Tassi Carnival

Burnie, January 1st, 2010

Men's Sprint
1 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia
2 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
3 Sam Webster (NZl) New Zealand
4 Matt Glaetzer (Aus) Australia
5 Giddeon Massie (USA) USA
6 Andrew Taylor (Aus) Australia
7 Joel Leonard (Aus) Australia
8 Ethan Mitchell (NZl) New Zealand
9 Eddy Dawkins (NZl) New Zealand
10 Andy Williams (NZl) New Zealand
11 Paul Fellows (Aus) Australia
12 James Glasspool (Aus) Australia

Men's Keirin
1 Giddeon Massie (USA) USA
2 Andrew Taylor (Aus) Australia
3 Paul Fellows (Aus) Australia
4 Matt Glaetzer (Aus) Australia
5 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
6 Ethan Mitchell (NZl) New Zealand
7 Sam Webster (NZl) New Zealand
8 Andy Williams (NZl) New Zealand
9 Eddy Dawkins (NZl) New Zealand
10 Jaron Gardiner (Aus) Australia

Men's Team Sprint
1 Mitchell Bullen (Aus) NSW
Paul Fellows (Aus)
Andrew Taylor (Aus)
2 James Glasspool (Aus) South Australia
Matt Glaetzer (Aus)
Edward Coad (Aus)
3 Akmal Amrun (Mas) Malaysia
Amir Rusli (Mas)
Zamani Mustarudin (Mas)
4 Simon Van Velthooven (NZl) New Zealand
Sam Webster (NZl)
Andy Williamsl (NZl)
5 Nathan Corigan-Martella (Aus) Australia 2
Aaron Cooper (Aus)
Luke Parker (Aus)
6 Shane Perkins (Aus) Australia 1
Joel Leonard (Aus)
Maddison Hammond (Aus)

Davenport, December 29th - 30th, 2009

Men's Keirin
1 Shane Perkins
2 Azizulhasni Awang
3 Barry Forde
4 Sam Webster

UCI Men's Sprint
1 Shane Perkins 0:00:10.760
2 H Sufian
3 A Taylor
4 Gideon Massie

UCI Team Sprint
1 New Zealand
2 Australia

Latrobe, December 26th, 2009

Photos and complete results

Men’s Sprint

1) Shane Perkins Australia AUS19861230

2) Azizulhasni Awang Malaysia MAS19880105

3) Junaidi Nasir Malaysia MAS19840104

4) Syamil Bahrum Malaysia MAS19890313

5) Barry Forde Barbados BAR19760917

6) Edrus Yunos Malaysia MAS19870719

7) Andrew Taylor Australia AUS19850724

8) Ethan Mitchell New Zealand NZL19910119

9) Paul Fellows Australia AUS19631201

10) Sam Webster New Zealand NZL19910716

11) Hazif Sufian Malaysia MAS19860712

12) Gideon Massie USA USA19810827

13) Simon Van Velthooven New Zealand NZL19881206

14) Joel Leonard Australia AUS19810722

15) Mitchell Bullen Australia AUS19911206

16) Haseem McLean Trinidad Tobago TRI19870726

Men’s Keirin

1) Shane Perkins Australia AUS19861230

2) Hafiz Sufian Malaysia MAS19860712

3) Eddie Dawkins New Zealand NZL19890711

4) Barry Forde Barbados BAR19760917

5) Junaidi Nasir Malaysia MAS19840104

6) Azizulhasni Awang Malaysia MAS19880105

7) Sam Webster New Zealand NZL19910716

8) Gideon Massie USA USA19810827

9) Harrif Salleh Malaysia MAS19880915

10) Simon Van Velthooven New Zealand NZL19881206

11) Andrew Taylor Australia AUS19850724

12) Ethan Mitchell New Zealand NZL19910119

Cali World Cup

Cali, Colombia, 10-12 Dec, 2009

Sprint

Women

200m TT
1 188 KANIS Willy NED 11.247
2 158 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 11.276
3 69 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 11.371
4 62 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL 11.429
5 187 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 11.449
6 112 MUCHE Christin GER 11.534

Final

1 158 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
2 188 KANIS Willy NED
3 69 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB
4 62 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL
5 112 MUCHE Christin GER
6 8 ROSEMOND Emily AUS
7 103 VARNISH Jessica GBR
8 187 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED

