France and Mexico were initially named as applicants for the 2015 Track World Championships. In Mexico, Velodromes were available in Guadalajara and Aguascalientes , on which track cycling World Cups have already been held. In March 2014 it was announced that Aguascalientes had applied to host the world championships, while Guadalajara was planning to host another World Cup race . The new velodrome in France was ultimately awarded the contract for the world championships.
The championships
The most successful nation at the World Championships were the hosts from France with a total of seven medals, five of which were gold medals; The French drivers achieved gold four times in short-term disciplines, twice with François Pervis in the 1000-meter time trial and Keirin , twice with multiple world champion Grégory Baugé in the sprint and team sprint . Bryan Coquard and Morgan Kneisky contributed the fifth gold medal with a victory in the two-man team driving . In second place in the medal table came Australia, which won one less than France with four gold medals, but was able to take home the most with eleven medals. The Australian gold medals were mainly won by the women in the endurance disciplines. In the sprint disciplines, Anna Meares was particularly successful: In addition to silver and bronze ( 500 m time trial and team sprint), Meares won gold in the Keirin competition. With eleven world championship titles, she is the most successful track cyclist to date (as of 2015).
The Association of German Cyclists finished the world championships in third place in the medal table . While the male athletes in the short-term disciplines could not build on their performances of previous years, Kristina Vogel showed strong nerves and defended her title in the sprint from the previous year despite a fall and some delays in the schedule and is thus the most successful cyclist in Germany (as of 2015). The endurance driver Stephanie Pohl won further gold medals in the points race and Lucas Liß in the scratch .
On the morning of the fourth day of the competition, the Colombian Fabián Puerta collided with the Lithuanian ex-Keirin world champion Simona Krupeckaitė while warming up . Puerta suffered a traumatic brain injury, abrasions and facial injuries. Krupeckaitė, who had finished seventh in the sprint tournament the day before, also had to be stabilized with a neck brace and carried out of the hall on a stretcher. The next day, however, she was able to start in the Keirin. Puerta was also discharged from hospital the next day, but missed participation in the sprint tournament.
In the afternoon of the same day, water dripped from the ceiling of the brand new Velodrome onto the track, so that the competitions had to be interrupted. Helpers worked for around 20 minutes to solve the problem and repeatedly wiped the track dry. The organizers took the mishap with humor and left the song Why Does It Always Rain on Me? by the British rock band Travis .
In the women's race there was a relegation of the French driver Pascale Jeuland because of driving the sprint corridor after it was already occupied by a competitor - the Slovak Alžbeta Pavlendová.
Points race
Stephanie Pohl (here in 2014) became world champion in the points race.
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France
Australia
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Russia
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People's Republic of China
Colombia
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