UEC European Junior Championships / U23 2016

With four gold medals in all short-term disciplines (U23) the most successful athlete in the championships: the Dutchwoman Elis Ligtlee (here at the 2015 European Track Championships)

The UEC-track European Championships Junior / U23 2016 (2016 UEC Jun / U23 Track European Championships) was from 12 to 17 July, 2016 in the Italian Montichiari in Velodromo Fassa Bortolo instead. Initially it was planned to award the championships to Brno in the Czech Republic .

The most successful team was that of the Italian hosts with a total of ten medals, including six gold. In second place the national rankings followed Poland with the absolute highest total number of medals, 18 of them, including five gold, in third place followed by the Netherlands with five gold medals, four of which by a single athlete, the short-term specialist Elis Ligtlee won were.

Among the juniors, Mathilde Gros from France won the gold medal in the sprint and 500 meter time trial . In the endurance disciplines of the juniors, the Italian Letizia Paternoster was successful in team pursuit , scratch and points driving , while her compatriot Elisa Balsamo won gold in the team pursuit and in the Omnium . In the juniors, there was only one rider who was similarly dominant, the Czech Martin Čechman , who was junior European champion in sprint and keirin .

In the U23 riders, Elis Ligtlee dominated the short-term disciplines of women, while there was no similarly dominant athlete for men. The Belgian Lotte Kopecky won two gold medals, in the Omnium and in the points race. The Italian Filippo Ganna won two medals, a gold one in the individual pursuit and a silver one in the team pursuit.

Maximilian Dörnbach was the athlete who won the only gold medal for the team of the Association of German Cyclists . Nico Selenati won a bronze medal in the scratch for the Swiss team .

Two new world records were set during the European Championships : The Italian juniors Elisa Balsamo , Chiara Consonni , Letizia Paternoster and Martina Stefani set a new best time of 4: 29.234 minutes. The Lithuanian Olivija Baleišytė improved Amy Cure's six-year-old record in the qualification of the single pursuit over 2000 meters to 2: 22.31 minutes.

Time schedule

Juniors

date	Disciplines Juniors	Disciplines Juniors
Tuesday July 12th	Team pursuit , team sprint , scratch	Team pursuit , team sprint , scratch
Wednesday July 13th	1000 meter time trial , single pursuit	One's pursuit
Thursday July 14th	Points race	Sprint , points race
Friday 15th July	Sprint , omnium	500 meter time trial
Saturday 16th July	Two-man team driving , Keirin	Keirin , Omnium

U23

date	Disciplines men	Disciplines women
Tuesday July 12th	One's pursuit	One's pursuit
Wednesday July 13th	Team sprint , team pursuit	Team sprint , team pursuit
Thursday July 14th	1000 meter time trial , points race	Points race
Friday 15th July	Scratch	Sprint , scratch
Saturday 16th July	Sprint , omnium	500 meter time trial
Sunday 17th July	Keirin , two-man team driving	Omnium , Keirin

Results U23

sprint

space athlete country Time (s) Mateusz Rudyk  POLE 10.589 (1) 10.495 (2) Sébastien Vigier  FRA Vasilijus Lendel  LTU 10.607 (1) 10.246 (2)

space sportswoman country Time (s) Elis Ligtlee  NLD 11.383 (1) 11.418 (2) Tatiana Kisseljowa  RUS Melissandre Pain  FRA 11.612 (1) 14.426 (2)

Keirin

space athlete country Thomas Copponi  FRA Marc Jurczyk  GER Michael Lewandowski  POLE

space sportswoman country Elis Ligtlee  NED Nicky Degrendele  BEL Migle Marozaitė  LTU

Time trial

space athlete country Time (min) Maximilian Dörnbach  GER 1: 01.315 Jirí Janošek  CZE 1: 01.328 Joseph Truman  United States 1: 01.742

space sportswoman country Time (s) Elis Ligtlee  NED 34,049 Tatiana Kisseljowa  RUS 34,570 Melissandre Pain  FRA 34.898

