World Track Championships - CM
Manchester, October 25-29, 2000
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Day 4 - October 28
Men's Olympic Sprint
France make it four
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The powerful French sprint team won their fourth gold medal in four years today in the Olympic sprint, defeating Great Britain in the final. The team of Florian Rousseau, Laurent Gane, and Arnaud Tournant were 0.3 seconds faster in the final, riding 44.627 seconds compared to the Brits' (Jason Queally, Chris Hoy, and Craig MacLean) 44.969.
Spain just managed to win the bronze medal in 45.382, after they beat Japan by less than 0.02 second s. The final positions were identical to the qualification, where it was France, Britain, Spain and Japan.
Qualifying
Splits: 250 m 500 m 750 m 1 France 18.259 31.624 45.098 (59.870 km/h) (Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant) 2 Great Britain 18.063 31.456 45.293 (59.612 km/h) (Chris Hoy, Craig Mclean, Jason Queally) 3 Spain 18.192 31.328 45.359 (59.525 km/h) (Jose Antonio Villanueva, Jose Antoni Escuredo Raimondez, Salvador Melia) 4 Japan 17.866 31.414 45.553 (59.272 km/h) (Toshiaki Fushimi, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka) 5 Italy 18.538 32.074 46.206 (58.434 km/h) (Domenico Mei, Roberto Chiappa, Gabriele Gentille) 6 Germany 18.796 32.287 46.224 (58.411 km/h) (Matthias John, Soren Lausberg, Jan Van Eijden) 7 Czech Republic 18.928 32.535 46.296 (58.320 km/h) (Pavel Buran, Marek Hromadla, Ivan Vrba) 8 Canada 19.146 33.016 47.256 (57.136 km/h) (Douglas Baron, James Fisher, Lars Madsen) 9 Greece 18.737 32.833 47.418 (56.940 km/h) (Nikolaos Agelidis, Athanasios Mantzouranis, Lazaros Skoubas)
Round 2
Splits: 250 m 500 m 750 m Heat 1 1 Japan 17.999 31.493 45.586 (59.229 km/h) (Toshiaki Fushimi, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka) 2 Italy 18.319 31.789 45.900 (58.824 km/h) (Domenico Mei, Roberto Chiappa, Gabriele Gentille) Heat 2 1 Spain 18.175 31.295 45.152 (59.798 km/h) (Jose Antonio Villanueva, Jose Antoni Escuredo Raimondez, Salvador Melia) 2 Germany 18.617 31.895 45.650 (59.146 km/h) (Matthias John, Soren Lausberg, Jan Van Eijden) Heat 3 1 Great Britain 18.062 31.346 45.085 (59.887 km/h) (Chris Hoy, Craig Mclean, Jason Queally) 2 Czech Republic 18.992 32.312 45.950 (58.760 km/h) (Pavel Buran, Marek Hromadla, Ivan Vrba) Heat 4 1 France 18.093 31.338 44.769 (60.310 km/h) (Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant) 2 Canada 18.783 32.782 47.030 (57.410 km/h) (Douglas Baron, James Fisher, Kyle Hudson)
Final
Splits: 250 m 500 m 750 m 1 France 17.977 31.200 44.627 (60.501 km/h) (Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau, Arnaud Tournant) 2 Great Britain 18.016 31.304 44.969 (60.041 km/h) (Chris Hoy, Craig Mclean, Jason Queally) 3 Spain 18.145 31.424 45.382 (59.495 km/h) (Jose Antonio Villanueva, Jose Antoni Escuredo Raimondez, Salvador Melia) 4 Japan 18.064 31.499 45.440 (59.419 km/h) (Toshiaki Fushimi, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka) 5 Germany 18.617 31.895 45.650 (59.146 km/h) (Matthias John, Soren Lausberg, Jan Van Eijden) 6 Italy 18.319 31.789 45.900 (58.824 km/h) (Domenico Mei, Roberto Chiappa, Gabriele Gentille) 7 Czech Republic 18.992 32.312 45.950 (58.760 km/h) (Pavel Buran, Marek Hromadla, Ivan Vrba) 8 Canada 18.783 32.782 47.030 (57.410 km/h) (Douglas Baron, James Fisher, Kyle Hudson)
Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit
All German final
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Germany are guaranteed another gold and silver medal after Stefan Steinweg and Jens Lehmann advanced through to the gold medal final in the men's individual pursuit. Steinweg was the fastest qualifier in 4.23.08, and Lehmann fourth fastest (4.26.95), but both produced excellent rides in the critical second round to record the best two times.
