Indoor cycling world championships 2010

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2010
date		November 26-28, 2010
Host country		Germany
venue		Stuttgart
winner
Bike ball		Germany
Artistic bike 1 series women		Austria
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike mixed 2		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Germany
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	5	4th	1	10
2	Austria	1	1	1	3
3	Switzerland	0	1	2	3
4th	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
5	Macau	0	0	1	1
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The Indoor Cycling World Championships 2010 took place from November 26th to 28th, 2010 in Stuttgart . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won five gold medals. They were able to win all disciplines except for the competition in one-man art cycling.

A total of 132 athletes took part, almost all of them from Europe or Asia , with the exception of two artificial cyclists from Canada and one from Australia .

With 6,000 spectators per day, the 2010 World Cup is the largest in the history of indoor cycling.

organization

For the organization of this World Cup, the organizing committee successfully used the expertise of in.Stuttgart Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH as the operator of several major events in the Stuttgart metropolitan area.

Venue

The whole event was held in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart.

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 B there were two groups of four teams each. These two groups each played a round robin and then the winners of the two groups played for rank 1 and 2, the two runners-up for rank 3 and 4, etc.

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. 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	Uwe Berner	Matthias King
2.	Switzerland	Marcel Waldispühl	Peter Jiricek
3.	Austria	Patrick Schnetzer	Dietmar Schneider
4th	Czech Republic	Jiří Hrdlička	Radim Hason
5.	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
6th	France	Stéphane Bauer	Frédéric Doell

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

France was able to successfully defend the league.

 France - Romania 3: 0  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Romania	Dorian Toroftei	Mircea Tric
2.	Japan	Yosuke Fujita	Munehiro Tokikura
3.	Spain	Florencio Monge	Carlos Prieto
4th	Netherlands	Karel van Dijk	Jos van Dijk
5.	Hong Kong	Chin Hin Kwan	Wing Tai Ho
6th	Slovakia	Attila Hanko	Tamas Czekus
7th	Hungary	Jozef Grosz	Peter Szamveber
8th.	Malaysia	Senin Sulkufli	Ibrahim Ibra Izuan

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 19 athletes from 12 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Austria	Denise Boller	183.70	170.63
2.	Germany	Marion Kleinschwärzer	176.50	165.64
3.	Germany	Corinna Hein	184.80	157.82

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	Katharina Wurster	Jasmine Soika	163.00	149.70
2.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	161.10	142.58
3.	Switzerland	Barbara Morf	Nina Bommeli	128.30	114.24

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of 6 teams.

The German team set a new world record with 191.74 points in the final round.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katharina Gülich Sonja Mauermeier Ramona Strassner Ruth-Maria Weiand	210.90	191.74 (WR)
2.	Austria	Martina Diem Tanja Hutter Joana Loureiro da Costa Claudia Mathis	189.10	160.20
3.	Switzerland	Anja Gollmann Andrea Keller Maura Stiefel Nora Willener	195.20	159.90

Men's singles

A total of 23 athletes from 15 nations took part in the competition.

David Schnabel set a new world record in the final round with 206.57 points.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	206.80	206.57 (WR)
2.	Germany	Florian Blab	205.20	200.16
3.	Macau	Hang Cheong Wong	173.80	160.30

Mixed doubles

A total of six duos from five nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Ann-Kathrin Egert	Stephan Rauch	146.10	141.23
2.	Germany	Felix Blümmel	Florian Blümmel	148.50	129.39
3.	Hong Kong	Hin Bon Ip	Pok Man Yu	132.30	114.66

Web links

• Official website of the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2010
• All results on www.radball.at