Sergent, Phinney to battle for gold in pursuit

Many saw this year’s individual pursuit to be a likely battle between Taylor Phinney and Jack Bobridge, the first dominating last year’s championships and the second recording a blistering 4.14.27 in February, but Jesse Sergent tore that script up when he was quickest in today’s qualification round.

Sergent (New Zealand) set the fastest time of 4.15.988, beating his Trek-Livestrong team-mate Phinney (USA) by 0.114 in the last of the heats. The American was almost a second off his personal best and US record set at last years worlds.

Bobridge (Australia) was quickest of all the riders at 2000 and 3000 metres, but his pace tailed off slightly at the finish. He was the provisional leader but dropped to third after Sergent and Phinney scrapped it out.

His 4.17.169 beat the 4.18.356 of Alexander Serov (Russia), setting them up for a fight-off for bronze this evening.

Fifth and sixth went to Dennis Rohan (Australia) and Vitaliy Schedov (Ukraine).

Past champions through to next round of men’s keirin

Three former winners of the world championship keirin successfully progressed to this evening’s second round of the contest, with defending champion Maximillian Levy, 2007/2008 victor Chris Hoy and the 2005 victor Teun Mulder all qualifying this afternoon.

Britain’s Matt Crampton and Levy (Germany) were the two quickest in the first heat, while Francois Pervis (France) and the Kiki Sam Webster progressed in the second. Malaysian rider Azizulhasni Awang led Mulder (Netherlands) over the line in heat three.

However Awang’s compatriot Josiah Ng Onn Lam was involved in controversy in the final of the four heats, cutting across Hoy at the start and sending the Briton crashing to the ground. Following a short delay for the commissaires to check video footage, he was disqualified.

Hoy showed there was no lingering effects from his spill when he raced to victory in the restarted heat four. He was a long way back with two laps to go but thundered to the front in the finishing straight, showing that he means business.

Those who did not qualify will have a second chance this evening when the repechages are held.

Australia tops women's team pursuit

The Australian team put itself into a prime position to take home its third gold medal when the women's pursuit team rocketed to the fastest qualifying time over the team from Great Britain.

Despite being a young squad, with 19-year old Ashlee Ankudinoff and 20-year-olds Sarah Kent and former junior world champion Josephine Tomic, the Australians managed to top the Brits by 3 tenths of a second.

The New Zealand team was shut out of the gold medal final by 36 thousands of a second, denying former pursuit champion Alison Shanks a chance to don another rainbow jersey.

The Kiwis will face the team from the USA in the bronze medal final tonight.

Men's Individual Pursuit - Qualifying

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1Jesse Sergent (New Zealand)0:04:15.988
2Taylor Phinney (United States Of America)0:04:16.102
3Jack Bobridge (Australia)0:04:17.169
4Alexander Serov (Russian Federation)0:04:18.356
5Rohan Dennis (Australia)0:04:19.292
6Vitaliy Shchedov (Ukraine)0:04:20.316
7Westley Gough (New Zealand)0:04:20.685
8Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark)0:04:22.239
9Vitaliy Popkov (Ukraine)0:04:22.999
10Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal (Colombia)0:04:23.595
11Patrick Gretsch (Germany)0:04:24.224
12David O'Loughlin (Ireland)0:04:25.203
13Artur Ershov (Russian Federation)0:04:25.352
14Marco Coledan (Italy)0:04:26.267
15Levi Heimans (Netherlands)0:04:26.405
16Arno Van Der Zwet (Netherlands)0:04:26.677
17Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium)0:04:27.400
18Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain)0:04:28.327
19Jonathan Dufrasne (Belgium)0:04:29.416
20King Lok Cheung (Hong Kong, China)0:04:32.195
21Julien Morice (France)0:04:33.391
22Gediminas Bagdonas (Lithuania)0:04:33.590
23Jie Wang (People's Republic of China)0:04:34.747
24Xiao Jiang (People's Republic of China)0:04:38.331
25Magkoyras Neofytos Sakellaridis (Greece)0:04:39.081
26Silvan Dillier (Switzerland)0:04:47.445
DSQAlexey Kolessov (Kazakhstan)Row 26 - Cell 2

