UCI Track World Championships 2008

The 98th UCI Track World Championships took place from March 26th to 30th, 2008 in Manchester at the Manchester Velodrome .

A total of 300 track cyclists took part, 207 men and 93 women. The drivers came from 37 nations and fought for medals in 18 disciplines. The women's team pursuit has been added to the program.

Time schedule

date	Disciplines men	Disciplines women
Wednesday March 26th	Individual pursuit , scratch , team sprint	500-meter time trial
Thursday March 27th	Team Pursuit , Sprint (1st Round and Quarter Finals)	One chase, team sprint
Friday March 28th	Points race , sprint (semifinals and finals)	Team Pursuit, Sprint (1st Round and Quarter Finals)
Saturday March 29th	Two-man team driving , Keirin	Points race, sprint (semifinals and finals)
Sunday March 30th	Omnium , 1-kilometer time trial	Scratch, Keirin

Results

sprint

Men # Surname nationality time Chris Hoy  GBR 10.432 (1) 10.497 (2) Kévin Sireau  FRA Mickaël Bourgain  FRA 10.545 (1) 10.636 (2) 4th Roberto Chiappa  ITA 5 Jason Kenny  GBR 6th Grégory Baugé  FRA 7th Andrij Vynokurow  UKR 8th Theo Bos  NED 9 François Pervis  FRA 10 Maximilian Levy  GER

Women # Surname nationality time Victoria Pendleton  GBR 11.747 (1) 11.551 (2) Simona Krupeckaitė  LTU Jennie Reed  United States 12.055 (1) 12.044 (3) 4th Guo Shuang  CHN 11.498 (2) 5 Willy Kanis  NED 6th Clara Sanchez  FRA 7th Lisandra Guerra  CUB 8th Yvonne Hijgenaar  NED 9 Lulu Zheng  CHN 10 Christin Muche  GER

Team sprint

Men # Surname nationality time Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant  FRA 43.271 Ross Edgar Jamie Staff Chris Hoy  GBR 43.777 Teun Mulder Theo Bos Tim Veldt  NED 43.718 4th René Enders Maximilian Levy Stefan Nimke  GER 44.275 5 Daniel Ellis Mark French Ben Kersten  OUT 44.615 6th Sergei Borissow Sergei Kuzjerow Sergei Ruban  RUS 44.898 7th Feng Yong Hao Li Wen Zhang Lei  CHN 45.004 8th Tsubasa Kitatsuru Kiyofumi Nagai Kazunari Watanabe  JPN 45.031 9 Yevgen Bolibruch Yuri Zjupik Andrij Vynokurow  UKR 45.061 10 Michael Blatchford Adam Duvendeck Giddeon Massie  United States 45.128

Women # Surname nationality time Shanaze Reade Victoria Pendleton  GBR 33.661 Jinjie Gong Lulu Zheng  CHN 34.223 Dana Glöß Miriam Welte  GER 34.036 4th Sandie Clair Virginie Cueff  FRA 34.234 5 Svetlana Grankovskaya Oksana Grischina  RUS 6th Valentina Alessio Elisa Frisoni  ITA 7th Wathinee Luekajorh Jutatip Maneephan  THA

One's pursuit

Men (4000 m) # Surname nationality time Bradley Wiggins  GBR 4.18,519 Jenning Huizenga  NED 4.23,474 Alexei Markov  RUS 4.21,097 4th Hayden Roulston  NZL 4.23,663 5 Bradley McGee  OUT 4.20,430 6th David O'Loughlin  IRL 4.20,910 7th Luke Roberts  OUT 4.21,891 8th Taylor Phinney  United States 4.22,358 9 Antonio Tauler  ESP 4.22,654 10 Volodymyr Djudja  UKR 4.22,728

