December 11, 2005 — For the past three days North Americans have been hammering around the velodrome in Manchester, England at the second Track World Cup of the season and there have been successes, disappointments and surprises!

On Saturday, Canadian sprinter extraordinaire, Travis Smith of Alberta powered through a 200 meter time-trial in a time of 10.481 seconds, to put him in 6th place in the qualifying round out of 46 competitors. He was later knocked out of medal contention in the quarterfinals by Teun Mulder of the Netherlands, but went on to place an incredible 6th place in the 5-8 round.

Smith’s results have now catapulted him into 7th place overall in the World Cup standings and tied him for points with Mickaël Bourgain of France who is 5th overall. A month ago, Smith placed 8th at World Cup #1 in Moscow, Russia.

Smith’s team mate and fellow Albertan, Cam MacKinnon, finished 29th in the qualifying 200 meter time-trial with a time of 10.909 seconds. His placing was an improvement over his 34th finish at the World Cup in Moscow.

Today, both Smith and Mackinnon along with team mate Yannik Morin of Quebec, competed in the Men’s Olympic Team Sprint and finished 10th with a time of 47.050 seconds. This result gives them one UCI point and now ranks them 13th in the World Cup.

In the women’s events, Sarah Hammer of the United States surprised everyone with her strength and speed and has been the talk of the competition. On Friday, she claimed the gold in the Points Race and then early Saturday morning she qualified first in the Individual Pursuit with a time of 3.38.958 minutes. In the finals, Hammer put in a good fight but Katherine Bates of Australia proved to be the stronger rider, although not by much – only one second separated the two riders.

Earlier today, Canada’s lone female representative Gina Grain of British Columbia finished 7th in the first qualifying heat of the Women’s Scratch Race, but then had a disappointing final race and was not able to finish.

Complete Results from today still to come! Stay tuned”¦

Saturday, November 10th, 2005
Men sprint – 200m qualifying
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.251
2 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.317
3 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.328
4 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.451
5 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 10.475
6 Travis Smith (Canada) 10.481
7 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 10.483
8 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 10.507
9 Qiming Wang (China) 10.513)
10 Shane John Kelly (Australia) 10.527
11 Ryan Bayley (Australia) 10.554)
12 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland) 10.557
13 José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (Spain) 10.562
14 Matt Crampton (GBr) Science in Sport 10.567
15 Benjamin Wittmann (Germany) 10.641
16 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica) 10.645
17 Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Malaysia) 10.645
18 Salvador Melia Mangriñan (Spain) 10.689
19 Yahui Gao (China) 10.691
20 Michael Blatchford (USA) 10.696
21 Sergiy Ruban (Russia) 10.754
22 Kazuya Narita (Japan) 10.802
23 Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) 10.807
24 Maksym Lopatyuk (Ukraine) 10.821
25 Cédric Stoller (Switzerland) 10.830
26 Hernan Sanchez (Colombia) 10.831
27 Kouji Hamada (Japan) 10.841
28 Yuriy Tsyupyk (Ukraine) 10.905
29 Cam Mackinnon (Canada) 10.909
30 Leonardo Bottasso (Argentina) 10.957
31 Vladimir Kiriltsev (Russia) 10.993
32 Kevin Belz (USA) 10.993
33 Athanasios Mantzouranis (Greece) 11.057
34 Michael Rodriguez Malaret (Puerto Rico) 11.068
35 Peter Bazalik (Slovakia) 11.088
36 Adam Ptacnik (Czech Republic) 11.129
37 Tim Bottu (Belgium) 11.240
38 Konstandinos Pendarakis (Greece) 11.254
39 Gabriel Jonasek (Slovakia) 11.309
40 Wilson Meneses Gutierrez (Colombia) 11.333
41 Diego Vargas (Argentina) 11.426
42 Jason Forde (Barbados) 11.565)
43 Mohammad Aboheidari (Iran) 11.574
44 Azikiwe Kellar (Trinidad) 11.671
45 Alizrea Ahmadiashjerdi (Iran) 11.725
46 Ako Kellar (Trinidad) 11.804

B quarter-finals
Heat 1
1 Qiming Wang (China) 11.039
2 Ricardo Lynch (Jamaica)

