Indoor cycling world championships 2006

Indoor bike world championship 2006
date		November 24-26, 2006
Host country		Germany
venue		Chemnitz
winner
Bike ball		Germany
Artistic bike 1 series women		Austria
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike 2 men		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Germany
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	5	4th	2	11
2	Austria	1	0	1	2
3	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
4th	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
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Chemnitz Arena, World Cup competition venue

The indoor cycling World Championships 2006 took place from November 24th to 26th, 2006 in Chemnitz . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won five of the six gold medals. They were able to win all disciplines except for the competition in the women's one-piece art cycle.

A total of 153 athletes took part, all of whom come from Europe or Asia .

The competition took place in the Chemnitz Arena .

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 nine weaker teams.

In Group A there was a round in which everyone played against everyone once. In the intermediate round of the Group A teams, the team placed second in the preliminary round met the fifth placed and the third placed fourth. The two winners of this intermediate round and the winner of the preliminary round qualified for the semi-finals. In the first semi-final, the winner of the preliminary round met the winner of the game between the second and fifth place. The loser of this game had to play in a second semi-final against the winner from the game between the third and fourth placed. 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 winner of group B finally competed against the sixth in group A for promotion or to remain in group A.

Group A

rank	country	player	player
1.	Germany	Christian Hess	Thomas Abel
2.	Czech Republic	Jiří Hrdlička	Jiri Boehm
3.	Austria	Simon King	Dietmar Schneider
4th	Switzerland	Paul Looser	Dominik Planzer
5.	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
6th	France	Jaques Ohl	Stéphane Bauer

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

France failed to stay up and lost to Croatia.

 France - Croatia 3: 4  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Croatia	Jasmine Fazlic	Michael Posedi
2.	Japan	Tsuzuki Katsumi	Matsuda Ko
3.	Romania	Dorian Doroftei	Mircea Tric
4th	Slovakia	Robert Rizmann	Dalibor Roznik
5.	Spain	Daniel Cortés Balsalobre	Carlos Prieto
6th	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Istvan Borka
7th	Malaysia	Zukefli Senin	Dahlan Mohd Zikri
8th.	Hong Kong	Wing Tai Ho	Man Fai Lo
9.	Macau	U Hin Lai	Run Quin Lin

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

Belgian starter in the women's individual competition

A total of 26 athletes from 13 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Austria	Sarah Kohl	335.40	329.35
2.	Germany	Claudia Wieland	334.80	329.17
3.	Germany	Sandra Beck	333.80	328.53

Double

Hungarian starters in the women's pairs competition

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	325.40	315.83
2.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	323.40	303.03
3.	Switzerland	Barbara Morf	Franziska Geier	299.40	289.39

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of seven teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Germany	Annika Wöhler Carmen Carvalho Ivone Carvalho-Becker Alexandra Pawletta	370.20	355.23
2.	Czech Republic	Kateřina Přibylová Markéta Tobolíková Jana Oplocká Michaela Matoušková	366.80	349.45
3.	Switzerland	Angela Bolliger Daniela Keller Corinna Paul Doris Roth	362.00	342.77

Men's

singles

Ukrainian starter in the men's individual competition

A total of 22 athletes from 13 nations were registered for the competition. However, the athlete from Malaysia and the two from Guinea did not start.

So 19 athletes from 11 nations were at the start.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	346.60	342.17
2.	Germany	Florian Blab	350.60	340.63
3.	Germany	Robin Hartmann	349.60	333.91

Double

A total of 8 duos from 6 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Simon grandfather	Nico Kunert	335.40	319.11
2.	Germany	Felix Niederberger	Jonas Niederberger	329.60	312.52
3.	Czech Republic	Petr Bartunek	Kamil Bartunek	295.00	289.87

Web links

Commons : UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships 2006  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• All results on www.radball.at
• Radball WM 2006 Final round GER AUT - Final game on Youtube