American Taylor Phinney brought home the first gold medal for the United States men today by defending his 4000 meter individual pursuit title from last year. Phinney clocked 4,16.600 minutes to beat New Zealand’s Jesse Sergent in the final. Phinney’s […]
Australia’s Anna Meares and Kaarle McCullough successfully defended their team sprint title at the world track cycling championships on Thursday in Copenhagen, Denmark by beating China into a silver medal. McCullough said afterwards, “We’re so happy so have defended our […]
Quick Step rider Iljo Keisse underwent successful surgery at the Herentals Clinic in Belgium yesterday to stabilize the fracture to his left collarbone. Keisse was set to ride in the track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark this week, when teammate […]
Malaysian sprint specialist Josiah Ng was disqualified from the men’s keirin at the world track cycling championships Thursday for obstructing Britain’s Chris Hoy. Ng was ruled to have obstructed former world champion Hoy, who crashed to the boards seconds after […]
The much anticipated duel between Taylor Phinney and Jack Bobridge in the individual pursuit at this week’s World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark wasn’t meant to be, with the Australian missing the mark for the gold medal round this time around. […]
Australian Cameron Meyer successfully defended his points race title at the world track cycling championships in Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday. The 22-year-old finished off the event with 70 points, more than double the 33 point tally of silver medalist Dutchman […]
Anna Meares of Australia took the gold medal in the 500 meter time trial today at the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, besting defending champion and reigning world record holder Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania and Olga Panarina of Belarus, who […]
Day one of the UCI track world championships in Copenhagen, Denmark saw Germany unseat France in the team sprint competition with the time of 43.433 seconds. France have been the team sprint champions since 2006, so the defeat is a […]
Today was the first day of the UCI track world championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where American Sarah Hammer rode to her first rainbow stripes of the competition by beating Britain’s Wendy Houvenaghel in the 3000 meter individual pursuit. It has […]
Yesterday Quick Step’s new recruit Iljo Keisse was preparing for this week’s World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark when he crashed hard on the track. His teammate Jonathan Dufrasne went down in front of him leaving the Belgian with nowhere to […]
Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton will this week line out in the world track championships in Ballerup, Copenhagen, and both are motivated to add to their collection of gold medals. Hoy missed out on last year’s worlds due to a […]
Multiple Olympic and world championship gold medallists Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton will lead the British charge at the upcoming track worlds, which will be held in Copenhagen from March 24 – 28. Hoy was forced to miss last […]
USA Cycling has announced the eight-person U.S. roster for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. As the defending world champion in the individual pursuit, 19-year-old Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./Trek-Livestrong) earned an automatic nomination to the men’s squad. […]
Mark Jamieson, who represented Australia in the Beijing Olympics and who won a world team pursuit title in 2006, has pleaded guilty to multiple child sex charges. The 25 year old Tasmanian appeared before the South Australian District Court today […]
The Berlin Six Days ended with the win of World Champions Axel Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv ahead of Robert Bartko and Roger Kluge (Germany). The Danes crossed the line 50 meters ahead of Bartko/Kluge, who had come agonizingly close to […]
World under 23 time trial champion Jack Bobridge underlined his ability against the clock today when he scorched to a superb time of 4 minutes 14.427 in the individual pursuit at the Australian national championships. This is the third fastest […]
Robert Bartko and Roger Kluge lead the Berlin Six Days after the second night with 36 points over Dutch duo Danny Stam and Peter Schep. Germans Robert Bengsch and Marcel Kalz are third, 41 points behind. The Danish ‘couple’ Axel […]
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has announced that the steel structure for the 2012 Olympic Velodrome was completed this week. Construction on the Velodrome began last March, and was one of the last of the ‘big five’ Park venues to break […]
