Day three of the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships providing the same mix of thrilling raccing and controversial decisions as the previous two days and, though we didn’t see another World Record, we saw no less than 10 riders qualify for the Men’s Sprint competition in under 10 seconds – which is a record.
As well the Men’s Sprint kicking off, the Women’s Omnium began, the Men’s Omnium and the Women’s Sprint conculuded and we had the Women’s Scratch Race. Busy day!
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Men’s Sprint
Unlike the Women’s Sprint competition, the World Record was never under threat in qualification – hardly suprising, given that it was set on the monster track in Moscow. But there was a record set for the number of riders breaking the ten second barrier in qualification – no less than 10 – with the 11th only 3 thousandths outside.
Fastest of them was Grégory Baugé with a 9.854, back to try to recapture his the World title after his contriversial -in France anyway – loss of the 2011 title for a whereabouts violation. Robert Foestermann of Germany was next up on 9.873, followed by Baugé’s team mate Sireau at 9.893. Sir Chris Hoy was the first of the 9.9s in fourth on 9.902 – the same time as early leader Matthew Glaetzer of Australia who separated Hoy from compatriot Jason Kenny on 9.953. Eddy Dawkins of New Zealand,, Shane Perkins of Australia, Michael Bourgain of france and Stefan Boetticher of Germany were the remaining 9 second men.
200m Qualifying
1 BAUGE Gregory FRA 9.854
2 FOERSTEMANN Robert GER 9.873
3 SIREAU Kevin FRA 9.893
4 HOY Chris GBR 9.902
5 GLAETZER Matthew AUS 9.902
6 KENNY Jason GBR 9.953
7 DAWKINS Edward NZL 9.963
8 PERKINS Shane AUS 9.965
9 BOURGAIN Mickael FRA 9.966
10 BOETTICHER Stefan GER 9.983
11 NAKAGAWA Seiichiro JPN 10.003
12 ARCHIBALD Matthew NZL 10.034
13 SUNDERLAND Scott AUS 10.040
14 ZHANG Miao CHN 10.061
15 CANELON Hersony VEN 10.077
16 ENDERS Rene GER 10.077
17 PERALTA GASCON Juan ESP 10.101
18 BLATCHFORD Michael USA 10.118
19 WEBSTER Sam NZL 10.122
20 WATANABE Kazunari JPN 10.159
21 MITCHELL Ethan NZL 10.163
22 MAZQUIARAN URIA Hodei ESP 10.163
23 CRAMPTON Matthew GBR 10.167
24 CONORD Charlie FRA 10.169
Quarter Finals
BAUGE Gregory FRA **
BOETTICHER Stefan GER
HOY Chris GBR **
FOERSTEMANN Robert GER *
KENNY Jason GBR **
SIREAU Kevin FRA *
PERKINS Shane AUS **
BOURGAIN Mickael FRA * REL
5th-8th Final
5 FOERSTEMANN Robert GER
6 BOETTICHER Stefan GER
7 SIREAU Kevin FRA
1 BOURGAIN Mickael FRA DSQ
Semi Final Draw
PERKINS Shane AUS versus BAUGE Gregory FRA
HOY Chris GBR versus KENNY Jason GBR
