
Crampton Bags 15,000€ in JKA KeirinMatt Crampton rounded off Great Britain's fourteen Gold Medal haul at the Manchester World Cup with
victory in the JKA International Keirin, netting himself a cool 15,000€ in the process.
Men's JKA International Keirin Results 1. Matt Crampton (GBr) 2. Ross Edgar (GBr) 3. Adam Ptacnik (Cze) Women's 3km Team Pursuit World Champions Great Britain lined up for the Team Pursuit with a new line-up consisting of Jo Rowsell, Points and Scratch race winner Lizzie Armitstead and Katie ColcloughThe team, riding in 100%ME colours with the exception of Rowsell who in her World Champion kit, easily topped Qualification by a massive five seconds from the Germans, recording a time of 3m 29.863s to the German effort of 3m 34.394s It was no surprise to see the British team take the Gold medal from a German team that fell apart during the 3km race to finish six seconds behind Rowsell, Armitstead and Colclough who recorded a time of 3m 26.904s, the forth fastest time ever for the Women's Team Pursuit Results 1. Great Britain (Jo Rowsell, Lizzie Armitstead, Katie Colclough) 2. Germany (Charlotte Becker, Christina Becker, Lisa Brennaur) 3. Ukraine (Lyubov Shulika, Svitlana Galyuk, Lesya Kalitovska) Men's Madison Just like in the Beijing Olympics the British team, this time containing Bradley Wiggins and Geraint Thomas, were marked out of the Madison as the six day superstars took controlGerman's Olaf Pollack and Roger Kluge were the stars of the race, lapping the field with the Belgians, Russians and Olympic Champion's Argentina, but it was Pollack and Kluge that amassed the greatest number of points to take the Gold medal on 12pts from Belgium and Russia An exhausted Wiggins and Thomas finished down in sixth place, with nine points which would have given them the Silver medal had they been on the same lap as the top four teams Results 1. Germany (Olaf Pollack, Roger Kluge) - 1 Lap/12pts 2. Belgium (Iljo Keisse, Kenny De Ketele) - 1 Lap/8pts 3. Russia (Ivan Kovalev, Sergey Kolesnikov) - 1 Lap/7pts Men's Team sprint With all their big rivals absent from Manchester, the British trio of Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Ross Edgar, riding as Sky HD+ dominated the Team Sprint, easily qualifying fastest in 44.156s, which was over a second faster than second placed Poland who clocked 45.185sThe British trio moved confidently into the final where as expected they took yet another Gold medal for Britain, this time finishing in 44.306s, with Poland still over a second behind Bronze went to the German trio of Sebastian Doehrer, Rene Enders and Matthias Stumpf who beat the French US Creteil team, consisting of Charlie Conord, Michael D'Almeida and Thierry Jollet Results 1. Great Britain (Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny, Ross Edgar) 2. Poland (Lukasz Kwiatkowski, Kamil Kuczynski, Maciej Bielecki) 3. Germany (Sebastian Doehrer, Rene Enders, Matthias Stumpf) Women's Keirin The Women's Keirin bought another victory for Victoria Pendleton who stamped home her authority in an event that she is eager to reclaim the World title that she lost in March this year to American Jennie Reed.Round One saw Vicki easily progress with China's Jinjie Gong as the pair forced German Miriam Welte into the repechage, Jess Varnish shocked the crowd with victory in heat two, progressing to the next round with Victoria Baranova of Russia, forcing Christin Muche (Germany) and Columbia's Diana Maria Garcia Orrego into the repechage Anna Blyth also claimed victory in her heat, making it a clean sweap for the British in Round One Round Two saw Pendleton stamp home her authority to reach the final ahead of Garcia Orrego, who had made it back into the competition via the repechage and Canadian youngster Monique Sullivan, with Jess Varnish coming in last. Anna Blyth also made the final after finishing second in her heat behind Jinjie Gong. The final saw a great battle between the British and the other four riders as Blyth launched a trademark attack from the back as the Derny left the track to hit the front with two laps to go. Pendleton did her best to help her team-mate out by stalling the opposition but Anna couldn't quite hold on and faded in the home straight to slip to fifth as Pendleton took the victory from Garcia Orrego and Gong Results 1. Victoria Pendleton (GBr) 2. Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Col) 3. Jinjie Gong (Chn) |
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