World Championships in Copenhagen/Ballerup
Australians new Madison-Champions
Australia took the World Madison Title in Copenhagen with the team of Cameron
Meyer and Leigh Howard. Cameron Meyer already won the title in Pointsrace on the
first day of the WC-series in Ballerup Super Arena and he was also on the
Australian team, winning the final in the team-pursuit towards Great Britain.
Together with partner Leigh Howard they were the strongest team in the 50 Km
Madison, ridden with an average-speed of 55,880 Km.
The French team Morgan Kneisky – Christophe Riblon took their opponents by
surprise by lapping the field already at the very start of the race, and they
were soon followed by the Belgian team De Poortere – Schets. The two teams were
rewarded for their efforts by silver and bronze, because in the wild chase,
which now followed between the supposed top-teams and continued in fact until
the end of the race, only the Australian team managed to get equal with the
teams from France and Belgium. Very active were the teams from Holland (Stam –
Schep), Germany (Bartko – Kluge) and not least the defending champions from
Denmark (Rasmussen –Mørkøv), but their efforts were in vain. After their
lap-win, the Aussies managed to control the race and close the gaps. And the
French and the Belgians were not able to challenge them in the sprints.
World Championship 50 Km Madison in Copenhagen, Saturday 27th March 2010:
1 Leigh Howard – Cameron Meyer (AUS), 16 p., 2 Morgan Kneisky –Christophe Riblon (FRA), 6 p., 3 Ingmar de Poortere – Steve Schets (BEL), 5 p., at 1 lap: 4 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN), 17 p., 5 Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER), 16 p., 6 Sergey Kolesnikov – Alexey Shmidt (RUS), 13 p., 7 Angelo Ciccone – Elia Viviani (ITA), 9 p., 8 Sebastian Donadio – Walter Perez (ARG), 8 p., 9 Daniel Holloway – Colby Pearce (USA), 7 p., 10 Andreas Graf – Georg Tazreiter (AUT), 2 p., 11 Peter Schep – Danny Stam (NED), 0 p., 12 Martin Blaha – Jiri Hochmann (CZE), 0 p., 13 Ki Ho Choi – Kam-Po Wong (HKG), 0 p., 14 Marc Ryan – Thomas Scully (NZL), 0 p., at 2 laps: 15 Alexander Aeschbach – Franco Marvulli (SUI), 6 p., at 3 laps: 16 Serguy Lagkuti – Mykhaylo Radionov (UKR), 0 p.
Abandoned: Unai Elorriaga – Antonio Tauler (ESP) and Lukasz Bujko – Dawid Glowacki (POL).
50 km in 53 Min. 41,162 Sec. (55,880 km/h).
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MADISON AND POINTSRACE IN OLYMPIC DANGER…
6-Days will survive, but to delete Madison and Points Race from the Olympic program would be a blow to modern track-cycling
Madison Champions: Left
World Champions Mørkøv-Rasmussen from Denmark, right European Champions from
Germany Kluge-Bartko.
Will there be a title for them to fight for in London...
Some weeks ago we learned only through the medias, that two of the most popular track-disciplines, Madison and Points Race, were to be deleted from the Olympic program as from London 2012. At least that was a part of the plan for a revise of the standard-program that the UCI-top would propose to the IOC coming December.
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Olympic program of Beijing 2008: |
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Women: |
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Sprint |
Sprint |
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Keirin |
Indiv. Pursuit |
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Team Sprint |
Points Race |
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Indiv. Pursuit |
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Team Pursuit |
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Madison |
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Points Race |
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Seven disciplines for Men (3 sprint + 4 endurance) and three disciplines for women (1 sprint and 2 endurance), in total 10 disciplines.
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The UCI proposal for London 2012: |
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Men |
Women: |
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Sprint |
Sprint |
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Keirin |
Keirin |
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Team Sprint |
Team Sprint |
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Team Pursuit |
Team Pursuit |
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Omnium |
Omnium |
Ten disciplines. Five for men and five for women, composed with 3 sprint, 1 endurance and 1 “all round” (Omnium).
UIV
meets with UCI-President Pat Mc Quaid
After learning that, the UIV-President Henrik Elmgreen decided to write a letter
to UCI-President Pat McQuaid with our comments to this proposal, which we find
as not acceptable, not only for the UIV and the 6-Days, but absolutely also not
in the best interest of track-cycling in common. You can read this letter
beneath. At the Manchester World Cup, UCI-President Pat Mc Quaid kindly
accepted to meet with the UIV (represented by the President Henrik Elmgreen and
our member Architect Ralph Schürmann) Saturday morning the 30th of
October. We presented our letter and had an informal talk about the issue.
From this talk we learned, that it has with no doubt been the demand from the IOC to create more equality between men and women - but without an ultimate demand for absolute equality. It has also not been mandatory, that the five disciplines for men and women absolutely should be the same (as one knows men and women are not absolutely alike…). To what extent the IOC has given advices as for the choice of disciplines is not quit clear, but their might have been some “guidelines” in direction of short and “easy to understand” disciplines (read: “Easy” also for television).
The UCI-President expressed his understanding for our points of view, but on the other hand he made it quit clear, that a decision had been taken (by the UCI Management Committee) and that it would not be subject for changes.
A
blow to modern track-cycling
The UCI-president regards the case as closed, even if the official decision by
the IOC has not yet been taken. The question – not only for the UIV but also
for federations, organisers, officials, riders and everybody with interest in
and love for track-cycling – should be, whether we shall just accept this as a
fact or try to start a movement in hope of changing the attitude of the UCI
Board. Because in our opinion to remove the Madison and the Points Race and so
strongly reduce the endurance-disciplines would be a blow to modern
track-cycling. The proposed program would very likely reduce the number of
nations participating in the Olympic track-events, and it would for sure reduce
the number of nations with realistic chances for Olympic medals. Neither of
those two options should - in our opinion - meet the aims and the ideas of the
Olympic movement.
But
will it still be possible to avoid this disaster?
In
our opinion: YES.
If some members of the UCI Management Committee will stand up and raise their
voices and say, that they disagree.
And, if federations, organisers and other bodies acting within the world of
track-cycling asks for an open discussion of this matters, since it concerns the
future of track-cycling for all. Such a discussion hasn’t taken place at all,
even the UCI’s own Track Commission hasn’t been heard.
The UIV has spoken out, we hope to see others follow and we will promise our support!
Patrick
Sercu:
Comme on a discuté ensemble à Gand, ce changement de programme et elimination
des épreuves de fond aux Jeux sera le début de la fin du cyclisme sur piste !
Le
cyclisme sur piste est plus que la vitesse et la poursuite par équipe !
As
we have discussed together in Gent, this change in program and the elimination
of such basic disciplines from the Games will be the begining of the end of
track-cycling !
Track cycling is more than sprint and team-pursuit !
Gabriel
Curuchet:
For the first time in history the Olympic Games will come to South-America in
2016, and the UCI decides to delete the disciplines on the track, where riders
from our Continent have achieved their greatest exploits during the years. With
such a decision automatically 15 nations are excluded from winning Olympic
medals. I just don’t understand it.
You can see the letter from UIV to UCI att. President Pat Mc Quaid here
RESULTS FROM EUROPEAN TRACK
CHAMPIONSHIPS IN GHENT
Saturday 17th to Sunday 18th October 2009
Photos: Karl Franke
Madison Elite – 50 Km
1 Roger Kluge – Robert Bartko (GER) 15 p.
2 Sergey Kolesnikov – Alexey Chmidt (RUS) 13 p.
3 Danny Stam – Peter Schep (NED) 10 p.
4 Jiri Hochmann – Milan Kadlec (CZE) 9 p.
5 Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI) 2 p.
