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Session 3 - December 11 Morning
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No major upsets in sprint and pursuit qualifying
By Eddie Monnier
The morning session on the second day of racing at the Los Angeles World Cup saw qualifying races in the men's team pursuit, men's sprint and women's individual pursuit.
Men's Team Pursuit
Day 2 of the Los Angeles World Cup opened with the men's team pursuit. Many countries seemed content to give their younger team members a chance to ride this event and that may have contributed to most teams losing a rider along the way. Powered by individual pursuit winner Robert Bartko, Germany didn't drop its fourth rider until a half lap to go to deliver the fastest time of 4:13.143, just 0.331 seconds ahead of next-best New Zealand. The Ukrainian team rode a 4:14.032 and will face Australia, which qualified with a 4:14.798. The team pursuit finals Saturday evening should be quite a nail biter.
Men's sprint
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The men continued the show with flying 200 meters to seed the sprint tournament. With three dozen riders participating, the competition would be tough to make the top 16 and advance to the 1/8 finals. Fastest of the day was Arnaud Tournant (France) who rode a blistering 10.445 (68.933 km/h) to just edge out teammate Mickael Bourgain, who scorched a 10.494 (68.611 km/h). Five other riders posted sub-10.6's.
With current US national sprint champion Michael Blatchford still recovering from a nasty training fall several weeks ago, Christian Stahl and Giddeon Massie stepped up to fill the void, qualifying with a 10.793 (66.710 km/h) and 10.811 (66.599 km/h) for 12th and 13th, respectfully. Kin Chung Wong (Hong Kong) rode a 10.873 to grab the final qualifying spot from big-man Sean Eadie. Australia's other fast man, Ben Kersten, also failed to qualify.
The 1/8 finals provided plenty of excitement but no upsets. Top-seeded Tournant again set the fastest time, winning his heat over Wong with a 10.917 (65.952). Teun Mulder (Netherlands) put the pressure on Matthias John (Germany) who rode an 11.028 to win their heat and set the second fastest 1/8 Finals time.
Josiah Ng (Malaysia) hit the deck when trying to tuck back behind Jose Antonio Villanueva (Spain). In the re-ride, Josiah jumped into the lead early to try to ride from the front. Although he gave it his best effort, the third place finisher in the keirin proved too fast. There were obviously no hard feelings between the riders for the earlier mishap as they shook hands several times and encouraged applause for each other.
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Women's individual pursuit
With just one heat remaining, it looked as if women's points race winner from the prior evening, Erin Mirabella (USA) might make it to the gold medal ride with her then second-fastest qualifying time of 3:48.066. But Olympic individual pursuit silver medalist from Athens Katie Mactier (Australia) had other ideas and stormed to a 3:38.491 to set the fastest qualifying time by over six seconds. Amazingly, she gained four of those six seconds with a fierce kick in the final kilometer. Mactier will face Emma Davies (Great Britain; 3:44.676) in the gold/silver final, while Mirabella will face Elena Chalykh (Russia; 3:48.448) in what should prove to be a close ride for the bronze.