With the change in the individual pursuit rules to a "sudden death" format, the second round becomes far more important than the qualifying round as there are no semi-finals. After the qualifying round picks the top eight riders, the times from round two are used to determine who will ride for the gold, and who will ride for the bronze. There are no semi-finals.
So, Britain's Rob Hayles who rode a good 4.24.04 to qualify second, ended up with the third fastest time in round two even though he comfortably beat Dutchman Robert Slippens. Hayles will face Francis Moreau (Fra) in the bronze medal ride-off, after Moreau beat Sergio Escobar (Spa).
Qualifying
Splits: 1 km 2 km 3 km 4 km 1 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) 1.10.01 2.14.59 3.19.17 4.23.08 (54.736 km/h) 2 Robert Hayles (GBr) 1.09.08 2.13.76 3.19.46 4.24.04 3 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) 1.09.50 2.13.75 3.18.56 4.24.85 4 Jens Lehmann (Ger) 1.08.57 2.13.41 3.20.51 4.26.95 5 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) 1.09.57 2.13.47 3.19.80 4.26.96 6 Francis Moreau (Fra) 1.09.79 2.15.14 3.21.21 4.27.48 7 Robert Slippens (Ned) 1.10.73 2.16.69 3.22.95 4.29.84 8 Noriyuki Iijima (Jpn) 1.09.07 2.17.50 3.26.16 4.32.20 9 Michele Canevarolo (Ita) 1.14.04 2.20.33 3.26.66 4.32.56 10 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) 1.10.92 2.17.84 3.26.15 4.35.19 11 Luca Capuzzo (Ita) 1.13.63 2.22.45 3.28.65 4.35.21 12 Frank Corvers (Bel) 1.09.25 2.16.20 3.24.83 4.35.43 13 Philippe Gaumont (Fra) 1.09.18 2.16.29 3.26.22 4.36.59 DNF Alexei Markov (Rus)
Round 2
Splits: 1 km 2 km 3 km 4 km Heat 1 1 Jens Lehmann (Ger) 1.07.46 2.10.61 3.14.48 4.19.14 (55.568 km/h) 2 Ondrej Sosenka (Cze) 1.10.80 2.15.06 3.23.59 Caught Heat 2 1 Francis Moreau (Fra) 1.10.61 2.16.33 3.21.80 4.26.80 (53.972 km/h) 2 Sergio Escobar Roure (Spa) 1.09.51 2.15.09 3.23.05 4.32.46 Heat 3 1 Robert Hayles (GBr) 1.08.67 2.12.67 3.17.69 4.21.17 (55.137 km/h) 2 Robert Slippens (Ned) 1.10.40 2.15.76 3.21.98 4.28.89 Heat 4 1 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) 1.09.17 2.13.49 3.17.26 4.20.91 (55.190 km/h) 2 Noriyuki Iijima (Jpn) 1.10.54 2.20.00 Caught
Women's Sprint
Natalia repeats
The absence of top sprinters, Felicia Ballanger (Fra), Michelle Ferris (Aus) and Oxana Grichina (Rus) has left the women's sprinting competitions wide open at the World's. Yesterday's 500 metre TT winner, Natalia Markovnichenko (Blr) proved her speed again by posting the fastest 200 metre qualifying time in the women's sprint. She rode 11.235 seconds (64.085 km/h) to beat the USA's Jennie Reed and Canadian Lori Ann Muenzer.
