World records, gold medals and 6,000 people going nuts anytime a GB rider stepped onto the track. Day 2 was one of the most exciting nights I have ever seen!
What you can say about a night when records tumbled and the crowd lifted the roof of the new velodrome. It was an amazing night and will be hard to match. Gold for Victoria Pendleton, Jess Varnish, Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell with all of them having a world record to their name made the evening simply one never to forget.
More later when we get time to write something! Reactions below from the Brits and well over 300 pics from the morning and evening sessions.
Guardian – Pendleton & Varnish set world record
Telegraph: Pendleton & co rule the world
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RIDER REACTIONS
Thanks to Paul Burgoine for the following:
Victoria Pendleton, Women’s Team Sprint (Great Britain)
When asked about the improvement in their time in relation to the mornings session Victoria said “well obviously we had a really great performance this morning setting a new National Record, and Jess and I were talking and saying this is the best form we have come to a competition in. So we were pleased weren’t we “(talking to Jess) “Very Pleased!â€
“I can’t even explain to you how it feels to have a new World Record, the Australians had it for a while… then we took it backâ€. Did the fact the Australians broke the record spur you on? “Well absolutely because our times were so similar we were quite surprised and they were quite surprised, so it was anyone’s race, and we got it“.
Men’s Team Sprint (Great Britain)
Ross Edgar
Were you happy with the two rides Ross? “I would be lying if I said yes. I’ve done better than that so I know it’s in there. Hopefully in time I can bring my form back and press on.”
You must be happy to get a bronze medal though. “Absolutely and in front of the home crowd. We were only two tenths off the top ride tonight, all the teams are putting out their top guys and I think by the Worlds we should be right in the mixâ€.
Jason Kenny
Jason how did you feel about the two rides? “It was good – that’s the quickest time we have done in a long while; I think we have made a giant step forward. It’s great to be on the podium in front of the home crowd. It’s hard to tell if this is the fastest team we still have. Matt Crampton is sitting in the pits so it’s impossible to tell what will happen on the run up to the Games. I just need to concentrate on my own performanceâ€.
Chris Hoy
Before anyone asked anything Chris said, the answers are – “Yes, no, yes, no, yes!â€
What’s your verdict on the two rides? “I think it was solid bordering on pleasing. We had a few glitches in the final. I think though to be in striking distance of the top two nations is encouraging; this is our quickest ride since 2009 in the Team Sprint. We have had some pretty mediocre performances in the past few years, not all the time but in and out, and this result bodes well for the Worlds and the Olympicsâ€
Women’s Team Pursuit (Great Britain)
Joanna Rowsell
Can you tell us about the ride? “We tried to go out a little bit steady, but the crowd are amazing and really get behind you so it’s difficult to reign it in – but we tried to keep it steady and back up that last kilo, and bring it home. I think we did that and we delivered and broke that World Record so we are over the moon”.
“We have been training over World record pace, so we knew it was in the tank. We were a little bit disappointed with our ride yesterday, because we knew we had more, and knew if we got it right tonight it would all come together, and it did…. it’s great to get that World Record back. I think yesterday the crowd really got behind us and we all got a bit over excited, but that’s why we are doing this test event to gain that experience nowâ€
Dani King
Dani do you think you had a point to prove coming back into the team? “In a way yes. I knew I believed in myself and when last week I didn’t make selection, I had to keep my head screwed on and focus, I supported the girls as much as I could yesterday and when I got told this morning I was going into the team, I thought ‘yes,’ I can do this I can do the job well and I have. Tonight the other girls were amazing, and I have to thank the team for believing in me“.
Are you happier doing this rather than the Scratch race? “Yes a lot happier? I think this World record is going to be broken and the times will come tumbling down and tonight’s just proved that all the teams are stepping up, we can’t lose focus now. We need to go back and train harder and focus on the big goal.“
Laura Trott
How was your verdict on the ride? “I think we done pretty well to be honest … Jo took it out a lot steadier today which settled things down. Yesterday she came out like she was doing a 500m sprint and it’s like where do you go from there. Today, we came out a lot more steadier and picked it up from there and really brought it home, I think yesterday we all got a bit excited.“
Towards the end, you did a one and a half lap turn, why was that? “Yes, I did to just to keep the speed in there, I just wanted to keep the pace steadyâ€.
Are you looking forward to the rest of the weekend? “Oh yes, I’m pretty excited to be racing again and now and looking forward to competing in the Omnium “
All the girls showed their support for Wendy Houvenaghel, who was replaced by Dani King and Jo Rowsell said, that this is very much a four women team and we may even use the four of us again in the Worlds.
