The final day of competition at the Omnisport arena in Apeldoorn saw five Gold medals awarded – for the Women’s Sprint and Points race and for the Men’s Keirin, Omnium and Madison.
Women’s Sprint
Qualifying 200m Time Trial
Shanne Brespennincx of the Netherlands was the third rider away and the first to set a competitive time in the Women’s Sprint Qualifying, dispatching the 200m in 11.165 seconds. Three heats later, China’s Lili Lui came within a whisker – recording a time of 11.250 to go second – and then, in the next heat, Pauline Grabosch of Germany jumped to the head of affairs – a tenth of a second faster than the Dutch rider on 11.067.
None of the remaining 16 riders would better Grabosch’s time and it wasn’t until the final heat that anyone really came close, Wai Sze Lee of Hong Kong going second on 11.119 to become the fourth of the riders given a bye into the 1/8 Finals.
Results
1 GRABOSCH Pauline Sophie GER 11.067
2 LEE Wai Sze HKG 11.119
3 BRASPENNINCX Shanne NED 11.165
4 LIU Lili CHN 11.250
5 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP 11.291
6 MAROZAITE Migle LTU 11.303
7 VAN RIESSEN Laurine NED 11.318
8 JAMES Rachel GBR 11.373
9 TAKOS Holly AUS 11.374
10 DEGRENDELE Nicky BEL 11.407
11 MARCHANT Katy GBR 11.444
12 KISELEVA Tatiana RUS 11.456
13 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP 11.461
14 FIELD Courtney AUS 11.536
15 HAN Jun CHN 11.556
16 MAEDA Kayono JPN 11.566
17 MARQUARDT Mandy USA 11.606
18 STARIKOVA Olena UKR 11.625
19 ISHII Takako JPN 11.715
20 KANKOVSKA Sara CZE 11.749
21 MANZONI Gloria ITA 11.981
22 WANG Tzu Chun TCT 12.239
DNS BEYERS Bernette RSA DNS
Men’s Keirin
1st round
Ukraine’s Andrii Vyokurov’s fine run of form continued as he booked a place in the Second Round of the Keirin alongside Jeffrey Hoogland of the Netherlands. European Champion and Glasgow winner Thomas Babek, too, looks majestic in the Keirin at the moment – the Czech taking the win in the second heat, ahead of the very promising Shah Sahrom of Malaysia.
Great Britain’s Joe Truman and Tobias Wachter of Germany took the two spots from the penultimate heat with Quentin Lafargue of France and Juan Peralta of Spain claiming the last two spots.
Results
Heat 1
1 VYNOKUROV Andrii UKR
2 HOOGLAND Jeffrey NED
3 DUBCHENKO Aleksandr RUS
4 OLIVA Lewis WAL
5 CLARKE Thomas AUS
6 VAN VELTHOOVEN Simon NZL
Heat 2
1 BABEK Tomas CZE
2 SAHROM Muhammad Shah Firdaus ISN
3 RAJKOWSKI Patryk POL
4 BI Wenjun CHN
5 KAWABATA Tomoyuki JPN
6 MULLEN Eoin IRL
Heat 3
1 TRUMAN Joseph GBR
2 WACHTER Tobias GER
3 BROWNE Kwesi TTO
4 OMELCHENKO Sergii AZE
5 NITTA Yudai DRS
6 CECI Davide CTF
Heat 4
1 LAFARGUE Quentin FRA
2 PERALTA GASCON Juan ESP
3 KANG Shih Feng TCT
4 LENDEL Vasilijus LTU
5 SZALONTAY Sandor HUN
6 CECI Francesco ITA
Women’s Sprint
1/16 Finals
With Great Britain’s Katy Marchant withdrawing due to illness, Mandy Marquadt of the USA joined the seeded riders In the 1/8 round. Olena Starikova of Ukraine overcame the faster qualifying Tatiana Kiseleva of Russia in Heat 2, while Helena Casas of Spain, Courtney Field of Australia, Jun Han of China and Kayono Maeda of Japan all beat slower opposition in their heats.
