UCI Track World Cup/UCI- Coupe du Monde- Piste- 1998

The Centre is the training headquarters for the Canadian National Cycling Team and hub of a series of national, provincial and community programs. National coach Yury Kashirin is the Head Coach and Director of the Centre. Among other notable achievements, Kashirin has recently made a big name for himself in mountain bike racing, where his national training programme has raised the standard of Canadian cross country riders to among the highest in the world. 

Australia, the USA, Germany and Russia were the most successful nations across the 12 events. Australia won six events with Michelle Ferris and Lucy Tyler-Sharman the most successful, with two events each. The USA team captured the most placings, scoring points in nine different events. Russia also showed strength in depth, with four second placings. 

The French team had dominated the races in Cali, Colombia during the first round of the UCI Track World Cup but with only a small team in Victoria the giant of track cycling was at a disadvantage. However French riders still won one event and were placed in three others. 

In the first two days of racing on Thursday and Friday, Olympic and World champions clashed in the finals as they fought to gain points for the overall UCI World Cup standings and vital points to help their nations qualify for the UCI World Track Championships in Bordeaux, late August.

 In Cali, the French team dominated the racing, winning nine of the thirteen events. However in Victoria the Americans, Germans and Australians have fought back. Germany won the men's sprint and men's individual pursuit, while the USA took the kilometer time trial and second place in the men's sprint. In the women's events Australia dominated winning the individual pursuit and the sprint.

 Next stop on the international circuit for the track riders will be from June 12th - 14th, in Berlin, Germany for the third round of the UCI Track World Cup. Men's 1km time trial

 Hartwell -the Olympic silver medallist in Atlanta, 1996, set a time of 1:04.772, a new record for the Victoria track. Second, just a few hundreds of a second slower was Frederic Lancien of France in 1:04.885. Third was Stefan Mimke of Germany with 1:05.451. 

This win in Victoria will have helped Hartwell forget his disappointing fourth place in Cali, when his wheel slipped just after the start. Individual Pursuit final

Although the winning time was slower than Steinweg's qualifying time, all he had to do in the final was simply be faster than Sandstod.

 Australian Brett Lancaster took the bronze by catching Tommy Mulkey (USA) inside the last kilometre.

 Female 3km Individual Pursuit

 In the final, Sharman met Svetlana Samokhvalova (RUS). The bronze medal will be decided by a match between Erin Veenstra (USA) and Teodora Ruano (ESP).

 Team Pursuit- no female category in this event

 1KMtt:

Overview

Ferris's average speed for the 500 meters time trial was an incredible 48.485km/h. That includes a standing start, so she must have been travelling at above 60km/h hour at the finish line.

 Men's Kierin

As always in this event, the final lap was explosive with all of the six sprinters wanting to be first into the final corner. Fiedler led the race at the bell, but Magne and Nothstein went past him shortly afterwards. At first Nothstein looked the strongest but then Magne just managed to come around him and won by a few millimetres after the lunge for the line. Germany's Jan Van Eijden was third. 

Women's 30km Points Race

The silver medalist in the 1996 world championships in the pursuit was clearly the strongest winning three sprints compared to Sliossareva's one. At the end of the 70 laps, Tyler-Sharman had a total of 22 points compared to Sliossareva's 18. Greenwood scored 10 points. 

Olympic Sprint

In this event, where three riders ride together with one leading for a full lap of the track before pulling up, the Polish rode a perfect race. They had a good start and soon tucked up close, one behind the other, after his two team-mates had done their bits, Trebski powered around the final lap to set the winning time at an average of 56.978km/h. 

Men's 40km Madison 

In Victoria, Isaac Galvez and Juan Llaneras of Spain, and Piil Jakob and Braikia Tayeb of Denmark could do nothing to stop the young Aussies scoring 15 points and then taking a lap lead in the fast race.

 Incredibly, Roberts is only 21 and Rogers is only 19. Both have already been Junior world champions in the individual pursuit and team pursuit. These two are definitely stars of the future.

 FINAL ROUNDS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE