Indoor cycling world championships 2002

Indoor bike world championship 2002
date		25-27 October 2002
Host country		Austria
venue		Dornbirn
winner
Bike ball		Switzerland
Artistic bike 1 series women		Czech Republic
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike 2 men		Germany
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	3	3	1	7th
2	Czech Republic	1	1	2	4th
3	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
4th	Austria	0	1	1	2
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The indoor cycling world championship 2002 took place from October 25th to 27th, 2002 in Dornbirn , Austria . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won three of the five gold medals.

During the World Cup, the International Prize of the Indoor Cycling Association was also awarded for the third time in the category of 4-man artificial cycling for women. The team from Germany won ahead of the teams from Switzerland and Austria.

Bike ball

A two-man team competition was held for the men.

mode

The tournament consisted of two groups: Group A with the six strongest nations from the previous year and Group B with eight weaker teams.

In Group A there was a round in which everyone played against everyone once. In the semifinals, the team in first place played against the team in fourth place and the team in second place against the team in third place. The two winners from the semi-finals eventually played out the world champions in the final. In group B there were two groups which all played against all once. After that, placement games were played in group B between those equally placed. The teams in fifth and sixth place in Group A had to face the winner and runner-up in Group B in the relegation round.

Group A

rank	country	player	player
1.	Switzerland	Paul Looser	Peter Jiricek
2.	Austria	Marco Schallert	Reinhard Schneider
3.	Czech Republic	Pavel Smid	Petr Skotak
4th	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
5.	Germany	Jens houses	Thomas Abel
6th	France	Michel Maillavin	Frédéric Marcoux

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Romania	Dorian Doroftei	Robert Wasmer
2.	Japan	Tsuzuki Katsumi	Matsuda Ko
3.	United States	Cavin Yarbrough	Charles Berry
4th	Hong Kong	Tai Ho Wing	Fai Lo Man
5.	Croatia	Daniel Tvrdi	Andreas Szabo
6th	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Attila Tabacs
7th	Malaysia	Zulkefli Senin	Samsinar Halim Abd
8th.	Australia	Daniel Novak	Daniel Cermak

Promotion-relegation round

Belgium and France were able to secure the league preservation.

rank	country	player	player
1.	Germany	Jens houses	Thomas Abel
2.	France	Michel Maillavin	Frédéric Marcoux
3.	Japan	Tsuzuki Katsumi	Matsuda Ko
4th	Romania	Dorian Doroftei	Robert Wasmer

Artistic cycling

There were competitions in 1-man, 2-man and 4-man artificial cycling for women and 1 and 2-man artificial cycling for men.

mode

Each participant or each team had to drive a freestyle. This lasted a maximum of six minutes and included 28 for the individual starters and 22 for the duos, each with a certain level of difficulty, which, added to the basic number of points, served as the basis for the assessment (submitted points). The end result was obtained after deducting the points of failure (points left out).

Women

singles

A total of 28 athletes took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Czech Republic	Martina Stepànkovà	340.60	334.19
2.	Germany	Astrid Ruckaberle	340.00	329.70
3.	Germany	Silke Gaiser	337.80	328.23

Double

A total of 13 teams from 10 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Carolin Ingelfinger	Katja Knaack	315.60	311.53
2.	Germany	Manuela Schönberger	Silke Gaiser	319.40	308.40
3.	Switzerland	Seraina Stahel	Letizia Stahel	300.20	286.77

Men's

singles

A total of 24 athletes took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Martin Rominger	350.80	348.63
2.	Czech Republic	Arnost Pokorny	344.00	329.92
3.	Czech Republic	Milan Krivanek	333.00	329.10

Double

A total of 11 duos from 9 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Simon grandfather	Nico Kunert	332.00	321.85
2.	Germany	Heiko Rauch	Michael Rauch	326.40	316.40
3.	Austria	Andreas Fritsch	Matthias Fritsch	298.80	284.50

Web links

• All results on www.radball.at