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2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

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2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
VenueMelbourne, Australia Australia
Date(s) (2012-04-04 - 2012-04-08)4–8 April 2012
VelodromeHisense Arena
Events19

The 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2012. They took place in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 8 April 2012. The championships took place in the Hisense Arena which previously hosted the world championships in 2004 and from 2008 to 2010 a round of the World Cup as well as the track cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.[1]

The championships were also the final ranking event for the purposes of Olympic qualification.[2] Ten of the nineteen World Championship disciplines are replicated at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The championships were dominated by the rivalry between Australia and Great Britain, who shared 12 of the 19 gold medals available between them, including in eight of the ten Olympic events. Australia won the greatest total number of medals (15). while the British team led in Olympic events. Of the other nations, only Germany won more than one gold medal.[citation needed]

Several World Records were broken during the championship. Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte started the hunt with a new record in the qualifying of the Team sprint, just to break the record once again during the final.[3] Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke and Geraint Thomas followed up with a new record during the Team pursuit final.[4] At the Women's Team pursuit competition, Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell set a new record.[5] During the last day of the competition, Anna Meares set the last new world record in the 500 m time trial race on her way to the gold medal.[6]

Schedule

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The competition days will be split in Afternoon and Evening Sessions.[7]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint[8]
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Grégory Baugé
 France
Jason Kenny
 Great Britain
Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
1 km time trial[9]
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Stefan Nimke
 Germany
1:00.082 WR Michaël D'Almeida
 France
1:00.509 Simon van Velthooven
 New Zealand
1:00.543
Individual pursuit[10]
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Michael Hepburn
 Australia
4:15.839 Jack Bobridge
 Australia
4:16.313 Westley Gough
 New Zealand
4:16.945
Team pursuit[11]
details
 Great Britain
Ed Clancy
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh
Geraint Thomas
Andrew Tennant*
3:53.295 WR  Australia
Glenn O'Shea
Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
3:53.401  New Zealand
Aaron Gate
Sam Bewley
Westley Gough
Marc Ryan
3:57.592
Team sprint[12]
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 Australia
Shane Perkins
Scott Sunderland
Matthew Glaetzer
43.266  France
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Michaël D'Almeida
43.267  New Zealand
Ethan Mitchell
Sam Webster
Edward Dawkins
43.812
Keirin[13]
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Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Maximilian Levy
 Germany
Jason Kenny
 Great Britain
Scratch[14]
details
Ben Swift
 Great Britain
Nolan Hoffman
 South Africa
Wim Stroetinga
 Netherlands
Points race[15]
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Cameron Meyer
 Australia
33 Ben Swift
 Great Britain
32 Kenny De Ketele
 Belgium
30
Madison[16]
details
 Belgium
Kenny De Ketele
Gijs Van Hoecke
24  Great Britain
Ben Swift
Geraint Thomas
18  Australia
Leigh Howard
Cameron Meyer
11
Omnium[17]
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Glenn O'Shea
 Australia
Zachary Bell
 Canada
Lasse Norman Hansen
 Denmark
Women's Events
Sprint[18]
details
Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain
Simona Krupeckaitė
 Lithuania
Anna Meares
 Australia
500 m time trial
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Anna Meares
 Australia
33.010 WR Miriam Welte
 Germany
33.626 Jessica Varnish
 Great Britain
33.999
Individual pursuit[19]
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Alison Shanks
 New Zealand
3:30.199 Wendy Houvenaghel
 Great Britain
3:32.340 Ashlee Ankudinoff
 Australia
3:33.593
Team pursuit[20]
details
 Great Britain
Dani King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell
3:15.720 WR  Australia
Annette Edmondson
Melissa Hoskins
Josephine Tomic
3:16.943  Canada
Tara Whitten
Jasmin Glaesser
Gillian Carleton
3:19.529
Team sprint[21]
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 Germany
Kristina Vogel
Miriam Welte
32.549 WR  Australia
Kaarle McCulloch
Anna Meares
32.597  China
Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang
32.870
Keirin[22]
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Anna Meares
 Australia
Ekaterina Gnidenko
 Russia
Kristina Vogel
 Germany
Scratch[23]
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Katarzyna Pawłowska
 Poland
Melissa Hoskins
 Australia
Kelly Druyts
 Belgium
Points race[24]
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Anastasia Chulkova
 Russia
31 Jasmin Glaesser
 Canada
28 Caroline Ryan
 Ireland
24
Omnium[25]
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Laura Trott
 Great Britain
Annette Edmondson
 Australia
Sarah Hammer
 United States
  • Shaded events are non-Olympic
  • Cyclists marked (*) raced in qualification round only

Medal table

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After 19 events.[26]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia (AUS)66315
2 Great Britain (GBR)64313
3 Germany (GER)2215
4 France (FRA)1203
5 Russia (RUS)1102
6 New Zealand (NZL)1045
7 Belgium (BEL)1023
8 Poland (POL)1001
9 Canada (CAN)0213
10 Lithuania (LTU)0101
 South Africa (RSA)0101
12 China (CHN)0011
 Denmark (DEN)0011
 Ireland (IRL)0011
 Netherlands (NED)0011
 United States (USA)0011
Totals (16 entries)19191957

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hisense Arena Archived October 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Event Overview Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Germans snatch sprint cycling crown in record time". news.yahoo.com. 4 April 2012.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Track Cycling World Championship: Great Britain's men take team pursuit gold and set new world record". telegraph.co.uk. 4 April 2012.
  5. ^ McRae, Donald (4 August 2012). "Jo Rowsell, Laura Trott and Dani King rewrite Olympic cycling history | Donald McRae". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Meares wins time trial with world record". uk.eurosport.yahoo.com. 8 April 2012.
  7. ^ Event schedule[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Men's Sprint Results[dead link]
  9. ^ Men's 1 km Time Trial Results Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Men's Individual Pursuit Results[dead link]
  11. ^ Men's Team Pursuit Results[dead link]
  12. ^ Men's Team Sprint Results Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Men's Keirin Results[dead link]
  14. ^ Men's Scratch Results Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Men's Points Race Results[dead link]
  16. ^ Men's Madison Results[dead link]
  17. ^ Men's Omnium Results[dead link]
  18. ^ Women's Sprint Results[dead link]
  19. ^ Women's Individual Pursuit Results[dead link]
  20. ^ Women's Team Pursuit Results[dead link]
  21. ^ Women's Team Sprint Results[dead link]
  22. ^ Women's Keirin Results[dead link]
  23. ^ Women's Scratch Results[dead link]
  24. ^ Women's Points Race Results[dead link]
  25. ^ Women's Omnium Results[dead link]
  26. ^ Medal Standings Archived April 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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