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- Arnaud Tournant (France) sets a blistering 200m sprint qualifying time of 10.445
- Sean Eadie (Australia) was sixth from last of the 38 to ride, with a 10.903 was on the bubble momentarily, and got bumped out of the final 16 qualifiers
- Mickael Bourgain (France) qualified second with 10.494
- Adrie Visser (Netherlands) was sixth in the Womens Pursuit qualifying
- Emma Davies (Great Britain) placed second in the Pursuit qualifying
- Katie Mactier (Australia) catches Lyudmyla Vypraylo (Ukraine) in their qualifying pairing
- Josiah Ng (Malaysia) makes his protest abundantly clear after being taken down by Villanueva in the early sprint rounds
Images by Mitch Friedman Photography
- The Australian team takes off in the pursuit qualifiers
- Team Australia lined up for a fourth place in qualifying
- Team Australia - well-drilled as ever - takes a turn
- Team Germany takes off to set the fastest time at 4:13.143
- Team Germany executes a high-speed swap off on the way to qualifying fastest
- Team Russia went 4:16.193 to place 5th
- Team Netherlands had an off day finishing in 6th spot
- Team Ukraine up and running
- Team Ukraine gets a move on
- Major Taylor's bike was out on his wood rollers
- Tim Veldt (Netherlands) ready to fly to 4th spot in the 200m at a time of 10.549
- Christian Stahl (USA) gets ready to ride a 10.793 for the 200m, placing 12th fastest
- Gideon Massie (USA) placed 13th in sprint qualifying
- France's Arnaud Tournant was fastest in 200m sprint qualifying at 10.445
- Sean Eadie (Australia) was 17th in the 200m, just failing to qualify in 10.903
- Kazuya Narita (Japan) qualified fifth in 10.554
- Italy's Martina Faccin starts her 3k Pursuit
- Erin Mirabella (USA) gets going
- Erin Mirabella (USA) flying to 3rd fastest in the 3K
- Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukraine) was 5th fastest in 3000m qualifying
- Katie Mactier (Australia) passes Vypyraylo and sets the fastest time in the 3K at 3:38.491
- Gideon Massie (USA) leads Tim Veldt (Netherlands) in the sprint eighth-finals. Veldt overhauled Massie to go through to the next round.
Images by Mike Novitch
- Arnaud Tournant (France) setting a blistering time of 10.445 on his 200m TT
- Arnaud Tournant stalking his prey - Kin Chung Wong (Hong-Kong) - just before he pounces.
- Erin Mirabella (USA) during her solid pursuit qualifier
- Erin Mirabella The face of intensity during her pursuit qualifier
- Giddeon Massey (USA) working hard on his 200m TT
- The Ukrainian team tearing up the boards and placing 3rd in the Team Pursuit qualifier.
- Vladimir Kiriltsev (Russia) winding up for his 200m TT
Images by Dana Ross/www.danarossphoto.com
- The German pursuit team gets a few last words from their coach.
- Josian Ng (Malaysia) hits the deck in the sprint eighth-finals
- French National Coach Daniel Morelon carries Arnaud Tournant's bike for the Match sprint qualifications.
Results
Women 3000m individual pursuit qualifying 1 Katie Mactier (Australia) 3.38.491 (49.430km/h) 2 Emma Davies (Great Britain) 3.44.676 (48.069km/h) 3 Erin Mirabella (USA) 3.48.066 (47.355km/h) 4 Elena Chalykh (Russia) 3.48.448 (47.276km/h) 5 Lyudmyla Vypyraylo (Ukraine) 3.49.912 (46.974km/h) 6 Adrie Visser (Netherlands) 3.51.632 (46.626km/h) 7 Dale Tye (New Zealand) 3.53.030 (46.346km/h) 8 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 3.58.086 (45.362km/h) 9 Pascale Schnider (Switzerland) 3.58.327 (45.316km/h) 10 Charlotte Becker (Germany) 3.59.387 (45.115km/h) 11 Andrea Hannos (Hungary) 4.02.687 (44.502km/h) 12 Martina Faccin (Italy) 4.04.234 (44.220km/h) 4000m team pursuit qualifying 1 Germany 4.13.143 (56.885km/h) Leif Lampater Robert Bartko Robert Bengsch