12th L'Open des Nations - IM

France, November 15-17, 2002

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Day 3 - November 17

France Bleu crushes opposition

Jens Fiedler
Photo: © AFP

The third and final day of the 12th Open des Nations finished with leading French team France Bleu well on top of the points standings, successfully defending the title that France has won for the past 11 years (minus one). The team of Arnaud Tournant, Florian Rousseau, Jérôme Neuville and Franck Perque scored 350 points over the three nights, with France Rouge and France Espoirs finishing in second and third spots on 272 points each. Best of the rest was Germany in fourth place, with a points total of 254.

The proceedings started with the Open de Keirin, a series of races fought out between a top flight Japanese team and riders from the rest of the world. In the first series, Japan's Shin-Ichi Ota, Germany's Jens Fiedler and France's Laurent Gané won their matches, while Series 2 saw World Champ Jobie Dajka (Australia), Florian Rousseau (France) and Harutomo Watanabe (Japan) triumph. Fiedler won the overall points score in front of Gane and Watanabe.

The remaining events on the program saw the French continue to increase their lead on the overall table, with Franck Perque/Jerome Neuville combining to win the 140 lap Madison in front of Austrians Garber/Stocher, and Germans Muller/Fulst. Slovakian Jaroslav Jerabek surprised to win the Match Sprint, defeating Rene Wolff (Ger) in the final, with no French making the semi-finals.

The Elimination race was won by Austrian Franz Stocher, before before Arnaud Tournant won the flying lap in a time of 12.757. French Espoir Saïd Haddou took the second and final Elimination race, giving his team enough points to move up on equal terms with second placed France Rouge.

Photography

Images by AFP

Sean Eadie (Aus) sitting in third wheel in the Match Sprint event, won by Jaroslav Jerabek (Svk)
Germany's Jens Fiedler won his round in the Open de Keirin
Jens Fiedler (Ger) also won the overall in the Open de Keirin, with Laurent Gané (Fra) and Harutomo Watanabe (Jpn) rounding out the podium

Results

Madison 140 laps

1 Franck Perque/Jerome Neuville (Fra) France Bleu
2 Roland Garber/Franz Stocher (Aut) Latvia-Austria
3 Andreas Muller/Guido Fulst (Ger) Germany

Match Sprint

1 Jaroslav Jerabek (Svk)
2 René Wolff (Ger)
3 Sean Eadie (Aus) Australia
4 Steen Madsen (Can) Canada

Elimination

1 Franz Stocher (Aut) Austria-Latvia
2 Fabien Merciris (Fra) France Rouge
3 Laurent D’Olivier (Fra) France Espoirs
4 Jérôme Neuville (Fra) France Bleu

Flying Lap

1 Arnaud Tournant (Fra) France Bleu         12.757
2 Hervé Gané (Fra) France Espoirs           12.866
3 Mickaël Bourgain (Fra) France Rouge       12.893
4 Ross Edgar (GBr) Great Britain            12.948

Elimination

1 Saïd Haddou (Fra) France Espoirs

Final Overall Standings

1 France Bleu            350 pts
2 France Rouge           272
3 France Espoirs         272
4 Germany                254
5 Latvia-Austria         250
6 Netherlands            223
7 Australia              198
8 Switzerland            193
9 Czech Republic         191
10 Slovakia              168
11 Ukraine               167
12 Great Britain         157
13 Spain                 133
14 Germany Espoirs       114
15 Denmark               113
16 Canada                 91

Keirin Open First Series

Match 1

1 Shin-Ichi Ota (Jpn)
2 Jobie Dajka (Aus)
3 Florian Rousseau (Fra)

Match 2

1 Jens Fiedler (Ger)

Match 3

1 Laurent Gané (Fra)

Keirin Open Second Series

Match 1

1 Jobie Dajka (Aus)

Match 2

1 Florian Rousseau (Fra)

Match 3

1 Harutomo Watanabe (Jpn)

Keirin Open Final Overall Standings

1 Jens Fiedler (Ger)
2 Laurent Gané (Fra)
3 Harutomo Watanabe (Jpn)

5 Jobie Dajka (Aus)