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Team Pursuit easily into Final

 
 
Team Pursuit
Great Britain Dominate Team Pursuit Qualification

Great Britain's Team Pursuit squad of Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning and Bradley Wiggins have easily made it into tonight's final against the Ukraine, when they recorded a a blistering time of 3m 59.579s in this morning's qualification

The quartet's opposition will be the suprise finalists, Ukraine, who set a time six seconds slower than the British team (4m 05.039s)

NZ TP
New Zealand will ride off for Bronze

The ride off for the Bronze Medal will feature the New Zealand team of Sam Bewley, Westley Gough, Peter Latham and Marc Ryan who will face the Danish team

The suprise of the morning was the poor time of 4m 07.447s set by the current World Champions Australia, who selected Peter Dawson, Zak Dempster, Matt Goss and Mark Jamieson to ride

Blyth and Pendleton
Vicki Pendleton and Anna Blyth

Women's Team Sprint World Champion Victoria Pendleton recorded a time of 11.194s to finish third in the Women's 200m TT Sprint Qualification

China's Shuang Guo was fastest setting a time of 11.149s with Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania second with 11.191s

Britain's Anna Blyth finished tenth in 11.497s and showed she is continuing to improve

Both Pendleton and Blyth then went on to beat their first round opponents, Australia's Kristine Bayley and Jennie Read (USA) respectively

In the 1/8 Finals Victoria and Anna were unfortunately paired together and yet again Vicki showed why she is a double World Champion by beating Blyth convincingly in 11.775s to progress through to the next round

Blyth and Pendleton
Anna Blyth did well but couldn't make it into the Quarter Finals

Anna lost out in the Repechage to Christin Muche, with Lisandra Guerra of Cuba taking the other Repechage heat

Victoria's Quarter Final Ride will be a repeat of last year's final when she faces Natalia Tyslinskaya of Belarus for a place in tomorrow's Semi Final

Bex Romero
Second Fastest Qualifier Rebecca Romero

There was a suprise in the Women's Individual Pursuit when Britain's Bex Romero qualified ahead of her teammate Wendy Houvenaghel in a time of 3m 31.894s to make the final along with defending World Champion, Sarah Hammer of the USA

Hammer was only slightly quicker than Romero as she recorded a time of 3m 31.359s, however Rebecca's time smashed the national record set by Wendy Houvenaghel at the Manchester World Cup by a massive four seconds, the previous mark standing at 3m 35.294s

Wendy Houvenaghel
World Cup Champion Houvenaghel could only manage fourth

Meanwhile Britain's Houvenaghel was only able to qualify fourth fastest in a time of 3m 35.289s and therefore faces Katie Mactier in the Bronze medal ride off tonight

In the Men's Keirin a Roberto Chiappa of Italy caused spectacular crash that saw Malaysia's Josiah Ng to go down

Josiah Ng
Josiah Ng crashed out due to Chiappa

As a consequence Chiappa was relegated as Kevin Sireau (France) and Ryan Bayley went through forcing defending World Champion Theo Bos into the Repechage

In the other heats Jose Antonio Escuredo of Spain beat Australia's Shane Perkins as the pair went through forcing Britain's Ross Edgar in the repechage

However Ross easily fought he was past Hodei Mazquiaran of Spain to make it into the second round along with Theo Bos and Tim Veldt

Edgar
Britain's National Keirin Champion Edgar was forced to fight through the Repechage

Chris Hoy and Theo Bos will now ride in the same Second Round heat with the first three riders going through to tonight's final

Ross will ride against Teun Mulder, Ryan Bayley and Mickael Bourgain

In the Men's Scratch Race, Britain's Jonny Bellis finished fourth in his heat to qualify for tonight's final

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



 





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