by Chris Maher | Dec 8, 2014
UCI Track World Cup 2014/15 Round Two, London
Round One, Mexico 09 November 2014
Round Two, London 05 December 2014
Round Three,Columbia 17 January 2015
UCI Track World Championships 2015 France , 18-22 February 2014
Great Britain Cycling Team, Who Rides What UCI Track Cycling World Cup Event?
On Saturday 6th December:
Women’s Sprint – Jess Varnish, Vicky Williamson
Women’s Omnium – Laura Trott
Men’s Omnium – Jon Dibben
Men’s Keirin – Jason Kenny
Women’s Points – Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker
Men’s Madison – Ollie Wood (GB ‘B’), Chris Latham (GB ‘B’)
Saturday December 06 2014
Qualifying Session: 10.00 – 16.45
1 Women’s Sprint Qualifying – 200m TT
- Elis Ligtlee 10.833
- Tianshi Zhong 10.941
- Shuang Gou 10.942
- Anna Meares 11.021
- Wai Sze Lee 11.049
- Anastasia Voinova 11.076
- Stephanie Morton 11.086
- Kristina Vogel 11.108
- Oilivia Montauban 11.126
- Lin Junhong11.192
Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the opening session in the Women’s Omnium, the Scratch Race.
2 Women’s Omnium I 10km Scratch
- Laura Trott
- Kristen Wild
- Amalie Dideriksen
- Annalisa Cucinotta
- Isabella King
- Jolian D’Hoore
- Malgorzata Wojtyra
- Jennifer Valente
- Leire Dorronsoro Olaberria
- Anna Knauer
Two riders eventually broke free from the main group after several other attempts. Bobby Lea (USA) and Lok King Cheung (HKG) were joined by Great Britain’s Jonathon Dibben who faded in the final two laps. Columbian Fernando Gaviria Rendon won the bunch sprint to claim fourth in the race a lap down.
4 Men’s Omnium I 15km Scratch
- Bobby Lea USA
- Lok King Cheung HKG
- Jonathon Dibben GBR
- Fernando Gaviria Rendon COL
- Thomas Boudat EUC
Netherlands Kirsten Wild rode a very strong last 1000m, but not enough to deny Great Britain’s Laura Trott her second Omnium victory in the 3000m Individual Pursuit.
6 Women’s Omnium II 3km Individual Pursuit
- Laura Trott 3:36.896
- Kirsten Wild 3:37.107
- Jennifer Valente 3:37.417
- Marlies Mejias Garcia 3:38.619
- Isabella King 3:38.718
- Tatsiana Sharakova 3:41.588
- Amalie Dideriksen 3:42.246
- Jolien D’Hoore 3:42.476
- Sofia Arreola Navarro 3:46.172
- Laurie Berthon 3:46.566
Columbian Fernando Gaviria Rendon set off quickest in the Men’s Omnium Individual Pursuit and maintained his lead to win the second round. His time was over five seconds quicker than the rest of the field and almost on par with the Lee Valley VeloPark record.
8 Men’s Omnium II 4km Individual Pursuit
- Fernando Gaviria Rendon 4:21.998
- Bobby Lea 4:26.782
- Gideoni Monteiro 4:27.782
- Roger Kluge 4:29.638
- Aaron Gate 4:29.953
- Jonathon Dibben 4:30.617
- Scott Law 4:30.825
- Thomas Boudat 4:31.134
- Tim Veldt 4:32.649
- Jasper De Buyst 4:33.054
Finals Session: 19.00 – 22.05
Great Britain’s Elinor Barker finished third in the UCI Women’s Points Race. Taking a lap on the field, along with Australia’s Amy Cure and Canada’s Jasmin Glaesser mid way through the race. The trio looked like they would be the only girls that would get away from the bunch. As they watched each other, another four got away towards the back end, but were unable to collect additional points on the way. Barker didn’t have the legs to contest the final sprint and came in thirteenth. Canada’s Jasmin Glaesser took the final sprint, but Australian’s (Tasmanian) Amy Cure fought hard for second place to deny Glaesser the gold.
1 Women’s Points Race Final
- Amy Cure Australia
- Jasmin Glaesser Canada
- Elinor Barker Great Britain
- Yao Pang Hongkong
- Rushlee Buchanan New Zealand
- Maria LC Williams Columbia
- Lauren Stephens USA
- Giorgia Bronzini Italy
- Jarmila Machacova Czech Republic
- Stephanie Pohl Germany
Great Britain’s Katie Archibald finished Eleventh.