at 1 lap:
6 Kenny de Ketele – Tim Mertens BEL) 23 p.
7 Rafal Ratajczyk – Lukasz Bujko (POL) 13 p.
8 Alex Buttazzoni – Angelo Ciccone (ITA) 12 p.
9 Christian Grassmann – Leif Lampater (GER) 8 p.
10 Andreas Müller – Georg Tazreiter (AUT) 3 p.
at 3 laps
11 Roman Maxinov – Leonid Krasnov (RUS) 0 p.
Madison U 23 – 40 Km
1 Jan Dostal – Vojtech Hacecky (CZE) 16 p.
2 Artur Ershov – Valery Kaykov (RUS) 15 p.
3 Kirill Baranov – Alexander Petrovskiy (RUS) 12 p.
4 Pim Lighart – Jeff Vermeulen (NED) 11 p.
5 Morgan Kneisky – Julien Duval (FRA) 8 p.
6 Tristan Marguet – Loic Perizzolo (SUI) 7 p.
7 Jochen de Weer – Gijs van Hocke (BEL) 5 p.
8 Theo Reinhardt – Thomas Juhas (GER) 5 p.
9 Philip Nielsen – Christian Ranneries (DEN) 3 p.
10 Elia Viviani – Thomas Alberio (ITA) 2 p.
11 Silvan Dillier – Claudio Imhof (SUI) 2 p.
12 Michael Vingerling – Nick Stöpler (NED) 2 p.
13 Tino Thomel – Bastian Faltin (GER) 0 p.
14 Mickael Jeannin – Kevin Fouache (FRA) 0 p.
Endurance Omnium Men
1 Rafael Ratajczyk – POL 49 p.
2 Robert Bartko – GER 35 p.
3 Unai Elorriaga – ESP 34 p.
4 Andreas Müller – AUT 33 p.
5 Jiri Hochmann – CZE 33 p.
6 Tim Mertens – BEL 30 p.
7 Angelo Ciccone – ITA 22 p.
8 Franco Marvulli – SUI 22 p.
Derny Finale – 30 Km
1 Kenny de Ketele – BEL (Michel Vaarten)
2 Matthe Pronk – NED (Joop Ziljaard)
3 Roger Kluge – GER (Peter Bauerlein)
4 Alessandro de Marchi – ITA (Cordiano Dagnioni)
5 Andreas Graf – AUT (Andre de Raedt)
6 Tim Van der Zanden – NED (Cees Stam)
7 Kristof Goddaert – BEL (Erwin Schoefs)
Ab Matthieu Ladagnous – FRA (Raymond Persyn)
Sprinters Omnium - Men
1 Denis Spicka – CZE 51 p.
2 Francois Pervis – FRA 45 p.
3 Andriy Vynokurov – UKR 36 p.
4 Kamil Kuczynski – POL 32 p
5 Quentin Lafargue – FRA 31 p.
6 Lukasz Kwiatkowski – POL 26 p.
7 Christos Volikakis – GRE 24 p.
8 Filip Ditzel – CZE 22 p.
9 Francesco Ceci – ITA 20 p.
10 Clemens Selzer – AUT 15 p.
6-Days Season starts in Amsterdam!
Probably 13 6-Days on the calendar coming winter after drop out of Dortmund
The new 6-Days season will start in Amsterdam on Monday 19th of
October and not as foreseen in London, where the first 6-Days in the British
capital since 1980 where planned from 6th to 11th of
October.
- We are still keen to organise the race, but we have had to move our
plans a bit forward, the old British 6-Days star, Tony Doyle, explains. Tony
Doyle is the man behind the project and he has decided to move his race to the
early spring, 2nd to 9th of March probably.
Dortmund out
For another 6-Days it is definitively out. The legendary "Dortmunder
6-Tagerennen" in the Westfalenhalle will not take place in 2009 (in the calendar
with the dates from 29th October to 3rd November) and Mr.
Ernst Claussmeyer, who has been the man behind the race for many years doubt
very much whether it will come back. He has fought a hard battle in order to
maintain the event, but now the battle is over and the last laps has been taken
in a 6-Days which story goes back to 1926. It is at the same time also a
good-bye to the oldest event at all in the Westfalenhalle, "Grosser
Weihnachtspreis" traditionally run on 2nd Christmas day. Even if it
didn’t anymore attract the same vast crowds as in the past, still about 8.-9.000
people gathered together in Dortmund every year for this very special event.