Team sprint

space athlete country Time (s) Jack Carlin Ryan Owens Joseph Truman  GBR 43.955 Jiří Fanta David Sojka Jiří Janošek  CZE 44.642 Richard Aßmus Maximilian Dörnbach Jan May  GER 43.973

space sportswoman country Time (s) Kyra Lamberink Elis Ligtlee  NED 33.504 Natalja Antonowa Tatiana Kisseljowa  RUS 33.786 Julita Jagodzinska Urszula Łoś  POLE 34.722

One's pursuit

space athlete country Time (min) Filippo Ganna  ITA 4: 14.165 Ivo Oliveira  POR 4: 17.448 Thomas Denis  FRA 4: 20.878

space sportswoman country Time (min) Justyna Kaczkowska  POLE 3: 31.307 Daria Pikulik  POLE 3: 33.479 Ina Sawenka  BLR 3: 32.585

Team pursuit

space athlete country Time (min) Thomas Denis Corentin Ermenault Florian Maitre Benjamin Thomas  FRA 3: 56.277 Simone Consonni Filippo Ganna Francesco Lamon Davide Plebani  ITA 3: 56.393 Matthew Bostock Joe Holt Mark Stewart Oliver Wood  GBR 3: 59.396

space sportswoman country Time (min) Emily Kay Dannielle Khan Manon Lloyd Emily Nelson  GBR 4: 24.386 Martina Alzini Michela Maltese Francesca Pattaro Claudia Cretti  ITA caught up Monika Graczewski Justyna Kaczkowska Łucja Pietrzak Daria Pikulik  POLE 4: 28.760

Scratch

space athlete country Michal Rzeznicki  POLE Mark Stewart  GBR Nico Selenati  SUI

space sportswoman country Rachele Barbieri  ITA Soline Lamboley  FRA Dannielle Khan  GBR

Points race

space athlete country Points Jonathan Dibben  GBR 125 + 5 rounds Mark Downey  IRL 111 + 5 rounds Raman Ramanau  BLR 101 + 4 rounds

space sportswoman country Points Lotte Kopecky  BEL 44 Emily Nelson  GBR 38 Tatjana Paller  GER 36

Omnium

space athlete country Points Thomas Boudat  FRA 262 Szymon Sajnok  POLE 217 Ivo Oliveira  POR 193

space sportswoman country Points Lotte Kopecky  BEL 214 Ina Sawenka  BLR 185 Emily Kay  GBR 181

Madison

space athlete country Points (laps) Maxim Piskunow Sergei Rostovtsev  RUS 10 Florian Maitre Benjamin Thomas  FRA 10 Alan Banaszek Daniel Staniszewski  POLE 8th

Results Juniors

sprint

space athlete country Time (s) Martin Čechman  CZE 10.703 (1) 10.611 (2) Mateusz Milek  POLE Ayrton De Pauw  BEL 10.591 (1) 10.986 (2)

space sportswoman country Time (s) Mathilde Gros  FRA 13.553 (1) 11.634 (2) Martina Fidanza  ITA Hetty van de Wouw  NED 11.491 (1) 11.667 (2)

Keirin

space athlete country Martin Čechman  CZE Timo Bichler  GER Dmitri Nesterov  RUS

space sportswoman country Sara Kankowska  CZE Aleksandra Tolomanov  POLE Steffie van der Peet  NLD

Time trial

space athlete country Time (min) Ayrton De Pauw  BEL 1: 03,302 Dawid Czubak  POLE 1: 04.233 Alejandro Martinez  ESP 1: 04.157

space sportswoman country Time (s) Mathilde Gros  FRA 34.836 Hetty van de Wouw  NLD 35.268 Sophie Capewell  GBR 35.873

Team sprint

space athlete country Time (s) Mikhail Dmitrijew Dmitri Nesterow Pavel Rostov  RUS 45.571 Krystian Ruta Mateusz Milek Daniel Rochna  POLE 45.783 Alexander Joliffe Lewis Stewart Hamish Turnbull  GBR 46.838

space sportswoman country Time (s) Hetty van de Wouw Steffie van der Peet  NED 34,367 Martina Fidanza Gloria Manzoni  ITA 34.703 Lauren Bate-Lowe Sophie Capewell  GBR 35,416

