Indoor cycling world championships 2008

Indoor bike world championship 2008
date		October 24-26, 2008
Host country		Austria
venue		Dornbirn
winner
Bike ball		Czech Republic
Artistic bike 1 series women		Germany
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike mixed 2		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Austria
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	4th	6th	2	12
2	Austria	1	0	2	3
3	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
4th	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
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The Indoor Cycling World Championships 2008 took place from October 24th to 26th, 2008 in Dornbirn . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won four of the six gold medals. They were able to win all disciplines except for the competitions in the cycling ball and in the four-man artificial bike.

A total of 136 athletes took part, all of whom come 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 seven weaker teams.

In both groups 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. 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.	Czech Republic	Jiří Hrdlička	Radim Hason
2.	Germany	Christian Hess	Thomas Abel
3.	Austria	Simon King	Dietmar Schneider
4th	Switzerland	Roman Schneider	Dominik Planzer
5.	Japan	Naoya Kinoshita	Matsuda Ko
6th	Croatia	Marko Kraljic	Michael Posedi

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

Croatia failed to stay up and lost to Belgium.

 Croatia - Belgium 2: 3  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
2.	Romania	Dorian Doroftei	Mircea Tric
3.	France	Jaques Ohl	Philippe Noeppel
4th	Malaysia	Abd Halim Samsinar	Dalahan Mohamadd Zikri
5.	Slovakia	Attila Hanko	Tamas Czekus
6th	Hong Kong	Lo Man Fai	Ho Wing Tai
7th	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Vilmos Toma

Artistic cycling

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

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 21 athletes from 11 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Anja Scheu	177.70	171.02
2.	Germany	Sandra Beck	177.40	166.24
3.	Germany	Marion Kleinschwärzer	170.50	166.08

Double

A total of 14 teams from 9 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	152.20	141.92
2.	Germany	Jasmine Soika	Katharina Wurster	144.30	134.98
3.	Switzerland	Barbara Morf	Nina Bommeli	129.10	112.22

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of 5 teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Austria	Kathrin Hagen Silke Melbinger Melanie Melbinger Martina Schwar	200.20	181.54
2.	Germany	Manuela Dieterle Katja Gaisser Ines Rudolf Simone Rudolf	197.40	169.47
3.	Switzerland	Anja Gollmann Andrea Keller Maura Stiefel Nora Willener	171.70	154.42

Men's singles

A total of 23 athletes from 12 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	197.90	191.64
2.	Germany	Florian Blab	195.60	190.37
3.	Germany	Robin Hartmann	197.30	188.19

Mixed doubles

A total of 9 duos from 8 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Viktor Volk	Manuel Huber	142.00	138.78
2.	Germany	Ann-Kathrin Egert	Stephan Rauch	135.70	124.04
3.	Austria	Joachim Allgäuer	Fabian Allgäuer	122.00	115.08

Web links

• All results on www.radball.at