Men

200m TT

1 50 SIREAU Kévin COF 10.042
2 105 FORSTEMANN Robert GER 10.097
3 106 LEVY Maximilian GER 10.256
4 29 SMITH Travis CAN 10.276
5 58 TAMAYO SAAVEDRA Christian Leandro COL 10.316
6 163 MOHAMAD NASIR Junaidi MAS 10.417
7 95 D'ALMEIDA Michaël FRA 10.458
8 143 NITTA Yudai JPN 10.475
9 48 MULDER Teun COF 10.476
10 30 VELOCE Joseph CAN 10.513

Final

1 50 SIREAU Kévin COF
2 105 FORSTEMANN Robert GER
3 106 LEVY Maximilian GER
4 29 SMITH Travis CAN REL
5 73 BABEK Tomas CZE
6 58 TAMAYO SAAVEDRA Christian Leandro COL
7 48 MULDER Teun COF
8 95 D'ALMEIDA Michaël FRA

Keirin

Women

1 112 MUCHE Christin GER
2 8 ROSEMOND Emily AUS
3 62 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL
4 158 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
5 34 SULLIVAN Monique CAN
6 69 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB

Men

1 95 D'ALMEIDA Michaël FRA
2 48 MULDER Teun COF
3 217 VYNOKUROV Andrii UKR
4 106 LEVY Maximilian GER
5 145 WAKIMOTO Yuta JPN
6 196 THOMSON Michael RSA

7 29 SMITH Travis CAN
8 55 NARVAEZ ROMERO Leonardo COL
9 181 VAN DEN BERG Roy NED
10 175 PERALTA GASCON Juan NAV
11 200 SAVITSKIY Valentin RUS
DNS 138 CECI Luca ITA

Time Trial

Women

1 158 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 33.786
2 188 KANIS Willy NED 33.852
3 69 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 34.479
4 62 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL 35.083
5 103 VARNISH Jessica GBR 35.215
6 89 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP 35.376

Men

1 95 D'ALMEIDA Michaël FRA 1:01.171
2 49 PERVIS François COF 1:01.748
3 212 BOLIBRUKH Yevhen UKR 1:02.665
4 73 BABEK Tomas CZE 1:02.978
5 82 ALONSO CASTILLO David ESP 1:03.220
6 143 NITTA Yudai JPN 1:03.529
7 202 ZHURKIN Nikolay RUS 1:03.645
8 54 PUERTA ZAPATA Fabian Hernando COL 1:03.711
9 109 STUMPF Mathias GER 1:03.784
10 138 CECI Luca ITA 1:03.987



Team Sprint

Women

1 NED Netherlands 33.956
187 HIJGENAAR Yvonne
188 KANIS Willy

2 LTU Lithuania 34.459
157 GAIVENYTE Gintare
158 KRUPECKAITE Simona

3 RUS Russia 34.850
203 BARANOVA Victoria
204 STRELTSOVA Olga

4 CUB Cuba 35.287
69 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra
70 HERRERA Arianna

Men

1 COF COFIDIS 43.966
MULDER Teun
PERVIS François
SIREAU Kévin

2 GER Germany 44.187
FORSTEMANN Robert
LEVY Maximilian
STUMPF Mathias

3 UKR Ukraine 45.271
BOLIBRUKH Yevhen
TSYUPYK Yuriy
VYNOKUROV Andrii

4 CAN Canada 45.416
COSSETTE Stéphane
SMITH Travis
VELOCE Joseph

Melbourne World Cup

This was Australia's sprint world cup: Anna Meares won everything, Shane Perkins the sprint (relegated in the Keirin final) and Scott Sunderland the kilo.

Sprint

Women

Qualification

1 34 GUO Shuang CHN 11.207
2 153 KANIS Willy NED 11.348
3 14 MEARES Anna AUS 11.414
4 33 GONG Jinjie CHN 11.452
5 111 MCCULLOCH Kaarle JAY 11.501
6 81 MUCHE Christin GER 11.581
7 152 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 11.616
8 212 SHULIKA Lyubov UKR 11.655
9 58 SANCHEZ Clara FRA 11.697
10 69 VARNISH Jessica GBR 11.726

Final

1 14 MEARES Anna AUS
2 34 GUO Shuang CHN
3 153 KANIS Willy NED
4 111 MCCULLOCH Kaarle JAY
5 33 GONG Jinjie CHN
6 81 MUCHE Christin GER
7 152 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED
8 58 SANCHEZ Clara FRA
9 212 SHULIKA Lyubov UKR
10 15 ROSEMOND Emily AUS

Men

Qualification

Looks like Kevin Sireau, Matthew Crampton and Ross Edgar had to prove a point after their team sprint and Keirin, respectively, and so they did. But not good enough to pass Shane Perkins.