Women (3000 m) # Surname nationality time Rebecca Romero  GBR 3.30,501 Sarah Hammer  United States 3.37,006 Katie Mactier  OUT 3.32,347 4th Wendy Houvenaghel  GBR 3.34,168 5 Ellen van Dijk  NED 3.32.505 6th Lesja Kalytowska  UKR 3.33,926 7th Alison Shanks  NZL 3.35,212 8th María Luisa Calle  COL 3.35,505 9 Karin Thürig  SUI 3.36,229 10 Verena Jooss  GER 3.36,457

Team pursuit

Men # Surname nationality time Ed Clancy Geraint Thomas Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins  GBR 3.56,322 WR Michael Færk Christensen Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Alex Rasmussen  THE 3,59,381 Graeme Brown Mark Jamieson Bradley McGee Luke Roberts  OUT 4.00,089 4th Sam Bewley Westley Gough Hayden Roulston Mark Ryan  NZL 4.01,993 5 Mikhail Ignatiev Alexei Markow Alexander Petrowski Alexander Serow  RUS 6th Damien Gaudin Matthieu Ladagnous Nicolas Rousseau Fabien Sanchez  FRA 7th Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu David Muntaner Antonio Tauler  ESP 8th Levi Heimans Jenning Huizenga Jens Mouris Peter Schep  NED 9 Robert Bartko Daniel Becke Henning Bommel Patrick Gretsch  GER 10 Lyubomyr Polatajko Maxym Polischuk Vitaly Popkov Vitaly Shchedov  UKR

Women # Surname nationality time Wendy Houvenaghel Rebecca Romero Joanna Rowsell  GBR 3.22,415 Switlana Haljuk Lesja Kalytowska Lyubow Schulika  UKR 3.29.744 Charlotte Becker Verena Jooss Alexandra Sontheimer  GER 3.26,960 4th Alena Amjaljussik Aksana Papko Tatiana Sharakova  BLR 3.29,449 5 Anastassija Tschulkowa Evgenija Romanjuta Jelena Tschalych  RUS 3.30,320 6th Marlijn Binnendijk Ellen van Dijk Elise van Hage  NED 3.31,596 7th Evelyn Arys Jessie Daams Jolien D'hoore  BEL

Time trial

Men (1 kilometer) # Surname nationality time Teun Mulder  NED 1.01,332 Michaël D'Almeida  FRA 1.01,514 François Pervis  FRA 1.01,579 4th Matthew Crampton  GBR 1.01,822 5 Mohd Rizal Tisin  MAS 1.02,409 6th Yevgen Bolibruch  UKR 1.02,432 7th Hao Li Wen  CHN 1.02,503 8th Scott Sunderland  OUT 1.02,515 9 Tim Veldt  NED 1.02,757 10 Edward Dawkins  NZL 1.02,893

Women (500 meters) # Surname nationality time Lisandra Guerra  CUB 34.021 Simona Krupeckaitė  LTU 34.066 Sandie Clair  FRA 34.253 4th Willy Kanis  NED 34.254 5 Jinjie Gong  CHN 34,449 6th Miriam Welte  GER 34.666 7th Shanaze Reade  GBR 34,702 8th Natalia Zilinskaya  BLR 34.725 9 Anna Blyth  GBR 34.792 10 Yvonne Hijgenaar  NED 34.896

Points race

Men # Surname nationality Points Vasil Kiryenka  BLR 24 Christophe Riblon  FRA 23 Peter Schep  NED 19th 4th Cameron Meyer  OUT 18th 5 Greg Henderson  NZL 17th 6th Milan Kadlec  CZE 14th 7th Juan Sebastian Arango  COL 9 8th Rafał Ratajczyk  POLE 8th 9 Wong Kam Po  HKG 5 10 Mikhail Ignatiev  RUS 5

Women # Surname nationality Points Marianne Vos  NED 33 Trine Schmidt  THE 25th Vera Carrara  ITA 20th 4th Leire Olaberria  ESP 11 5 Yoanka González Pérez  COL 10 6th Svetlana Paulikaitė  LTU 8th 7th Olga Slyusareva  RUS 7th 8th Rebecca Quinn  United States 7th 9 Pascale Jeuland  FRA 6th 10 Jarmila Machačová  CZE 6th

