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British Domination Continues

 
 
Team Sprint
Team Sprint Podium with Gold for Maclean, Edgar and Hoy

Great Britain continued their domination of the Manchester World Cup with four more medals on the third and final day of competition

The World Cup winning trio of Craig Maclean, Ross Edgar and Chris Hoy stormed to victory in the Team Sprint beating their closest rivals Germany by just under a second

The other British Team Sprint team, Science in Sport were unfortunately disqualified for two 'false starts', the second of which was extremely controversial

At the restart, Jason Kenny's starter appeared to wobble as Kenny left his hands, causing the triple Junior World Champion to swerve down the track onto the green in an attempt to correct himself. He was unsuccessful and ended up tumbling over onto the track into the path of the fast approaching Japanese trio

 
Hoy
An exhausted but £10,000 richer Chris Hoy

Commissaires were slow to warn the Japanese riders and British Coaches had to run from the Track Centre to help Kenny and warn the oncoming Japanese of the danger

The crowd were on their feet in amazement at the extraordinary events, as it wasn't until the Japanese were starting their second lap that the gun was fired to signal a 'false start'

It was then announced that SiS were to be disqualified for two false starts, despite the British coaches rushing to the Commissaires to demand a restart as they considered the race should have been neutralised due to Kenny's crash

But to the disagreement of the crowd the Commissaires decision to eliminate Jamie Staff, Matt Crampton and Jason Kenny stood

 
Women's Keirin
Keirin Silver medallist Oksana Grishina (Left), Gold went to Victoria Pendleton (Centre), Bronze medallist Shuang Guo(Right)

Victoria Pendleton was again on form as she dominated the Women's Keirin to claim her third Gold medal of weekend

Vicki easily beat Russia's Oksana Grishina and Shuang Guo to take the title, which meant that she was unbeaten in the entire three days of competition

 
Madison
GB Madison pair Geraint Thomas (Left) and Rob Hayles (Right)

In the Madison both the British squad of Rob Hayles and Thomas, and the 100%ME team of Ben Swift and Jonny Bellis rode extremely well to finish in second and fourth places respectively.

Unfortunately despite plenty of attempts, neither of the British teams could gain a lap on the field, however the Netherlands duo of Jens Mourris and Peter Schep did so and comfortably took the victory

Russia's Nikolai Trussov and Serguei Klimov took the Bronze medal, by one point from 100%ME

In other events China's Jianling Wang beat Belinda Goss of Austraila and Cuban Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso to claim the Gold medal

 
Scratch Podium
Women's Scratch Silver medallist Belinda Goss (Left), Gold went to Jianling Wang (Centre), Bronze medallist Yumari Gonzalez Valdiuieso (Right)

In the highlight of the final day's competition Britain's Chris Hoy and Ross Edgar dominated the JKA International Keirin to finish first and third respectively, with Teun Mulder finishing in second

The British duo controlled the race from the front with Edgar holding off the field whilst Hoy attacked and easily claimed the victory by a couple of bike lengths, from Teun Mulder who just managed to beat Edgar to the Silver

The victory meant Hoy walked away £10,000 richer, and the rest of the field shared remaining £35,000 of the prize fund

 
International Keirin
Sprint Silver medallist Teun Mulder (Left), Gold went to Chris Hoy (Centre), Bronze medallist Ross Edgar (Right)




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