While Kevin Sireau’s world record of 9.572 for the 200m flying start did not fall, the enthusiastic Mexican crowd were on the edge of their seats as rider after rider came close to the French athlete’s world mark established nearly four years ago.
In the end Russia’s Denis Dmitriev won the evening’s final over German Max Niederlag and in doing so took the overall World Cup sprint title. Canada’s Hugo Barrette qualified 15th while Joe Veloce was 31st. Barrette advanced to the 1/8th final and was eliminated in the B Quarterfinal.
France was the winning nation at the Mexican round of the 2012-2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup presented by Samsung, helped in no small part by their victory in the men’s Madison. The 40km final saw Vivien Brisse and Thomas Boudat triumph over the Ukraine duo of Mykhaylo Radionov and Sergiy Lagkuti. Switzerland took the bronze medal.
Olympic silver medallist Sarah Hammer (USA) won the Omnium competition in Aguascalientes and takes the overall title in front of Olympic Champion Laura Trott (GBR). The British athlete did not compete in Mexico but won the second round in Glasgow. Canada’s Gillian Carlton won the Individual pursuits, came 2nd in 500m TT and finished 4th overall.
The Chinese women dominated the Keirin, taking all three podium spots with Tianshi Zhong (gold), Jinjie Gong (silver) and Yulei Xu (bronze). It was a perfect finish to the Mexican round of the World Cup for these Chinese sprinters after Zhong’s world record in the individual sprint qualifiers the day before and Gong’s victory in the sprint final.
Consistency in the three rounds in Cali (Colombia) Glasgow (Great Britian) and Aguascalientes means that Germany takes the overall title in the 2012-2013 UCI Track Cycling World Cup. Eyes now turn to the UCI World Championships which will take place in Minsk (Belarus) from 20th to 24th February.
Full Results
Women’s Omnium
Individual Pursuit
1. Gillian Carleton (Can) Canada 3:25.8
2. Sarah Hammer (USA) United States of America 0:00.6
3. Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Cuba 0:06.1
4. Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Esp) Spain 0:07.7
5. Huang Li (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 0:10.2
6. Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex) Mexico 0:10.9
7. Tamara Balabolina (Rus) Russia 0:12.1
8. Angie Gonzalez (Ven) Venezuela 0:12.6
9. Elinor Barker (Gbr) Team USN 0:13.2
10. Ivanna Borovychenko (Ukr) Ukraine 0:13.3
11. Simona Frapporti (Ita) Italy 0:13.9
12. Laurie Berthon (Fra) France 0:16.0
13. Georgia Baker (Aus) Australia 0:16.2
14. Lee Minhye (Kor) Korea 0:16.9
15. Lisa Fischer (Ger) Germany 0:17.1
16. Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic 0:17.5
17. Diao Xiao Juan (HKg) Hong Kong, China 0:18.5
18. Alzbeta Pavlendova (Svk) Slovakia 0:26.6
19. Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Thailand 0:36.6
20. Stephanie Torres (Ecu) Ecuador 0:48.6
Scratch Race
1. Diao Xiao Juan (HKg) Hong Kong, China
2. Laurie Berthon (Fra) France
3. Sarah Hammer (USA) United States of America
4. Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Esp) Spain
5. Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Thailand
6. Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex) Mexico
7. Huang Li (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
8. Gillian Carleton (Can) Canada
9. Simona Frapporti (Ita) Italy
10. Ivanna Borovychenko (Ukr) Ukraine
11. Alzbeta Pavlendova (Svk) Slovakia
12. Angie Gonzalez (Ven) Venezuela
13. Georgia Baker (Aus) Australia
14. Tamara Balabolina (Rus) Russia
15. Elinor Barker (Gbr) Team USN
16. Lisa Fischer (Ger) Germany
17. Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Cuba
18. Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic
19. Lee Minhye (Kor) Korea
Stephanie Torres (Ecu) Ecuador
500m Time Trial
1. Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Cuba 34.6
2. Gillian Carleton (Can) Canada 01.0
3. Huang Li (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 01.1
4. Sarah Hammer (USA) United States of America 01.2
5. Tamara Balabolina (Rus) Russia 01.2
6. Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Esp) Spain 01.3
7. Laurie Berthon (Fra) France 01.3
8. Angie Gonzalez (Ven) Venezuela 01.6
9. Lee Minhye (Kor) Korea 02.0
10. Diao Xiao Juan (HKg) Hong Kong, China 02.1
11. Georgia Baker (Aus) Australia 02.2
12. Elinor Barker (Gbr) Team USN 02.3
13. Simona Frapporti (Ita) Italy 02.4
14. Ivanna Borovychenko (Ukr) Ukraine 02.7
15. Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Thailand 02.9
16. Alzbeta Pavlendova (Svk) Slovakia 02.9
17. Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex) Mexico 03.2
18. Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic 03.7
19. Lisa Fischer (Ger) Germany 04.8
Final Standings
1. Sarah Hammer (USA) United States of America 14 pts
2. Huang Li (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 21
3. Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Esp) Spain 31
4. Gillian Carleton (Can) Canada 36
5. Marlies Mejias Garcia (Cub) Cuba 46
6. Laurie Berthon (Fra) France 46
7. Angie Gonzalez (Ven) Venezuela 53
8. Simona Frapporti (Ita) Italy 56
9. Diao Xiao Juan (HKg) Hong Kong, China 58
10. Tamara Balabolina (Rus) Russia 59
11. Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex) Mexico 68
12. Ivanna Borovychenko (Ukr) Ukraine 70
13. Jarmila Machacova (Cze) Czech Republic 71
14. Georgia Baker (Aus) Australia 74
15. Elinor Barker (Gbr) Team USN 79
16. Alzbeta Pavlendova (Svk) Slovakia 83
17. Lee Minhye (Kor) Korea 84
18. Jutatip Maneephan (Tha) Thailand 95
19. Lisa Fischer (Ger) Germany 97
DSQ Stephanie Torres (Ecu) Ecuador
Women’s Keirin
Round 1
Heat 1
1. Lee Wai Sze (HKg) Hong Kong, China
2. Xu Yulei (Chn) China
3. Miriam Welte (Ger) Germany
4. Anastasiia Voynova (Rus) Russia
5. Kanako Kase (Jpn) Japan
6. Gleydimar Tapia (Ven) Venezuela
Heat 2
1. Gong Jinjie (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
2. Ekaterina Gnidenko (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
3. Hiroko Ishii (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo
4. Kaarle McCulloch (Aus) Australia
5. Olena Tsos (Ukr) Ukraine
6. Mariaesthela Vilera (Ven) Venezuela
Heat 3
1. Taylah Jennings (Aus) Team Jayco-AIS
2. Zhong Tianshi (Chn) China
3. Elena Brezhniva (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
4. Olivia Montauban (Fra) France
5. Erika Alanis (Mex) Mexico
6. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub) Cuba
7. Kayono Maeda (Jpn) Japan
Heat 4
1. Stephanie Morton (Aus) Australia
2. Virginie Cueff (Fra) France
3. Daria Shmeleva (Rus) Russia
4. Ainara El Busto Arteaga (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
5. Frany Maria Fong Echevarria (Mex) Mexico
6. Karen Cruz (ESa) El Salvador
7. Olga Streltsova (Rus) RusVelo
Repechage
Heat 1
1. Miriam Welte (Ger) Germany
2. Erika Alanis (Mex) Mexico
3. Ainara El Busto Arteaga (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
4. Mariaesthela Vilera (Ven) Venezuela
Heat 2
1. Olivia Montauban (Fra) France
2. Hiroko Ishii (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo
3. Olga Streltsova (Rus) RusVelo
4. Olena Tsos (Ukr) Ukraine
5. Gleydimar Tapia (Ven) Venezuela
Heat 3
1. Kaarle McCulloch (Aus) Australia
2. Kanako Kase (Jpn) Japan