Results
Heat 1
1 MARQUARDT Mandy USA
DNS MARCHANT Katy GBR
Heat 2
1 STARIKOVA Olena UKR
2 KISELEVA Tatiana RUS
Heat 3
1 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP
2 ISHII Takako JPN
Heat 4
1 FIELD Courtney AUS
2 KANKOVSKA Sara CZE
Heat 5
1 HAN Jun CHN
2 MANZONI Gloria ITA
Heat 6
1 MAEDA Kayono JPN
2 WANG Tzu Chun TCT
Men’s Omnium – I Scratch
Day 3
Day 3
An impressive finish from Artyom Zakharov of Kazakhstan saw him take the early lead in the Men’s Omnium competition – winning the opening Scratch race from Chun Wing Leung of Hong Kong and Szymon Sajnok of Poland.
Results
1 ZAKHAROV Artyom KAZ
2 LEUNG Chun Wing HKG
3 SAJNOK Szymon Wojciech POL
4 THOMAS Benjamin FRA
5 TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP
6 CONSONNI Simone ITA
7 DE PAUW Moreno BEL
8 OLIVEIRA Ivo Emanuel POR
9 EEFTING Roy NED
10 BEYER Maximilian GER
Women’s Sprint
1/8 Finals
The two fastest qualifiers – Grabosch and Lee – re-joined the competition at the 1/8 Final stage and went straight through to the Quarters. Not so Braspennincx – who lost out to Marquadt – or Liu, who fell to Starikova.
Heat 5 went to form, with Calvo disposing of team mate Casas – but in Heat 6, Courtney Field of Australia eliminated Migle Marozaite who had outqualified her by 8 places and two tenths of a second.
Heats 7 and 8 went the way of qualifying with Rachel James of Great Britain and Lauren van Reissen of the Netherlands progressing.
Results
Heat 1
1 GRABOSCH Pauline Sophie GER
2 TAKOS Holly AUS
Heat 2
1 LEE Wai Sze HKG
2 DEGRENDELE Nicky BEL
Heat 3
1 MARQUARDT Mandy USA
2 BRASPENNINCX Shanne NED
Heat 4
1 STARIKOVA Olena UKR
2 LIU Lili CHN
Heat 5
1 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP
2 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP
Heat 6
1 FIELD Courtney AUS
2 MAROZAITE Migle LTU
Heat 7
1 VAN RIESSEN Laurine NED
2 HAN Jun CHN
Heat 8
1 JAMES Rachel GBR
2 MAEDA Kayono JPN
Men’s Keirin
Repechages
Just one rider progressed from each Keirin Repechage heat but most of the pre-race favourites through already, this was a real chance for someone to progress. Vasilijus Lendel of Lithuania took the first and the first over the line in the second was New Zealand’s Simon van Velthooven. The Kiwi was relegated, though and Tomoyuki Kawabata progressed in his place – with Francesco Ceci of Italy taking the final place in the Second Round.
Results
Heat 1
1 LENDEL Vasilijus LTU
2 MULLEN Eoin IRL
3 DUBCHENKO Aleksandr RUS
4 NITTA Yudai DRS
Heat 2
1 KAWABATA Tomoyuki JPN
2 OMELCHENKO Sergii AZE
3 RAJKOWSKI Patryk POL
4 VAN VELTHOOVEN Simon NZL
Heat 3
1 CECI Francesco ITA
2 CLARKE Thomas AUS
3 BROWNE Kwesi TTO
4 BI Wenjun CHN
Heat 4
1 OLIVA Lewis WAL
2 SZALONTAY Sandor HUN
3 KANG Shih Feng TCT
4 CECI Davide CTF
Women’s Sprint
Quarter Finals
The first three Quarter Finals saw a couple of upsets with Calvo’s experience seeing her past fastest qualifier Grabosch. Lee and van Riessen made it through against riders with a lower seeding and the deceptively quick Starikova took the final place.
Results
Heat 1
1 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP **
2 GRABOSCH Pauline Sophie GER
Heat 2
1 LEE Wai Sze HKG **
2 FIELD Courtney AUS
Heat 3
1 VAN RIESSEN Laurine NED **
2 MARQUARDT Mandy USA
Heat 4
1 STARIKOVA Olena UKR **
2 JAMES Rachel GBR
Men’s Omnium – II Tempo Race
The Tempo race was one of the more exciting we’ve seen – at least early on – with Poland’s Szymon Sajnok taking the first four points – missing out on the fifth to Leung of Hong Kong and then taking the next two. Chris Latham of Great Britain took sprint 8 before Albert Torres repeated his trick from the European Championships and broke away to take station at the back.
