Update From Cali World Cup

 

Cali Track World Cup 2011

 
Update From Cali World Cup

The highlights of yesterday are quite interesting; in the men’s team sprint qualifying the German trio of Rene Enders, Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke set a new World Record in an impressive ride (42.914), the women’s team sprint was won also by Germany with Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte.

Results:

1 Germany 
 Rene Enders
 Maximilian Levy 
 Stefan Nimke
2 Team Erdgas 
 Robert Forstemann
 Stefan Botticher 
 Joachim Eilers
3 Venezuela 
 Cesar Marcano 
 Hersony Canelon 
 Angel Pulgar

Women’s Team Sprint:
1 Germany 
 Miriam Welte 
 Kristina Vogel
2 Ukraine 
 Tsos Olena 
 Shulika Lyubov
3 Russia
 Anastasia Voinova 
 Viktoria Baranova

The women’s scratch race was full of attacks, Sofi Arreola (Mex) was very active in the race but at the end there was a break away with 4 and she couldn’t make it but she won the bunch sprint to finish in 5th place.

Results:

1 Kelly Druyts (Bel)
2 Katarzyna Pawlowska (Pol)
3 Ahreum Na (Kor)
4 Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spa)
5 Sofia Arreola (Mex)

In the women’s Team Pursuit GBR were fighting the NZL girls for gold and it was a very close battle till one of the girls of New Zealand got dropped off the wheel of her teammate and that gave the British team a gold medal while the American team finished 3rd.

The men’s team pursuit was a different story, the Australians were fighting for gold against New Zealand but unfortunately for the World Champions one of their teammates had a crash in the first kilometre of the race and they were not allowed to start again. NZL finished 1st, AUS 2nd and DEN 3rd.

The craziest race of the day was the 3rd event of the omnium: Elimination race. As usual, it started super fast, everyone fighting to be in a good position in the peloton, short after the race started there was a crash with 4 riders including Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) one of the race favorites! He and the rest of the guys were allowed to come back on the race but the crash caused a bad effect on them so they were all eliminated soon.

There was more chaos during the race because riders didn’t want to leave the track after they were eliminated; I guess there was a lot of confusion there. Very close to the finish there was another crash with more race favorites like Zach Bell (Can) and Shane Archbold (NZl), they were also back in the race but both with bad luck, Zach was eliminated right after the crash and Shane was disqualified of the event after not leaving the track when he was eliminated.
The race was about to get more confusing and at the same time more interesting when the race commissaries said Juan Esteban Arango (Col) was eliminated but the Colombian rider was refusing to leave the track! The commissaries let the race continue and they eliminated Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spa), this rider was seriously upset and had a fight with the judges after leaving the track so he also got disqualified of the event.
The commissaries told Arango he must leave the track and said the race was over while Bryan Coquard (Fra), Michael Freiberg (Aus) and Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) were still on the track! The riders were confused and complaining to the UCI commissaries while the DS from Colombia was also fighting to get his rider back on the track, he said that the red monitor that lets the riders know that they are eliminated was never flashing in his Arango’s bike so he wasn’t really eliminated…. Anyways the commissaries let him come back to the race, the other riders were not happy but they kept on racing.
Arango was the first eliminated, followed by the Belgian rider and Bryan Coquard beat Michael Freiberg (reigning World Champion) in the final sprint.

 
The current omnuim standinga are here:
1 Bryan Coquard (Fra) France 10  pts
2 Recep Ünalan (Tur) Turkey 14   pts
3 Juan Esteban Arango (Col) Colombia 16pts
4 Zach Bell (Can) Canada 20  pts
5 Lasse Norman Hansen (Den) Denmark 28   pts
6 Martyn Irvine (Irl) Ireland 30   pts
7 Michael Freiberg (Aus) Australia 31   pts
8 Gijs Van Hoecke (Bel) Belgium 32  pts

 
Full results of every event from Tissot Timing click here.

Live streaming of the Cali Track World Cup is available at Mundo Ciclistico by clicking here.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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