Henning Bommel 2 New Zealand 4.13.474 (56.811km/h) Peter Latham Marc Ryan Timothy Gudsell Jason Allen 3 Ukraine 4.14.032 (56.686km/h) Roman Kononenko Volodymyr Dyudya Vitaliy Popkov Volodymyr Zagorodniy 4 Australia 4.14.798 (56.515km/h) Bradley Norton Ashley Hutchinson Sean Finning Christopher Sutton 5 Russia 4.16.193 (56.208km/h) Anton Mindlin Alexander Serov Sergey Klimov Nikolai Troussov 6 Netherlands 4.16.282 (56.188km/h) Wim Stroetinga Jos Pronk Niki Terpstra Geert-Jan Jonkman 7 Spain 4.16.609 (56.117km/h) Sergi Escobar Roure Miguel Alzamora Riera Asier Maeztu Carlos Castano Panadero 8 Chile 4.22.557 (54.845km/h) Enzo Cesario Farias Francisco Cesario José Alfredo Medina Andrade Marco Antonio Arriagada Men Sprint 200m Qualifying (16) 1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.445 (68.933km/h) 2 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.494 (68.611km/h) 3 José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) 10.519 (68.448km/h) 4 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 10.549 (68.253km/h) 5 Kazuya Narita (Japan) 10.554 (68.221km/h) 6 Matthias John (Germany) 10.585 (68.021km/h) 7 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.587 (68.008km/h) 8 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.606 (67.886km/h) 9 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.651 (67.599km/h) 10 Andrei Vynokurov (Ukraine) 10.668 (67.492km/h) 11 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.725 (67.133km/h) 12 Christian Stahl (USA) 10.793 (66.710km/h) 13 Gideon Massie (USA) 10.811 (66.599km/h) 14 Josiah Ong Lam Ng (Malaysia) 10.819 (66.550km/h) 15 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.832 (66.470km/h) 16 Kin Chung Wong (Hong-Kong) 10.873 (66.219km/h) 17 Sean Eadie (Australia) 10.903 (66.037km/h) 18 Barry Forde (Barbados) 10.908 (66.007km/h) 19 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.918 (65.946km/h) 20 Ben Kersten (Australia) 10.946 (65.777km/h) 21 Stoller Cédric (Switzerland) 10.956 (65.717km/h) 22 Athanasios Mantzoyranis (Greece) 11.024 (65.312km/h) 23 Tisin M Rizal (Malaysia) 11.045 (65.188km/h) 24 Kasper Jessen (Denmark) 11.048 (65.170km/h) 25 Ahmed Lopez Naranjo (Cuba) 11.061 (65.094km/h) 26 Kleanthis Bargkas (Greece) 11.151 (64.568km/h) 27 Michael Rodriguez (Puerto Rico) 11.162 (64.505km/h) 28 Terufumi Sakakieda (Japan) 11.167 (64.476km/h) 29 Vladimir Kiriltsev (Russia) 11.182 (64.389km/h) 30 Andrew Williams (New Zealand) 11.208 (64.240km/h) 31 Angel Martorell (Mexico) 11.246 (64.023km/h) 32 Yuriy Tsyupyk (Ukraine) 11.282 (63.818km/h) 33 Daniel Beatson (New Zealand) 11.334 (63.526km/h) 34 Guatto Sergio (Argentina) 11.518 (62.511km/h) 35 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) 11.648 (61.813km/h) 36 Matthew Chater (Canada) 11.650 (61.803km/h) DNS Alexander Cornieles VEN DNS Jhonny Hernandez VEN Men sprint 1/8 Final Heat 1 1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.917 (65.952km/h) 2 Kin Chung Wong (Hong-Kong) Heat 2 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 11.475 (62.745km/h) 2 Damian Zielinski (Poland) Heat 3 1 José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) 11.481 (62.712km/h) 2 Josiah Ong Lam Ng (Malaysia) Heat 4 1 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 11.310 (63.660km/h) 2 Gideon Massie (USA) Heat 5 1 Kazuya Narita (Japan) 11.188 (64.355km/h) 2 Christian Stahl (USA) Heat 6 1 Matthias John (Germany) 11.028 (65.288km/h) 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 7 1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 11.154 (64.551km/h) 2 Andrei Vynokurov (Ukraine) Heat 8 1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 11.298 (63.728km/h) 2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)
