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Queen Victoria Reigns Supreme

 
 
Vicki
3 Times World Champion - WOW!

Having already won the Women's Team and Individual Sprint titles, Victoria Pendleton is looking to do the treble with victory in today's Keirin

She easily made it through to this afternoon's Semi Final's with victory in the first round, sending the mighty Natallia Tsylinskaya into the repechage

Vicki easily progressed through to the final dominating the opposition in her semi, which included World Cup winner Shuang Guo of China who finished second

Blyth and Pendleton
Blyth and Pendleton, Britain's Finest

Britain's Junior World Keirin Champion Anna Blyth also made through to the final, finishing second in her heat behind the Netherlands' Willy Kanis and then third in the semi final

After two restarts in the final when Christin Muche was dq'ed for dangerous riding and the derny malfunctioned in the second start. However Britain's Victoria Pendleton and Anna Blyth did not lose focus and both produced fantastic rides to finish first and fourth respectively

This meant that Victoria Pendleton had achieved the unthinkable and become World Champion in all her events, Thursday Team Sprint, Saturday Sprint and Sunday Keirin

An emotional Pendleton then broke down in tears as she took her laps of honour and saluted the crowd and the BC backroom staff, simply amazing

"I can't believe it," said Pendleton. "Let's face it, in this team a world medal is average, but three golds is a little bit special."

Shuang Guo and Anna Meares once again finished second and third behind Queen Victoria

Hoy
Signing off from the Kilo in Style!

Chris Hoy has claimed his second World Title of the 2007 championships when he won the Kilometre TT in emphatic style

Hoy easily beat Francois Pervis of France when he recorded a time of 1m 00.999s to Pervis' Silver medal winning time of 1m 01.838s

Chris' time was not far off his Gold medal winning performance in the 2004 Athens Olympics, when he recorded 1m 00.711s, only 0.3seconds faster than today

Pervis
Second Placed Francois Pervis could do nothing about the awesome Hoy

Britain's Jamie Staff who is not usually a Kilo rider clocked a fantastic time of 1m 02.074s to take the Bronze medal

Staff showed just why he should not be written off for the Olympics next year when he recorded the fastest opening 250m in a time of 18.115s and is determined to be one of the three riders selected for the Team Sprint

Staff
Staff was impressive in the Kilo

After the event Chris commented that "It's a dream way to sign off from the Kilo in competition with my 4th Kilo Title, and it shows I'm on target for the World Record attempt in May"

"I'm delighted. I didn't know what sort of performance I would put in, but this is way better than I expected.

"These have been the best worlds I've ever had.

"If I had gone three thousandths of a second quicker in the team sprint it would have been the world championships of my dreams, but apart from that it has been perfect."

Hoy
Hoy on the top of the podium - he's done it again!!

An Interview with the now seven times World Champion can be found here: www.velodrome.org.uk/chrishoyinterview.html

In the Men's Madison Revolution regulars Franco Marvulli and Bruno Risi of Switzerland took the victory

Marvulli
Marvulli is World Champion yet again!

The pair normally dominate the six day series, but haven't won the World Title since 2003 , and the victory in Palma was a fantastic achievement for the pair

The Netherlands duo of Peter Schep and Danny Stam took the Silver ahead of the Czech Republic in 3rd and Spain in 4th

Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins finished a dissappointing 12th

Hoy
World Cup Champions The Netherlands grabbed Silver

France's Mickael Bourgain put the disappointment of losing Friday's Keirin final behind him when he qualified fastest in the Men's Sprint 200m TT Qualification

Bourgain recorded a stunning time of 9.968s to relegate defending champion Theo Bos of the Netherlands, who recorded a 10.045s, to second

Last year's silver medallist, Britain's Craig Maclean was third fastest recording a time of 10.110s, with his teammate Ross Edgar in sixth with 10.191s

Unfortunately Edgar met Britain's third rider Matt Crampton in the first round and easily knocked him out, with Maclean, Bos and Bourgain also progressing through with ease

Ross
Edgar beat Crampton but lost out to teammate Maclean in the Quarters

The second round saw some fantastic battles, with Craig Maclean beating France's multiple World Champion Arnaud Tournant in 10.726s. Meanwhile Bourgain overcame Australia's Mark French and Bos beat French's teammate Ryan Bayley

In the Quarter Finals Maclean was drawn against Edgar, and in a repeat of the Sydney World Cup final Ross took the first race only to be beaten in the second and third races

Ross was unable to make an impact in the Minor Final due to the fantastic team work of German's Max Levy and Stefan Nimke, which saw Levy finish 5th overall

Bauge
Bauge v Bos in the Final

In the Semi Final Craig was paired against the reigning World Champion Theo Bos in a repeat of the 2006 Final. Unfortunately the result was also the same with Theo progressing through to this afternoon's final against Gregory Bauge of France who needed three races to beat his teammate Mickael Bourgain

In the Bronze medal ride off Craig produced a poor ride in the first race against Mickael Bourgain and then only missed out on the second race to hand the medal to Bourgain

Theo Bos once again showed why he is the Worlds best sprinter when he beat Gregory Bauge in two straight heats to defend his World Champions jersey from 2006

Bos
Theo Bos, still number one

Despite a strong showing from Bauge, Bos easily won in 10.400s and 10.606s

In the Women's Points Race Australia's Kate Bates produced a fantastic performance to dominate the event, comfortably taking the victory after taking points in nearly every prime on top of gaining a lap

Mie Bekker Lacota of Denmark took the Silver ahead of New Zealand's Catherine Cheatley

Lacota
Points race Silver Medallist Mie Bekker Lacota

On a light hearted note the World Mechanics Championship was taken by Spain, see the video below

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



 





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