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Session 3 - Morning, Saturday January 21: Women: Individual pursuit qual; Men: Sprint qual; team pursuit qual; points race qual
Record falls to Hammer; Staff falls to Blatchford in morning qualifiers
By Rob Jones in Los Angeles
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The second day of competition opened in the morning with qualifying for the men's sprint, the Team Sprint, the men's Points Race and the women's Pursuit.
The men's sprint saw one surprise early exit, with Ryan Bayley not making the top-16 cut in the Flying 200M. The first round of sprinting had its own excitement in the heat between Jamie Staff (GBr) and Michael Blatchford (USA). Coming into turn three in the second lap, both riders dived for the sprint lane, with Blatchford getting in first. Staff pushed the issue, forcing Blatchford onto the Cote d'Azur and then back behind him. Out of the final turn, Blatchford came over the top and was clearly gaining on Staff. With 10 metres to go the two collided, with Staff going down hard. As Blatchford came through after a cool down lap, Staff then exacerbated the situation by throwing his helmet at the American, eliciting considerable booing from the crowd.
The official decision, according to Commissaire President Wayne Promario, was that Staff would have received a warning and relegation for the first incident (if he hadn't crashed). For the helmet throw he was ejected from the event. Promario said that video showed that Blatchford had not entered the sprint lane at the end of the race.
Staff had a somewhat different perspective. "I was in the sprinters lane (in the final sprint), and he came down and made unnecessary contact. As far as I could see it was dangerous. Yes, I came down earlier (on the second lap), so they probably would have relegated me. I understand that there are rules and regulations, but some of the stuff they calll is too fine.
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Despite being ejected, Staff was happy with the way he is riding. "I'm pretty happy with where I'm at for fitness. This is my first race since the Worlds here (Los Angeles) 10 months ago, so I think I'm on track for the (Commonwealth) Games. From here I go to Sydney (World Cup) and then to Melbourne."
The session ended with the quarter finals, which were all decided in two straight rides. Gregory Bauge (Fra), Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Pol), Mickael Bourgain (Fra) and Blatchford all moved on to the semi's (tonight).
In Team Pursuit qualifying, World Cup leaders Russia will go up against the Netherlands for gold, with Spain and New Zealand fighting it out for bronze.
The women's Pursuit qualifying saw crowd favourite Sarah Hammer (USA) smash the track record (set last year at the Worlds by Katie MacTier) by a full second to win qualifying. She will go up against Maria Calle Williams (Col), the Olympic bronze medalist in the Points Race. Dale Tye (NZl) and Yulia Arustamova (Rus) will go for the bronze
Photography
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- Team Omnibike Dynamo Moscow in the team pursuit qualifiers with a time of 4:16.215
- Team Germany on the way to tenth in the pursuit qualifier
- Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) gets her lap time from the coach during the Woman's pursuit qualifier
- Sarah Hammer (USA) sets the fastest pursuit qualifying time of 3:37.799
- Gregory Bauge (France) keeps a sharp eye on his opponent in on of the early sprint rounds
- Gregory Bauge (France) starting to wind it up in an early round
- Jamie Staff (UK) leads out the sprint in the 1/8 final that would result in him on the deck and disqualified, and his opponent Michael Blatchford (USA) moving on to the next round
- TIAA-CREFF in the team pursuit qualifier
- Sergey Kolesnikov (Omnibike Dynamo Moscow) in the points race qualifier
- Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) in the points race qualifier
- Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) in the points race qualifier
- Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) in the points race qualifier
- Martin Gilbert (Canada) in the points race qualifier
- Jorge Soto (Uruguay) in the points race qualifier
- Michael Friedman (TIAA-CREFF) in the points race qualifier
Images by Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com
- Shane Perkins (Australia) in sprint qualifiers
- They start their fans young in LA
- Gregory Bauge of France set the fastest time in flying 200s
- Gregory Bauge of France at speed
- Ryan Bayley (Australia) on the move
- Poland’s Damian Zielinski second fastest 200
- France’s Michael Bougain was third fastest of the day
- Vera Carrara of Italy comes out of the start gate
- Poland’s Katarzyna Jagusiak
- This is how you encourage your rider, Yulia Arustamova of Russia
- Narua Kyusa Cakke Williams of Columbia was second fastest
- USA's Sarah Hammer was the fastest women in individual pursuit
- Sarah Hammer passes Sara Peters of Belgium
- Jamie Staff gets looked at after crashing
- New Zealand was fourth fastest in team pursuit qualifying
- Netherlands at speed
- Team Russia setting the quickest time of the morning
- USA's Christian Stahl leads out Polands Damian Zielinski
- Woodwork in LA
- Uruguays Gorge Soto in points race heat
- Points heat action
- Mike Friedman in the middle of point heat action
- Curtis Gunn and Italy's Angelo Ciccone in heat 2 of points race
Images by Steve Cohen
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- It's Hammer time - Sarah hammer (USA) waits to start in the pursuit qualifiers. Hammer set the fastest time and broke the venue record.
