Glory for Argentinian's Curuchet/Perez

There was a shock in the Men's Olympic Madison as Argentinian's Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez took victory from Spanish legend Joan Llaneras and Toni Tauler

World Champions Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish put in a below par performance to trail in ninth after missing the break by the three medal winning teams that saw them lap the field and never look like losing

Wiggins was obviously a victim of the ridiculous Olympic event scheduling that forced him to race on each day of the five day track programme, however the performance of the World Champions was extremely disappointing in comparison to that of the rest of the GB team



Although way behind Belgium in the points totals Argentina's star duo, that included 43yr old Curuchet who among his long and successful career took Silver in the Points Race at the Manchester World Cup back in February 2007, the lap they gained early on in the race along with the sprint wins that came with it gave them enough of a margin over Llaneras and Tauler to clinch the Olympic Gold

Also a lap up on the field were the Bronze medallists Mikhail Ignatiev and Alexei Markov of Russia

Men's Madison

Final Results

1. Argentina 
   CURUCHET Juan Esteban, PEREZ Walter Fernando 

2. Spain    
  LLANERAS Joan, TAULER Antonio 

3. Russian Fed.
  IGNATYEV Mikhail, MARKOV Alexei 

At 1 lap
4. Belgium
5. Germany
6. Denmark
7. France
8. Netherlands
9. Great Britain
    CAVENDISH Mark, WIGGINS Bradley 

10. New Zealand   
11. Switzerland   
12. Canada   
13. Czech Republic
14. Italy         
15. Ukraine       
16. United States