in the coming weeks it will be hard to find gold in Europe. Most of it will be shipped to Australia.
The reason for this huge transport is the participation of the Cyclones at the Worldchampionship Track Cycling in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands). Yesterday, saterday March 26th, they took 3 gold medals out of 4.
That Anna Meares won the women's individual sprint was not really a surprise. She really left the Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite behind her without giving her one single chanche.
Gold: Anna Meares (11.984 and 11.453) (AUS)
Silver: Simona Krupeckaite (LTU)
Bronze: Victoria Pendleton (11.682 and 11.682) (GBR)
4th: Olga Panarina (BLR)
The second succes was earned by Shane Perkins. With 3 Australians in the semi finals, only Shane got a ticket for the final. The eleminated Scott Sunderland and Jason Niblett won their race for 7th up to 12th spot.
Gold: Shane Perkins (AUS)
Silver: Chris Hoy (GBR)
Bronze: Teun Mulder (NED)
Six races for one title, you need to be a rider of all disciplines to become a winner. After the first round, the flying lap it didn't look all that good for Michael, he had the 12th time. But from then on all went better. A fifth place in the points race, elimination and the individual pursuit and a win in the scratch race brought him to the top position. Now he needed a good result in his TT race. And his 6th place secured him a golden medal.
After the race he told me, that he was working hard only to get in a national selection. So it was a little surprise to be in Apeldoorn and surtenly to win the world title.
Gold: Michael Freiberg (AUS)
Silver: Shane Archbold (NZL)
Bronze: Gijs Van Hoecke (BEL)
Only in the fourth event, the women's scratch race, Katherine Bates had to be happy with silver.
Local rider, Marianne Vos was faster in the final sprint.
Gold: Marianne Vos (NED)
Silver: Katherine Bates (AUS)
Bronze: Danielle King (GBR)
total medals for Australia (so far!): 6 gold / 2 silver / 1 bronze
While writing this, Anna Meares just qualified for the next round women's keirin title. Kaarle Mc Culloch and Emily Rosemond going to the repachage.
keep in touch!
Sunday 27 March 2011
Friday 25 March 2011
Apeldoorn - 40km pointsrace - 25 March
After a thriller in the men's individual sprint where sir Chris Hoy was send home by fellow countryman Jason Kenny. The other finalist is Gregory Bauge.
With 18 riders at the start we withness the final pointsrace. A full house with 6000 people. The atmosphere is great!
We've done five laps and two riders trying to take a lap, Morgan Kneisky and Sergiy Lagkuti. Now the local crowd gets crazy when home rider Peter Schep attacks. In the meantime we had two sprints with Lagkuti and Scully leading with 5 points.
With a full pack the speed gets up for the third sprint, won by Aussie Cameron Meyer. Scully is leading now with 7 pts.
125 laps to go when Kupeshov tries to escape. He will win the 4th sprint, leading by 1O meters.
No change in the top 3, Scully 7pts, Lagkuti 6pts and Meyer 5pts.
Five riders now trying hard, 116 laps to go. But no luck, all togheter again. And again Kneisky escapes. One lap before the 5th sprint. Kneisky takes 5 pts. Scully remains leader with 1O pts.
60 laps done and Meyer wins the sprint, so we have two leaders, Kiwi Scully and Aussie Meyer.
Bunch in splits in two parts for a while but all one pack again.
Columbian Edwin takes suddenly half a lap! If he takes a lap he gets a bonus of 20 pts !! With 87 laps to go one leader: Avila Edwin of Colombia 25 pts.
In the meantime Peter Schep takes 50 meters. The Dutch guy moves further away from the bunch.With 77 laps to go, Peter Schep realized that he is not strong enough to lap the field.
Choi of Hong Kong is struggeling in the back of the field.
70 laps remaining? Edwin still in the lead with a comfy 25 pts followed by 3 riders with 13pts.
Now it is the Swiss Dillier who tries to slip away.
Colombian Edwin sees the danger of the Swiss rider taking a lap too and takes the lead in the chase.
Edwin leading with 25 pts , second place for Kneisky with 16pts.When Belgian Depoortere attacks the field splits up in 3 parts.
Kiwi Scully gets dropped from the field and will loose his third position! Thomas Scully leaves the race with 43 laps to go.
3 quarters of the races done. And Schep wins the sprint. Meyer has now 18pts only 7pts less then Edwin. But it looks like the Colombian controls the race. He stays in the wheel of Cameron.