1 109 PERKINS Shane JAY 10.081
2 38 SIREAU Kévin COF 10.095
3 61 CRAMPTON Matthew GBR 10.126
4 191 EDGAR Ross SKY 10.200
5 71 BERGEMANN Carsten GER 10.202
6 9 NIBLETT Jason AUS 10.271
7 108 ELLIS Daniel JAY 10.272
8 7 LEWIS Peter AUS 10.325

Final

1 109 PERKINS Shane JAY
2 38 SIREAU Kévin COF
3 61 CRAMPTON Matthew GBR
4 191 EDGAR Ross SKY

5 71 BERGEMANN Carsten GER
6 108 ELLIS Daniel JAY
7 78 WACHTER Tobias GER
8 7 LEWIS Peter AUS

Keirin

Women

Final

1 14 MEARES Anna AUS
2 34 GUO Shuang CHN
3 81 MUCHE Christin GER
4 58 SANCHEZ Clara FRA
5 111 MCCULLOCH Kaarle JAY
6 69 VARNISH Jessica GBR

Final 7-11

7 153 KANIS Willy NED
8 15 ROSEMOND Emily AUS
9 57 CLAIR Sandie FRA
10 95 LEE Wai Sze HKG
11 154 RONNER Agnes NED

Men

The big surprise was that Ross Edgar and Matthew Crampton didn't make it into the final.

Final
1 71 BERGEMANN Carsten GER
2 26 AWANG Azizulhasni BTA
3 138 NG Josiah MAS
4 30 TANG Qi CHN
5 164 VAN VELTHOOVEN Simon NZL
REL 109 PERKINS Shane JAY

Final 7-12
7 191 EDGAR Ross SKY
8 3 BIRD Alex AUS
9 86 WEBSTER Sam GIS
10 61 CRAMPTON Matthew GBR
11 112 FUKAYA Tomohiro JPN
12 214 MASSIE Giddeon USA

13 18 FORDE Barry BAR
13 36 LAFARGUE Quentin COF
13 56 BONAFOS Thomas FRA
13 201 MCLEAN Haseem TRI
17 28 SMITH Travis CAN
17 122 JUNG Jeong Gyo KOR
17 146 SCHMIDT Yondi NED
17 181 BORISOV Sergey RUS
21 40 GOLAN Tomas CZE

Time Trial

Women

Anna Meares was on fire!

1 14 MEARES Anna AUS 33.583
2 111 MCCULLOCH Kaarle JAY 34.267
3 57 CLAIR Sandie FRA 34.339
4 35 JUNHONG Lin CHN 34.781
5 69 VARNISH Jessica GBR 34.979
6 95 LEE Wai Sze HKG 35.016


Men

1 110 SUNDERLAND Scott JAY 1:02.171
2 31 WANG Chongyang CHN 1:02.204
3 37 MULDER Teun COF 1:02.404
4 62 DANIELL David GBR 1:02.708
5 17 SELZER Clemens AUT 1:03.693
6 214 MASSIE Giddeon USA 1:03.706

Team Sprint

Women

qualification, final

1 CHN China 33.500
GONG Jinjie, JUNHONG Lin

2 NED Netherlands 33.828
152 HIJGENAAR Yvonne, KANIS Willy

3 AUS Australia 34.238
MEARES Anna, ROSEMOND Emily

4 FRA France 34.308
CLAIR Sandie, SANCHEZ Clara

Men

Qualification, final

Germany could improve their qualification time, but could still not pass the Australian Jayco team.

Carsten Bergemann was the fastest starter. I think, Germany is the leader in standing 250m.

Cofidis' Kevin Sireau, seems completely out of form. He rode 9th fastet 3rd lap time, 7 tenth slower than Scott Sunderland.

1 JAY TEAM 44.589
ELLIS Daniel, PERKINS Shane, SUNDERLAND Scott

2 GER Germany 44.673
BERGEMANN Carsten, ENDERS Rene, WACHTER Tobias

3 RUS Russia 45.206
BORISOV Sergey, DMITRIEV Denis, KUCHEROV Sergey

4 AUS Australia 45.436
BIRD Alex, LEWIS Peter, NIBLETT Jason

Revolution 25

Manchester, Nov 14, 2009

Craig Maclean wins Sprint and Keirin

full report: http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/track/article/tra20091114-R
eport--Revolution-25-0

2009 LVRC TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS

League of Veteran Racing Cyclists - 2009 track championships
full report: http://lvrc.org/track_events.asp

Perh GP

Perth GP results and report:
http://www.velodrome.org.uk/perthgp09.html

Manchester World Cup - Women's Keirin

First Round

The big race inn the first round was heat 6 with Victoria Pendleton vs. Simona Krupeckaite and Vicky sent Simona into the reps.

