Indoor cycling world championships 2004

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2004
date		November 19-21, 2004
Host country		Hungary
venue		Tata
winner
Bike ball		Czech Republic
Artistic bike 1 series women		Germany
Artificial bike 1 series men		Czech Republic
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike 2 men		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Switzerland
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	3	5	1	9
2	Czech Republic	2	0	3	5
3	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
4th	Austria	0	0	2	2
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The 2004 Indoor Cycling World Championships took place in Tata , Hungary , from November 19-21, 2004 . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won three of the six gold medals.

A total of 175 athletes took part, all of whom came from Europe or Asia .

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.	Czech Republic	Pavel Smid	Petr Skotak
2.	Switzerland	Paul Looser	Peter Jiricek
3.	Austria	Simon King	Dietmar Schneider
4th	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
5.	Germany	Mike Pfaffenberger	Steve Pfaffenberger
6th	France	Frédéric Doell	Luc Doell

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Japan	Tsuzuki Katsumi	Matsuda Ko
2.	Croatia	Jasmine Fazlic	Michael Posedi
3.	Romania	Dorian Doroftei	Mircea Tric
4th	Slovakia	Robert Rizmann	Dalibor Roznik
5.	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Istvan Borka
6th	Malaysia	Mohamad Nor Effendy Jupri	Abdul Razak Abdul Rahim
7th	Hong Kong	Tai Ho Wing	Fai Lo Man
8th.	Netherlands	Hai Erens	Michael Van Geffen

Promotion-relegation round

Germany and France were able to secure the league preservation.

rank	country	player	player
1.	Germany	Mike Pfaffenberger	Steve Pfaffenberger
2.	France	Frédéric Doell	Luc Doell
3.	Japan	Tsuzuki Katsumi	Matsuda Ko
4th	Croatia	Jasmine Fazlic	Michael Posedi

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 27 athletes from 14 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Claudia Wieland	336.00	330.55
2.	Germany	Corinna Hein	338.60	325.65
3.	Austria	Sarah Kohl	332.20	324.87

Double

A total of 17 teams from 10 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Carolin Ingelfinger	Katja Knaack	319.00	313.30
2.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	314.00	309.60
3.	Czech Republic	Iva Valesova	Andrea Petrickova	300.00	290.14

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of nine teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Switzerland	Eliane Zeller Petra Storchenegger Jeanette Schneider Sabrina Lenherr	367.40	352.77
2.	Germany	Manuela Dieterle Simone Rudolf Katja Gaißer Christine Zimmermann	361.00	349.90
3.	Czech Republic	Marketa Tobolikova Jana Oplocka Katerina Pribylova Michaela Matouskova	353.00	346.53

Men's

singles

A total of 22 athletes from 12 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Czech Republic	Arnost Pokorny	342.80	334.75
2.	Germany	Robin Hartmann	341.20	332.30
3.	Germany	Steffen Hain	344.40	330.21

Double

A total of 14 duos from 9 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Simon grandfather	Nico Kunert	332.00	322.93
2.	Germany	Heiko Rauch	Michael Rauch	328.80	316.39
3.	Czech Republic	Petr Bartunek	Kamil Bartunek	293.80	289.95

Web links

• All results on www.radball.at