Indoor cycling world championships 2012

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2012
date		November 2-4, 2012
Host country		Germany
venue		Aschaffenburg
winner
Bike ball		Switzerland
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		Germany
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	5	4th	1	10
2	Switzerland	1	1	1	3
3	Austria	0	1	3	4th
4th	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
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There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . With five gold medals, Germany was the most successful nation that was able to win all disciplines apart from the cycling ball competition.

A total of 137 athletes from 18 nations took part, all of whom came from Europe or Asia , with the exception of a cycling duo and two artificial cyclists who started for Canada .

organization

The organization of the World Cup was carried out entirely on a voluntary basis.

Venue

The indoor cycling world championship 2012 took place from November 2nd to 4th, 2012 in the fan frankenstolz arena in Aschaffenburg ( Germany ), which was sold out with 5000 spectators per day .

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 teams 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

Preliminary round

rank	team							S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Austria		3: 4	4: 1	5: 2	7: 3	5: 2	4th	0	1	24 - 12	12
2.	Switzerland	4: 3		3: 4	4: 4	9: 2	3-0	3	1	1	23: 13	10
3.	Germany	1: 4	4: 3		2: 2	7: 2	5: 1	3	1	1	19:12	10
4th	Czech Republic	2: 5	4: 4	2: 2		8: 2	5: 2	2	2	1	21:15	8th
5.	France	3: 7	2: 9	2: 7	2: 8		6: 3	1	0	4th	15:34	3
6th	Belgium	2: 5	0: 3	1: 5	2: 5	3: 6		0	0	5	8:24	0

Final round

Intermediate round
Switzerland	-	France	8: 2
Germany	-	Czech Republic	7: 2
1st semifinals
Austria	-	Switzerland	6: 3
2nd semifinals
Switzerland	-	Germany	2: 2 (5: 4 n.P.)
FINAL
Austria	-	Switzerland	3: 4

Final score

rank	country	player	player
1.	Switzerland	Roman Schneider	Dominik Planzer
2.	Austria	Patrick Schnetzer	Dietmar Schneider
3.	Germany	Jens Krichbaum	Marco Rossmann
4th	Czech Republic	Pavel Smid	Petr Skotak
5.	France	Stéphane Bauer	Frédéric Doell
6th	Belgium	Brecht ladies	Niels Dirikx

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

Belgium was able to successfully defend the league.

 Belgium - Romania 6: 1  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Romania	Dorian Toroftei	Mircea Tric
2.	Japan	Naoya Kinoshita	Ko Matsuda
3.	Netherlands	Jos Van Dijk	Karel Van Dijk
4th	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Vilmos Toma
5.	Hong Kong	Wing Tai Ho	Chun Hin Kwan
6th	Malaysia	Dahalan Mohd Zikri	Ibrahim Ibra Izuan
7th	Canada	Jean Saucier	Benoit Fish

Artistic cycling

There were competitions in 1-man, 2-man and 4-man artificial cycling for women, 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 17 athletes from 10 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Corinna Hein	187.90	179.93
2.	Germany	Sandra Beck	187.50	177.75
3.	Austria	Adriana Mathis	173.20	165.19

Double

A total of 11 teams from six nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	167.40	153.40
2.	Germany	Katharina Wurster	Jasmine Soika	165.70	145.79
3.	Austria	Darinka Puhr	Nadine Gasser	118.10	106.18

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of six teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katharina Gülich Sonja Mauermeyer Ramona Strassner Christina Posch	225.20	202.51
2.	Switzerland	Carolin Noll Andrea Schillig Maura Stiefel Nora Willener	223.80	192.88
3.	Austria	Nina Klammsteiner Marion Müller Elisa Klammsteiner Anna Pircher	152.50	132.96

Men's singles

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

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	212.10	208.46
2.	Germany	Florian Blab	210.60	198.98
3.	Switzerland	Yannick Martens	172.00	164.27

Mixed doubles

A total of 11 duos from eight nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Luisa Bassmann	Benedikt Bassmann	160.10	149.98
2.	Germany	Oliver Gronbach	Daniel Gronbach	154.40	143.84
3.	Hong Kong	Hin Bon Ip	Pok Man Yu	138.30	126.43

Web links

• Official website of the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2012
• All results on www.radball.at