He was joined, initially, by Roy Eefting of the Netherlands and between them they took the points on the next nine laps – 6-3 in Torres’ favour – before they were joined at the back by Italy’s Simone Consonni – who took one sprint – and Ivo Oliveira of Portugal, who took two.
Eefting them took another three as the riders debated when to join the back of the bunch and, in hindsight, they should probably have waited a little longer. As soon as they joined on to the back, Sajnok was off the front with Maximilan Beyer of Germany and took four sprints to Beyer’s three as they headed round to take the lap.
By the time Benjamin Thomas took the penultimate and final points the race was all over – Sajnok taking the win on 14 points – four ahead of Torres and Eefting.
Results
1 SAJNOK Szymon Wojciech POL 14
2 TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP 10
3 EEFTING Roy NED 10
4 CAVES Aidan CAN 7
5 BEYER Maximilian GER 7
6 THOMAS Benjamin FRA 6
7 OLIVEIRA Ivo Emanuel POR 6
8 CONSONNI Simone ITA 5
9 MADER Gino SUI 4
10 LIU Hao CHN 4
Men’s Omnium – III Elimination
Sajnok continued to build himself a buffer ahead of the Points Race finale – outsprinting Consonni to win the Elimination race after Latham had conceded at the penultimate elimination.
That left the Pole 14 points clear of Torres going in to the Points Race, with Consonni third a further eight points back.
Results
1 SAJNOK Szymon Wojciech POL
2 CONSONNI Simone ITA
3 LATHAM Christopher GBR
4 GLADYSH Roman UKR
5 TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP
6 ZAKHAROV Artyom KAZ
7 BEYER Maximilian GER
8 ROSTOVTSEV Sergey RUS
9 THOMAS Benjamin FRA
10 OLIVEIRA Ivo Emanuel POR
Women’s Sprint
Semi Finals
Experience told in the Semi Finals with Calvo and Lee both beating their young opponents quite comfortably without the need for deciders.
Results
1 CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP **
2 VAN RIESSEN Laurine NED
1 LEE Wai Sze HKG **
2 STARIKOVA Olena UKR
Women’s Points race
Elinor Barker of Great Britain scored in 6 of the 8 sprints – although she won only one – and took a lap en route to victory in the Points Race. Going in to the final sprint on 35 points she was still well within double points reach of Minami Uwano of Japan and Jarmila Machacova of the Czech Republic who were two and seven points behind respectively.
Laurie Berthon of France won the final sprint – jumping six places to 8th – from Rachele Barbieri of Italy and Barker – with her two closest rivals failing to score.
Results
GOLD BARKER Elinor GBR 39
SILVER UWANO Minami JPN 33
BRONZE MACHACOVA Jarmila CZE 28
4 NELSON Emily TBR 23
5 BADYKOVA Gulnaz RUS 22
6 GURLEY Lydia IRL 21
7 PANG Yao HKG 20
8 BERTHON Laurie FRA 13
9 WILD Kirsten NED 11
10 BARBIERI Rachele ITA 6
Men’s Keirin
Second round
The Second Round saw the favourites assemble for the final with the Bronze and Silver medalists in Glasgow last week – Oliva and Lendel – go through behind Vynokurov while last week’s winner took heat 2 ahead of Hoogland – to guarantee some home interest – and Peralta.
Results
Heat 1
1 VYNOKUROV Andrii UKR
2 OLIVA Lewis WAL
3 LENDEL Vasilijus LTU
4 WACHTER Tobias GER
5 LAFARGUE Quentin FRA
6 SAHROM Muhammad Shah Firdaus ISN
Heat 2
1 BABEK Tomas CZE
2 HOOGLAND Jeffrey NED
3 PERALTA GASCON Juan ESP
4 KAWABATA Tomoyuki JPN
5 TRUMAN Joseph GBR
6 CECI Francesco ITA
Men’s Omnium – IV Points race
With his 14 point cushion, Sajnok really didn’t need to do anything other than keep an eye on Torres – and half an eye on Consonni and Thomas. In the opening laps of the race he was glued to Torres’ rear wheel but the points mostly going to riders further down the field and the bunch policing any attempt to gain a lap, he was actually able to rack up a couple of second places and a win in the intermediate sprints to consolidate his position.
