Author: Rachael Elliott

Men’s Sprint Semifinals With the two Frenchmen, Bauge and Lafargue, in the second heat, the buoyant French crowd could be assured that one of their countrymen would win at least a silver medal. Denis Dmitriev of Russia was up against Jeffrey Hoogland of the Netherlands in the first heat. Dmitriev took the first

Women’s Omnium IV – 500m Time TrialAnnette Edmondson of Australia was the quickest over 500m in last year’s omnium at the world championships, posting a fast 34.955 – some half a second ahead of Trott, her nearest competition on that day. A string of good performances in the event throughout

Women’s SprintSemifinalsThe ladies sprint semifinals were the first event on the programme. However, after Vogel and Zhong had started, their race was suddenly halted – due to a leak in an air conditioning unit which was pouring water onto the track. After many minutes of deliberating, a person was assigned

Men’s SprintQualifyingThe men’s sprint event opened the penultimate day of the world track championships which would see Francois Pervis of France start his campaign to become triple world champion for the second year in a row after clocking up his second win in the kilo competition the night previously. Stefan

The evening of the third day of competition at the 2015 Track Worlds saw the Women's Sprint progress to the Quarter Final stage, the end of the first day of the Men's Omnium competition with the Elimination Race and the Men's Kilo, Men's Points Race and Women's Individual Pursuit titles

The third day at the Velodrome National in Saint Quentin en Yveline saw the women sprinters take to the track for their qualification and the opening rounds of the Women's Sprint World Championship. The opening session also saw two Individual Pursuits - qualification for the Women's World Championship and the