Day 2: Gold for GB at Track Worlds

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The GB Women’s Team Pursuit riders won the first Gold for their country at the 2013 Track Worlds in Minsk and there was a Bronze for Becky James as well

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The Great Britain cycling team won their first gold medal of the 2013 World Track Cycling Championships when their Women’s Team Pursuit trio beat Australia in the final. Olympic champions Laura Trott and Dani King teamed up with Junior Elinor Barker to defend the title they had won in 2012.

After qualifying fastest, they had a battle with the Australians Annette Edmondson, Ashlee Ankudinoff and Melissa Hoskins in the final with the winning margin 1.773 seconds after the 4000 metres.

“It was really hard,” Trott said to the BBC. “It seemed to flow nicely and we changed a few things from qualifying and it came off. If someone thought they couldn’t cope on the front they came off. It tops it off for us. To win the race the last time it will be as a 3km is amazing.”

Barker added: “I feel really overwhelmed. I thought I was just riding round the Manchester Velodrome in a training ride and then we won. I just feel shocked. It is above and beyond what I’ve dreamed of.” King meanwhile said: “It means everything. We’ve worked so hard since the Olympic Games and although Jo will come back, it’s great to have Elinor on the team.”

In the Women’s 500 metre Time Trial Becky James won a bronze medal, her second medal in Minsk after the first in the Team Sprint. “I’m pretty shocked,” said James, who will also compete in the individual sprint competition on Friday and Saturday and the keirin on Sunday. “I’ve come in with good form, but 500 has always been a hard event and I didn’t expect to come away with a medal. “It was a bit of an agonising wait towards the end, when everyone was going a bit slower. To come away with a medal, I’m so happy.”

There was disappointment for Britain in the men’s Team Sprint as Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Kian Emadi missed out on riding for a medal after only finishing sixth in qualifying for the men’s Team Sprint and had to watch Germany beat New Zealand for gold.

Emadi replaced the absent Sir Chris Hoy as man three in an event where Britain won gold at London 2012, and struggled to keep up with the acceleration of Hindes and Kenny. Hindes got off to his usual strong start and Britain had the second-fastest time after lap two but Emadi, 20, was unable to hold Kenny’s wheel and his lap was only 13th fastest out of the 15 teams.

Men’s Scratch Race
1. IRVINE Martyn IRL
2. MUELLER Andreas AUT
3. DAVISON Luke AUS
4. VELDT Tim NED
5. DOULL Owain GBR
6. KNEISKY Morgan FRA
7. REINHARDT Theo GER
8. DE PAUW Moreno BEL
9. KWOK Ho Ting HKG
10. TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP

Women’s 500 Metre TT
1 LEE Wai Sze HKG 33.973
2 WELTE Miriam GER 33.996
3 JAMES Becky GBR 34.133
4 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 34.220
5 VOINOVA Anastasiia RUS 34.359
6 MCCULLOCH Kaarle AUS 34.362
7 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP 34.389
8 CLAIR Sandie FRA 34.709
9 BREJNIVA Elena RUS 34.932
10 SHMELEVA Daria RUS 35.303
11 WILLIAMSON Victoria GBR 35.409
12 MAEDA Kayono JPN 35.495

Women’s Team Pursuit

Qualifying
1 Great Britain 3:18.704
Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Dani King

2 Australia 3:20.696
3 Canada 3:22.784
4 Poland 3:28.096
5 Russia 3:28.433
6 Germany 3:29.536
7 Belarus 3:29.905
8 Italy 3:30.042
9 Belgium 3:33.163

Finals
1 Great Britain 3:18.140 54.506
2 Australia 3:19.913 54.023
3 Canada 3:20.704 53.810
4. Poland 3:29.024 51.668

Men’s Pursuit

Finals
1. HEPBURN Michael AUS 4:16.733 56.089
2. IRVINE Martyn IRL 4:24.528 54.436

3. KUENG Stefan SUI 4:22.841 54.785
4. MORGAN Alexander AUS 4:26.800 53.973

Qualifying
1 HEPBURN Michael AUS 4:18.456
2 IRVINE Martyn IRL 4:20.260
3 KUENG Stefan SUI 4:22.530
4 MORGAN Alexander AUS 4:22.785
5 HUIZENGA Jenning NED 4:23.278
6 SEROV Alexander RUS 4:23.864
7 QUAADE Rasmus Christian DEN 4:24.059
8 MORA VEDRI Sebastian ESP 4:24.723
9 CORNU Dominique BEL 4:27.268
10 OMIRZAKOV Dias KAZ 4:28.222
11 MAEZTU BILLELABEITIA Asier ESP 4:28.481
12 THIELE Kersten GER 4:28.681
13 SAVITSKIY Ivan RUS 4:31.451
14 BEYER Maximilian GER 4:31.454
15 VENDOLSKY Ondrej CZE 4:31.776
16 COLEDAN Marco ITA 4:32.148
17 BURKE Steven GBR 4:32.153
18 BEUKEBOOM Dion NED 4:32.738
19 RICKAERT Jonas BEL 4:33.435
20 BOUDAT Thomas FRA 4:34.284
21 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB 4:37.400

TEAM SPRINT

Qualifying

1. New Zealand 43.580
2 Germany 43.731
3 France 43.792
4 Australia 43.890
5 Russia 44.264
6 Great Britain 44.270
HINDES Philip, KENNY Jason, EMADI­COFFIN Kian

7 Japan 44.332
8 China 44.855
9 Poland 44.872
10 Netherlands 45.097
11 Spain 45.259
12 Czech Republic 45.464
13 Greece 45.576
14 Ukraine 45.615
15 India 55.106

Finals
1 Germany 43.495 62.076
2 New Zealand 43.544 62.006

3 France 43.798 61.646
4. Australia 44.005 61.356

 

 

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