In a last ditch attempt to take the overall, Torres broke away with 12 laps to go. He took the penultimate sprint to move him within 13 points and, at one point, could see the back of the bunch ahead of him. But Sajnok was by now on the front of the bunch driving it on relentlessly and the gap began to open again.
Torres took the final sprint but it wasn’t enough – leaving him three point adrift – but Thomas’ second point was enough to keep him ahead of Consonni – who was fourth across the line – to snatch second.
Results
1 SAJNOK Szymon Wojciech POL 127
2 TORRES BARCELO Albert ESP 124
3 THOMAS Benjamin FRA 107
4 CONSONNI Simone ITA 101
5 LATHAM Christopher GBR 88
6 OLIVEIRA Ivo Emanuel POR 88
7 ZAKHAROV Artyom KAZ 85
8 BEYER Maximilian GER 82
9 LEUNG Chun Wing HKG 76
10 EEFTING Roy NED 72
11 CAVES Aidan CAN 70
12 LIU Hao CHN 58
13 ROSTOVTSEV Sergey RUS 55
14 GLADYSH Roman UKR 55
15 DE PAUW Moreno BEL 53
16 MADER Gino SUI 52
17 TSISHKOU Raman BLR 34
18 CHEN Chien-Liang TCT 30
19 IMAMURA Shunsuke JPN -2
Women’s Sprint
Finals
Lee completed a full set of medals for the weekend – adding the Sprint Gold to her Keirin Silver and 500m Time Trial Bronze as she comfortably saw off the challenge of Calvo. Straikova finally met her match in the Bronze medal ride – van Riessen giving the home crowd something to cheer about.
Results
GOLD LEE Wai Sze HKG **
SILVER CALVO BARBERO Tania ESP
BRONZE VAN RIESSEN Laurine NED **
4 STARIKOVA Olena UKR
Men’s Keirin
Finals
Babek added another Gold medal to his growing collection – initially heading home Oliva, Vynokurov and Peralta before the Welshman was relegated for impeding the Spaniard. Lafargue won the minor final.
Results
GOLD BABEK Tomas CZE
SILVER VYNOKUROV Andrii UKR
BRONZE PERALTA GASCON Juan ESP
4 HOOGLAND Jeffrey NED
5 LENDEL Vasilijus LTU
6 OLIVA Lewis WAL
7 LAFARGUE Quentin FRA
8 SAHROM Muhammad Shah Firdaus ISN
9 WACHTER Tobias GER
10 TRUMAN Joseph GBR
11 CECI Francesco ITA
12 KAWABATA Tomoyuki JPN
Men’s Madison
A late charge from Belgium saw them take what was, in the end, a comfortable win in the Men’s Madison. At the half way stage, Kenny De Ketele and Robbe Ghys trailed Italy, early leaders Poland, Great Britain and Switzerland but they had a plan. A simple plan. They won every one of the remaining sprints – adding 35 points to the 5 they’d scored in the first half of the race.
Frencesco Lamon and Simone Consonnit had won three sprints in the first half and finished in the points behind Belgium in four of the last six points to ensure Italy would take home the Silver – and second place in the final sprint was enough to lift Oliver Wood and Mark Stewart above Switzerland.
Results
GOLD Belgium  (GHYS Robbe, DE KETELE Kenny) BEL 40
SILVER Italy (LAMON Francesco, CONSONNI Simone) ITA 28
BRONZE Great Britain (STEWART Mark, WOOD Oliver) GBR 19
4 Switzerland (PERIZZOLO Loic, MARGUET Tristan) SUI 15
5 Poland (STANISZEWSKI Daniel, PSZCZOLARSKI Wojciech) POL 12
6 France (GAREL Adrien, PIJOURLET Louis) FRA 9
7 Ireland (ENGLISH Felix, DOWNEY Mark) IRL 9
8 Netherlands(STROETINGA Wim, PIETERS Roy) NED 6
9 Ukraine (HRYNIV Vitaliy, SHEVCHUK Taras) UKR 1
10 Belarus (AHIYEVICH Aleh, AKHRAMENKA Yauheni) BLR 1