4 Women’s Omnium III Elimination
- Kirsten Wild
- Laura Trott
- Jolian D’Hoore
- Isabella King
- Lucie Zaleska
- Annalisa Cucinotta
- Evgeniya Romanyuta
- Amalie Dideriksen
- Malgorzata Wojtyra
- Laurie Berthon
6 Award Ceremony Women’s Points Race
- Amy Cure
- Jasmin Glaesser
- Elinor Barker
10 Men’s Madison Final
Great Britain 1 Mark Christian & Owain Doull
New Zealand Pieter Bulling & Westley Gough
Germany Henning Bommel & Theo Reinhardt
Australia
France 1
Belgium
Great Britain 2
Columbia
Italy 1
Switzerland
12 Award Ceremony Men’s Madison
- Great Britain 1 Mark Christian & Owain Doull
- New Zealand Pieter Bulling & Westley Gough
- Germany Henning Bommel & Theo Reinhardt
13 Men’s Keirin 7-12 place
Edward Dawkins
Krysztof Maksel
Nikita Shurshin
Francesco Ceci
Matthew Baranoski
Yuta Wakimoto
14 Men’s Keirin Final
Stephan Botticher Ger
Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata Col
Christos Volikakis Gre
Azizulhasni Awang YSD
Kazunari Watanabe Jpn
Jason Kenny Gbr
Dutchman Tim Veldt survived a crash in the Men’s Omnium Elimination Round to take the win. The race was neutralized as the two riders sorted their bikes. Aaron Gates crashed out and Tim Veldt went over the top. Both riders re-joined the race and the determined Dutchman went on to win. Great Britain’s Jonathon Dibbon went out early in the race. A foot pulled out of the pedal saw an early exit from the race, along with any chance of riding into a podium position.
16 Men’s Omnium III Elimination
- Tim Veldt
- Thomas Boudat
- Fernando Gaviria Rendon
- Jasper De Buyst
- Sebastian Mora Vedri
- Scott Law
- Aaron Gate
- Oliver Beer
- Gideoni Monteiro
- Hao Liu
Great Britain’s Jonathon Dibben finished twenty-first.
(Previous Winner: GER, Joachim Eilers)
17 Award Ceremony Men’s Keirin
- Stephan Botticher Ger
- Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata Col
- Christos Volikakis Gre
(Previous Winner: RUS, Anastasia Voinova)
18 Award Ceremony Women’s Sprint
- Kristina Vogel Ger
- Anastasiia Voinova Rus
- Elis Ligtlee Ned
My photos are regularly updated on https://www.flickr.com/photos/23913935@N07/
by Chris Maher | Dec 7, 2014
Great Britain Cycling Team, Who Rides What at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Event?
On Friday 5th December:
Great Britain’s Team Pursuit squads dominate the distance endurance events taking gold in the Men’s and Women’s 4000m events on day one of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in London.
Women’s Team Pursuit – Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne, Joanna Rowsell, Laura Trott
Men’s Team Sprint – Phil Hindes, Jason Kenny, Callum Skinner
Men’s Team Pursuit – Steve Burke, Mark Christian, Ed Clancy, Owain Doull, Andy Tennant
Women’s Scratch Race – Laura Trott
Women’s Team Sprint – Jess Varnish, Vicky Williamson
Men’s Points Race – Mark Stewart (GB ‘B’), Ollie Wood (GB ‘B’)
Friday December 05 2014
Qualifying Session: 10.00 – 16.50
1 Women’s Team Pursuit Qualifying
- Great Britain 4:23.406
- Australia 4:23.498
- Canada 4:28.208
- USA 4:32.523
- China 4:32.685
- Germany 4:32.871
- New Zealand 4:33.677
- Russia 4:34.129
- Italy 4:34.684
- Poland 4:36.110
Great Britain’s Trott, Archibald, Barker & Rowsell fought off a strong Australian squad of King, Ankudinoff, Cure & Hoskins to post the quickest qualifier by fractions of a second. The Aussies had almost a second up in the first 1000m and held it to the 2000m mark. Great Britain finished the last half of the qualifier marginally up, but it went all the way down to the wire. This put them into the semi finals in the evening session.
2 Men’s Team Sprint Qualifying
- Germany 43.700
- Jayco 43.832
- New Zealand 43.839
- France 43.907
- Russia 44.360
- Netherlands 44.492
- Great Britain 44.511
- Venezuela 44.682
- Poland 44.725
- China 45.085
3 Men’s Team Pursuit Qualifying
- Australia 4:00.577
- Great Britain 4:02.373
- Denmark 4:02.428
- New Zealand 4:03.773
- Netherlands 4:04.438
- Germany 4:05.302
- China 4:05.964
- Switzerland 4:05.984
- Russia 4:07.965
- Belgium 4:07.965
Great Britain set off eighteenth out of twenty two starters with Clancy, Burke, Doull & Tennant but didn’t set a blistering pace. By 2000m they had moved into the top slot of the day so far and the velodrome filled up will some noise. By 3000m the pace had increased to a sub 59 lap and nobody matched this pace to finish second in qualifying.
