The team’s third in the qualifications was their first-ever World Cup top-8 result. In addition the squad recently broke the 4-min mark at the Pan Am Track Championships in Mexico, setting the stage for their medal-winning ride at Glasgow.
“To go from our best World Cup result being ninth in New Zealand last year, to coming here, the first World Cup of this season, and be five seconds faster than any race last year … it’s incredible,” said Jamieson. “We lost a couple of our strongest guys [Sean MacKinnon, who signed for professional road team and Remi Pelletier-Roy, who returned to school] and, to be honest I was a little worried, and I think everybody else was too, that we wouldn’t be as strong. But we have proved now that we are a solid, solid team, and we are going places.”
Results
Round 1
Heat 1
1. Switzerland 4:03.123
Claudio Imhof
Stefan Bissegger
Reto Muller
Loic Perizzolo
2. Italy 4:05.750
Alex Buttazzoni
Simone Consonni
Francessco Lamon
Davide Plebani
Heat 2
1. Belgium 4:03.250
Kenny de Ketele
Moreno de Pauw
Lindsay de Vylder
Robbe Ghys
2. Russia 4:05.568
Evgeny Kovalev
Vladislav Kulikov
Andrey Prostokshin
Sergey Rostovtsev
Heat 3
1. France 3:59.723
Benjamin Thomas
Sylvain Chavanel
Corentin Ermenault
Adrien Garel
2. Canada 4:03.056
Adam Jamieson
Aidan Caves
Jay Lamoureux
Ed Veal
Heat 4
1. Great Britain 4:00.571
Mark Stewart
Matthew Bostock
Kian Emadi-Coffin
Oliver Wood
2. Poland 4:04.059
Alan Banaszek
Szymon Wojciech Sajnok
Daniel Staniszewski
Adrian Teklinski
Final for Gold
1. Great Britain 3:58.891
Mark Stewart
Kian Emadi-Coffin
Andrew Tennant
Oliver Wood
2. France 4:00.230
Benjamin Thomas
Sylvain Chavanel
Corentin Ermenault
Adrien Garel)
Final for Bronze
3. Canada 4:01.958
Adam Jamieson
Aidan Caves
Jay Lamoureux
Bayley Simpson
4. Switzerland 4:05.035
Claudio Imhof
Stefan Bissegger
Reto Muller
Loic Perizzolo