Great Britain’s Joanna Rowsell, fresh from breaking the world record in the team event, took gold in a thrilling pursuit final against Alison Shanks of New Zealand. Rowsell started hot and took an early advantage, forcing Shanks to react and chase the win. Shanks began to close on Rowsell mid race but the GB rider didn’t panic and Shanks overcooked it in the final third of the race, Rowsell powering to victory in a time of 3:32.364. Minutes earlier, Cure of Australia took the bronze medal, beating Sereikaite of Lithunia in a time of 3:36.707.
Earlier in the morning session, Rowsell was fastest in qualifying in a time of 3:33.496 ahead of Shanks and backed up her qualifying ride in the final.
3 CURE Amy AUS 3:36.707 4 SEREIKAITE Vilija LTU 3:37.137
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Qualifying
1 ROWSELL Joanna GBR 3:33.496 2 SHANKS Alison NZL 3:33.578 3 SEREIKAITE Vilija LTU 3:35.739 4 CURE Amy AUS 3:35.783 5 GLAESSER Jasmin CAN 3:36.593 6 VAN DIJK Ellen NED 3:38.989 7 ABSALYAMOVA Verena RVL 3:40.353 8 SCHNIDER Pascale SUI 3:41.414 9 BOCHKAREVA Elizaveta UKR 3:42.076 10 RYAN Caroline IRL 3:42.106
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Final World Cup Standings
1 SHANKS Alison NZL 22pts 2 ROWSELL Joanna GBR 12pts 3 HOUVENAGHEL Wendy GBR 10pts 4 CURE Amy AUS 8pts 5 LESYA Kalitovska UKR 8pts 6 SEREIKAITE Vilija LTU 7pts 7 KENT Sarah AUS 7pts 8 GLAESSER Jasmin CAN 6pts 9 PIKAUSKAITE Vaida LTU 6pts 10 SCHNIDER Pascale SUI 6pts
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WOMEN'S OMNIUM
Great Britain’s Laura Trott ended the Saturday evening session in fine style, winning the Elimination race in dramatic fashion. The elimination marked the halfway point in the omnium and Trott went into the event in eighth position overall. Trott lived dangerously throughout the race, sprinting to avoid the devil in practically every sprint. One by one her rivals dropped away, with Laura timing her efforts to perfection. In the end it was Trott versus Whitten and after what the crowd had seen there could be only one winner. Trott's win meant that she had elevated herself to into third overall, with three events remaining.
It wasn't all plain sailing for Trott, who struggled in the qualifying heats and had a tough time in the points. However, a 2nd place in the flying lap and her elimination win meant that she ended the day with bronze in her sights.
Results
Qualifying heat 1
1 MACHACOVA Jarmila CZE 22pts 2 EDMONDSON Annette AUS 21pts 3 TREBAITE Ausrine LTU 20pts 4 BECKER Charlotte GER 20pts 5 HUANG Li CHN 8pts 6 ARREOLA Sofia MEX 6pts 7 SCANDOLARA Valentina ITA 5pts 8 WILD Kirsten NED 5pts 9 WOJTYRA Malgorzata POL 5pts 10 MEJIAS GARCIA Marlies CUB 4pts 11 OLABERRIA DORRONSORO ESP 4pts 12 D'HOORE Jolien BEL 3pts
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Qualifying heat 2
1 JEULAND Pascale FRA 23pts 2 GALYUK Svitlana UKR 20pts 3 I Fang Ju TPE 20pts 4 WOLFER Andrea SUI 20pts 5 LEE Min Hye KOR 20pts 6 HAMMER Sarah USA 10pts 7 KIESANOWSKI Joanne NZL 7pts 8 ROMANYUTA Evgenia RVL 7pts 9 WHITTEN Tara CAN 5pts 10 TROTT Laura GBR 3pts 11 SHARAKOVA Tatsiana BLR 3pts 12 PAVLENDOVA Alzbeta SVK 3pts
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Flying Lap
1 HUANG Li CHN 14.339 2 TROTT Laura GBR 14.473 3 HAMMER Sarah USA 14.479 4 EDMONDSON Annette AUS 14.484 5 WHITTEN Tara CAN 14.548 6 SHARAKOVA Tatsiana BLR 14.563 7 TREBAITE Ausrine LTU 14.608 8 OLABERRIA DORRONSORO Leire ESP 14.673 9 D'HOORE Jolien BEL 14.678 10 WILD Kirsten NED 14.706