3. Elena Brezhniva (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
4. Kayono Maeda (Jpn) Japan
5. Karen Cruz (ESa) El Salvador
Heat 4
1. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub) Cuba
2. Anastasiia Voynova (Rus) Russia
3. Daria Shmeleva (Rus) Russia
4. Frany Maria Fong Echevarria (Mex) Mexico
Round 2
Heat 1
1. Stephanie Morton (Aus) Australia
2. Lee Wai Sze (HKg) Hong Kong, China
3. Zhong Tianshi (Chn) China
4. Miriam Welte (Ger) Germany
5. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub) Cuba
6. Ekaterina Gnidenko (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
Heat 2
1. Gong Jinjie (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
2. Taylah Jennings (Aus) Team Jayco-AIS
3. Xu Yulei (Chn) China
4. Olivia Montauban (Fra) France
5. Virginie Cueff (Fra) France
Kaarle McCulloch (Aus) Australia
Final 1-6
1. Zhong Tianshi (Chn) China
2. Gong Jinjie (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling
3. Xu Yulei (Chn) China
4. Lee Wai Sze (HKg) Hong Kong, China
5. Taylah Jennings (Aus) Team Jayco-AIS
6. Stephanie Morton (Aus) Australia
Final 7-11
7. Virginie Cueff (Fra) France
8. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub) Cuba
9. Ekaterina Gnidenko (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
10. Miriam Welte (Ger) Germany
11. Olivia Montauban (Fra) France
Men’s Sprint
Qualifications
1. Juan Peralta Gascon (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor 0:09.6
2. Max Niederlag (Ger) Germany 0:00.0
3. Seiichiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Japan 0:00.1
4. Denis Dmitriev (Rus) RusVelo 0:00.1
5. Matthew Archibald (Nzl) New Zealand 0:00.1
6. Peter Lewis (Aus) Australia 0:00.1
7. Sam Webster (Nzl) New Zealand 0:00.1
8. Bernard Esterhuizen (RSA) South Africa 0:00.2
9. Michaël D’Almeida (Fra) France 0:00.2
10. Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad 0:00.2
11. Denis Shurshin (Rus) Russia 0:00.2
12. Nikita Shurshin (Rus) RusVelo 0:00.2
13. Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo 0:00.2
14. Kevin Sireau (Fra) France 0:00.2
15. Hugo Barrette (Can) Canada 0:00.3
16. Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine 0:00.3
17. Tomoyuki Kawabata (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo 0:00.3
18. Tomas Babek (Cze) Czech Republic 0:00.3
19. Mitchell Bullen (Aus) Australia 0:00.3
20. Christos Volikakis (Gre) Greece 0:00.3
21. Xu Chao (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling 0:00.3
22. Wei Jiren (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 0:00.3
23. Eoin Mullen (Irl) Ireland 0:00.3
24. Ilya Okunev (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad 0:00.4
25. Matthijs Buchli (Ned) Netherlands 0:00.4
26. Andrey Russkikh (Rus) Russia 0:00.4
27. Jeffrey Hoogland (Ned) Netherlands 0:00.4
28. Sergio Aliaga Chivite (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor 0:00.4
29. Feng Yong (Chn) Giant Pro Cycling 0:00.4
30. Richard Assmus (Ger) Germany 0:00.4
31. Joseph Veloce (Can) Canada 0:00.4
32. Krzysztof Maksel (Pol) Poland 0:00.4
33. Francesco Ceci (Ita) Italy 0:00.4
34. Zafeiris Volikakis (Gre) Greece
35. Robin Wagner (Cze) Czech Republic 0:00.5
36. Leandro Hernan Botasso (Arg) Argentina 0:00.5
37. Makuru Wada (Jpn) Japan 0:00.5
38. Andriy Kutsenko (Ukr) Ukraine 0:00.6
39. Pablo Javier Perruchoud (Arg) Argentina 0:00.6
40. Wang Qiming (Chn) Max Success Pro Cycling 0:00.6
41. Yhonny Araujo (Ven) Venezuela 0:00.7
42. Bernardo Mejia (Mex) Mexico 0:00.9
43. Haseem Mclean (Tri) Team Beacon 0:00.9
44. Cesar Marcano (Ven) Venezuela 0:00.9
45. Davide Ceci (Ita) Team Ceci Dreambike 0:00.9
46. Jose Arturo Rodriguez (Mex) Mexico 0:01.0
47. Nicky Cocquyt (Bel) Belgium 0:01.3