- Vera Carrara (Italy) in the pursuit qualifiers
- Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Colombia) was second fastest in pursuit qualifiers
- Sarah hammers. Nuff said.
- Jamie Staff (Great Britain) goes down in the sprint
Results
Men sprint Qualifying 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 10.322 (69.753km/h) 2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.409 (69.170km/h) 3 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.446 (68.925km/h) 4 José A. Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) 10.493 (68.617km/h) 5 Michael Blatchford (USA) 10.552 (68.233km/h) 6 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 10.553 (68.227km/h) 7 Yong Feng (China) 10.581 (68.046km/h) 8 Christian Stahl (USA) 10.589 (67.995km/h) 9 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.600 (67.924km/h) 10 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.618 (67.809km/h) 11 Matthias John (Germany) 10.620 (67.796km/h) 12 Jamie Staff (Great Britain) 10.621 (67.790km/h) 13 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) 10.637 (67.688km/h) 14 Kazuya Narita (Japan) 10.646 (67.631km/h) 15 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.647 (67.624km/h) 16 Hernan Sanchez (Colombia) 10.655 (67.573km/h) 17 Josiah Ng On Lam (Malaysia) 10.666 (67.504km/h) 18 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 10.699 (67.296km/h) 19 Jan Van Eijden (Germany) 10.708 (67.239km/h) 20 Koji Hamada (Japan) 10.718 (67.176km/h) 21 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.766 (66.877km/h) 22 Sergey Borisov (Russia) 10.769 (66.858km/h) 23 Shane Perkins (Australia) 10.802 (66.654km/h) 24 Zhang Lei (China) 10.816 (66.568km/h) 25 Salvador Melia Mangriñan (Spain) 10.831 (66.475km/h) 26 Denis Dmitriev (Russia) 10.833 (66.463km/h) 27 Giddeon Massie (USA) Spike 10.858 (66.310km/h) 28 Benjamin Barczewski (USA) Spike 10.910 (65.994km/h) 29 Luis Carlos Toussaint (Mexico) 10.927 (65.891km/h) 30 Vasileios Reppas (Greece) 10.939 (65.819km/h) 31 Kin Chung (1986) Wong (Hong-Kong) 10.948 (65.765km/h) 32 Cam Mackinnon (Canada) 10.949 (65.759km/h) 33 Michael Rodriguez Malaret (Puerto Rico) 11.080 (64.981km/h) 34 Christos Volikakis (Greece) 11.329 (63.553km/h) 35 Christopher Sellier (Trinidad) 11.530 (62.445km/h) 36 Sochon Gudiel Jose Alberto (Guatemala) 11.545 (62.364km/h) 37 Haseem McLean (Trinidad) 11.694 (61.570km/h) Eighth-finals Heat 1 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 11.289 (63.778km/h) 2 Hernan Sanchez (Colombia) Heat 2 1 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 11.391 (63.207km/h) 2 Damian Zielinski (Poland) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 11.257 (63.960km/h) 2 Kazuya Narita (Japan) Heat 4 1 José A. Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) 11.323 (63.587km/h) 2 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) Heat 5 1 Michael Blatchford (USA) 11.176 (64.423km/h) DSQ Jamie Staff (Great Britain) Heat 6 1 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 11.133 (64.672km/h) 2 Matthias John (Germany) Heat 7 1 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.975 (65.603km/h) 2 Yong Feng (China) Heat 8 1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.950 (65.753km/h) 2 Christian Stahl (USA) Quarter-finals Heat 1 1 Grégory Bauge (France) 11.074 11.288 2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) Heat 2 1 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 11.011 11.003 2 Travis Smith (Canada) Heat 3 1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.934 11.221 2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) Heat 4 1 Michael Blatchford (USA) 11.162 11.432 2 José A. Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) B quarter-finals Heat 1 1 Christian Stahl (USA) 11.196 (64.308km/h) 2 Hernan Sanchez (Colombia) Heat 2 1 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 11.831 (60.857km/h) 2 Yong Feng (China) Heat 3 1 Matthias John (Germany) 11.500 (62.608km/h) 2 Kazuya Narita (Japan) Heat 4 1 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) B semi-final Heat 1 1 Christian Stahl (USA) 11.301 (63.711km/h) 2 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) Heat 2 1 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 11.867 (60.672km/h) 2 Matthias John (Germany) B final Heat 1 9 Christian Stahl (USA) 11.446 (62.904km/h) 10 Damian Zielinski (Poland) Heat 2 11 Matthias John (Germany) 11.151 (64.568km/h) 12 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) Men team pursuit qualifying 1 Russia 4.11.309 (57.299km/h) Mikhail Ignatiev Serguey Klimov Alexander Serov Nikolay Trussov 2 Netherlands 4.13.090 (56.896km/h) Levi Heimans Geert-Jan Jonkman Jens Mouris Niki Terpstra 3 Spain 4.14.159 (56.657km/h) Sergio Escobar Roure Guillermo Ferrer Garcia Sebastian David Muntaner Juaneda Carlos Torrent Tarres 4 New Zealand 4.15.151 (56.437km/h) Jason Allen Sam Bewley Richard Bowker Darren Peter Shea 5 Ukraine 4.15.331 (56.397km/h) Oleksandr Klymko Lyubomyr Polatayko Vitaliy Shchedov Maksym Polyshchuk 6 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 4.16.215 (56.202km/h) Ivan Kovalev Alexander Khatuntsev Sergey Kolesnikov Alexey Shmidt 7 Team TIAA - CREF 4.16.418 (56.158km/h) Michael Creed Michael Friedman Charles Bradley Huff Danny Pate 8 Denmark 4.16.715 (56.093km/h) Michael Christensen Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Alex Rasmussen 9 Belgium 4.17.231 (55.980km/h) Dominique Cornu Kenny De Ketele Ingmar De Poortere Steve Schets 10 Germany 4.17.940 (55.826km/h) Sascha Damrow Karl-Christian König Christian Kux Frank Schulz 11 Italy 4.25.139 (54.311km/h) Angelo Ciccone Martino Marcotto Claudio Masnata Saveriano Sangion 12 Poland 4.27.864 (53.758km/h) Dawid Glowacki Rafal Ratajczyk Wojciech Ziolkowski Jakub Sredzinki Women individual pursuit qualifying 1 Sarah Hammer (USA) 3.37.799 (49.587km/h) 2 Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Colombia) 3.41.955 (48.658km/h) 3 Dale Tye (New Zealand) 3.49.090 (47.143km/h) 4 Yulia Arustamova (Russia) 3.49.422 (47.074km/h) 5 Christina Becker (Germany) 3.49.707 (47.016km/h) 6 Li Wang (China) 3.50.794 (46.794km/h) 7 Pascale Schnider (Switzerland) 3.51.574 (46.637km/h) 8 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 3.52.240 (46.503km/h) 9 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) 3.54.537 (46.048km/h) 10 Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 3.54.563 (46.043km/h) 11 Marlijn Binnendijk (Netherlands) 3.58.301 (45.320km/h) 12 Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) 3.58.503 (45.282km/h) 13 Vera Carrara (Italy) 4.02.681 (44.502km/h) 14 Katarzyna Jagusiak (Poland) 4.05.363 (44.016km/h) 15 Iona Parks (Jamaica) 4.07.082 (43.710km/h) 16 Jessica Jurado (Mexico) 4.11.613 (42.923km/h) DSQ Sara Peeters (Belgium) Men points race qualifying Heat 1 1 Sebastian Cancio (Argentina) 28 pts 2 Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 26 3 Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) 24 4 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 23 5 Mikhail Ignatiev (Russia) 22 6 Niki Terpstra (Netherlands) 22 7 Michael Mørkøv (Denmark) 22 8 Michael Friedman (USA) TIAA-CREF 10 9 Kam Po Wong (Hong-Kong) 8 10 Jonathan Mouchel (France) 6 11 Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) 5 12 Taiji Nishitani (Japan) 4 13 Jorge Soto (Uruguay) 4 14 Martin Gilbert (Canada) 2 15 Giuseppe Atzeni (Switzerland) Heat 2 1 Joan Llaneras Rossello (Spain) 27 pts 2 Jozef Zabka (Slovakia) 25 3 Volodymyr Rubin (Ukraine) 23 4 Anthony Chapman (New Zealand) 22 5 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) 10 6 Milan Kadlec (Czech Republic) 8 7 Vasili Kiryienka (Belarus) 8 8 Kyle Swain (South Africa) 6 9 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mexico) 6 10 Maximo Rojas (Venezuela) 5 11 Gunn R. Curtis (USA) 3 12 Paul Che Altamirano (Peru) 2 13 Oleksandr Polyvoda (Ukr) Alpha Sport Donetsk 1 DNF Perez Laparra Miguel Angel (Guatemala) DNF Kevin Suhr (USA) Spike DNS Christian Bach (Germany)
