April 15, 2006 (Bordeaux, France) – At major events like the World Championships, when pressure and emotions are high, great athletes stay cool under fire and go as fast or faster than they’ve ever gone before – which is exactly what Travis Smith of Alberta did at the 2006 Track World Championships.

This morning in Bordeaux, France Travis Smith of Alberta finished the 200 meter qualifying time-trial in a time of 10.404 seconds, his second fastest time in the 2006 international World Cup season. Earlier in the season, at the first World Cup in Moscow, Russia Smith finished with a time of 10.260 seconds. Unfortunately in the first round of sprints, Smith was unable to hold off Damian Zielinski of Poland, which means he will go to a repechage round later today.

In the Men’s Team Pursuit event there were no surprises. The Great Britain team came out strong to defend their title, qualifying first with a time of 4.04.074 minutes. However, the Australians are going to put up a good fight. They finished just behind the Great Britain team with a time of 4.04.403 minutes.

There are three final events later today, the Men’s Scratch Race, Men’s Team Pursuit and Women’s Sprint. Stay tuned to more golden moments.

Men’s sprint
Qualifying – 200m TT

1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.100 (71.287 km/h)
2 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 10.111
3 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.116
4 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.149
5 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.177
6 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.189
7 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.230
8 Grégory Bauge (France) 10.237
9 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.238
10 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.256
11 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.276
12 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 10.339
13 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spain) 10.346
14 Matt Crampton (Great Britain) 10.348
15 Tim Veldt (Netherlands) 10.377
16 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.404
17 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan) 10.427
18 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.427
19 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine) 10.506
20 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany) 10.510
21 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) 10.512
22 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan) 10.542
23 Christian Stahl (USA) 10.551
24 Qiming Wang (China) 10.553
25 Zhang Lei (China) 10.553
26 Takashi Kaneko (Japan) 10.589
27 Pavel Noskov (Russia) 10.591
28 Denis Dmitriev (Russia) 10.608
29 Sergey Borisov (Russia) 10.618
30 Lin Feng (China) 10.648
31 Steven Alfred (USA) 10.657
32 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) 10.657
33 Josiah Ng On Lam (Malaysia) 10.666
34 Benjamin Wittmann (Germany) 10.688
35 Kasper Jessen (Denmark) 10.709
36 Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) 10.806
37 Krzysztof Szymanek (Poland) 10.834
38 Ivan Vrba (Czech Republic) 10.836
39 Vasileros Reppas (Greece) 10.852
40 Wilson Meneses Gutierrez (Colombia) 10.890
41 Benjamin Barczewski (USA) 10.924
42 Kostantinos Pentarakis (Greece) 10.977

1/16 Finals

Heat 1
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 11.410
2 Qiming Wang (China)

Heat 2
1 Craig Maclean (Great Britain) 11.169
2 Christian Stahl (USA)

Heat 3
1 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.906
2 Tsubasa Kitatsuru (Japan)

Heat 4
1 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.755
2 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica)

Heat 5
1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 10.870
2 Michael Seidenbecher (Germany)

Heat 6
1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.723
2 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine)

Heat 7
1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.864
2 Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)

Heat 8
1 Roberto Chiappa (Italy) 10.682
2 Grégory Bauge (France)

Heat 9
1 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.929
2 Travis Smith (Canada)

Heat 10
1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.924
2 Matt Crampton (Great Britain)

Heat 11
1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.800
2 Matt Crampton (Great Britain)

Heat 12
1 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 11.038
2 José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spain)

Team Pursuit
Qualification

1 Great Britain 4.04.074 (58.998 km/h)
Stephen Cummings
Rob Hayles
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas

2 Australia 4.04.403
Peter Dawson
Matthew Harley Goss
Mark Jamieson
Stephen Wooldridge

3 Netherlands 4.06.494
Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Niki Terpstra

4 Ukraine 4.07.165
Volodymyr Dyudya
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Maksym Polyshchuk
Vitaliy Shchedov

5 New Zealand 4.07.530
Sam Bewley
Hayden Godfrey
Timothy Gudsell
Marc Ryan

6 Germany 4.07.873
Robert Bartko
Robert Bengsch
Guido Fulst
Leif Lampater

7 Spain 4.08.542
Carlos Castano Panadero
Sergio Escobar Roure
Carlos Torrent Tarres
David Muntaner Juaneda

8 Russia 4.09.954
Mikhail Ignatiev
Serguei Klimov
Alexander Serov
Nikolai Trussov

9 France 4.10.162
Mathieu Ladagnous
Jonathan Mouchel
Nicolas Rousseau
Fabien Sanchez

10 Denmark 4.10.174
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
Alex Rasmussen

11 Belgium 4.11.989
Dominique Cornu
Ingmar De Poortere
Tim Mertens
Steve Schets

12 USA 4.14.952
Michael Creed
Michael Friedman
Charles Bradley Huff
Danny Pate

13 Italy 4.17.276
Gianpaolo Biolo
Angelo Ciccone
Claudio Masnata
Roberto Traficante

14 Poland 4.20.892
Dawid Glowacki
Rafal Ratajczyk
Jakub Sredzinki
Wojciech Ziolkowski