 DIBBEN Jonathan GBR 2
15 ROBERTS Boyd INT 2
16 TSISHKOU Raman BLR 2
17 STRAHOV Dmitry LOK 1
18 BRICEÑO Manuel VEN 0
19 SANIKWATHI Thanawut THA

Elimination Race (Round 3)
1 ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai ESP
2 O’SHEA Glenn AUS
3 RYBIN Ondrej CZE
4 LISS Lucas GER
5 LYALKO Alexey KAZ
6 KWOK Ho Ting HKG
7 HASHIMOTO Eiya JPN
8 VELDT Tim NED
9 BEER Olivier SUI
10 DIBBEN Jonathan GBR
11 KOGUT Volodymyr UKR
12 BRISSE Vivien FRA
13 DE KETELE Kenny BEL
14 TSISHKOU Raman BLR
15 KRIGBAUM Mathias Wichmann DEN
16 STRAHOV Dmitry LOK
17 ROBERTS Boyd INT
18 SANIKWATHI Thanawut THA
BRICEÑO Manuel VEN DQ

MEN’S SCRATCH RACE

Men’s Scratch Race Final

1 MARGUET Tristan SUI
2 IRVINE Martyn IRL
3 EEFTING Roy NED
4 REINHARDT Theo GER
5 YATES Simon GBR
6 HOFFMAN Nolan RSA
7 CAZZARO Manuel ITA
8 MUZYCHKIN Anton BLR
9 MÃœLLER Andreas AUT
10 MOULD Jonathan WAL
11 GATSKIY Pavel KAZ
12 COLLA Angel Dario ARG
13 BLAHA Martin CZE
14 LUTSYSHYN Roman UKR
15 MORA VEDRI Sebastian ESP
16 MERTENS Tim BEL
17 PSZCZOLARSKI Wojciech POL
18 KARPENKOV Pavel LOK
19 KENNETT Dylan NZL
20 CHEUNG King Lok HKG

Qualifying

Heat 1
1 YATES Simon GBR
2 CAZZARO Manuel ITA
3 IRVINE Martyn IRL
4 LUTSYSHYN Roman UKR
5 PSZCZOLARSKI Wojciech POL
6 MERTENS Tim BEL
7 CHEUNG King Lok HKG
8 REINHARDT Theo GER
9 MÃœLLER Andreas AUT
10 EEFTING Roy NED
11 BOONRATANATHANAKORN Thurakit THA 1
12 MATTHYSEN Reniell INT 1
13 HORSTMANN Samuel PTF 1
14 AYALA MUSSARD Cesar Octavio NAV 1

Heat 2
1 MUZYCHKIN Anton BLR
2 MARGUET Tristan SUI
3 BLAHA Martin CZE 1
4 HOFFMAN Nolan RSA 1
5 KENNETT Dylan NZL 1
6 MORA VEDRI Sebastian ESP 1
7 KARPENKOV Pavel LOK 1
8 MOULD Jonathan WAL 1
9 COLLA Angel Dario ARG 1
10 GATSKIY Pavel KAZ 1
11 KNEISKY Morgan FRA 1
12 POULSEN Jonas DEN 1

BRICEÑO Manuel VEN DNF
MCCRONE Malek Marcus MAS DNF

Women’s 500 Metre Time Trial
1 PANARINA Olga BLR 34.121
2 VOGEL Kristina GER 34.318
3 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP 34.451
4 VOYNOVA Anastasiya RUS 34.452
5 LEE Wai Sze HKG 34.482
6 VARNISH Jessica GBR 34.809
7 CLAIR Sandie FRA 34.820
8 BREZHNIVA Elena PHL 35.182
9 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 35.257
10 MAEDA Kayono JPN 35.726
11 BUJAK Eugenia POL 37.031
12 PRADA Marynes VEN 37.490
13 MANRIQUE VILLEGAS Mar NAV 37.865
14 CROKET Gilke BEL 38.707
15 PENSAARI Pia FIN 39.201

MEN’S TEAM PURSUIT

Final
1. Denmark caught
2. Germany

3. Belgium 4:06.951
4. Spain 4:11.197

Qualifying
1 Denmark 4:02.981
2 Germany 4:07.005
3 Spain 4:07.888
4 Belgium 4:08.375
5 Switzerland 4:10.482
6 Ukraine 4:11.422
7 Lokosphinx 4:11.792
8 Czech Republic 4:13.262
9. France 4:13.277
10. Kazakhstan 4:16.222
11. Belarus 4:18.016

Great Britain, Crashed out

 

RST Cycle Clothing & Trigon Bikes

Other Results on VeloUK (including reports containing results)

Other News on VeloUK

Tags: , ,