March 28, 2010 (Copenhagen, Denmark) – Here are more results and photos from Day 4 at the 2010 Track Worlds in Copenhagen where Canada’s Tara Whitten won gold in the women’s Omnium, Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) earned her 5th gold in the women’s sprint, and Australia took home the gold in the Madison.

CCA Report – Canadian Becomes World Champ
The Canadian Team completed the majority of their races during the first two days of racing at the 2010 World Championships in Copenhagen and have successfully set a Canadian Record and Personal Bests. Boasting the largest team sent to Worlds in recent memory, for most of the members of the team this was the end of their first international race season and are back in Canada after racing at the Ballerup Super Arena.

Travis Smith was one of the remaining 4 members of team Canada to race and has been looking forward to racing in the 200 meter qualifying round for the sprints. He has been posting great times in training over the past few weeks. Looking to have moved passed the physical and mental setbacks of crashing and breaking his hip in the Keirin at Worlds in 2007 he was ready to compete at this year’s Championships. Unfortunately, he got hit with a bug that had him feeling under the weather and took some of his energy. His time was a respectable 26th with 24 athletes moving on to the Sprint Rounds.

Tara Whitten was the other Canadian on track in the new Olympic event the Omnium. Having won the silver medal last year, she was looking to move up in the rankings and appeared relaxed, focused, and ready to correct her mistakes from the year before. First up was the 200 meter time trial where she posted the second fastest time to get off to a great start. She placed 9th in the Scratch race which had her sitting in fourth in the overall and then a third and a sixth place finish in the Individual Pursuit and Points race had her tied for first place with the British rider Lizzy Armitstead heading in to the final event, the 500 meter time trial. Paired with the Brit in the last heat she knew what time would need to be posted to win, and that winning her heat would propel her ahead of her closest competition.

“I was thinking of a technically perfect start and accelerating as fast as I could … plus I have been working really hard on the 500.” The hard work paid off as Tara set the third fastest time and enough points to become the World Champion. “It hasn’t sunk in yet that I have won, but I really felt that I took in the moment of standing on top of the podium and singing the national anthem.”

The final day of competition will see Tara race in her fourth race of these championships, the Points Race and Monique Sullivan will be back on track in the Keirin.

Click here to view some videos of Canadians racing at the World Championships.

Results

Women’s Omnium

10km Points Race
1. Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) 15 pts
2. Sarah Hammer (United States Of America) 9
3. Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain) 7
4. Barbara Guarischi (Italy) 3
5. Charlotte Becker (Germany) 3
6. Tara Whitten (Canada) 2
7. Gemma Dudley (New Zealand) 1
8. Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China)
9. Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba)
10. Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spain)
11. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) -17
12. Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) -19
13. Renata Dabrowska (Poland) -20
14. Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) -20
15. Chaomei Wu (People’s Republic of China) -20

500m Time Trial
1. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 35.0
2. Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 35.2
3. Tara Whitten (Canada) 35.8
4. Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 36.1
5. Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 36.2
6. Sarah Hammer (United States Of America) 36.3
7. Gemma Dudley (New Zealand) 36.4
8. Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spain) 36.5
9. Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain) 36.9
10. Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) 37.0
11. Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) 37.6
12. Charlotte Becker (Germany) 37.6
13. Chaomei Wu (People’s Republic of China) 37.9
14. Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China) 38.1
15. Barbara Guarischi (Italy) 39.1

Final

1. Tara Whitten (Canada) 23
2. Elizabeth Armitstead (Great Britain) 29
3. Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spain) 30
4. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 30
5. Sarah Hammer (United States Of America) 32
6. Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 35
7. Charlotte Becker (Germany) 39
8. Gemma Dudley (New Zealand) 40
9. Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 41
10. Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) 44
11. Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) 44
12. Renata Dabrowska (Poland) 47
13. Xiao Juan Diao (Hong Kong, China) 56
14. Barbara Guarischi (Italy) 56
15. Chaomei Wu (People’s Republic of China) 67

Women’s Sprint

Semifinals

Heat 1
Race 1
1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 11.5
2. Shuang Guo (People’s Republic of China)
Race 2
1. Shuang Guo (People’s Republic of China) 11.3
2. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)
Race 3
1. Shuang Guo (People’s Republic of China) 11.5
2. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)

Heat 2
Race 1
1. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 11.3
2. Anna Meares (Australia)
Race 2
1. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 11.2
2. Anna Meares (Australia)

Final for Gold
Heat 1
1. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 11.6
2. Shuang Guo (People’s Republic of China)
Heat 2
1. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) 11.5
2. Shuang Guo (People’s Republic of China)

Final for Bronze
Heat 1
1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 11.4
2. Anna Meares (Australia)
Heat 2
1. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 11.4
2. Anna Meares (Australia)

Men’s Sprint

1/4 Finals

Heat 1
Race 1
1. Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 10.4
2. Gregory Bauge (France)
Race 2
1. Gregory Bauge (France) 10.7
2. Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
Race 3
1. Gregory Bauge (France) 10.7
2. Chris Hoy (Great Britain)

Heat 2
Race 1
1. Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) 10.7
2. Robert Förstemann (Germany)
Race 2
1. Robert Förstemann (Germany) 10.9
2. Matthew Crampton (Great Britain)
Race 3
1. Robert Förstemann (Germany) 10.5
2. Matthew Crampton (Great Britain)

Heat 3
Race 1
1. Shane Perkins (Australia) 10.4
2. François Pervis (France)
Race 2
1. Shane Perkins (Australia) 10.4
2. François Pervis (France)

Heat 4
Race 1
1. Kévin Sireau (France) 10.5
2. Jason Kenny (Great Britain)
Race 2
1. Kévin Sireau (France) 10.1
2. Jason Kenny (Great Britain)

5th-8th place
5. Matthew Crampton (Great Britain) 10.6
6. Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
7. François Pervis (France)
8. Jason Kenny (Great Britain)

Men’s Madison Final

1. Australia 16 points
Leigh Howard
Cameron Meyer

2. France 6
Morgan Kneisky
Christophe Riblon

3. Belgium 5
Ingmar De Poortere
Steve Schets

4. Denmark 17 -1 lap
Michael Morkov
Alex Rasmussen

5. Germany 16
Robert Bartko
Roger Kluge

6. Russia 13
Sergey Kolesnikov
Alexey Shmidt

7. Italy 9
Angelo Ciccone
Elia Viviani

8. Argentina 8
Sebastian Donadio
Walter Fernando Perez

9. United States of America 7
Daniel Holloway
Colby Pearce

10. Austria 2
Andreas Graf
Georg Tazreiter

11. Netherlands
Peter Schep
Danny Stam

12. Czech Republic
Martin Blaha
Jiri Hochmann

13. Hong Kong
Ki Ho Choi
Kam_Po Wong

14. New Zealand
Marc Ryan
Thomas Scully

15. Switzerland 6 -2laps
Alexander Aeschbach
Franco Marvulli

16. Ukraine 11 -3laps
Sergiy Lagkuti
Mykhaylo Radionov

DNF Spain
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur
Antonio Tauler Llull

DNF Poland
Lukasz Bujko
Dawid Glowacki