Kenny, Panarina win keirin championships

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Morning Session

The favourites in the men's keirin advanced through to the second round as the first round and repechage heats took place Sunday morning. Maximilian Levy (Germany), Matthew Crampton (Great Britain), François Pervis (France) and Jason Kenny (Great Britain) won their respective first round heats in which the top two finishers advanced to the second round.

In the repechage heats, Michael Seidenbecher (Germany), Valentin Savitskiy (Russian Federation), Kamil Kuczynski (Poland) and Adam Ptácník (Czech Republic) won their respective races to also advance into the second round this afternoon.

In the first round of the women's keirin newly crowned European sprint champion Sandie Clair (France), Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) and Kristina Vogel (Germany) won their respective first round heats in which the top two finishers advanced through to the second round.

Willy Kanis (Netherlands), Miriam Welte (Germany) and Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine) won their respective repechage heats where the top two finishers are also through to the second round this afternoon.

The men's omnium competitors contested their fourth of six events, the 4km individual pursuit, in which Tim Veldt (Netherlands) took top honours with a time of 4:26.000. Runner-up Roger Kluge (Germany) clocked 4:28.391 while reigning omnium world champion Edward Clancy (Great Britain) finished third.

Kluge took over the omnium lead from Rafal Ratajczyk after the Pole finished seventh in the individual pursuit. Veldt, second overall, trails Kluge by two points while Ratajczyk dropped to third, four points back.

Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) won the women's ominium's fourth event, the 3km individual pursuit, in a time of 3:34:.739. Spain's Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro finished nearly four seconds down in second place while Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) followed in third place less than a second later.

Olaberria Dorronsoro continues to lead after four events, picking up some breathing room to lead both Sharakova and Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) by 9 points.

Evening Session

Great Britain's Jason Kenny and Matthew Crampton each won their respective second round heats in the men's keirin, and then capped off their evening by finishing 1-2 in the championship finale. Kenny outkicked Crampton to claim the European title, while Adam Ptácník (Czech Republic) earned the bronze medal.

In the women's keirin championship, Olga Panarina (Belarus) topped reigning keirin world champion Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) and Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine) for the gold medal.

The Czech Republic's Martin Blaha and Jiri Hochmann won a blazing Madison championship in which 50km were covered in 55:33. Belgium's Kenny De Ketele and Tim Mertens scored the most points in the event, but finished a lap behind the Czechs to claim the silver medal. The Ukraine's Mykhaylo Radionov and Sergiy Lagkuti also finished one lap down on the Czechs and secured the bronze medal having scored only 1 point to the Belgians' 19.

The final two events of the men's omnium, the 15km scratch race and the 1km time trial, took place in the evening session. Gijs Van Hoecke (Belgium) captured the scratch race while Edward Clancy (Great Britain) won the 1km time trial.

Roger Kluge (Germany) won the overall omnium title with his score of 22 points. Dutchman Tim Veldt earned silver, 7 points back, while Poland's Rafal Ratajczyk won bronze for the host nation a further two points behind.

The women's omnium also concluded in the evening session with its final two events: the 10km scratch race, won by Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus), and 500m time trial, taken by Malgorzata Wojtyra (Poland).

The overall women's omnium championship gold was claimed by Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spain) who finished with 26 points in the six events. Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) scored 29 points to earn the silver medal while Malgorzata Wojtyra (Poland) won the bronze medal with 34 points.

Morning Session

Evening Session