Rep

Simona makes it in the scond round and so does Miriam Welte, beating Jinjie Gong.

Second Round

Heat 1

1 212 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
2 325 PANARINA Olga BLR
3 54 GUO Shuang CHN

4 145 WELTE Miriam GER
5 9 MCCULLOCH Kaarle AUS
DSQ 285 BARANOVA Victoria RUS

Heat 2

1 10 MEARES Anna AUS
2 250 RONNER Agnes NED
3 295 PENDLETON Victoria SKY

4 109 CUEFF Virginie FRA
5 93 FRISONI Elisa FFA
6 112 MONTAUBAN Olivia FRA

Final

Simona Krupeckaite get her Gold of this world cup by winning the Keirin. This also shows that we can expect an interesting season with at least five sprinters (Vicky, Simona, Anna, Shuang and Willy) good for Gold across the different disciplines and probably another five which can make it on the podium.

Final

1 212 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
2 54 GUO Shuang CHN
3 10 MEARES Anna AUS

4 250 RONNER Agnes NED
5 295 PENDLETON Victoria SKY
6 325 PANARINA Olga BLR

Final 7 - 11
7 93 FRISONI Elisa FFA
8 109 CUEFF Virginie FRA
9 145 WELTE Miriam GER
10 112 MONTAUBAN Olivia FRA
11 9 MCCULLOCH Kaarle AUS

Manchester World Cup - Team Sprint

Men

The UK sprinters won Gold and Silver in the Team Sprint which didn't come as a surprise after the results of the first two days. However there a couple of interesting things when looking more closely at the splits:

The fastest starter was Robert Forstemann ( 17.489 and 17.336 in the final) with a gap of 2.5 tenth of a second over Matthew Crampton (17.588).

The fastest second lap in the qualification was by China's Chongyang Wang with 12.806. Chris Hoy was able to top this in the final with 12.775. Nevertheless, it shows the depth and strength of China's sprint program and I expect the one or the other suprise from them throughout the season.

The by far fastest 3rd lap rider was Jamie Staff with 13.054 and 13.021, about 3 tenth faster than the next best sprinter.

Germany's time in the final, 43.683, was actually the second fastest time overall.

The all star team would have been Forstemann (17.336), Hoy(12.775) and Staff (13.021) with 43.132.

As reference, GB won Olympic Gold in 43.128 and France won the 2009 World Championships in 43.510.

Qualification

1 SKY TEAM 43.598
291 EDGAR Ross
292 HOY Chris
294 STAFF Jamie

2 Great Britain 43.804
115 CRAMPTON Matthew
116 DANIELL David
117 KENNY Jason

3 Germany 44.157
134 FORSTEMANN Robert
137 NIMKE Stefan
139 WACHTER Tobias

4 MOSCOW TRACK TEAM 44.621
230 BORISOV Sergey
231 DMITRIEV Denis
232 KUCHEROV Sergey

5 TEAM JAYCO 44.689
6 Japan 44.721
7 China 44.900
8 ALKS STAL GRUDZIADUZ 45.035
9 COFIDIS 45.126
10 US CRETEIL 45.179

Final

1 SKY TEAM 43.423
2 Great Britain 43.818

3 Germany 43.683
4 MOSCOW TRACK TEAM 44.732

Women

Qualification

The Australia World Champions Kaarle McCulloch and Anna Meares qualify first with 33.363 sec putting mores than half a scond between themselves and the Dutch team (Yvone Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis). Germany qualifies third. UK sent a young team with Rebecca James and Jessica Varnish who did an excellent 35.192 which got them a place in the finals. The Lithuanian team which claimed bronze at world's comes in a disappointing 6th place. The Chinese sprinters didn't compete.

Final

1 Australia 33.653 (MCCULLOCH Kaarle, MEARES Anna)
2 Netherlands 34.014 (HIJGENAAR Yvonne, KANIS Willy)
3 Germany 34.390 (GLÖSS Dana, WELTE Miriam)

Manchester World Cup - Men's Sprint

Flying 200m

Chris Hoy dominates the qualification by breaking the 10 sec barrier, but the field showed a lot of class. Matthew Crampton (10.062) and Jason Kenny (10.072) came in just above 10 sec. The top 5 stayed below 10.2 sec and the top 11 below 10.3 sec.