No more 6-Days in Dortmund...
A special problem
Henrik Elmgreen, president of the pro track-organisers organisation
UIV, is off course too sorry about the sad news from Dortmund:
- Dortmund has been an institution in the world of 6-Days as long as I
can remember. We will sure miss the race in Dortmund, which had a great
reputation as one of the most prestigious races on the calendar. But I see this
as a special problem, not directly linked to the popularity of the 6-Days but
more to special local problems – and perhaps to a certain degree also to the
general problems in German cycling in common. Mr. Claussmeyer has done a great
work for track-cycling, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we should see him as an
organiser once again…
Progress in Holland
With 13 races on the UIV-list for the coming winter plus the race in
Fiorenzuola in the summer you can say, that the 6-Days organisers’ still
provides a very important part of the activities on the international
track-calendar (which also includes the 6-Days of Grenoble, not a member of the
UIV). In Holland you can talk about a progress. The existing races in Amsterdam
and Rotterdam will this winter be followed by the first 6-Days of Apeldoorn, and
the track in Alkmaar is also very active, even if they are not organising a
6-Days. For the second time they will in February host the final of The UIV
Talents Cup.
Find the full calendar here
Danish Victory
Rasmussen – Mørkøv won World-title in
Pruszkow
(HE from Pruszkow)
Already for some years they have been regarded as one of the "coming-teams"
in the world of Madison and 6-Days. They took at bronze-medal in last years
World Championship in Manchester, they have won the Grenoble 6-Days twice and
this year they won the 6-Days on their home-track in Ballerup/Copenhagen. But
the ultimate victory came Saturday at the World Championships in Pruszkow in
Poland.
In a very fast and demanding race the Danish team were aggressive right from the
start, winning the 1st and the 3rd sprint, but then the
Czech team Blaha – Hochmann managed to take a lap alone and for a time looked
like the new champions. But the Danes stroke back and after a hard fight they
managed to take a lap with just 10 Km to go. Later also the Australians came
around, so three teams ended up on zero but with Rasmussen – Mørkøv as
overwhelming winners on points.
Mark Cavendish rode a fine race, but his partner Peter Kennaugh, who had a
crash, was not able to give him full support.
Look at the result beneath and note how many of the names in the top-ranking you
will remember from the last year’s UIV Talents Cup. Astonishing, isn’t it…..
Result of World Championship 50 Km Madison in Pruszkow (POL), 28th
March 2009:
1 Alex Rasmussen - Michael Mørkøv (DEN) 22 p.
2 Cameron Meyer - Leigh Howard (AUS) 2 p.
3 Martin Blaha - Jiri Hochmann (CZE) 0 p.
At 1 lap:
4 Kenny De Ketele - Tim Mertens (BEL) 17 p.
5 Roger Kluge - Olaf Pollack (GER) 15 p.
6 Mark Cavendish - Peter Kennaugh (GBR) 13 p.
7 Angelo Ciccone - Elia Viviani (ITA) 10 p.
8 Daniel Holloway - Colby Pearce (USA) 7 p.
9 Sergiy Lagkuti - Mykhaylo Radionova (UKR) 0 p.
10 Alexander Aeschbach - Franco Marvulli (SUI) 0 p.
11 Pim Ligthart - Wim Stroetinga (NED) 0 p.
At 2 laps:
12 Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur - David Muntaner Juaneda (ESP) 7 p.
13 Lukasz Bujko - Rafal Ratajczyk (POL) 7 p.
14 Sebastian Donadio - Martin Garrido (ARG) 6 p.
15 Mikhail Ignatiev - Alexei Markov (RUS) 3 p.
16 Julien Duval - Morgan Kneisky (FRA) 1 p.
17 Andreas Graf - Andreas Müller (AUT) 0 p.
18 Juan Arango Carvajal - Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyabe (COL) 0 p.