Double Gold for Malaysia on Day Two

Azizulhasni Awang Rizal Tisin and provided Malaysia with an unexpected double Gold on Day Two of the Beijing UCI Track Cycling World Cup at the Laoshan Velodrome

Awang 'wowed' the crowd in the Keirin with yet more flambouant racing that saw him claim the Gold medal and move into the lead in the World Cup standings, whereas Tisin continued to improve in the Kilo, with a 1m 02.268s ride enough to give him and Malaysian Cycling another well deserved Gold medal

Round One of the Keirin saw Awang face a relatively weak line-up with only Simon Van Velthooven of New Zealand coming even close to the pocket sized sprint sensation.

In the other heats, Lei Zhang of China and an off form Max Levy (Germany) made it through from Heat Two at the expense of Teun Mulder, Adam Ptacnik, Andriy Vynokurov and Hodei Mazquiaran. Heat Three saw Japan's Tomokazu Sato and Gregory Bauge (France) push Aussie Shane Perkins into the repechage with Mickael Bourgain and Belarussian Yury Karzheneuski progressing to Round Two from Heat Four

In Round Two Awang had a tough heat but still managed to make the final in second placed behind French powerhouse Gregory Bauge, with Hawk Relay's Canadian rider Travis Smith back from the repechage and into the final at the expense of Bourgain, Jose Escuredo of Spain and Max Levy

The other Round Two encounter saw Shane Perkins, also back from the repechage along with Teun Mulder easily take one-two to reach the final with surprise package Simon Van Velthooven of New Zealand

The final was fast and furious, and unlike the Keirin's we are now all used to where Sir Chris Hoy powers area to victory as soon as the Derny leaves the track, on this ocassion the race featured all the things we love about the Keirin, speed, physicality and excitement

In the end it was Malaysia's rising star who had just enough to 'wheely' across the line in his trademark style and beat France's Gregory Bauge and Teun Mulder to claim his second Keirin Gold of the 2008/09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Series

Results

1. Azizu Awang (Malaysia)

2. Gregory Bauge (France)

3. Teun Mulder (Netherlands)

Men's 1km Time Trial

After suffering a heavy fall earlier this week whilst training on the road, Rizal Tisin was lucky to be at the Beijing World Cup, let alone claiming another Gold medal for Malaysia

Tisin set a fantastic time of 1m 02.268s to beat Kilo great Francois Pervis of France who recorded 1m 02.642s

Tisin's Gold was further evidence of Malaysian Track Cyclings progress

Kamil Kuczynski of Poland took the Bronze medal in 1m 03.020s meaning World Cup leader and home favourite Wen Hao Li of China finished out of the medals in fourth with his 1m 03.687s

So riders like Dave Daniell of Great Britain who have set incredible times in this seasons World Cup weren't in Beijing to contest the Kilo, but with the line-up here today, especially when you consider multiple World Championship medallist Pervis, Tisin's victory is no fulk, its another quality performance from a Malaysian rider and evidence that the roots Josiah Ng and John Beasley put in place back in 2004 are well and truly producing a fine crop of youngsters, capable of reaching the top of the Track Cycling world

Results

1. Rizal Tisin (Malaysia)

2. Francois Pervis (France)

3. Kamil Kuczynski (Poland)

Women's 500m Time Trial

Simona Krupeckaite followed up her victory in yesterday's Sprint with a fine performance in the Women's 500m Time Trial to take the Gold medal in 33.834s, a massive 1.1secs faster than second placed World Cup leader Jinjie Gong of China who recorded a time of 34.941s. Yulei Xu of China took the Bronze medal in 35.109s

Once again Krupeckatie has produced another dominant performance in the women's Sprint events at the World Cups, and with her winning time of 33.834s edging ever closer to Anna Meares' World Record of 33.588s, it all provides for a mouth watering contest in Copenhagen in just under a month and the Pruzskow Worlds at the end of March

Results

1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)

2. Jinjie Gong (China)

3. Yulei Xu (China)

Women's Team Sprint

Krupeckaite was also in action in the Women's Team Sprint as she qualified second fastest were her Lithuanian team mate Gintare Gaivenyte in 34.435s, 0.2s behind Team Sprint legends Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar of the Netherlands who qualifed for the final in 34.253s

Prior to the final, China's Jinjie Gong and Lulu Zheng took the Bronze medal by 0.3s from Sandie Clair and Virginie Cueff of France. Then it was basically a foregone conclusion that the dominate Dutch duo of Kanis and Hijgenaar took another Team Sprint Gold medal in 34.077s to Lithuania's 34.311s and also took the World Cup lead in the process

Results

1. Netherlands (Willy Kanis and Yvonne Hijgenaar)

2. Lithuania (Gintare Gaivenyte and Simona Krupeckaite)

3. China (Jinjie Gong and Lulu Zheng)

Men's 4km Team Pursuit

The New Zealand Team Pursuit team of Sam Bewley, Peter Latham, Marc Ryan and yesterday's Individual Pursuit Champion Jesse Sergent produced an impressive time of 4m 02.793s to qualify fastest for the evenings final against the Australian Team Toshiba quartet of Leigh Howard, Glenn O'Shea, Rohan Dennis and Mark Jamieson who set a time of 4m 06.389s

However in the final the two arch rivals switched places as the Aussie youngsters went five seconds faster to record 4m 01.995s to snatch the Gold medal from the Kiwis by 0.9s as New Zealand slipped to 4m 02.890s

Bronze went to the Russian Lokomotiv team that spectacularly crashed in the opening round of the World Cup in Manchester back in November. Artur Ershov, Valery Kaykov, Leonid Krasnov and Vladimir Shchekunov beat the German team by four seconds to take a well deserved medal

Despite not being present in Beijing, the Spanish team retain their overall World Cup lead

Results

1. Team Toshiba (Leigh Howard, Glenn O'Shea, Rohan Dennis and Mark Jamieson)

2. New Zealand (Sam Bewley, Peter Latham, Marc Ryan and Jesse Sergent)

3. Lokomotiv (Artur Ershov, Valery Kaykov, Leonid Krasnov and Vladimir Shchekunov)

Men's 15km Scratch Race

New Zealand took another Gold Medal in easily their most successful World Cup to date as Hayden Godfrey outsprinted Britain's Chris Newton in the Men's 15km Scratch Race

After half the field gained a lap the remaining eleven riders were left to fight out the final sprint, in which Godfrey outwitted Newton and Poland's Rafal Ratajczyk with special mention going to the Isle of Man's Mark Christian who put in an extremely impressive performance to finish 11th

Belgian Tim Mertens retains his World Cup lead with one round remaining in Copenhagen

Results

1. Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand)

2. Chris Newton (Great Britain)

3. Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland)

Women's 20km Points Race

Jarmila Machacova of the Czech Republic and Cui Wang of China took a lap early on in the Women's Points race and the third prime was enough to separate the pair as Machacova took five points, and Wang three to give the Czech rider the Gold medal

Giorgia Bronzini of Italy took the Bronze medal and the World Cup leaders jersey after a close battle with Belinda Goss of Australia

Results

1. Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic)

2. Cui Wang (China)

3. Giorgia Bronzini (Italy)

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