Denmark whom rode after GB moved up-to the top slot at 1000m then increased their pace to almost a second in-front of Great Britain. They looked like they were going to topple GB for the top slot but faded by the last few laps.
Last off in the Team Pursuit were Australia. Young and looking to take scalps, Davison, Edmonson, Mulhern & Scotson had over a seconds advantage over Denmark by 1000m and nearly two seconds on Great Britain. Maintaining their lead, although beginning to fade, Australia had enough spare time banked to win the qualifiers by nearly two seconds with a 4:00.577.
4 Women’s Scratch Race Final 10Km
American Lauren Stephens & Columbian Jannie M Salcedo Zambrano gained a lap together towards the back end of the race. As they caught the bunch, a crash neutralized the race till all the girls were dealt with safely. The race resumed with five laps left to go, and the pace increased with the Italians stretching the peleton.
Polands Katarzyna won the sprint with Laurie Burton second, but eyes further down the bunch place the Columbian Zambrano in front of the American Stephens to take the victory. Welsh cycling Emily Kay finished in tenth for the home nation.
5 Women’s Team Sprint Qualifying
- China 32.956
- Germany 33.022
- Jayco-Ais 33.130
- Russia 33.336
- Great Britain 33.622
- France 33.720
- Netherlands 33.809
- Spain 33.821
- Rusvelo 33.903
- New Zealand 34.111
6 Award Ceremony Women’s Scratch Race
- Jannie Milena Salcedo Zambrano Columbia
- Lauren Stephens USA
- Katarzyna Pawlowska Poland
Finals Session: 19.00 – 22.20
1 Women’s Team Pursuit Semi-finals
New Zealand beat Germany.
China beat Russia.
Australia beat Canada.
Great Britain beat USA.
2 Men’s Team Pursuit Semi-finals
3 Men’s Points Race Final
4 Men’s Team Sprint Finals 3/4 & 1/2
5 Women’s Team Sprint Finals 3/4 & ½
6 Award Ceremony Men’s Points Race
- Eloy Rovira Teruel Spain 43 Points
- Kenny De Ketele Belgium 34
- Eduardo Sepulveda Argentina 31
(Previous Winners: GBR, Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner)
7 Award Ceremony Men’s Team Sprint
- Germany Eilers, Forstemann & Enders
- Jayco-Ais Glaetzer, Perkins & Hart
- New Zealand Dawkins, Mitchell & Webster
Great Britain’s Hindes, Kenny & Skinner finished seventh.
(Previous Winners: AUS, Kaarle McCulloch & Stephanie Morton)
8 Award Ceremony Women’s Team Sprint
- China Zhong & Gong
- Germany Vogel & Welte
- Russia Gnidenko & Vionova
Great Britain’s Jess Varnish and Victoria Williamson finished fifth.
9 Women’s Team Pursuit Finals 3/4 & 1/2
10 Men’s Team Pursuit Finals 3/4 & ½
(Previous Winners: GBR, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne, Amy Roberts & Laura Trott)
11 Award Ceremony Women’s Team Pursuit
- Great Britain Archibald, Trott, Barker & Horne
- Australia King, Ankudinoff, Cure & Hoskins
- Canada Beveridge, Glaesser, Lay & Roorda
(Previous Winners: AUS, Daniel Fitter, Alex Porter, Miles Scotson & Sam Welsford)
12 Award Ceremony Men’s Team Pursuit
- Great Britain Burke, Christian, Tennant & Doull
- New Zealand Bulling, Gough, Karwawski & Simpson
- Denmark Pederson, Hansen, Quaade & Von Folsach
My photos are regularly updated on https://www.flickr.com/photos/23913935@N07/
by Chris Maher | Nov 24, 2014
All images ©Chris Maher / CyclingShorts.cc
Images from the Revolution Series Round 2, Manchester – 22/11/2014
You can catch up with all the action, TV highlights of Round 2 will be shown on Channel 4 next Saturday morning (29 November) at 06:40 or 07:40 on C4+1 and then will be available to view online on 4OD.
