UCI Para-Cycling World Track Championships Manchester National Cycling Centre November 7th 2009
Report and Photos from John Coxon
Local heroine , double Beijing gold medallist GB’s Sarah Storey took the gold medal at the Manchester Velodrome ( the World’s busiest Velodrome) with this her third straight world title win., in the final of the LC1 3000m pursuit having broken her previous and existing world record in qualifying earlier in the day by two seconds. She caught American Greta Neimanas after five laps of the 12-lap final. At the end of the race she told me she’d enjoyed the final but had held something back for tomorrow. At the medal ceremony her father John hinted that Sarah was keeping a little bit back with a view to cracking the 38 second barrier in the 500m Time Trial in Sunday’s afternoon session. The current LC1 500 TT World Record stands at 0m .36:724 and is held by China’s Ju Fang Zhou ( Bordeaux, 20/08/2007 the same year and venue Sarah ( then Bailey) set the previous World Record for the LC1 Women 3000m Pursuit in 3:48.622 )
Earlier last week Sarah had joined Victoria Pendleton, Wendy Houvenaghel and other members of team GB at Manchester Town Hall. The Great Britain Olympic and Paralympic Cycling Team, whose home base is the National Cycling Centre Sports City Manchester of course returned home from the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games with no less than 34 medals, and had been granted Freedom of the City of Manchester in recognition of their outstanding performance.
The Great Britain Olympic and Paralympic Cycling Team, which returned home from the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games with no less than 34 medals, has been granted Freedom of the City of Manchester in recognition of their outstanding performance and conferred at a ceremony at the Manchester Town Hall.
RESULTS
Women LC1 3000m Pursuit - Qualification
1. 105 GBR19781026 STOREY Sarah LC1 GBR 1:13.850 2:23.363 3:34.266 WR
2 114 USA19880504 NEIMANAS Greta LC1 USA 1:16.884 2:33.544 3:52.348
3 111 POL19800320 HARKOWSKA Anna LC1 POL 1:18.994 2:38.030 3:58.88
Women LC1 3000m Pursuit – Finals
Gold 1. 105 STOREY Sarah LC1 GBR 1:10.889
Silver .2 114 NEIMANAS Greta LC1 USA 1:17.401 (Overlapped)
Bronze .3 111 HARKOWSKA Anna LC1 POL 1:20.418 2:42.041 4:03.603
Elsewhere, in the LC2 Category Jenny Schuble overhauled the Canadian Marie-Claude Molnar and in the factored Women LC3-4 - CP3 3000m Pursuit Finals USA’s Barbara Buchan 5took gold convincingly over Spain’s Raquel Acinas. In the Women BVI 1000m Time Trial the GB pair of Aileen McGlynn and Ellen Hunter took Gold and set a new world record breaking the 1 minute ten barrier at 1.09.054. “Stoker” McGlynn, who is visually impaired, and her sighted pilot Hunter, who also won gold in Beijing, bettered their own world record with a time of 1:09.054. It shaved 0.012 seconds off their Paralympic-winning time as they defended their world title for the third straight time.
Women LC2 - CP4 3000m Pursuit - Finals
1000m 2000m Time
1 115 SCHUBLE Jennifer CP4 USA 1:20.054
2 101 MOLNAR Marie-Claude CP4 CAN 1:27.676 OVL
3 112 BURNS Roxanne Mathieson CP4 RSA 1:31.991 3:09.020 4:44.291
Women LC3-4 - CP3 3000m Pursuit – Finals( Factored)
1000m 2000m 3000m Time
1. 113 BUCHAN Barbara CP3USA 1:32.598 3:03.486 4:33.804 4:18.498
2. 102 ACINAS Raquel LC3 ESP 1:33.164 3:06.484 4:41.991 4:58.688
3. 108 MARZINKE Yvonne LC3 GER DNF
Women BVI 1000m Time Trial Result
1. 104 MCGLYNN/HUNTER GBR 1:09.054 WR
2. 116 WHITSELL/WOODRING USA 1:12.222
3. 107 HANDRUP/HEINY GER 1:12.475
4. 106 TURNHAM/RIMMINGTON GBR 1:12.875
5. 109 WALSH/RYAN IRL 1:14.664
6. 103 LOPEZ/ESCRIBANO ESP 1:18.367
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