Start of a New Era for Team Pursuit

1st November 2009: Great Britain's Olympic Champion Team Pursuit squad dominated the Team Pursuit at the Manchester World Cup today narrowly missing out on the World Record time that they sent when winning Gold in Beijing back in August 2008

Qualification saw the Spanish quartet of Sergi Escobar, Toni Tauler, Eloy Teruel and David Muntaner take an early lead with a time of 4m 08.744s but with the Danish World Champions and British Olympic Champions still left to ride they didn't hold much hope of reaching the final

Luckily for the Spanish the Danes could only record a time of 4m 09.826s which guaranteed them a place in the final, however as Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Ben Swift and Steve Burke stormed around Manchester Velodrome in a time of 3m 57.709s the eleven second difference in-between first and second was quite frankly frightening

The Spanish were Good but the British were Superb

After Beijing the British Team Pursuit squad were forcing to undergo a re-structuring with Paul Manning retiring to concentrate on overseeing the development work at the London Olympic Velodrome for 2012 and now working in the BC coaching staff. In addition Bradley Wiggins concentrated his efforts on the road to great affect, finishing fourth in the Tour de France

Consequently British Cycling experimented with new riders and put in a disappointing performance at the Pruszkow World Championships which saw them fail to medal for the first time in ten years

But as with all re-structuring work things take time to come together and the new quarter of Clancy, Thomas, Burke and Swift who was replaced by Andy Tennant for the final are surely going to achieve bigger and better things than the Team Pursuit squads Britain has presented in the past

Evidence of this can be found in the final where after catching the Spanish at half distance they continued there ride to clock an amazing time of 3m 54.395s, one second slower than there World Record performance set in 'Olympic Mode' back in Beijing last year

Men's Team Pursuit Results

1. Great Britain
2. Spain
3. Ukraine
World Cup Leader: Great Britain

GB Show Incredible Strength in Depth

With both British Teams qualifying for the final of the Team Sprint, the absent French Team Sprint squad must be starting to fear that for the first time in five years there Team Sprint World Title is again at risk

Team Sky, made up of Olympic Champions Jamie Staff and Sir Chris Hoy, with the feisty Ross Edgar as Man Two, took the Gold after recording a time of 43.423s in the final, clawing back the deficit after lap one when Jason Kenny set a blistering pace of 17.588s to leave Sky's Staff standing on 17.627s

Ross Edgar then pulled things back for Sky, clocking 12.775s to Matt Crampton's 12.878s so it was left to Sir Chris Hoy to as usual round things off with a winning performance beating Dave Daniell by 0.2s to secure the Gold medal

Bronze went to a very impressive German time that consisted of Robert Forstemann, Stefan Nimke and Tobias Wachter who recorded a time of 43.638s in their showdown with the Moscow Track Team

Men's Team Sprint Results

1. Sky
2. Great Britain
3. Germany
World Cup Leader: Sky

World Record for British Girls

Already unbeaten in the Women's Team Pursuit you'd think that the British trio of Wendy Houvenaghel, Joanna Rowsell and Lizzie Armitstead who start to get complacent after never being pushed in the event, but you'd think wrong

After the German team of Lisa Brennauer, Verena Joos and Madeleine Sandig set the fastest non-British Women's Team Pursuit time ever of 3m 27.482s the British replied with an amazing 3m 23.436s to make the final in style

The British World Champions then smashed that time by a massive two seconds to further lower the World Record time for the event to 3m 21.875s, finishing a massive five seconds faster than the German's to take yet another Gold medal

Bronze went to the Australian trio of Tess Downing, Josephine Tomic and Belinda Goss who beat the team from the Netherlands

Women's Team Pursuit Results

1. Great Britain
2. Germany
3. Australia
World Cup Leader: Great Britain

Russian Kovalev Wins Scratch Race

After a late attack by impressive Italian youngster Elia Viviani caused chaos in the field it was Russian Ivan Kovalev who took advantage of the frantic situation to lap the field with Poland's Lukasz Bujko, Sergiy Lagkuti of the Ukraine, former British rider now riding for Ireland, Matt Brammeier and Kazuhiro Mori of Japan

Britain's Chris Newton delighted the crowd by claiming the sprint for seventh place despite losing a lap

Men's Scratch Race Results

1. Ivan Kovalev (Russia)
2. Lukasz Bujko (Poland)
3. Sergiy Lagkuti (Ukraine)
World Cup Leader: Ivan Kovalev (Russia)

Krupeckaite Claims Keirin

Following her disappointment having failed to medal in yesterday's 500m Time Trial, Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite claimed an impressive victory in today's Keirin

Narrowly losing out to Victoria Pendleton in the first round; Krupeckaite was forced to come back through the Repechage in order to make the Semi-Final, however she easily managed this to line up against Belarussian Olga Panarina, China's World Champion Shuang Guo, Miriam Welte of Germany, Aussie Kaarle McCulloch and Russsia's Victoria Baranova

Using the same tactics of riding off the front 'Hoy Style' Simona was able to hold off the fast finishing Panarina to make the final with Shuang Guo of China taking the last spot

In the other Semi-Final, despite suffering with a leg injury Anna Meares beat impressive Dutch youngster Agnes Ronner and Victoria Pendleton to make the final

As usual the crowd got behind their favourite Victoria Pendleton, however Vicky left herself too much to do after choosing to sit at the back of the line of riders behind the derny

Despite an incredibly fast turn of speed towards the end Pendleton couldn't make it round the field as they fanned out across the track in the final sprint, causing her to trail in fifth

Meanwhile Krupeckaite rode a fantastic final 250m forcing World Champion Guo and Meares high around the final bend to cross the line a bike length clear and take a well deserved victory

Women's Keirin Results

1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)
2. Shuang Guo (China)
3. Anna Meares (Australia)
World Cup Leader: Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)

Crampton Defends JKA Keirin Title

The 6th JKA International Keirin returned to Manchester Velodrome to provide a thrilling conclusion to a fantastic weekend of racing

With six out of the twenty-one riders present Japanese for perhaps the first time since it's inclusion in the World Cup programme the event has had a true international flavour to do the Japanese Keirin Association (JKA) proud

Fresh from his summer in Japan racing in JKA events Britain's Matt Crampton again showed how much he has improved and matured as a rider to repeat his victory from last year a net another cool 10,000 Euros prize fund

Showing he has benefitted from a resurgent Greek team's support Christos Volikakis repeated his second place in the World Cup Keirin with a fine second placed today, narrowly edging out the fast finishing Azizul Awang of Malaysia

Men's JKA International Keirin Results

1. Matt Cramption (Great Britain)
2. Christos Volikakis (Greece)
3. Azizul Awang (BT Technologies)

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