Krupeckaite Does It Again in Beijing

Fresh from her clean sweep of the Individual Sprint events at the Cali World Cup, Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite dominated the Women's Sprint in the Beijing World Cup at the Laoshan Velodrome

Krupeckaite topped the 200m Qualification Time Trial standings with a time of 11.304s, 0.1s faster than Ukrainian World Cup leader Lyubov Shulika who recorded a time of 11.434s which was fractionally faster than home favourite Shuang Guo (11.439s), fourth was Dutch rider Willy Kanis with 11.473s

Round One saw Krupeckaite meet with Elisa Frisoni of Italy, who caused no problems for Simona as she cruised through to the Quarter Finals in 12.014s

Shulika faced up and coming Malaysian rider Fatehah Mustapa, who is from the same small village as Keirin sensation Azizu Awang, however Mustapa is far less experienced than Awang, meaning she didn't have the goods to beat the mighty Shulika who progressed through in 12.326s

Virginie Cueff didn't quite have enough for the mighty Wily Kanis

Shuang Guo and Willy Kanis also both made it through, Guo delighted the Beijing crowd with victory of Hong Kong's Wai Sze Lee, whereas Kanis beat Virginie Cueff of France

The Quarter Finals saw another easy victory for Krupeckaite as she effortlessly beat Yulei Xu in 12.189s, Shulika had a tough test against Dutch legend Yvonne Hijgenaar, but she managed to reach the Semi-Finals in a tight finish.

Both Shuang Guo and Kanis again made it through, Kanis disappointing the home crowd as she beat another home favourite Lulu Zheng in 12.160s

Crunch time, the Semi Finals bought Beijing's big four together as Krupeckaite faced Kanis, and despite the latter trying to make both sprints slow and tactical to her advantage, Krupeckaite simply sat back and waited for the right moment to launch her incredible attack to win in straight heats in 11.847s and 11.811s

Lyubov Shulika continued on her journey to the World Cup overall title

Semi-Final two saw Shulika face Guo, who looked resplendent on her brand new Dolan DF3 who took the first sprint only to be relegated for entering the Sprinters lane when she 'cut up' Shulika in the last two hundred metres

Guo then won fair and squarely in the next heat, levelling the encounter up for a mouth watering final match sprint.

With the crowd behind Guo, Shulika faced a huge challenge of overcoming the vastly experienced Chinese rider, however yet again Guo took her eye off Shulika for a second, and bang the Ukrainian was gone and on her way to the final in 12.009s

With Krupeckaite on the form of her life even World Cup leader Lyubov Shulika couldn't stop the Lithuanian as Simona cruised to her second World Cup victory in a row in 11.781s and 12.021s

Kanis got revenge over Guo for her defeat in the Olympic Bronze medal ride-off

Krupeckaite's fantastic form and her dominant victories remind everyone here in Beijing of a certain Olympic, World and Commonwealth Champion and as the pair go head to head in Copenhagen in just over a months time

The Bronze Medal ride off saw Willy Kanis get revenge for her defeat at the Olympics four months ago with a two-one victory over Shuang Guo, who again failed to live up to the pressure of performing in front of her homecrowd

Results

1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)

2. Lyubov Shulika (Ukraine)

3. Willy Kanis (Netherlands)

Men's 4km Individual Pursuit

New Zealand rider Jesse Sergent set a stunning time of 4m 17.962s to qualify fastest in the Men's 4km Individual Pursuit, a massive ten seconds faster than the second fastest time of Vitaliy Shchedov who recorded 4m 27.177s. Consequently it was no surprise to see Sergent easily catch his Ukrainian opponent just after 3km to take the Gold medal

Ireland's David O'Loughlin pulled off a fantastic result by claiming the Bronze medal from another Ukrainian Volodymyr Diudia by 0.3s

With one round of the World Cup remaining the 4km Individual Pursuit leader is today's silver medallist Vitaliy Shchedov of the Ukraine

Results

1. Jesse Sergent (New Zealand)

2. Vitaliy Shchedov (Ukraine)

3. David O'Loughlin (Ireland)

Women's 3km Individual Pursuit

Just like in the Men's Pursuit, a rider from New Zealand claimed the Gold medal in an impressive time of 3m 30.685s, that rider was Alison Shanks who's only previously success came in the 2007 Oceania Championships.

Shanks beat 2007/08 overall World Cup Champion Vilija Sereikaite of Lithuania, by a massive second seconds, in taking the Silver Sereikaite moved into the lead of the overall competition which she now looks like defending

Bronze went to Ukrainian Svitlana Galyuk who beat Russian Elena Chalykh by 0.5s

Results

1. Alison Shanks (New Zealand)

2. Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania)

3. Svitlana Galyuk (Ukraine)

Men's Team Sprint

With the absence of the British and Australian Team Sprint teams proceedings today in Beijing were dominated by the French, with a one-two for Cofidis and France

The Cofidis trio of Mickael Bourgain, Kevin Sireau and Francois Pervis put 0.6s into their French compariots Gregory Bauge, Michael D'Almeida and Thierry Jollet on their way to the Gold Medal and the World Cup lead

Germany and China did battle for Bronze with only 0.1s coming into it at the end as German's Sebastian Doehrer, Max Levy and Matthias Stumpf took the medal

Results

1. Cofidis (Mickael Bourgain, Kevin Sireau and Francois Pervis)

2. France (Gregory Bauge, Michael D'Almeida and Thierry Jollet)

3. Germany (Sebastian Doehrer, Max Levy and Matthias Stumpf)

Men's 40km Points Race

Britain's Chris Newton continued his dominance of the Men's Points Race with a fantastic performance that saw him take a clear victory from Canadian Zach Bell by a massive 15 points

Newton won the sprint primes in six of the twelve sprints which added to his points in two of the other primes gave him 35points to bell's 20 with the 2006/07 World Cup winner Rafal Ratajczyk of Poland taking the Bronze medal with 19 points

Results

1. Chris Newton (Great Britain)

2. Zachary Bell (Canada)

3. Rafal Rataczyk (Poland)

Women's 15km Scratch Race

Victory in the Women's Scratch Race went to Russia Evgeniya Romanyuta after a tight sprint with Giorgia Bronzini of Italy saw her just take the victory on the line. Bronze went to Aussie Belinda Goss

Despite being in Mallorca training and not in Beijing, Britain's Lizzie Armitstead still retains the overall World Cup lead with one round in Copenhagen remaining

Results

1. Evgeniya Romanyuta (Russia)

2. Giorgia Bronzini (Italy)

3. Belinda Goss (Australia)

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