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)