Heat 2
1 Shane John Kelly (Australia) 11.127
2 Benjamin Wittmann (Germany)

Heat 3
1 Matt Crampton (GBr) Science in Sport 10.965
2 Ryan Bayley (Australia)

Heat 4
1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 11.383
2 José Antonio Villanueva Trinidad (Spain)

Quarter-finals
Heat 1
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 11.566 10.701
2 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 11.005

Heat 2
1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.663
2 Damian Zielinski (Poland)

Heat 3
1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 10.898
2 Travis Smith (Canada)

Heat 4
1 Arnaud Tournant (France) 10.979 11.148
2 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)

B semi-final
Heat 1
1 Ross Edgar (Great Britain) 11.362)
2 Qiming Wang (China)

Heat 2
1 Matt Crampton (GBr) Science in Sport 11.102
2 Shane John Kelly (Australia)

Semi-finals
Heat 1
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 11.478 10.950
2 Arnaud Tournant (France)

Heat 2
1 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 11.023 10.903
2 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.856

B final
Heat 1
9 Matt Crampton (GBr) Science in Sport 11.037
10 Ross Edgar (Great Britain)

Heat 2
11 Shane John Kelly (Australia) 11.301
12 Qiming Wang (China)

5-8 final
5 Maximilian Levy (Germany) 11.157 (64.533km/h)
6 Travis Smith (Canada)
7 Lukasz Kwiatkowski (Poland)
8 Damian Zielinski (Poland)

Final

Gold
1 Theo Bos (Netherlands) 10.696 10.930
2 Teun Mulder (Netherlands)

Bronze
1 Mickaël Bourgain (France) 10.921 11.112
2 Arnaud Tournant (France)

Women individual pursuit

Qualifying

1 Sarah Hammer (USA) 3.38.958
2 Katherine Bates (Australia) 3.40.052
3 Rachel Heal (Great Britain) 3.43.210
4 Larissa Kleinmann (Germany) 3.43.914
5 Maria Luisa Calle Williams (Colombia) 3.44.765
6 Paddy Walker (New Zealand) 3.45.554
7 Gema Pascual Torrecilla (Spain) 3.45.611
8 Karin Thürig (Switzerland) 3.45.692
9 Lisa Gatto (Italy) 3.46.945
10 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 3.48.204
11 Elizaveta Bochkaryova (Ukraine) 3.50.064
12 Sara Peeters (Belgium) 3.50.227
13 Marlijn Binnendijk (Netherlands) 3.51.057
14 Florence Girardet (France) 3.54.618
15 Inga Cilvinaite (Lithuania) 3.56.975
16 Katarzyna Jagusiak (Poland) 4.00.813
17 Alena Sitsko (Belarus) 4.04.944
18 Athina Chatzistyli (Greece) 4.05.180

Finals — Women’s Individual Pursuit
Gold
1 Katherine Bates (Australia) 3.40.574
2 Sarah Hammer (USA) 3.41.583

Bronze
1 Larissa Kleinmann (Germany) 3.43.559
2 Rachel Heal (Great Britain) 3.45.300

Men team pursuit – Qualifying
1 New Zealand 4.09.142
Jason Allen
Hayden Godfrey
Timothy Gudsell
Marc Ryan
2 Recycling.Co.Uk 4.09.521
Mark Cavendish
Rob Hayles
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
3 Netherlands 4.10.165
Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Peter Schep
Niki Terpstra
4 Spain 4.11.892
Carlos Castano Panadero
Guillermo Ferrer Garcia
Sebastian David Muntaner Juaneda
Carlos Torrent Tarres
5 Germany 4.12.725
Christian Bach
Henning Bommel
Karl-Christian König
Leif Lampater
6 Russia 4.12.887
Alexander Serov
Serguei Klimov
Anton Mindlin
Nikolai Trussov
7 Denmark 4.13.357
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
Alex Rasmussen
8 Great Britain 4.13.694
Edward Clancy
Ross Sander
Andrew Tennant
Geraint Thomas
9 Ukraine 4.15.693
Volodymyr Dyudya
Roman Kononenko
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Volodymyr Zagorodniy
10 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 4.16.636
Valery Valynin
Ivan Kovalev
Alexander Khatuntsev
Sergey Kolesnikov
11 France 4.19.833
Jérémy Besson
François Lamiraud
Damien Monier
Tuanua Zahn
12 Poland 4.20.727)
Dawid Glowacki
Kamil Kuczynski
Rafat Ratajczyk
Radoslaw Wasilewski
13 Islamic Rep. Of Iran 4.23.774
Alireza Haghi
Abbas Saeiditanha
Mehdi Sohrabi
Amir Zargary