Meyer attacks with 32 laps to go. He is now 5pts behind the Colombian.
What a race, the Colombian doesn't give up. What a battle.
Edwin leads with 28pts , Cameron 23. But Edwin wins the sprint with only two sprints to go.
A thriller.
17 laps to go , Meyer goes again, while the Colombian is last wheel in the bunch. He is suffering!
And Cameron sees this!
The little South American is in the second group now, Meyer in the first.
With one sprint to go, Avila Vanegas Edwin Alciabiades is World Champ Pointsrace 2011!!
Gold : Edwin Alciabiades - Colombia - 33pts
Silver : Meyer - Australia - 29 pts
Bronze ; Kneisky - France - 23pts
With 18 riders at the start we withness the final pointsrace. A full house with 6000 people. The atmosphere is great!
We've done five laps and two riders trying to take a lap, Morgan Kneisky and Sergiy Lagkuti. Now the local crowd gets crazy when home rider Peter Schep attacks. In the meantime we had two sprints with Lagkuti and Scully leading with 5 points.
With a full pack the speed gets up for the third sprint, won by Aussie Cameron Meyer. Scully is leading now with 7 pts.
125 laps to go when Kupeshov tries to escape. He will win the 4th sprint, leading by 1O meters.
No change in the top 3, Scully 7pts, Lagkuti 6pts and Meyer 5pts.
Five riders now trying hard, 116 laps to go. But no luck, all togheter again. And again Kneisky escapes. One lap before the 5th sprint. Kneisky takes 5 pts. Scully remains leader with 1O pts.
60 laps done and Meyer wins the sprint, so we have two leaders, Kiwi Scully and Aussie Meyer.
Bunch in splits in two parts for a while but all one pack again.
Columbian Edwin takes suddenly half a lap! If he takes a lap he gets a bonus of 20 pts !! With 87 laps to go one leader: Avila Edwin of Colombia 25 pts.
In the meantime Peter Schep takes 50 meters. The Dutch guy moves further away from the bunch.With 77 laps to go, Peter Schep realized that he is not strong enough to lap the field.
Choi of Hong Kong is struggeling in the back of the field.
70 laps remaining? Edwin still in the lead with a comfy 25 pts followed by 3 riders with 13pts.
Now it is the Swiss Dillier who tries to slip away.
Colombian Edwin sees the danger of the Swiss rider taking a lap too and takes the lead in the chase.
Edwin leading with 25 pts , second place for Kneisky with 16pts.When Belgian Depoortere attacks the field splits up in 3 parts.
Kiwi Scully gets dropped from the field and will loose his third position! Thomas Scully leaves the race with 43 laps to go.
3 quarters of the races done. And Schep wins the sprint. Meyer has now 18pts only 7pts less then Edwin. But it looks like the Colombian controls the race. He stays in the wheel of Cameron.
Meyer attacks with 32 laps to go. He is now 5pts behind the Colombian.
What a race, the Colombian doesn't give up. What a battle.
Edwin leads with 28pts , Cameron 23. But Edwin wins the sprint with only two sprints to go.
A thriller.
17 laps to go , Meyer goes again, while the Colombian is last wheel in the bunch. He is suffering!
And Cameron sees this!
The little South American is in the second group now, Meyer in the first.
With one sprint to go, Avila Vanegas Edwin Alciabiades is World Champ Pointsrace 2011!!
Gold : Edwin Alciabiades - Colombia - 33pts
Silver : Meyer - Australia - 29 pts
Bronze ; Kneisky - France - 23pts
Thursday 24 March 2011
Apeldoorn 6.30pm
Finally got here. Not the 240km trip from Ghent was a hard one, but i did not realize that the hotel i booked was a half hour drive from the track. A great track, called "Omnisport ". Not that it belongs to me or my boss Langers or "kakkerlak" Ken. Every year around this period we're happy to find an indoor race because of the European cold, rain or even snow. But.... it is 18 degrees and full sunshine outside. But never mind, here we are. Just had a quick dinner (pasta bolognaise) in the press catering zone.
So now it is waiting for a second gold medal or do we have to say a fifth one. Yesterday the pursuit team won the event from the Russians. Jack, Rohan, Luke and Michael put down a 3.57.832, the Russians didn't get under the 4 minutes.
The finale for the individual pursuit will be held between Jack Bobridge and the Kiwi, Jesse Sergent. For bronze it is a full Aussie race with Michael Hepburn against Rohan Dennis.
