Indoor cycling world championships 2014

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2014
date		November 21-23, 2014
Host country		Czech Republic
venue		Brno
winner
Bike ball		Austria
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		Switzerland
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	4th	3	1	8th
2	Austria	1	2	1	4th
3	Switzerland	1	2	0	3
4th	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
5	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
6th	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
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The 2014 Indoor Cycling World Championships took place in Brno ( Czech Republic ) from November 21 to 23, 2014 . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling .

With four gold medals, Germany was the most successful nation to win competitions in one and two-way cycling for both women and men. Athletes from a total of 17 nations took part, all of whom came from Europe or Asia , with the exception of a cycling duo and three artificial cyclists who started for Canada .

Bike ball

A two-man team competition was held for the men.

mode

The tournament consisted of two groups: Group A with the six best teams and Group B with seven weaker teams. The classification was based on the ranking of the previous year. 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.	Switzerland		6: 4	1: 1	4: 3	5: 1	5: 2	4th	1	0	21-11	13
2.	Austria	4: 6		3: 2	3: 1	6: 3	8: 1	4th	0	1	24: 13	12
3.	Germany	1: 1	2: 3		5: 1	4: 1	3: 1	3	1	1	15: 7	10
4th	Czech Republic	3: 4	1: 3	1: 5		3: 3	1-0	1	1	3	9:15	4th
5.	Belgium	1: 5	3: 6	1: 4	3: 3		3: 3	0	2	3	11:21	2
6th	France	2: 5	1: 8	1: 3	0: 1	3: 3		0	1	4th	7:20	1

Final round

Intermediate round
Austria	-	Belgium	7: 4
Germany	-	Czech Republic	3: 4
1st semifinals
Switzerland	-	Austria	2: 4
2nd semifinals
Switzerland	-	Czech Republic	2-0
FINAL
Austria	-	Switzerland	4: 1

Final score

rank	country	player	player
1.	Austria	Patrick Schnetzer	Markus Bröll
2.	Switzerland	Roman Schneider	Dominik Planzer
3.	Czech Republic	Pavel Smid	Petr Skotak
4th	Germany	Uwe Berner	Matthias King
5.	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Peter Martens
6th	France	Quentin Seyfried	Benjamin Meyer

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

France was able to successfully defend the league.

 France - Spain 3: 2  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	Spain	Florencio Monge	Marcel Chaves
2.	Japan	Yosuke Murakami	Koji Okajima
3.	Hungary	Tamas Aremdas	Vilmos Toma
4th	Malaysia	Dahalan Mohamad Zikri	Muhammad Khairulazhar Ahmad Tajuddin
5.	Hong Kong	Wing Tai Ho	Chun Hin Kwan
6th	Canada	Jean Saucier	Benoit Fish
7th	Slovakia	Szilard Kiss	Robert Jakab

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 five minutes and included a maximum of 30 for the individual starters and a maximum of 25 different elements for the teams, 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

One

A total of 21 athletes from 13 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Corinna Biethan	187.90	178.02
2.	Austria	Adriana Mathis	178.50	170.93
3.	Slovakia	Nicole Frýbortová	174.80	164.97

two

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

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	165.30	160.92
2.	Germany	Katharina Wurster	Jasmine Soika	163.60	156.57
3.	Switzerland	Bettina Weber	Anja Weber	130.00	114.95

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of five teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Switzerland	Celine Burlet Melanie Schmid Jennifer Schmid Flavia Zuber	232.70	211.53
2.	Germany	Anja Fahrion Nelly Ludwig Sandra Möbus Janina Raisch	230.00	206.12
3.	Austria	Marion Müller Julia Wetzel Alice Stampach Anna Pircher	177.70	156.38

Gentlemen One

A total of 24 athletes from 15 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Michael Niedermeier	210.50	202.55
2.	Germany	Simon pulse	201.60	187.51
3.	Hong Kong	Wong Chin To	183.30	170.96

Mixed twos

A total of 14 duos from 9 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Andre Bugner	Benedikt Bugner	165.20	162.57
2.	Austria	Fabian Allgäuer	Adriana Mathis	154.20	138.87
3.	Germany	Michael Rauch	Melissa Breitenbach	144.10	133.22

Web links

• Official website of the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2014
• All results on www.radball.at