Finals — Team Pursuit
Gold
1 New Zealand 4.08.142
Jason Allen
Hayden Godfrey
Timothy Gudsell
Marc Ryan
2 Recycling.Co.Uk 4.08.345
Mark Cavendish
Rob Hayles
Paul Manning
Chris Newton

Bronze
1 Netherlands 4.09.293
Levi Heimans
Jens Mouris
Wim Stroetinga
Niki Terpstra
2 Spain 4.13.478
Guillermo Ferrer Garcia
Sebastian David Muntaner Juaneda
Carlos Torrent Tarres
Isaac Galvez Lopez

Women 500m TT
1 Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) 34.524
2 Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 34.704
3 Victoria Pendleton (GBr) Science in Sport 34.949
4 Lizandra Guerra (Cuba) 35.010
5 Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 35.077
6 Dana Gloss (Germany) 35.236
7 Elisa Frisoni (Italy) 35.339
8 Kristine Bayley (Australia) 35.653
9 Magdalena Sara (Poland) 35.783
10 Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia) 35.906
11 Nancy Contreras (Mexico) 36.135
12 Clara Sanchez (France) 36.145
13 Elisabeth Williams (New Zealand) 36.233
14 Lei Zhang (China) 36.345
15 Anastasia Chulkova (Russia) 37.218
16 Lenka Valova (Czech Republic) 37.967

Men points race
Heat 1
1 François Lamiraud (France) 25
2 Jozef Zabka (Slovakia) 23
3 Michael Faerk Christensen (Denmark) 22
4 Peter Schep (Netherlands) 10
5 Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 8
6 Guido Fulst (Germany) 8
7 Magnus Bäckstedt (Sweden) 6
8 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 5
9 Aeschbach Alexander (Switzerland) 5
10 Ilzo Keisse (Belgium) 5
11 Mario Lexmüller (Austria) 4
12 Kyle Swain (South Africa) 3
13 Guillermo Brunetta (Argentina) 1
14 Carlos Manuel Hernandez (Mexico) 1
15 Cabrera Antonio (Chile)

Heat 2
1 Mikhail Ignatiev (Russia) 27
2 Mehdi Sohrabi (Iran) 11
3 Sean Finning (Australia) 8
4 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 7
5 Rafat Ratajczyk (Poland) 7
6 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) 6
7 Martin Blaha (Czech Republic) 5
8 Volodymyr Zagorodniy (Ukraine) 5
9 Anthony Chapman (New Zealand) 3
10 Carlos Torrent Tarres (Spain) 3
11 Ian Stannard (Great Britain) 3
12 Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus)
DNF Jason Perryman (Barbados)
DNF Jorge Soto (Uruguay)

Final — Men’s points race
1 Guido Fulst (Germany) 32
2 Peter Schep (Netherlands) 28
3 Martin Blaha (Czech Republic) 24
4 Aeschbach Alexander (Switzerland) 24
5 Mehdi Sohrabi (Iran) 16
6 Mikhail Ignatiev (Russia) 16
7 Carlos Torrent Tarres (Spain) 11
8 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 11
9 Anthony Chapman (New Zealand) 10
10 Rafat Ratajczyk (Poland) 10
11 Ilzo Keisse (Belgium) 8
12 Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece) 7
13 Michael Faerk Christensen (Denmark) 6
14 François Lamiraud (France) 3
15 Jozef Zabka (Slovakia) 2
16 Angelo Ciccone (Italy) 2
17 Volodymyr Zagorodniy (Ukraine) 1
18 Magnus Bäckstedt (Sweden) 1
19 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.co.uk
20 Sean Finning (Australia)