In the 1/8 finals, both Markovnichenko and Reed did not have to race, while Muenzer beat the USA's Tanya Lindenmuth, Katrin Meinke (Ger) beat Cuihua Jang (Chn), Celine Nivert beat Magali Faure (both Fra) and Galina Enioukhina beat Svetlana Grankovskaia (both Rus). Grankovskaia and Faure each won their repechage heats, and advance through to tomorrow's quarter finals.
Qualifying
1 Natalia Markovnichenko (Blr) 11.235 (64.085 km/h) 2 Jennie Reed (USA) 11.530 3 Lori Ann Muenzer (Can) 11.543 4 Katrin Meinke (Ger) 11.661 5 Magali Faure (Fra) 11.682 6 Svetlana Grankovskaia (Rus) 11.734 7 Galina Enioukhina (Rus) 11.750 8 Celine Nivert (Fra) 11.849 9 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) 11.933 10 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) 11.951 DNS Ulrike Weichelt (Ger) DNS Iryna Yanovych (Ukr)!
1/8 Final
Heat 1 1 Natalia Markovnichenko (Blr) 2 Heat 2 1 Jennie Reed (USA) 2 Heat 3 1 Lori Ann Muenzer (Can) 12.229 (58.876 km/h) 2 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) Heat 4 1 Katrin Meinke (Ger) 12.189 (59.070 km/h) 2 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) Heat 5 1 Celine Nivert (Fra) 12.201 (59.012 km/h) 2 Magali Faure (Fra) DQ Heat 6 1 Galina Enioukhina (Rus) 12.261 (58.723 km/h) 2 Svetlana Grankovskaia (Rus) DQ
1/8 Final Repechage
Heat 1 1 Svetlana Grankovskaia (Rus) 12.699 (56.697 km/h) 2 Cuihua Jiang (Chn) Heat 2 1 Magali Faure (Fra) 12.060 (59.701 km/h) 2 Tanya Lindenmuth (USA)
Women's Individual Pursuit
McGregor breaks a long drought
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Manchester's Yvonne McGregor scored an impressive hometown victory in the women's individual pursuit, defeating German Judith Arndt in the final by over a second. McGregor rode 3.35.274 to beat Arndt, who had led for the first kilometres. McGregor didn't quite have to pull out a titanic performance as she did in Sydney to beat Sarah Ulmer for the bronze, but nevertheless rode extremely strongly to take the lead with 500 metres to go, giving her a 1.28 second advantage by the finish.
It was not 39 year old McGregor's last race however, as she affirmed that she would defend her title next year in Antwerp before retiring. The individual pursuit medal was Britain's first in this event for 34 years after Beryl Burton won in 1966.
In the other final Marion Clignet was defeated by Russian Elena Tchalykh in 3.37.394 for the bronze medal. Clignet, dual gold medallist last year in the points and pursuit and winner of the points race this year, suffered during yesterday's qualifying rounds and was not able to come close to Tchalykh for the bronze medal.
Finals
Splits: 1 km 2 km 3 km Gold medal final: 1 Yvonne Mcgregor (GBr) 1.15.19 2.24.96 3.35.27 (50.169 km/h) 2 Judith Arndt (Ger) 1.13.91 2.24.40 3.36.55 Bronze medal final: 3 Elena Tchalykh (Rus) 1.13.40 2.24.46 3.37.97 (49.547 km/h) 4 Marion Clignet (Fra) 1.15.00 2.26.39 3.40.47 Final ranking: 1 Yvonne Mcgregor (GBr) 3.35.27 2 Judith Arndt (Ger) 3.36.55 3 Elena Tchalykh (Rus) 3.37.97 4 Marion Clignet (Fra) 3.40.47 5 Rasa Mazeikyte (Ltu) 3.42.82 6 Lada Kozlikova (Cze) 3.43.21 7 Maria Luisa Calle (Col) 3.43.92 8 Anouska Van Der Zee (Ned) 3.45.39
Medal standings after day 4
Gold Silver Bronze Germany 3 3 0 France 3 1 1 Great Britain 1 2 1 Belorussia 1 0 0 China 0 1 1 Spain 0 1 1 Argentina 0 0 1 Russia 0 0 1 Czech Republic 0 0 1 Results courtesy of www.worldtrackchampionships2000.com