Top riders like Azizul Awang, Teun Mulder yesterday Keirin suprise from China Qi tang didn't make into the tournament of the best 16.

Results

HOY	Chris	SKY	9.869
CRAMPTON	Matthew	GBR	10.062
KENNY	Jason	GBR	10.079
PERKINS	Shane	AUS	10.127
ZHANG	Lei	CHN	10.193
KWIATKOWSKI	Lukasz	GDZ	10.201
EDGAR	Ross	SKY	10.216
LEVY	Maximilian	GER	10.258
ELLIS	Daniel	JAY	10.258
WACHTER	Tobias	GER	10.265
ZIELINSKI	Damian	POL	10.292
D'ALMEIDA	Michaël	USC	10.304
WATANABE	Kazunari	JPN	10.316
SUNDERLAND	Scott	JAY	10.332
PERVIS	François	COF	10.353
VYNOKUROV	Andrii	UKR	10.392

1/8 Final

Hoy, Crampton, Kenny, Perkins all make it to quarter finals. d'Almeida defeats Lei Zhang and Daniel Ellis beats Keirin World Champion Max Levy. 1/4 final field completed by Damian Zielinski ad Ross Edgar.

Quarter finals

The fastest four in the qualification made it into the semi finals:
Perkins will face Hoy, and Crampton vs. Kenny.

5th - 8th

5 291 EDGAR Ross SKY 10.528 68.389
6 264 ZIELINSKI Damian POL
7 184 ELLIS Daniel JAY
8 319 D'ALMEIDA Michaël USC

Semi finals

HOY Chris SKY def. PERKINS Shane AUS 2:0
CRAMPTON Matthew GBR def. KENNY Jason GBR 2:1

Finals

1 HOY Chris
2 CRAMPTON Matthew
3 KENNY Jason
4 PERKINS Shane

Manchester World Cup - other voices

Eye witness report by The Velodrome: Day 1

Reprts and photos by CyclingNews.com

Manchester World Cup - Time Trial

Women's 500m

Anna Meares had an impressive victory over the 500m her specialty, beating Victoria Pendleton, Willy Kanis and World Champion and World Record holder Simona Krupeckaite.

The top three stayed below 34 sec and Anna came within 3 tenth of Simona's world record.

Results:

1 10 MEARES Anna AUS 33.632
2 295 PENDLETON Victoria SKY 33.838
3 247 KANIS Willy NED 33.984
4 212 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 34.066
5 325 PANARINA Olga BLR 34.280
6 53 GONG Jinjie CHN 34.302

Men's Kilo
World champion Stefan Nimke, Germany, wins.

Young David Daniell comes in a strong second with sub 1:02 time. David was leading to the 875m mark and lost the race in the last 100m when Nimke gained more than half a second on him. But I'm sure he can work on this and then we look at sub a sub 1:01 time.

China's Chongyang Wang becomes a surprise third.

The top 6 riders stay below 1:03.

Results:

1 NIMKE Stefan GER 1:01.293
2 DANIELL David GBR 1:01.698
3 WANG Chongyang CHN 1:02.228
4 BABEK Tomas CZE 1:02.485
5 SUNDERLAND Scott JAY 1:02.626
6 TEKLINSKI Adrian GDZ 1:02.974

Manchester World Cup - Men's Keirin

The Keirin is always good for surprises.

Heat 1
Here things went as predicted: Max Levy and Jason Niblett made to round 2.

Heat 2
Azizul Awang got relegated, Francois Pervis won and Italy's Francesco Ceci also made it to round 2.

Heat 3
Chris Hoy won as expected, but China's Qi Tang came in 2nd sending Jason Kenny to the reps.

Heat 4
Shan Perkis won and Yondi Schmid 2nd, Andrii Vybokurov and Michael d'Almeida have to go to the rep.

Full results of 1st round

Suprise in the reps: Christos Volikakis beats Michael d'Almeida and Azizul Awang.
Andrii Vinokurov, Jason Kenny and Adrian Teklinski also qualify for the 2nd round.

