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Wiggins, Reade and Pendleton see Gold!

 
 
Bradley Wiggins
World and Olympic Individual Pursuit Champion Bradley Wiggins

Britain's Bradley Wiggins yet again showed he is in a different class when he easily won the Individual Pursuit World Championships, catching Silver Medallist Roberto Bartko in 3km

Wiggins had already qualified five seconds quicker than Bartko in the Morning and again showed why he is hot favourite to retain his Olympic Title next year in Beijing

Sergi Escobar Roure
Bronze medallist Sergi Escobar Roure

In the Bronze medal ride off Spain's Sergi Escobar Roure beat his fellow countryman Antonio Tauler Llull to easily claim victory in a time of 4m 23.417s

Britain's Rob Hayles finished seventh with a time of 4m 25.669s

Rob Hayles
Rob Hayles will now concentrate on the Madison

Victoria Pendleton and Shanaze Reade have become the first World Champions in the Women's Team Sprint after they recorded a time of 33.631s to beat the Netherlands duo of Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis

Even though the Brits were down after Reade's opening lap they still easily beat Hijgenaar and Kanis who set a time of 33.974s

Victoria Pendleton
Women's Team Sprint World Champion Vicki Pendleton

After the event World Championships debutant Shanaze Reade commented "It's fantastic, just too good for words!"

Reade came to the Track from a BMX background and is the current Junior BMX World Champion, whereas Victoria Pendleton is Multiple National Champion and was Sprint World Champion in 2005

Shanaze Reade
Junior BMX and Women's Team Sprint World Champion Shanaze 'Speedy' Reade

Meanwhile in the Men's Team Sprint, Britain's Craig Maclean, Ross Edgar and Chris Hoy set a new world record of 43.917s to qualify quickest and ride off against the reigning World Champions France in the final

Team Sprint
A Dissapointed Maclean, Edgar and Hoy lose out to France in the Team Sprint

In a spectacular ride off for Gold, Gregory Bauge set an amazing opening lap time of 17.304s to set France on their way to their eighth Team Sprint World Championship title, narrowly beating the British trio by 0.002s

Team Sprint
France's Arnaud Tournant wins yet another World Title

Germany narrowly beat the Netherlands to claim the Bronze

In the opening two events of the Men's Omnium, Britain's Jonny Bellis, who is making his debut at the World Championships, produced a strong ride in the 200m TT to record a time of 11.213s to finish seventh

Established sprinters Michael D'Almedia (France) and Ben Kersten (Australia) topped the standings with times of 10.278s and 10.480s respectively

Jonny Bellis
World Champs debutant Jonny Bellis

The next round of the Omnium was the 5km Scratch which saw Bellis finish 16th whilst Walter Perez of Argentina took the victory

In the 3km Pursuit, Bellis produced an outstanding ride to finish third, less than a second behind the winner Jesse Sergent of New Zealand

In what must be considered Jonny's strongest event he recorded a time of 3m 22.863s to Sergent's 3m 21.875s

Jonny Bellis
A Promised Future is in store for Manxman Bellis

Next up for the now tired Bellis was the 15km Points race, when despite trying to chase down attacks throughout the race he was unable to improve his overall standing as Walter Perez claimed victory to draw level on Points with Kankovsky

The final event of the Omnium was the Kilometre TT in which 200m TT winner Michael D'Almedia of France set an outstanding time 1m 02.399s to easily take the victory

D'Almedia
200m and Kilo TT Winner Michael D'Almedia

D'Almedia's time would have been good enough for third place in the 2006 World Kilo Championships

Bellis recorded an impressive time of 1m 06.661s to finish sixth

All this meant that Bellis finsihed an impressive 8th overall behind Gold Medallist Alois Kankovsky, Silver medallist Perez and the Bronze medal went to Charles Bradley Huff of the USA

Kankovsky
Men's Omnium World Champion Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic)

The World Championships take place in Palma de Mallorca from 29 March to 1 April.



 





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