UCI Track World Championships 2003

The 93rd UCI Track World Championships took place from July 30th to August 3rd, 2003 in the " Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle " in Stuttgart . There were 15 disciplines on the program. A total of 15,000 spectators saw the competitions in the hall, which was almost unbearably hot in midsummer, which made some athletes difficult. 301 athletes from 38 countries took part.

The World Championships were originally supposed to take place in Shenzhen , China , but were then relocated to Stuttgart at short notice due to the SARS epidemic in Southeast Asia.

The German roster included the athletes:

- Women : Christina Becker , Kathrin Freitag , Katrin Meinke , Christin Muche , Susan Panzer , Anke Wichmann

- Men : Christian Bach , Robert Bartko , Daniel Becke , Robert Bengsch , Carsten Bergemann , Jan van Eijden , Jens Fiedler , Guido Fulst , Matthias John , Sven Krauß , Sören Lausberg , Jens Lehmann , Andreas Müller , Stefan Nimke , Sebastian Siedler , René Wolff

The Association of German Cyclists expected eight medals in advance, but only three were won. In addition, there was a scandal in the team pursuit : The German four-wheeler did not qualify because the drivers Lehmann, Becke, Siedler and Bach had refused to start together with Bartko and Fulst. The background was Lehmann's resentment about not having been nominated for the persecution . Instead, Bartko had been nominated, who in Lehmann's opinion had not qualified. World champion in team pursuit was the four-wheeler from Australia with a new world record time of 3: 57.280 minutes.

The most successful athlete in the men's World Cup was Franco Marvulli from Switzerland with two gold medals, one in scratch and one in a two-man team with Bruno Risi. Marvulli was nominated for the scratch competition at short notice after a training accident of his teammate Alexander Aeschbach.

Two Russian women dominated the women's race: Svetlana Grankovskaya and Olga Slyusareva each won two gold medals.

Gold was also won by Austrian rider Franz Stocher , who was not only the first Austrian to win a World Championship gold medal in track cycling, but also the first ever World Championship gold medal for Austria in an Olympic cycling discipline.

Time schedule

Franco Marvulli (here 2011) was the most successful participant in the men with two gold medals.

date	Disciplines men	Disciplines women
Wednesday July 30th	1 km time trial , scratch	Points race
Thursday July 31st	Chase Keirin	500 m time trial
Friday 1st August	Points race	Keirin, one's pursuit
Saturday 2nd August	Sprint, team chase	Scratch
Sunday May 30th	Two-man team driving (Madison), team sprint	sprint

Results

sprint

Men # Surname nationality time Laurent Gané  FRA 10.392 (2) 10.769 (3) Jobie Dajka  OUT 10.443 (1) René Wolff  GER 10.684 (1) 10.538 (2) 4th Arnaud Tournant  FRA 5 Jens Fiedler  GER 6th José Antonio Villanueva  ESP 7th Ross Edgar  GBR 8th Takashi Kaneko  JPN distant

Women # Surname nationality time Svetlana Grankovskaya  RUS 12.558 (1) 11.798 (2) Natalia Zilinskaya  BLR Nancy Contreras  MEX 12.198 (2) 12.009 (3) 4th Victoria Pendleton  GBR 11.669 (1) 5 Daniela Larrel  VEN 6th Katrin Meinke  GER 7th Tamilla Abasova  RUS 8th Cuihua Juang  CHN

Team sprint

Men # Surname nationality time Carsten Bergemann Jens Fiedler René Wolff  GER 49,957 Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gané Arnaud Tournant  FRA 50.071 Chris Hoy Craig MacLean Jamie Staff  GBR 50,442 4th Ryan Bayley Jobie Dajka Mark French  OUT 50.653 5 Jan Bos Theo Bos Teun Mulder  NED 50.727 6th José Antonio Escuredo Salvador Meliá José Antonio Villanueva  JPN 50.742 7th Toshiaki Fushimi Kiyofumi Nagai Tomohiro Nagatsuka  JPN 51,369 8th Kleanthis Bargas Dimitris Georgalis Lampros Vasilopoulos  GRE 51.984

One's pursuit

Men # Surname nationality time Bradley Wiggins  GBR 4.18,567 Luke Roberts  OUT 4.19,306 Sergi Escobar  ESP 4.21,219 4th Luke Roberts  OUT 4.22,461 5 Daniel Becke  GER 6th Robert Bartko  GER 7th Mark Jamieson  OUT 8th Alexei Markov  RUS

Women # Surname nationality time Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel  NED 3.32,657 Katie Mactier  OUT 3.33,784 Olga Slyusareva  RUS 3.31,938 4th Sarah Ulmer  RUS 3.33,361 5 Karin Thürig  SUI 3.33,560 6th Juliette Vandekerckhove  FRA 3.36,539 7th Diana Žiliūtė  LTU 3.37,880 8th Emma Davies  GBR 3.38,332

Team pursuit

Men # Surname nationality time Graeme Brown Peter Dawson Brett Lancaster Luke Roberts Stephen Wooldridge  OUT 3,57,280 WR Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bryan Steel Bradley Wiggins  GBR 4.00,629 Fabien Merciris Jérôme Neuville Franck Perque Fabien Sanchez  FRA 4.04.191 4th Alexei Markow Michail Mikheev Sergei Klimow Alexander Serow  RUS 4.04,903 5 Linas Balčiūnas Aivaras Baranauskas Tomas Vaitkus Raimondas Vilčinskas  LTU 4.06,483 6th Heath Blackgrove Peter Latham Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan  NZL 4.09,170 7th Dzmitry Aulasenka Wassil Kiryjenka Kanstanzin Siuzou Jauhen Sobal  BLR 4.10,042 8th Carlos Castaño Panadero Sergi Escobar Guillermo Ferrer Garcia Asier Maeztu  ESP 4.09,460