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Points
1 ARREOLA Sofia MEX 33pts 2 GALYUK Svitlana UKR 32pts 3 SCANDOLARA Valentina ITA 24pts 4 TREBAITE Ausrine LTU 23pts 5 BECKER Charlotte GER 22pts 6 WOJTYRA Malgorzata POL 20pts 7 WILD Kirsten NED 11pts 8 EDMONDSON Annette AUS 8pts 9 HAMMER Sarah USA 8pts 10 WHITTEN Tara CAN 6pts 17 TROTT Laura GBR 1pt
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Elimination
1 TROTT Laura GBR 2 WHITTEN Tara CAN 3 WILD Kirsten NED 4 EDMONDSON Annette AUS 5 JEULAND Pascale FRA 6 KIESANOWSKI Joanne NZL 7 OLABERRIA DORRONSORO Leire ESP 8 HAMMER Sarah USA 9 D'HOORE Jolien BEL 10 PAVLENDOVA Alzbeta SVK
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Overall standings after 3 rounds
1 EDMONDSON Annette AUS 16pts 2 WHITTEN Tara CAN 17pts 3 TROTT Laura GBR 20pts 4 HAMMER Sarah USA 20pts 5 WILD Kirsten NED 20pts 6 TREBAITE Ausrine LTU 25pts 7 SHARAKOVA Tatsiana BLR 30pts 8 OLABERRIA DORRONSORO Leire ESP 31pts 9 D'HOORE Jolien BEL 33pts 10 JEULAND Pascale FRA 34pts
WOMEN'S SPRINT
Shuang Guo of China won gold in the women’s sprint, beating World Champion Anna Meares 2-0 in the final after the Australian had endured an epic tussle with Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton.
Pendleton faced Meares in the semi finals after beating her teammate Jess Varnish 2-0 in the quarters. The Pendleton/Meares semi was massively absorbing. In the first match Meares led it out from the start and held off Pendleton to take the match. However match two saw Pendleton come around the long way to nick it on the line. Come the decider and Pendleton took it from the front. The GB rider led Meares up and down the track but Meares had some tricks of her own, diving up the inside of Pendleton and streaking clear to progress to win and progress to the final.
Pendleton faced Lee in the bronze medal rideoff, the Hong Kong rider impressive all day. Pendleton took the first match but Lee responded and levelled the score in the second. Come the decider and it was clear that the battle with Meares had taken its toll, with Lee winning and claiming bronze.
After losing to Pendleton in the quarters, Jess Varnish had a convincing win in the 5th-8th final, coming over the top from a long way back to take the victory. Later she commented: "We didn’t expect to do a world record [in the team sprint], we were over the moon with that. To finish fifth in the sprint is the highest that I’ve finished in an individual sprint competition. I was really happy, I’ve been racing against those girls since we were juniors and to beat them here was good, I changed my gear and tried a different tactic.”
“It was a good day’s training,” commented Pendleton. On whether yesterday’s efforts in the women’s team sprint had taken some toll on her, she added: “ I don’t think you break a world record without taking a little bit out of yourself, the performance yesterday was way beyond what I expected you can’t go to sleep buzzing after doing a performance like that and be in top shape the next morning. There were a lot of fresher legs out there. “
Results
Finals
GOLD: GUO Shuang CHN beats MEARES Anna AUS - 2-0 BRONZE: LEE Wai Sze (HKG) beats PENDLETON Victoria (GBR) 2-1
Semi Finals
Semi Final 1 MEARES Anna AUS beats PENDLETON Victoria GBR 2-1 Semi Final 2 GUO Shuang CHN beats LEE Wai Sze HKG 2-0
