March 26, 2009 (Pruskow, Poland) — Canada’s Travis Smith finished third in his heat at the first round of the men’s Keirin, just one spot shy of advancing to the next round. In the men’s 4000m Individual Pursuit the USA’s Taylor Phinney topped the qualifications in 4:15.160 bettering his own U.S. national record of 4:15.223 set in Copenhagen in Feb. at the final round of the 2008/09 UCI Track World Cup. Jack Bobridge (Australia) finished second, Dominique Cornu (Belgium) 3rd and Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine) placed 4th – the fastest two riders race for gold while the 3rd and 4th placed riders compete for the bronze.

Results

Men’s Individual Pursuit

Qualifications

1. Taylor Phinney (USA) 4:15.160 (56.435 km/h)
2. Jack Bobridge (Australia) 4:17.4
3. Dominique Cornu (Belgium) 4:19.2
4. Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine) 4:19.8
5. Jesse Sergent (New Zealand) 4:21.3
6. Sergi Escobar Roure (Spain) 4:23.6
7. Alexei Markov (Russian Federation) 4:24.1
8. Patrick Gretsch (Germany) 4:24.6
9. Robert Bartko (Germany) 4:26.3
10. Vitaliy Shchedov (Ukraine) 4:26.5
11. Antonio Tauler Llull (Spain) 4:26.7
12. Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (Colombia) 4:27.8
13. Levi Heimans (Netherlands) 4:28.6
14. Ingmar De Poortere (Belgium) 4:30.1
15. David O’Loughlin (Ireland) 4:32.5
16. Arnaud Depreeuw (France) 4:32.6
17. Valery Kaikov (Russian Federation) 4:32.6
18. Alessandro De Marchi (Italy) 4:35.9
19. Jiri Bares (Czech Republic) 4:39.6
20. Alexey Lyalko (Kazakhstan) 4:43.9
DSQ* Adrian Kurek (Poland)

*For overtaking his opponent after having been overtaken
**Fastest two riders race for gold – 3rd and 4th place riders compete for the bronze.

Men’s Keirin

Round 1

Heat #1
1. Carsten Bergemann (Germany)
2. Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
3. Jason Kenny (Great Britain)
4. Daniel Ellis (Australia)
5. Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic)
6. Andrii Vynokurov (Ukraine)
7. Kévin Sireau (France)

Heat #2
1. Maximilian Levy (Germany)
2. Shane Perkins (Australia)
3. Kamil Kuczynski (Poland)
4. Christos Volikakis (Greece)
5. Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia)
6. Leonardo Alfredo Narvaez Romero (Colombia)
7. Hodei Mazquiaran Uria (Spain)

Heat #3
1. Sergey Borisov (Russian Federation)
2. Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)
3. Christopher Sellier (Trinidad and Tobago)
4. José Antonio Escuredo Raimondez (Spain)
5. Matthew Crampton (Great Britain)
6. Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand)
7. Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)

Heat #4
1. François Pervis (France)
2. Jason Niblett (Australia)
3. Travis Smith (Canada)
4. Yondi Schmidt (Netherlands)
5. Ross Edgar (Great Britain)
6. Tomokazu Sato (Japan)
7. Barry Forde (Barbados)

* The top two riders in each heat move on to Round 2 – the remaining riders compete in the Repechage.