Second round results

Heat 1

1 136 LEVY Maximilian GER
2 178 CECI Francesco ITA
3 155 VOLIKAKIS Christos GRE

4 6 PERKINS Shane AUS
5 50 TANG Qi CHN
6 312 VYNOKUROV Andrii UKR

Surprise by Francesco Ceci and Christos Volikakis - beating Shane Perkins

Heat 2

1 292 HOY Chris SKY
2 185 NIBLETT Jason JAY
3 241 SCHMIDT Yondi NED

4 129 TEKLINSKI Adrian GDZ
5 117 KENNY Jason GBR
6 60 PERVIS François COF

Yondi Schmidt is on fire today, beating Jason Kenny and Francois Pervis.

Final
Chris Hoy wins the Keirin World Cup Final. Christos Volikakis shows his Keirin skills with a 2nd place and world champion Max Ley comes in 3rd.

Jason Kenny wins the 7-12 final.

Manchster World Cup - Women's Sprint

Victoria Pendleton was the only one to break the 11 sec barrier: 10.998. She was followed by the Chinese duo Shunag Guo (11.098) and Jinjie Gong (11.149). Olga Panarina confirmed her World's results with a 11.193 and so did Willy Kanis (11.289).

Simona Krupeckaite (11.337) and Anna Meares (11.338) put in some solid times, but it will be interesting to see how they will do against the qualifiers which where 2 - 3 tenth faster.

Kaarle McCulloch (11.447) and Miriam Welte (11.468) round out the top 9 which came under 11.5s.

Complete Results of the flying 200m

In the 1/8th final all the faster qualifiers moved on, with the exception Kaarle McCulloch who got beaten by Miriam Welte.

The quarter finals results:

PENDLETON Victoria SKY def. WELTE Miriam GER

GUO Shuang CHN def. MEARES Anna AUS

KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU def. GONG Jinjie CHN

PANARINA Olga BLR def. KANIS Willy NED

Semi finals:

PENDLETON Victoria SKY def. PANARINA Olga BLR
Pendeltin brings it home after loosing the race

GUO Shuang CHN def. KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
Shuang Guo wins in two straight sets, Simona Krupskaite only riding for bronze.

Results 5-8:
5 MEARES Anna AUS 11.892
6 WELTE Miriam GER
7 KANIS Willy NED
8 GONG Jinjie CHN

Finals:

GOLD 1 PENDLETON Victoria SKY
SILVER 2 GUO Shuang CHN

Pendleton wins 2:1

BRONZE 3 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU
4 PANARINA Olga BLR

Manchester World Cup - Preview

The first start lists are out, so let's have a look who's competing and what they have been up to.

Women's Sprint

Well, that's going to be exciting. Everybody is here only the top French sprinter are missing. I expect a major battle for the win between Victoria Pendleton and world champion and 500m world record holder Simona Krupeckaite. Anna Meares is also back and could surprise everyone.

Germany sent Miriam Welte who has shown solid results throughout the summer and Dana Gloess who coming back from an injury. Dana is considered by some as the biggest talent among Germany's sprinters. 6x Junior World Champion Kristina won't be on the World Cup curcuit this season - she's recovering from an accident early this year - but she's back in training.

Australia also sends Kaarle McCulloch who had a strong first year elite season.

Kanis Willy (2nd at World's) and Yvonne Hijgenaar are lining up for the Netherlands and specifically in the team sprint, I see them heading for the podium.

China's sprinters, Keirin world champion Shuang Guo and Jinjie Gong, have also shown consistent top results last year and are good for top spots in the sprints and a podium in the team competition.

The field is completed by young talent from the UK and France and riders from around the world. Glad to see that Malaysia is adding Fatehah Mustapa to its highly successful men's sprint team.

Men's Keirin

The men's field is also very strong. Notable absentees are the Sprint world champion Gregory Bauge, 200m world record holder Kevin Sireau, and the US German 200m record holders, Jimmy Watkins and Mathias Stumpf.

Heat 1
Keirin world champion Max Levy and Australia's Jason Niblett appear to be the strongest ones in this heat.

Heat 2
Malaysia's Azizul Awang and Frenchmen Francois Pervis are the strong men in this field, but Czeck Denis Spicka showed excellent form just a week ago in Gent.

Heat 3
This is the killer heat with Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy.

Heat 4
Aussie Shane Perkins, Frenchmen Michael d'Almeida and Russia's Andrii Vynokurov are the fast men in the last heat

Men's Kilo

World champion Stefan Nimke is clearly the number 1 in this field with UK's David Daniell, Aussie Scott Sunderland and young Frenchmen Quentin Lafargue fighting for the podium.