One's pursuit

space athlete country Time (min) Georgios Stavrakakis  GRE 3: 18.812 Ivan Smirnov  RUS 3: 19.764 Reece Wood  GBR 3: 19.326

space sportswoman country Time (min) Olivija Baleišytė  LTU 2: 23.329 Maria Novolodskaya  RUS 2: 24.893 Nikola Rozynska  POLE 2: 25.104

Team pursuit

space athlete country Time (min) Ethan Hayter Matthew Walls Reece Wood Fred Wright  GBR 4: 04.142 Dawid Czubak Szymon Krawczyk Patryk Pazik Bartosz Rudyk  POLE 4: 08.284 Arseni Nikoforow Sergei Malnew Alexander Smirnow Ivan Smirnow  RUS 4: 09.551

space Sportswomen country Time (min) Elisa Balsamo Chiara Consonni Letizia Paternoster Martina Stefani  ITA 4: 29.234 WR Marit Raaijmakers Amber van der Hulst Kristie van Haaften Bente van Teeseling  NED caught up000 Eleanor Dickinson Lauren Dolan Rebecca Raybould Jessica Roberts  GBR 4: 39.350000

Scratch

space athlete country Jules Hester  BEL Felix Happke  GER Olexandr Krivich  UKR

space sportswoman country Letizia Paternoster  ITA Maria Martins  POR Wiktoria Pikulik  POLE

Points race

space athlete country Points Dawid Czubak  POLE 49 + 1 lap Matteo Donegà  ITA 36 + 1 lap Tanning Thijssen  BEL 32 + 1 round

space sportswoman country Points Letizia Paternoster  ITA 53 + 1 lap Marit Raaijmakers  NED 27 + 1 round Rebecca Raybould  GBR 12

Omnium

space athlete country Points Szymon Krawczyk  POLE 203 Ethan Hayter  GBR 192 Bas Ottevanger  NED 184

space sportswoman country Points Elisa Balsamo  ITA 186 Olivija Baleišytė  LTU 184 Jessica Roberts  GBR 182

Madison

space athlete country Points Rhys Britton Matthew Walls  GBR 10 Jules Hester's tanning Thijssen  BEL 17 / - 1 lap Sergei Malnew Alexander Smirnov  RUS 12 / - 1 round

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	6th	4th	-	10
2	Poland	5	7th	6th	18th
3	Netherlands	5	4th	2	11
4th	United Kingdom	5	3	11	19th
5	France	5	3	3	11
6th	Belgium	4th	2	2	8th
7th	Czech Republic	3	2	1	6th
8th	Russia	2	5	3	10
9	Germany	1	3	2	6th
10	Lithuania	1	1	2	4th
11	Greece	1	-	-	1
12	Portugal	-	2	1	3
13	Belarus	-	1	2	3
14th	Ireland	-	1	-	1
15th	Ukraine	-	-	1	1
	Spain	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
total		38	38	38	114

Bids

Germany

• Juniors: Timo Bichler , Alexander Franz, Felix Happke , Valentin Schumann , Felix Zschocke
• U23: Richard Aßmus , Maximilian Dörnbach , Marc Jurczyk , Max Kanter , Jan May , Emma Hinze , Tatjana Paller

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  Richard Assmus

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  Maximilian Dörnbach

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  Marc Jurczyk

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  Max Kanter

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  Tatjana Paller

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  Felix Zschocke

Austria

• Juniors: Verena Eberhardt , Tobias Edelbauer , Stefan Mastaller , Tobias Wauch

Switzerland

• Juniors: Antoine Aebi , Valère Thiébaud , Alex Vogel
• U23: Simon Brühlmann , Gino Mäder , Lukas Rüegg , Martin Schäppi , Nico Selenati

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rail EM of the U23 and U19 in Montichiari. In: rad-net.de. April 6, 2016, accessed April 6, 2016 .