48. Christian Grazian (Ita) Italy 0:01.3
49. Rene Magaña (ESa) El Salvador 0:01.8
1/8 Final
Heat 1
1. Juan Peralta Gascon (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
2. Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine
Heat 2
1. Max Niederlag (Ger) Germany
2. Hugo Barrette (Can) Canada
Heat 3
1. Seiichiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Japan
2. Kevin Sireau (Fra) France
Heat 4
1. Denis Dmitriev (Rus) RusVelo
2. Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo
Heat 5
1. Matthew Archibald (Nzl) New Zealand
2. Nikita Shurshin (Rus) RusVelo
Heat 6
1. Peter Lewis (Aus) Australia
2. Denis Shurshin (Rus) Russia
Heat 7
1. Sam Webster (Nzl) New Zealand
2. Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
Heat 8
1. Michaël D’Almeida (Fra) France
2. Bernard Esterhuizen (RSA) South Africa
Quarterfinal
Heat 1
1. Juan Peralta Gascon (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
2. Michaël D’Almeida (Fra) France
Heat 2
1. Max Niederlag (Ger) Germany
2. Sam Webster (Nzl) New Zealand
Heat 3
1. Seiichiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Japan
2. Peter Lewis (Aus) Australia
Heat 4
1. Denis Dmitriev (Rus) RusVelo
2. Matthew Archibald (Nzl) New Zealand
Quarterfinal B
Heat 1
1. Bernard Esterhuizen (RSA) South Africa
2. Andrii Vynokurov (Ukr) Ukraine
Heat 2
1. Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
2. Hugo Barrette (Can) Canada
Heat 3
1. Denis Shurshin (Rus) Russia
2. Kevin Sireau (Fra) France
Heat 4
1. Nikita Shurshin (Rus) RusVelo
2. Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn) Cyclo Channel Tokyo
Semifinal
Heat 1
1. Denis Dmitriev (Rus) RusVelo
2. Juan Peralta Gascon (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
Heat 2
1. Max Niederlag (Ger) Germany
2. Seiichiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Japan
B
Heat 1
1. Bernard Esterhuizen (RSA) South Africa
2. Nikita Shurshin (Rus) RusVelo
Heat 2
1. Denis Shurshin (Rus) Russia
2. Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
Final 5th-8th
5. Sam Webster (Nzl) New Zealand
6. Michaël D’Almeida (Fra) France
7. Peter Lewis (Aus) Australia
8. Matthew Archibald (Nzl) New Zealand
Final 9th-12th
9. Bernard Esterhuizen (RSA) South Africa
10. Denis Shurshin (Rus) Russia
11. Nikita Shurshin (Rus) RusVelo
12. Valentin Savitskiy (Rus) Petroholding Leningrad
Final
1. Denis Dmitriev (Rus) RusVelo
2. Max Niederlag (Ger) Germany
3. Juan Peralta Gascon (Esp) Reyno De Navarra_Telco_M_Conor
4. Seiichiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Japan
Men’s Madison
Final
1. Thomas Boudat/Vivien Brisse (Fra) France 12 pts
2. Sergiy Lagkuti/Mykhaylo Radionov (Ukr) Ukraine 3
3. Stefan Kueng/Silvan Dillier (Sui) Switzerland 10 (-1 lap)
4. Ivan Kovalev/Evgeny Kovalev (Rus) Russia 6
5. Leonid Krasnov/Artur Ershov (Rus) RusVelo 16 (-2 laps)
6. Liam Bertazzo/Michele Scartezzini (Ita) Italy 14
7. Diego Johnathan Yepez Arellano/José Ramon Aguirre Infante (Mex) Mexico 6
8. Elias Helleskov Busk/Jesper Mørkøv Christiansen (Den) Denmark 4
9. Cheung King Lok/Leung Chun Wing (HKg) Hong Kong, China
10. Andreas Graf/Stefan Matzner (Aut) Austria 6 pts (-4 laps)
11. Dias Omirzakov/Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 5
12. Maximo Rojas/Richard Ochoa Quintero (Ven) Venezuela 5
13. Jonathan Mould/George Atkins (Gbr) Team USN 1 (-5 laps)
14. Ondrej Rybin/Tomas Babek (Cze) Czech Republic
15. Peter Loft/George Tansley (Aus) Australia
DNS Edwin Avila/Juan Esteban Arango Carvajal (Col) Colombia
DNS David Muntaner Juaneda/Albert Torres Barcelo (Esp) Performance United-Felt
DNS Domenic Weinstein/Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Germany