Editor’s Note: Connie Carpenter is in Pruszkow, Poland, covering the Track World Championships for VeloNews.com while supporting her son, Taylor Phinney. Carpenter is a former world champion on the track and an avid fan of track cycling.
Big surprises on the opening night! Yes!
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Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite won the women’s 500 meter time trial in a record time of 33.296 at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday in Pruszkow, Poland
Krupeckaite started second from last in the 23-strong field and powered over the two-lap event to beat the early pacesetter, Australian Anna Meares, into second place for the silver medal.
In doing so Krupeckaite beat Meares’ world record of 33.588, set at the 2007 world championships in Palma de Mallorca.
Britain’s reigning Olympic sprint champion, Victoria Pendleton, took the bronze medal in 34.102.
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Ireland may have no velodrome, but that has not stopped one of its favorite sons from mixing it up with the men’s individual pursuit contenders at the world track championships in Pruszkow, Poland.
David O’Loughlin, a road rider with the An Post Sean Kelly team, already achieved a significant feat last year by qualifying for the Olympics, where he finished in 11th place behind Britain’s Bradley Wiggins.
Ireland has no velodrome, but that has not discouraged O’Loughlin, a three-time national road champion, from trying to excel in his favored track event.
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Track powerhouses Britain will be without a host of big names as the four-year cycle towards the London Olympics in 2012 clicks into gear at the world championships in Poland this week.
Britain claimed an astonishing seven of the ten track gold medals on offer at the Beijing Olympics last year but will be without three of the stars who, in Beijing, won six golds between them.
Four-time Tour de France stage winner MarkCavendish has been included in a largely experimental 19-man British track cycling squad that will head to the World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland
next week.
Cavendish, who normally plies his trade with the Columbia-High Road team, is a surprise inclusion in a squad that will be shorn of many of its big names.
At last year’s Olympic Games Britain won seven of the ten golds on offer at the Laoshan velodrome in Beijing, with Scotland’s Chris Hoy claiming three and Bradley Wiggins winning two from both pursuit events.
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Chris Hoy, Britain’s four-time Olympic track-cycling gold medalist, announced on Tuesday he was withdrawing from this month’s World Championships in Poland because of injury.
Hoy, who has suffered complications following a hip injury sustained when falling off his bike in the keirin final of the Copenhagen leg of the World Cup in February, said: “I’m hugely disappointed that I’m not going to be riding in the Worlds.”
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Olympic medalist Sir Chris Hoy has admitted he faces a race against time in order to be fit for the World Championships in Poland in six weeks’ time.
The 32-year-old Scot said Tuesday he still felt “pretty sore” after crashing out of the keirin at the World Cup in Denmark over the weekend.
Hoy won three gold medals at last year’s Beijing Olympics in the sprint, keirin and team sprint and he is aiming to defend his three world titles in those events in the Polish town of Pruskow.
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Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has pulled out of racing the final day of the World Cup track meet in Copenhagen after a dramatic crash in the final of the men’s keirin on Saturday.
Hoy was the hero for Britain at last year’s Olympics where he won three gold medals in the sprint, keirin and team sprint and in just over a month’s time he will aim to defend his three world titles in those events at Pruskow, Poland.
But in his first competition since Beijing the Scot was sent flying after making contact with Frenchman Kevin Sireau, who went on to win the race, in the chaotic keirin event.
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A day after setting a new American record and winning gold in the individual 4 kilometer pursuit, Taylor Phinney set another American record on his way to winning the 1K time trial.
Phinney’s time of 1:01.641 was a split second faster than the previous U.S. record of 1:01.825, set by Erin Hartwell, in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1995. The world record of 58.875 was set by Arnaud Tournant in La Paz, Bolivia in 2001.
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American Taylor Phinney broke a thirteen year old American record for the 4,000-meter individual pursuit on Friday, on his way to winning a gold medal at the Copenhagen World Cup.
Phinney’s 4:15.223 effort in the qualifying round broke the previous American record of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996. Phinney turned a 4:19.119 in the finals to beat Ireland’s David O’Loughlin and register his first World Cup victory this season.
Phinney’s mother Connie Carpenter-Phinney noted that Phinney had never ridden under 4:20 in competition and his last kilo was his fastest, at 1:00:5.
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