Men's Keirin - Round 1

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Heat 1
1Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) *
2Maximilian Levy (Germany) *
3Jason Niblett (Australia)
4Francesco Ceci (Italy)
5Charlie Conord (France)
6Zafeirios Volikakis (Greece)
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Heat 2
1François Pervis (France) *
2Sam Webster (New Zealand) *
3Denis Spicka (Czech Republic)
4Kota Asai (Japan)
5Carsten Bergemann (Germany)
6Michael Thomson (South Africa)
7Kasper Lindholm Jessen (Denmark)
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Heat 3
1Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia) *
2Teun Mulder (Netherlands) *
3Christos Volikakis (Greece)
4Michael Seidenbecher (Germany)
5Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand)
6Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
7Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
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Heat 4
1Chris Hoy (Great Britain) *
2Shane Perkins (Australia) *
3Roy Van Den Berg (Netherlands)
4Andrii Vynokurov (Ukraine)
5Travis Smith (Canada)
6Saifei Bao (People's Republic of China)
DSQJosiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
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Women's Team Pursuit - Qualifying
1Australia0:03:23.161
Row 1 - Cell 0 Ashlee AnkudinoffRow 1 - Cell 2
Row 2 - Cell 0 Sarah KentRow 2 - Cell 2
Row 3 - Cell 0 Josephine TomicRow 3 - Cell 2
2Great Britain0:03:23.369
Row 5 - Cell 0 Elizabeth ArmitsteadRow 5 - Cell 2
Row 6 - Cell 0 Wendy HouvenaghelRow 6 - Cell 2
Row 7 - Cell 0 Joanna RowsellRow 7 - Cell 2
3New Zealand0:03:24.405
Row 9 - Cell 0 Rushlee BuchananRow 9 - Cell 2
Row 10 - Cell 0 Lauren EllisRow 10 - Cell 2
Row 11 - Cell 0 Alison ShanksRow 11 - Cell 2
4United States0:03:24.661
Row 13 - Cell 0 Dotsie BauschRow 13 - Cell 2
Row 14 - Cell 0 Sarah HammerRow 14 - Cell 2
Row 15 - Cell 0 Lauren TamayoRow 15 - Cell 2
5Netherlands0:03:25.156
Row 17 - Cell 0 Vera KoedooderRow 17 - Cell 2
Row 18 - Cell 0 Amy PietersRow 18 - Cell 2
Row 19 - Cell 0 Ellen Van DijkRow 19 - Cell 2
6Canada0:03:26.132
Row 21 - Cell 0 Laura BrownRow 21 - Cell 2
Row 22 - Cell 0 Stephanie RoordaRow 22 - Cell 2
Row 23 - Cell 0 Tara WhittenRow 23 - Cell 2
7Germany0:03:27.236
Row 25 - Cell 0 Charlotte BeckerRow 25 - Cell 2
Row 26 - Cell 0 Lisa BrennauerRow 26 - Cell 2
Row 27 - Cell 0 Verena JoosRow 27 - Cell 2
8Ukraine0:03:27.662
Row 29 - Cell 0 Yelizaveta BochkarovaRow 29 - Cell 2
Row 30 - Cell 0 Svitlana GalyukRow 30 - Cell 2
Row 31 - Cell 0 Lesya KalitovskaRow 31 - Cell 2
9Belgium0:03:27.690
Row 33 - Cell 0 Jessie DaamsRow 33 - Cell 2
Row 34 - Cell 0 Jolien D'HooreRow 34 - Cell 2
Row 35 - Cell 0 Kelly DruytsRow 35 - Cell 2
10China0:03:28.194
Row 37 - Cell 0 Fan JiangRow 37 - Cell 2
Row 38 - Cell 0 Wenwen JiangRow 38 - Cell 2
Row 39 - Cell 0 Jing LiangRow 39 - Cell 2
11Russia0:03:28.644
Row 41 - Cell 0 Tatiana AntoshinaRow 41 - Cell 2
Row 42 - Cell 0 Anastasia ChulkovaRow 42 - Cell 2
Row 43 - Cell 0 Victoria KondelRow 43 - Cell 2
12Poland0:03:32.035
Row 45 - Cell 0 Edyta JasinskaRow 45 - Cell 2
Row 46 - Cell 0 Katarzyna PawlowskaRow 46 - Cell 2
Row 47 - Cell 0 Malgorzata WojtyraRow 47 - Cell 2
13France0:03:32.199
Row 49 - Cell 0 Sophie CreuxRow 49 - Cell 2
Row 50 - Cell 0 Fiona DutriauxRow 50 - Cell 2
Row 51 - Cell 0 Pascale JeulandRow 51 - Cell 2
14Italy0:03:34.329
Row 53 - Cell 0 Monia BaccailleRow 53 - Cell 2
Row 54 - Cell 0 Tatiana GuderzoRow 54 - Cell 2
Row 55 - Cell 0 Marta TagliaferroRow 55 - Cell 2
DSQLithuaniaRow 56 - Cell 2
Row 57 - Cell 0 Svetlana PauliukaiteRow 57 - Cell 2
Row 58 - Cell 0 Vilija SereikaiteRow 58 - Cell 2
Row 59 - Cell 0 Ausrine TrebaiteRow 59 - Cell 2

 Men's Keirin - Round 1 Repechages

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Heat1
1Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand) *
2Denis Spicka (Czech Republic)
3Andrii Vynokurov (Ukraine)
4Michael Thomson (South Africa)
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Heat 2
1Jason Niblett (Australia) *
2Travis Smith (Canada)
3Francesco Ceci (Italy)
4Kasper Lindholm Jessen (Denmark)
RELAdam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
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Heat 3
1Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) *
2Christos Volikakis (Greece)
3Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
4Charlie Conord (France)
5Saifei Bao (People's Republic of China)
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Heat 4
1Kota Asai (Japan) *
2Carsten Bergemann (Germany)
3Zafeirios Volikakis (Greece)
4Roy Van Den Berg (Netherlands)

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