EVENING SESSION SLIDESHOW
Memorable images from an historic night in the history of the sport when nations including Great Britain went on the rampage in the record books …
PHOTO SLIDESHOW – MORNING SESSION
RESULTS
WOMEN’S TEAM PURSUIT
Final
1 Great Britain 3:18.148 54.504
TROTT Laura, KING Danielle, ROWSELL Joanna
2 Canada 3:18.982 54.276
WHITTEN Tara, CARLETON Gillian, GLAESSER Jasmin
3. Australia 3:19.164 54.226
EDMONDSON Annette, CURE Amy, TOMIC Josephine
4 Netherlands 3:21.992 53.467
WILD Kirsten, KOEDOODER Vera, VAN DIJK Ellen
Women’s Team Sprint
Finals
1 Great Britain 32.754 54.955
VARNISH Jess, PENDLETON Victoria
2 Australia 32.945 54.636
MEARES Anna, MCCULLOCH Kaarle
3 China 33.060 54.446
GONG Jinjie, GUO Shuang
4 FRA France 33.433 53.839
CLAIR Sandie, SANCHEZ Clara
Qualifying
1 Australia 32.828 WR
MEARES Anna, MCCULLOCH Kaarle
2 Great Britain 32.966
VARNISH Jess, PENDLETON Victoria
3 China 33.178
GONG Jinjie, GUO Shuang
4 France 33.516
CLAIR Sandie, SANCHEZ Clara
5 Germany 33.554
6 Russia 33.650
7 Lithuania 33.716
8 New Zealand 33.881
9 GIANT PRO CYCLING 33.956
10 Netherlands, 34.110
11 Ukraine 34.271
12 PETROHOLDING LENINGRAD 34.371
13 Korea 34.839
14 Spain 34.896
15 Venezuela 34.995
16 Colombia 35.146
17 United States 35.728
18 Japan 35.840
19 Hong Kong 36.575
20 Chinese Taipei 36.867
Men’s Team Sprint
Finals
1. Germany 43.562 61.980
ENDERS Rene, FÖRSTEMANN Robert, LEVY Maximilian
2. France 43.631 61.882
BAUGE Gregory, D’ALMEIDA Mickael, SIREAU Kevin
3. Great Britain 43.781 61.670
EDGAR Ross, KENNY Jason, HOY Chris
4 Australia 43.954 61.427
GLAETZER Matthew, PERKINS Shane, SUNDERLAND Scott
Qualifying
1 France 43.606
BAUGE Gregory, D’ALMEIDA Mickael, SIREAU Kevin
2 Germany 43.650
ENDERS Rene, FÖRSTEMANN Robert, LEVY Maximilian
3 Australia 43.869
GLAETZER Matthew, PERKINS Shane, SUNDERLAND Scott
4 Great Britain 43.876
EDGAR Ross, KENNY Jason, HOY Chris
5 New Zealand 44.002
MITCHELL Ethan, WEBSTER Sam, DAWKINS Edward
6 China 44.424
7 MOSCOW TRACK TEAM 44.597
8 Japan 44.791
9 Netherlands 44.792
10 TEAM ERDGAS 44.836
11 Poland 44.840
12 United States 45.382
13 Canada 45.513
14 Russia 45.623
15 Czech Republic 46.330
16 Brazil 48.055
17 Venezuela 48.281
Men’s Omnium
Heats
Coming …
Flying Lap
1 BELL Zach CAN 13.295 67.694
2 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 13.316 67.587
3 LIU Hao MSP 13.425 67.039
4 COQUARD Bryan FRA 13.428 67.024
5 CHO Ho Sung KOR 13.448 66.924
6 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL 13.464 66.844
7 VIVIANI Elia ITA 13.467 66.830
8 KLUGE Roger GER 13.519 66.572
9 IRVINE Martyn IRL 13.521 66.563
10 LEA Bobby USA 13.547 66.435
11 SWIFT Benjamin GBR 13.591 66.220
12 MORI Kazuhiro JPN 13.608 66.137
13 VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL 13.632 66.021
14 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 13.638 65.992
15 TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy ESP 13.693 65.727
16 SUTER Gael SUI 13.822 65.113
17 KOVALEV Ivan RVL 13.875 64.864
18 STROETINGA Wim NED 14.063 63.997
19 MANSILLA Luis CHI 14.141 63.644
20 FOLSACH Casper DEN 14.200 63.380
21 AGARKOV Yuriy UKR 14.461 62.236
22 DIAZ Enrique Luis VEN 14.513 62.013
Points Race
1 TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy ESP 51
2 ARANGO Juan Esteban COL 41
3 MANSILLA Luis CHI 36
4 VIVIANI Elia ITA 35
5 KOVALEV Ivan RVL 30
6 IRVINE Martyn IRL 28
7 KLUGE Roger GER 28
8 RATAJCZYK Rafal POL 23
9 CHO Ho Sung KOR
10 COQUARD Bryan FRA
11 BELL Zach CAN
12 VAN HOECKE Gijs BEL
13 SWIFT Benjamin GBR
14 MORI Kazuhiro JPN
15 LIU Hao MSP
16 ARCHBOLD Shane NZL
17 LEA Bobby USA
18 STROETINGA Wim NED
19 AGARKOV Yuriy UKR
20 FOLSACH Casper DEN
21 SUTER Gael SUI
22 DIAZ Enrique Luis VEN
23 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB
Elimination Race
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
11 DIAZ Enrique Luis VEN
12 IRVINE Martyn IRL
13 FOLSACH Casper DEN
14 BELL Zach CAN
15 STROETINGA Wim NED
16 LEA Bobby USA
17 KOVALEV Ivan RVL
18 LIU Hao MSP
19 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB
20 KLUGE Roger GER
21 MORI Kazuhiro JPN DNF
22 TERUEL ROVIRA Eloy ESP
58 AGARKOV Yuriy UKR DSQ
MENS POINTS RACE
1 TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP 58
2 SVESHNIKOV Kirill LOK 42
3 ERSHOV Artur RUS 36
4 ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai EUS 36
5 CHOI Ki Ho HKG 33
6 AVILA VANEGAS Edwin COL 32
7 MÃœLLER Andreas AUT 31
8 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB 28
9 DE POORTERE Ingmar BEL 25
10 SEPULVEDA Luis CHI 24
11 THIERY Cyrille SUI 23
12 LISOUSKI Aliaksandr BLR 23
13 DURBRIDGE Luke AUS 22
14 KADLEC Milan CZE 4
15 JANG Sunjae KOR 3
16 VINGERLING Michael NED 3
17 LYALKO Alexey KAZ 2
18 LOBOV Oleksandr UKR 1
19 BRISSE Vivien FRA 1
20 MANAKOV Viktor RVL 1
21 HESTER Marc DEN 1
22 COLEDAN Marco ITA
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