Keirin

Fall in the Keirin race

Men # Surname nationality Chris Hoy  GBR Teun Mulder  NED Christos Volikakis  GRE 4th Arnaud Tournant  FRA 5 Toshiaki Fushimi  JPN 6th Matthew Crampton  GBR 7th Shane Kelly  OUT 8th Ross Edgar  GBR 9 Ryan Bayley  OUT 10 Carsten Bergemann  GER

Women # Surname Jennie Reed  United States Victoria Pendleton  GBR Christin Muche  GER 4th Clara Sanchez  FRA 5 Anna Blyth  GBR 6th Simona Krupeckaitė  LTU 7th Svetlana Grankovskaya  RUS 8th Diana Maria García  COL 9 Willy Kanis  NED 10 Lisandra Guerra  CUB

Scratch

Men # Surname nationality Aljaksandr Lisouski  BLR Wim Stroetinga  NED Roger Kluge  GER 4th Rafał Ratajczyk  POLE 5 Ángel Darío Colla  ARG 6th Kazuhiro Mori  JPN 7th Andreas Mueller  AUT 8th Juan Pablo Forero  COL 9 Hayden Godfrey  NZL 10 Luis Mancilla  CHI

Women # Surname nationality Ellen van Dijk  NED Yumari González  CUB Belinda Goss  OUT 4th Annalisa Cucinotta  ITA 5 Rebecca Quinn  United States 6th Pascale Jeuland  FRA 7th Elizabeth Armitstead  GBR 8th María Luisa Calle  COL 9 Elke Gebhardt  GER 10 Catherine Cheatley  NZL

Omnium

Men
#	Surname	nationality	Points
	Hayden Godfrey	NZL	19th
	Leigh Howard	OUT	28
	Aljaksandr Lisouski	BLR	35
4th	Alois Kaňkovský	CZE	35
5	Robert Bartko	GER	37
6th	Steven Burke	GBR	38
7th	Bobby Lea	United States	39
8th	Tim Mertens	BEL	39
9	Gianpolo Biolo	ITA	43
10	Ghislain Boiron	FRA	49

Madison

Bradley Wiggins (left) and Mark Cavendish on their way to the World Championship at Madison

Men
#	Surname	nationality	Points
	Mark Cavendish Bradley Wiggins	GBR	19th
	Roger Kluge Olaf Pollack	GER	13
	Michael Mørkøv Alex Rasmussen	THE	11
4th	Kenny De Ketele Iljo Keisse	BEL	8th
5	Franco Marvulli Bruno Risi	SUI	3
6th	Joan Llaneras Carlos Torrent	ESP	1
7th	Matthieu Ladagnous Jérôme Neuville	FRA	+ 1 lap 15
8th	Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Pérez	ARG	+ 1 lap 12
9	Greg Henderson Hayden Roulston	NZL	+ 1 round 11
10	Jens Mouris Peter Schep	NED	+ 1 lap 5

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United Kingdom	9	2		11
2	Netherlands	3	3	2	8th
3	Belarus	2		1	3
4th	France	1	3	3	7th
5	United States	1	1	1	3
6th	Cuba	1	1		2
7th	New Zealand	1			1
8th	Denmark		2	1	3
9	Lithuania		2		2
10	Germany		1	4th	5
11	Australia		1	3	4th
12	People's Republic of China		1		1
	Ukraine		1		1
14th	Russia			1	1
	Greece			1	1
	Italy			1	1

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 2008

Web links

Commons : UCI Rail World Championships 2008  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website Manchester 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the qualification Mickaël Bourgain drove instead of Arnaud Tournant .
2. ↑ In the qualification, Jack Bobridge drove instead of Luke Roberts