2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2011. The championships took place at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 23 to 27 March 2011. In January 2012 it was announced that Grégory Baugé's results in the Sprint and Team Sprint competitions would be nullified.[1]

2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
VenueApeldoorn, Netherlands Netherlands
Date(s) (2011-03-23 - 2011-03-27)23–27 March 2011
VelodromeOmnisport Apeldoorn
Events19

The championships were dominated by the rivalry between Australia and Great Britain, who shared 10 of the 19 gold medals available between them, including in eight of the ten Olympic events.

Participating nations edit

41 nations participated.[2]

Medal summary edit

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's events
Men's sprint[nb 1]
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Jason Kenny
 Great Britain
Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Mickaël Bourgain
 France
Men's 1 km time trial
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Stefan Nimke
 Germany
1:00.793Teun Mulder
 Netherlands
1:01:179François Pervis
 France
1:01.228
Men's individual pursuit
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Jack Bobridge
 Australia
4:21.141Jesse Sergent
 New Zealand
4:23.865Michael Hepburn
 Australia
4:22.553
Men's team pursuit
details
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Luke Durbridge
Michael Hepburn

 Australia
3:57.832Alexei Markov
Evgeny Kovalev
Ivan Kovalev
Alexander Serov
 Russia
4:02.229Ed Clancy
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh
Andy Tennant
 Great Britain
4:02.781
Men's team sprint[nb 2]
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René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke
 Germany
44.483Matthew Crampton
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny
 Great Britain
44.235Dan Ellis
Matthew Glaetzer
Jason Niblett
 Australia
45.241
Men's keirin
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Shane Perkins
 Australia
Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Teun Mulder
 Netherlands
Men's scratch
details
Kwok Ho Ting
 Hong Kong
Elia Viviani
 Italy
Morgan Kneisky
 France
Men's points race
details
Edwin Ávila
 Colombia
Cameron Meyer
 Australia
Morgan Kneisky
 France
Men's madison
details
Leigh Howard
Cameron Meyer

 Australia
Martin Bláha
Jiří Hochmann
 Czech Republic
Theo Bos
Peter Schep
 Netherlands
Men's omnium
details
Michael Freiberg
 Australia
Shane Archbold
 New Zealand
Gijs van Hoecke
 Belgium
Women's events
Women's sprint
details
Anna Meares
 Australia
Simona Krupeckaitė
 Lithuania
Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain
Women's 500 m time trial
details
Olga Panarina
 Belarus
33.896Sandie Clair
 France
33.919Miriam Welte
 Germany
34.496
Women's individual pursuit
details
Sarah Hammer
 United States
3.32.933Alison Shanks
 New Zealand
3:33.229Vilija Sereikaitė
 Lithuania
3.37.643
Women's team pursuit
details
Laura Trott
Wendy Houvenaghel
Dani King

 Great Britain
3:23.419Sarah Hammer
Dotsie Bausch
Jennie Reed
 United States
3:25.308Kaytee Boyd
Jaime Nielsen
Alison Shanks
 New Zealand
3:24.065
Women's team sprint
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Kaarle McCulloch
Anna Meares

 Australia
33.237Victoria Pendleton
Jessica Varnish
 Great Britain
33.525Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang
Junhong Lin
 China
33.586
Women's keirin
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Anna Meares
 Australia
Olga Panarina
 Belarus
Clara Sanchez
 France
Women's scratch
details
Marianne Vos
 Netherlands
Katherine Bates
 Australia
Dani King
 Great Britain
Women's points race
details
Tatsiana Sharakova
 Belarus
Jarmila Machačová
 Czech Republic
Giorgia Bronzini
 Italy
Women's omnium
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Tara Whitten
 Canada
Sarah Hammer
 United States
Kirsten Wild
 Netherlands

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia82212
2  Great Britain2439
3  Belarus2103
4  Germany2013
5  United States1203
6  Netherlands1135
7  Canada1001
 Colombia1001
 Hong Kong1001
10  New Zealand0314
11  Czech Republic0202
12  France0156
13  Italy0112
 Lithuania0112
15  Russia0101
16  Belgium0011
 China0011
Totals (17 entries)19191957
  •  France were stripped of two gold medals in January 2012, following the suspension of Grégory Baugé for doping test availability violations, and the medals in those two events were redistributed by UCI.[3]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ France's Grégory Baugé originally won the gold medal, but was stripped of that title in January 2012, with the other riders in the final round promoted to the respective medal positions.[3]
  2. ^ France's Grégory Baugé, Michaël D'Almeida and Kévin Sireau originally won the gold medal, but were stripped of that title in January 2012, with the other teams in the final round promoted to the respective medal positions.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Nigel Wynn. "Gregory Bauge stripped of 2011 track sprint world titles | Latest News". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  2. ^ "41 countries to the World Championships track cycling". worldchamptrackcycling.com. 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Stokes, Shane (6 January 2012). "UCI confirms Jason Kenny, Germany are upgraded to 2011 world track champions". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2012.

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