Bauge Blasts to Beijing Sprint Gold

France's Team Sprint World Champion Gregory Bauge blasted back onto the world scene with a fine victory in the Men's Sprint on Day Three of the Beijing UCI Track Cycling World Cup at the Laoshan Velodrome

China's Lei Zhang delighted his home crowd as he was the surprise fastest qualifier in the 200m Time Trial with a time of 10.173s, fractionally faster than World Cup leader Shane Perkins of Australia who set a time of 10.178s, with Bauge down in third with 10.187s

Round One saw Zhang easily progress through ahead of his Chinese teammate Qi Tang, with Perkins, Kevin Sireau, Michael D'Almeida, Max Levy, Teun Mulder and Keirin winner Azizu Awang also making the Quarter Finals. Bauge was lucky to receive a rider over as his opponent Jose Antonio Escuredo did not start

Surprise package Zhang then beat Malaysian Azizu Awang in straight heats to become the first Semi-Finallist, having just too much for the Malaysian star progressing through in 10.865s and 11.204s

The most exciting tie of the Quarters was Aussie Shane Perkins' battle with Dutch rider Teun Mulder and despite some courageous riding from the latter, Perkins' form, superior speed and tactics saw him go through in 10.676 and 10.710s

Shane Perkins continues to impress in the Sprint

Bauge had a tough task of beating Olympic Bronze medallist Max Levy of Germany in his Quarter Final, as the German pushed the Frenchman all the way in too very tactical encounters, with Bauge taking the victory in 11.082s and 11.011s

The shock of the Quarters had to be the all French encounter between Michael D'Almeida and World Championship Silver medallist Kevin Sireau, who was way off his usual flying form giving his teammate too much room in both heats meaning D'Almeida made the Semi Finals in 10.613s and 10.670s

In the Semi-Finals cheered on by his home crowd China's Lei Zhang again surprised onlookers as he made the final at the expense of Michael D'Almeida in 11.014s and 10.579s, having more than enough to deal with everything the Frenchman threw at him

Shane Perkins was again on impressive form taking heat one in his Semi-Final with Gregory Bauge in 10.730s only to be controversially relegated for not having held his line in the final 200m

With Bauge one-nil up it was all to play for in heat two as the riders pushed each other all the way to the line in an amazingly fast last 200m of 10.382s!!!, with Bauge stealing the victory by the narrowest of margins to make the final where he proceeded to break the hearts of the capacity Laoshan Velodrome crowd by beating their new hero Lei Zhang in 11.072 and 10.949s with Perkins taking a well deserved Bronze medal against D'Almeida

Results

1. Gregory Bauge (France)

2. Lei Zhang (China)

3. Shane Perkins (Australia)

Men's Madison

Team Toshiba's Leigh Howard and Glenn O'Shea took a fine victory in the Men's Madison after taking a lap to deny Britain's Rob Hayles and Peter Kennaugh the Gold medal

Kennaugh is gaining yet more experience thanks to Rob Hayles

The Aussie duo's eight points would not been enough to topple the race's dominant force as the British scored points in the majority of the races primes to take 13 points, four points ahead of the German team of Roger Kluge and Ralf Matzka with nine who also moved into the World Cup lead

However despite their best efforts they couldn't regain that all important lap on the Aussies and had to settle for the Silver Medal

Results

1. Team Toshiba (Leigh Howard and Glenn O'Shea)

2. Great Britain (Rob Hayles and Peter Kennaugh)

3. Germany (Roger Kluge and Ralf Matzka)

Women's Keirin

There was no surprise in the Women's Keirin as Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite once again dominated proceedings to take the Gold medal and World Cup leader's jersey with relative ease

Round One saw Krupeckaite and Hong Kong's Xiaoqing Xing progress through to Round Two ahead of Renata Dabrowska of Poland, in heat two Willy Kanis and Lulu Zheng were not really challenged as they took first and second. In Heat Three Shuang Guo finally repayed her homecrowd for the huge support as she controlled the heat from the start to win and make Round Two with the Netherlands' Yvonne Hijgenaar. Monique Sullivan of Canada and Olga Streltsovaof Russia qualified from Heat Four.

Can anybody stop Simona Krupeckaite?

Krupeckaite again had little trouble in Round Two as she once again beat a Chinese opponent, to the disappointment of the Laoshan Velodrome crowd, as she made the final ahead of Lulu Zheng and France's Sandie Clair who had made it back from the repechage

The second Round Two heat saw a commanding performance from Willy Kanis as she again put Shuang Guo in her place, with Malaysian Fatehah Mustapa again impressing by just beating Italian Elisa Frisoni to the last spot in the final

The final followed the form book as Krupeckaite's incredible speed endurance saw her leave Shuang Guo for dead as she claimed her third Gold medal of the weekend and in the process her second World Cup clean sweep in succession, with Willy Kanis taking the Bronze

Results

1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)

2. Shuang Guo (China)

3. Willy Kanis (Netherlands)

Women's 3km Team Pursuit

Taking another Gold medal for New Zealand in the Women's 3km Team Pursuit was Kaytee Boyd, Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks in an impressive time of 3m 24.421s, edging closer to times that the British World Champions regularly produce

The Kiwis put five seconds into the Chinese team of Fan Jiang, Feiyan Sun and Cui Wang on their way to victory which went some way to making up for their defeat in the final in yesterday's Men's Team Pursuit as they also took the World Cup lead

Bronze went to the Russian trio of Evgeniya Romanyuta, Olga Slyusareva and Elena Chalykh who denied the Lithuanians another medal

Results

1. New Zealand (Kaytee Boyd, Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks)

2. China (Fan Jiang, Feiyan Sun and Cui Wang)

3. Russia (Evgeniya Romanyuta, Olga Slyusareva and Elena Chalykh)

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