Reed claims gold in World Cup keirin

By VeloNews Interactive

American Jennie Reed won gold in the keirin on Saturday during round three of the UCI Track World Cup in Manchester, England.

Reed, of Kirkland, Washington, fourth in yesterday’s women’s sprint, beat Susan Panzer (Germany) and Daniela Larreal (Venezuela) in the keirin to take the first gold medal of the event for the United States.

Results
Women
500 meter time trial1. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Ned) 35.189
2. Yonghua Jiang (Chn) 35.310
3. Victoria Pendleton (GB) 35.499

3000 meter individual pursuit
1. Katherine Bates (Aus), 3:35.352, beat 2. Emma Davies (GB), 3:42.768; 3. Hanka Kupfernagel (G), 3:43.275, beat Erin Mirabella (USA), 3:44.979

Keirin
1. Jennie Reed (USA), 2. Susan Panzer (G), 3. Daniela Larreal (Ven)

Men
4000 meter team pursuit
1. Great Britain (Robert Hayles, Paul Manning, Christopher Newton and Bryan Steel), 4:03.138, beat 2. Netherlands (Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris, Peter Schep, Jeroen Straathof), 4:05.500; 3. Australia (Ashley Hutchinson, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee and Stephen Wooldridge), 4:03.434, caught New Zealand

40km Madison
1. Czech Republic (Martin Blaha and Petr Lazar) 12pts
2. Ukraine (Volodymyr Rybin and Vasyl Yakovlev) 11
3. Slovakia (Martin Liska and Jozef Zabka) 10

Sprint
1. Damian Zielinski (Pol) beat 2. Florian Rousseau (F) 2-1; 3. Jan van Eijden (G) beat Kiyofumi Nagai (Jpn) 2-0

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