Time trial

Men (1 kilometer) # Surname nationality time Stefan Nimke  GER 1.01,225 Shane Kelly  OUT 1.01,356 Arnaud Tournant  FRA 1.01.644 4th Chris Hoy  GBR 1.01,704 5 Ben Kersten  OUT 1.02,007 6th Theo Bos  NED 1.02,314 7th Jamie Staff  GBR 1.02,128 8th Soeren Lausberg  GER 1.02,198 9 Jason Queally  GBR 1.02,387 10 José Antonio Villanueva  ESP 1.02,484

Women (500 meters) # Surname nationality time Natalia Zilinskaya  BLR 34.078 Nancy Contreras  MEX 34,516 Cuihua Juang  CHN 34.746 4th Yvonne Hijgenaar  NED 34.763 5 Yonghua Jiang  CHN 34,847 6th Lori-Ann Muenzer  CAN 34.861 7th Victoria Pendleton  GBR 34.927 8th Kathrin Friday  GER 35.008 9 Anna Meares  OUT 35,039 10 Katrin Meinke  GER 35,191

Points race

Men # Surname nationality Points Franz Stocher  AUT 77 Joan Llaneras  ESP 74 Jos Pronk  NED 70 4th Christopher Newton  GBR 68 5 Tomas Vaitkus  LTU 57 6th Milan Kadlec  CZE 54 7th Robert Sassone  FRA 52 8th Franco Marvulli  SUI 51 9 Leonardo Duque  COL 48 10 Andreas Mueller  GER 45

Women # Surname nationality Points Olga Slyusareva  RUS 27 Edita Kubelskiene  LTU 19th Yoanka González Pérez  CUB 16 4th Cathy Moncassin  FRA 10 5 Ludmilla Wipiraylo  UKR 10 6th Belem Guerrero  MEX 8th 7th Gema Pascual  ESP 8th 8th Adrie Visser  NED 7th 9 Anke Wichmann  GER 5 10 Katherine Bates  OUT 5

Keirin

Men # Surname nationality detail Laurent Gané  FRA Jobie Dajka  OUT Barry Forde  BAR 4th René Wolff  GER 5 Mickaël Bourgain  FRA 6th Yuji Yamada  JPN 7th Jens Fiedler  GER 8th Josiah Ng  MAS 9 Ryan Bayley  OUT 10 Ross Edgar  GBR

Women # Surname nationality detail Svetlana Grankovskaya  RUS Anna Meares  OUT Oxana Grischina  RUS 4th Clara Sanchez  FRA 5 Katrin Meinke  GER 6th Iryna Yanovych  UKR 7th Daniela Larreal  VEN 8th Diana Maria García  COL 9 Celine Nivert  FRA 10 Yvonne Hijgenaar  NED

Scratch

Men # Surname nationality Franco Marvulli  SUI Robert Sassone  FRA Jean-Pierre van Zyl  RSA 4th Andreas Mueller  GER 5 Greg Henderson  NZL 6th Alex Rasmussen  THE 7th Robert Slippens  NED 8th Mark Renshaw  OUT 9 Alexander González  COL 10 Roland Garber  AUT

Women # Surname nationality Olga Slyusareva  RUS Rochelle Gilmore  OUT Adrie Visser  NED 4th Giorgia Bronzini  ITA 5 Ine Wannijn  BEL 6th Gema Pascual  GRE 7th Sarah Ulmer  NZL 8th Yoanka González Pérez  CUB 9 Yanxia Jiang  CZE 10 Anke Wichmann  GER

Madison

Men
#	Surname	nationality	Points
	Franco Marvulli Bruno Risi	Switzerland	13
	Greg Henderson Hayden Roulston	New Zealand	5
	Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Pérez	Argentina	5
4th	Robert Slippens Danny Stam	Netherlands	+1 round 18
5	Martin Liška Robert Zabka	Slovakia	+1 round 12
6th	Roland Garber Franz Stocher	Austria	+1 round 9
7th	Guido Fulst Andreas Müller	Germany	+1 round 8
8th	Graeme Brown Mark Renshaw	Australia	+ 1 round 6
9	Jérôme Neuville Franck Perque	France	+ 1 round 6
10	Leonardo Duque Alexander Gonzalez	Colombia	+ 1 lap 5

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	4th		2	6th
2	France	2	2	2	6th
3	Germany	2		1	3
4th	Switzerland	2			2
5	Australia	1	7th		8th
6th	United Kingdom	1	1	1	3
7th	Belarus	1	1		2
8th	Netherlands	1		2	3
9	Austria	1			1
10	Spain		1	1	2
10	Mexico		1	1	2
12	Lithuania		1		1
12	New Zealand		1		1
14th	People's Republic of China			1	1
14th	Cuba			1	1
14th	Barbados			1	1
14th	South Africa			1	1
14th	Argentina			1	1

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 2003

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• Cycling , 2003

Web links

• Tissot timing