The women's team pursuit turns out to a race for bronze, Amy Cure, Kat Bates and Jo Tomic have to beat the New Zealand trio.
In the meantime the riders are warming up and crowd is getting bigger altough i see lots of empty seats. Still tree quarters of an hour to go.
Talk to ya soon.
Gold and gold, Jack, Anna and Kaarle won their final races. The only bummer was that the girls of the teamspursuit got beaten for bronnze by the Kiwis!
Anna Meares and Kaarle Mc Cullogh finished in a time of 33.237 (speed average 54.155km), beaten the British girls Pendleton and Varnish.
The finale between Jack Bobridge and Jesse Sergent turned out to be a start to finish lead of Jack. Over 2 seconds faster then the Kiwi Jack won in a time of 4.21.141. (the World Record is 4.10.534 also owned by Jack) But the slower time got all to do with the track, who's not build to beat records he said to me before the race.
Well done Cyclones!
and tomorrow: AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OUI, OUI, OUI.
So now it is waiting for a second gold medal or do we have to say a fifth one. Yesterday the pursuit team won the event from the Russians. Jack, Rohan, Luke and Michael put down a 3.57.832, the Russians didn't get under the 4 minutes.
The finale for the individual pursuit will be held between Jack Bobridge and the Kiwi, Jesse Sergent. For bronze it is a full Aussie race with Michael Hepburn against Rohan Dennis.
The women's team pursuit turns out to a race for bronze, Amy Cure, Kat Bates and Jo Tomic have to beat the New Zealand trio.
In the meantime the riders are warming up and crowd is getting bigger altough i see lots of empty seats. Still tree quarters of an hour to go.
Talk to ya soon.
Gold and gold, Jack, Anna and Kaarle won their final races. The only bummer was that the girls of the teamspursuit got beaten for bronnze by the Kiwis!
Anna Meares and Kaarle Mc Cullogh finished in a time of 33.237 (speed average 54.155km), beaten the British girls Pendleton and Varnish.
The finale between Jack Bobridge and Jesse Sergent turned out to be a start to finish lead of Jack. Over 2 seconds faster then the Kiwi Jack won in a time of 4.21.141. (the World Record is 4.10.534 also owned by Jack) But the slower time got all to do with the track, who's not build to beat records he said to me before the race.
Well done Cyclones!
and tomorrow: AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OUI, OUI, OUI.
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Gossie and Ruth C remain leaders in the Aussie Cups 2011
Matt Goss could hold the lead in the men's Cup with taking 18 points in Paris-Nice. Matt won the third stage and that only was good for 10 points. In the race to the sun Heinrich Haussler was the big points taker with 35 points. Good enough to ensure a second spot in the Aussie Cup only 9 points away from the HTC rider.
The most succesfull Aussie rider of the last two weeks will be Cadel Evans. Former world champion won stage 6 and GC in the Italian Tirreno-Adriatico. No less then 13 Aussies at the start in Marina di Carrara and only Mc Ewen didn't make it to San Benedetto del Tronto. Big jump forwards also of "Burt" Lancaster. Brett is now placed 24th.
In Belgium, Malaysia and Uruguay the Continental riders could finally gather some points. In the Jelajah Tour in Malaysia the best results were for the Genesys men. Especially Steele Von Hoff was
present in this race. With his performance in Malaysia he enters the top 10 of the Aussie Cup.
Also David Kemp (pic at start of the Omloop van het Waasland), Nathan Haas and Patrick Shaw (in Malaysia) took their first points.
Looking forward now what the classics will bring for the Pro Tour / Pro Continental riders. But also looking out for the Continental men who will race allover the world in the coming two weeks.
the ranking:
1. Matthew Goss - 110pts
2. Heinrich Haussler - 101pts
3. Mark Renshaw - 85pts
4. Michael Matthews - 83pts
5. Robbie Mc Ewen - 65pts
The Women's Cup didn't change at all the last two weeks. Only Tif Cromwell of the Belgian Lotto team took a point in the classic Tielt-Winge in Belgium. That means Ruth Corseth is still in the lead.
the ranking:
1. Ruth Corset - 43pts
2. Joanna Hogan - 33pts
3. Vicki Whitelaw - 28pts
4. Alexis Rhodes - 27pts
5. Rochelle Gilmore - 26pts
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if you are interested in a detailed exel file of both Aussie Cup rankings, you only have to send an email to: thealice40@gmail.com
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