May 28, 2004 – After two days of waiting, two Canadians finally had a
chance to stretch their legs this morning in qualifying events at the 2004
Track World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. Lori-Ann Muenzer of
Alberta finished 6th in her Women’s Sprint qualifying event. She then went
on to win her first sprint against Yonghna Jiang Ching of China in a time
of 12.077 seconds and will race later on today in the second round of
sprints. Martin Gilbert of Quebec also made it through the Scratch Race
qualifying heats by placing 12th. He will be racing in the Scratch Race
final tonight in front of a sold-out crowd.
Stay tuned!!
Results
1. Svetlana Grankovskaya (Russia), 0.11.339 (63.497km/h)
2. Anna Meares (Australia), 0.11.450 (62.882km/h)
3. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania), 0.11.452 (62.871km/h)
4. Natallia Tsylinskaya (Bielorussia), 0.11.462 (62.816km/h)
5. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands), 0.11.472 (62.761km/h)
6. Lori-Ann Muenzer (Canada) , 0.11.527 (62.462km/h)
7. Tamilla Abassova (Russia, 0.11.534 (62.424km/h)
8. Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain), 0.11.559 (62.289km/h)
9. Jennie Reed (USA), 0.11.569 (62.235km/h)
10. Cuihua Jiang (China), 0.11.612 (62.004km/h)
11. Clara Sanchez (France) , 0.11.621 (61.956km/h)
12. Tanya Lindenmuth (USA) , 0.11.646 (61.823km/h)
13. Yonghua Jiang (China), 0.11.666 (61.717km/h)
14. Susan Panzer (Germany) , 0.11.671 (61.691km/h)
15. Daniela Larreal (Venezuela) , 0.11.770 (61.172km/h)
16. Elisa Frisoni (Italy), 0.11.840 (60.810km/h)
17. Oxana Grishina (Russia), 0.11.843 (60.795km/h)
18. Katrin Meinke (Germany), 0.11.855 (60.733km/h)
Scratch Race Qualifying heats
Heat 1
1. Sven Teutenberg (Germany)
2. Dimitri De Fauw (Belgium)
3. Serguei Koudentsov (Russia)
4. Greg Henderson (New Zealand)
5. Robert Slippens (Netherlands)
6. Walter Perez (Argentina)
7. Vasilis Anastopoulos (Greece)
8. Franco Marvulli (Switzerland)
9. Yauhen Sobal (Bielorussia)
10. Mathieu Ladagnous (France)
11. Volodymyr Rybin (Ukraine)
12. Kam Po Wong (Hong-Kong)
13. Milan Kadlec (Czech Republic)
REL Samuele Marzoli (Italy)
Heat 2
1. Tomas Margalef (Uruguay)
2. Mark Jamieson (Australia)
3. Linas Balciunas (Lithuania)
4. Kei Uchida (Japan)
5. Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (South Africa)
6. James Carney (USA)
7. Ilya Chernyshov (Kazakhstan)
8. Juan Pablo Forero Carreno (Colombia)
9. Alex Rasmussen (Denmark)
10. Dean Downing (Great Britain)
11. Roland Garber (Austria)
12. Martin Gilbert (Canada)
13. Miquel Alzamora Riera (Spain)