January 16, 2015 (Cali, Colombia) – Here are some results from Day 1 at the final round of the UCI Track World Cup Series in Cali, Colombia. Kicking things off this weekend are the Team Pursuit and Team Sprint qualifications. Canada sent a development squad to compete in the Women’s Team Pursuit event including Catherine Dessureault, Kinley Gibson, Ariane Bonhomme and Annie Foreman-Mackey making their World Cup debut in Colombia, while the A-team prepares for the Track World Championships in Paris at the end of February.

Results (brief)

Women’s Team Pursuit

Qualifications

1. China  4:35.477
Dong Yan Huang
Di Jin
Hongyu Liang
Baofang Zhao

2. Italy  4:37.134
Simona Frapporti
Beatrice Bartelloni
Tatiana Guderzo
Silvia Valsecchi

3. Australia  4:37.969
Macey Stewart
Elissa Wundersitz
Alexandra Manly
Lauren Perry

4. Hong Kong  4:38.871
Bo Yee Leung
Zhao Juan Meng
Yao Pang
Qianyu Yang

5. Germany 4:39.347
Charlotte Becker
Mieke Kroger
Stephanie Pohl
Gudrun Stock

6. Belarus 4:39.879
Ina Savenka
Volha Antonava
Polina Pivovarova
Marina Shmayankova

7. United States 4:40.428
Carmen Small
Lauren Tamayo
Jennifer Valente
Ruth Winder

8. New Zealand 4:40.978
Holly Edmondston
Racquel Sheath
Bryony Botha
Philippa Sutton

15. Canada 4:48.248
Ariane Bonhomme
Catherine Dessureault
Annie Foreman-Mackey
Kinley Gibson

Top 8 teams advance to the second round

Men’s Team Pursuit

Qualifications

1. Australia 4:04.106
Scott Law
Joshua Harrison
Jackson Law
Tirian McManus

2. Germany  4:04.158
Henning Bommel
Theo Reinhardt
Kersten Thiele
Domenic Weinstein

3. RusVelo 4:04.405
Artur Ershov
Alexander Evtushenko
Alexey Kurbatov
Alexander Serov

4. Denmark  4:04.658
Casper Pedersen
Anders Holm
Rasmus Christian Quaade
Casper von Folsach

5. Belgium 4:06.272
Jasper de Buyst
Dominique Cornu
Kenny de Ketele
Jonathan Dufrasne

6. Spain  4:06.775
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur
Asier Maeztu Billelabeitia
Eloy Teruel Rovira
Illart Zuazubiskar Gallastegi

7. Great Britain 4:06.937
Germain Burton
Matthew Gibson
Christopher Latham
Mark Stewart

8. Russia 4:07.266
Viktor Manakov
Ivan Savitskiy
Andrey Sazanov
Nikolay Zhurkin

21 Canada 4:15.159
Aidan Caves
Eric Johnstone
Sean Mackinnon
Remi Pelletier-Roy

Top 8 teams advance to the second round

Women’s Team Sprint

Qualifications

1. Russia 33.128
Daria Shmeleva
Ekaterina Gnidenko

2. Netherlands 33.351
Elis Ligtlee
Shanne Braspennincx

3. Spain 33.429
Tania Calvo Barbero
Helena Casas Roige

4. New Zealand 33.602
Katie Schofield
Natasha Hansen

5. Great Britain 33.627
Jessica Varnish
Katy Marchant

6. France 33.743
Sandie Clair
Olivia Montauban

7. Australia 33.831
Rikki Belder
Caitlin Ward

8. Cuba 34.371
Marlies Mejias Garcia
Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez

9. Korea 34.382
Seulgi Choi
Hyejin Lee

10. Canada 34.432
Kate O’Brien
Monique Sullivan

Fastest 2 teams race for gold and 3rd and 4th teams for bronze

Men’s Team Sprint

Qualifications

1. Netherlands 43.613
2. France 44.090
3. Poland 44.340
4. Japan 44.16

12. Canada 44.854
Evan Carey
Hugo Barrette
Joseph Veloce

Fastest 2 teams race for gold and 3rd and 4th teams for bronze