The Revolution Series returns to Manchester on 3rd January 2015. Tickets are available to buy here or by calling See Tickets on 0844 412 4650.
by Anna Magrath | Sep 28, 2014
Results from the final day of competition at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester where Jess Varnish won her fourth gold medal of the week, successfully defending her 2013 keirin title to add to the 500m time trial, sprint and team sprint titles she won earlier in the week.
Callum Skinner also enjoyed a fourth gold of the week with victory in the team sprint alongside North West region teammates Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes.
The women’s points race was won by Dame Sarah Storey and the men’s scratch title went to Oliver Wood.
Women’s Keirin
Gold: Jessica Varnish (Team V-Sprint Racing)
Silver: Dannielle Khan (Solihull CC)
Bronze: Katy Marchant (Unattached)
Men’s Team Sprint
Gold: North West (Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner)
Silver: Sportcity Velo (Jack Payne, Matthew Rotherham and Thomas Rotherham)
Bronze: Performance Cycle Coaching (Peter Mitchell, Ryan Owens and Thomas Scammell)
Women’s Points
Gold: Dame Sarah Storey (Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International)
Silver: Elinor Barker (Wiggle Honda)
Bronze: Laura Trott (Wiggle Honda)
Men’s Scratch
Gold: Oliver Wood (100% ME)
Silver: Zachery May (Metaltek KUOTA RT)
Bronze: Christopher Latham (100%)
by Anna Magrath | Sep 27, 2014
©Alex Broadway/SWpix.com – 2014 British Cycling National Track Championships – Day 4 – Men’s 30km Points Race Final.
Results from day four of competition at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester where Jess Varnish’s perfect week continued as she and Dannielle Khan successfully defended their team sprint title, Laura Trott took victory in the women’s scratch, Callum Skinner made it three titles in three days with his keirin win and Mark Stewart won the points race title. Lewis Oliva also took a dramatic tumble in the semi final of the Men’s Sprint against Matt Crampton, Matt did amazingly well to stay upright.
Lewis Oliva’s crash in the semi-final of the British Cycling National Track Championships sprint.
British Cycling Sprint Championships presented by FIAT – Men
Gold: Callum Skinner (The Rigmar Racers)
Silver: Matthew Crampton
Bronze: Philip Hindes (Sprint-Team)
Women’s Team Sprint
Gold: West Midlands (Dannielle Khan and Jessica Varnish) 33.969
Silver: North West A (Katy Marchant and Victoria Williamson) 34.142
Bronze: North West B (Rachel James and Helen Scott) 34.998
Women’s Scratch
Gold: Laura Trott (Wiggle Honda)
Silver: Emily Kay (Team USN)
Bronze: Danielle King (Wiggle Honda)
Men’s Points
Gold: Mark Stewart (Spokes RT)
Silver: Mark Christian (Team Raleigh-GAC)
Bronze: Jonathan Mould (NFTO Pro Cycling)
The championships conclude on Sunday 28 September. Tickets are available on the door at the National Cycling Centre. Competition starts at 10:30am with the women’s keirin, men’s team sprint, women’s points race and men’s scratch race titles being decided.
by Fred Bamforth | Sep 27, 2014
Bioracer Pixel Jacket
This years show runs from 26th – 28th September 2014 and has exhibits from just about every brand you have heard of in the Cycling World and then some.
There are many highlights and there has been a push this year to get some of the fresh new equipment on show for the punters to drool over.
Kim Madsen presents New XTR Di2 Gruppo
Top of this list was the Shimano stand where Kim Madsen and his team have unveiled the new XTR Di2 Groupset and have set it up on a working bike along with a 3D interactive Trainer that when wearing the magic 3D goggles allows you to actually ride in the mountains!! There will be big queues to play with this so get there early!! Kim and his team are part of Shimano’s drive to keep the fun and excitement in cycling and when you see the faces on the grown-ups testing the new kit you will see this plan’s working!!
For Weight Watchers the big draw will be Treks stand featuring the new super light Emonda range which features there lightest ever production model. The excuse that they haven’t got one in the colour you want is out the window as they have a vast range of custom options to match your team or club kit, seeing is believing but this bike is measured on how fast your jaw drops when you lift it and say ‘Wow’!!
Jules Thrasher
Bioracer have a fantastic simple stand which shows their new super safe Pixel range which reflects light the give riders visibility in poor light, ideal for winter and at the other end of the scale their much talked about Speedsuit time trial wear actually had people queuing to see what Martin and all the top testers have been using to help cheat the wind.
The exhibition is vast so take sensible shoes and enjoy the entertainment such as at 14.15 pm everyday Jules Thraser from ATG training giving a demo on how to program Shimano Di2 components, easy when you are shown well!!
