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IRVINE NINTH IN LONDON WORLD CUP, LOOKING INCREASINGLY CERTAIN FOR OLYMPICS
By Shane Stokes
19 Feb 2012,
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Ireland’s Martin Irvine remains on course to qualify for the London Olympic Games after a solid performance in the penultimate counting event, the London World Cup. Racing in the Olympic velodrome for the first time, the Irish rider placed ninth out of the 22 riders in the final standings and, by the estimation of Cycling Ireland’s Geoff Liffey, ensures that Ireland remains seventh in the European nations’ list with just the world championships remaining.
The top eight European countries will have a place in the Games.
Irvine got things off to a good start on Friday when he finished fifth in the qualifying heat. He clocked up five points, three off that of the top rider Elia Viviani (Italy).
The competition continued with the flying lap, won by Zach Bell (Canada) in a time of 13.295 seconds. Irvine’s ninth place was 0.226 off that pace. He then rode strongly in the points race, clocking up 28 points en route to a finishing position of sixth. Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) was best with 51 points.
Twelfth in the elimination race behind Viviani then saw him end the opening day of the Omnium in seventh place. Colombian rider Juan Esteban Arango topped the leaderboard at that point, with three events remaining to be contested yesterday.
The individual pursuit was the first of those and once again Irvine took a top ten finish, placing eight with a time 7.335 seconds off that of Arango’s four minutes 24.087 seconds.
Sky Procycling rider Ben Swift showed his speed in the scratch race, taking victory ahead of Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland). Irvine was a good sixth there, then placed ninth in the concluding one kilometre time trial. Bell was best with his one minute 3.667 effort, 0.163 ahead of Arango. Irvine was 1.118 seconds back in ninth place
Arango’s consistency saw him well clear at the end of the competition, beating runner-up Ho Sung Cho (Korea) by a clear 11 points. Bell was third, Viviani fourth, and Irvine took ninth and remains on track for the Olympic Games. He bounced back after a big crash on day one and, providing the world championships go to plan, he’ll be Ireland’s representative in the Velodrome this summer.
RYAN AND MULLEN ALSO IN ACTION:
Two other Irish riders also competed in London in recent days. Caroline Ryan finished a fine tenth in the individual pursuit, setting a time of three minutes 42.106 seconds.
Joanna Roswell (Great Britain) was quickest in qualifying with three minutes 33.496, a slender 0.082 ahead of Alison Shanks. She was more dominant in the gold medal final, going over a second faster than the Kiwi.
Eoin Mullen rode both the 1000 metre time trial on Friday and yesterday’s Keirin. He was fifteenth in the latter, recording a time of one minute 5.281 seconds and finishing four seconds behind the winner Stefan Nimke (Germany).
He was fifth in round one of the keirin and fifth in the repecharge. Mullen also gained valuable experience which will stand to him as his career develops.
London World Cup:
Day 2, Friday:
Men's Omnium Qualifying:
Heat 2:
1, Elia Viviani (Italy) 8 pts
2, Zach Bell (Canada) 7
3, Roger Kluge (Germany) 7
4, Hao Liu (Max Success Pro Cycling) 5
5, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) 5
Men's Omnium - Flying Lap:
1, Zach Bell (Canada) 13.295
2, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) 13.316
3, Hao Liu (Max Success Pro Cycling) 13.425
4, Bryan Coquard (France) 13.428
5, Ho Sung Cho (Korea) 13.448
6, Shane Archbold (New Zealand) 13.464
Other:
9, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) 13.521
Men's Omnium - Points Race:
1, Eloy Teruel Rovira (Spain) 51 pts
2, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) 41
3, Luis Mansilla (Chile) 36
4, Elia Viviani (Italy) 35
5, Ivan Kovalev (RusVelo) 30
6, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) 28
Men's Omnium - Elimination Race:
1, Elia Viviani (Italy)
2, Bryan Coquard (France)
3, Benjamin Swift (Great Britain)
4, Luis Mansilla (Chile)
5, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia)
6, Ho Sung Cho (Korea)
Other:
12, Martyn Irvine (Ireland)
Men's Omnium - Standings after three rounds:
1, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) 9 pts
2, Elia Viviani (Italy) 12
3, Bryan Coquard (France) 16
4, Ho Sung Cho (Korea) 20
5, Zach Bell (Canada) 26
6, Luis Mansilla (Chile) 26
Other:
7, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) 27
Men's 1000m Time Trial Final:
1, Stefan Nimke (Germany) 1 min 1.211
2, Mickael d'Almeida (France) 1 min 2.036
3, Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand) 1 min 2.048
4, Matthew Crampton (Sky Track Cycling) 1 min 2.378
5, Miao Zhang (China) 1 min 2.718
6, Joachim Eilers (Team Erdgas 2012) 1 min 3.037
Other:
15, Eoin Mullen (Ireland) 1 min 5.281
Day 3, Saturday:
Men's omnium: Individual pursuit:
1, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) 4 mins 24.087
2, Zach Bell (Canada) at 0.970
3, Ho Sung Cho (Korea) at 2.253
4, Benjamin Swift (Great Britain 4.185
5, Roger Kluge (Germany) at 5.085
6, Casper Folsach (Denmark) at 5.595
Other:
8, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) at 7.335
Men's omnium:
1, Benjamin Swift (Great Britain)
2, Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland)
3, Roger Kluge (Germany)
4, Zach Bell (Canada)
5, Ho Sung Cho (Korea)
6, Martyn Irvine (Ireland)
Men's omnium: Time trial:
1, Zach Bell (Canada) at 1 min 3.667
2, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) at 0.163
3, Rafal Ratajczyk (Poland) at 0.326
4, Ho Sung Cho (Korea) at 0.415
5, Elia Viviani (Italy) at 0.493
6, Bryan Coquard (France) at 0.583
Other:
9, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) at 1.118
Men's omnium: Final standings:
1, Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) 21 pts
2, Ho Sung Cho (Korea) 32
3, Zach Bell (Canada) 33
4, Elia Viviani (Italy) 39
5, Bryan Coquard (France) 42
6, Benjamin Swift (Great Britain) 43
Other:
9, Martyn Irvine (Ireland) 50
Women's individual pursuit qualifying:
1, Joanna Rowsell (Great Britain) 3 mins 33.496 secs
2, Alison Shanks (New Zealand) at 0.082
3, Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) at 2.243
4, Amy Cure (Australia) at 2.287
5, Jasmin Glaesser (Canada) at 3.097
6, Ellen Van Dijk (Netherlands) at 5.493
7, Verena Absalyamova (RusVelo) at 6.857
8, Pascale Schnider (Switzerland) at 7.918
9, Elizaveta Bochkareva (Ukraine) at 8.580
10, Caroline Ryan (Ireland) at 8.610
Women individual pursuit finals:
For gold:
1, Joanna Rowsell (Great Britain) 3 mins 32.364 secs
2, Alison Shanks (New Zealand) 3 mins 33.406 secs
For bronze:
3, Amy Cure (Australia) 3 mins 36.707
4, Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania) 3 mins 37.137
Keirin round 1, heat 4:
1, Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2, Rene Enders (Germany)
3, Juan Peralta Gascon (Spain)
4, Ilya Okunev (Petroholding Leningrad)
5, Eoin Mullen (Ireland)
Keirin repecharge round 1, heat 1:
1, Matthew Crampton (Sky Track Cycling)
2, Artsiom Zaitsau (Belarus)
3, Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata (Colombia)
4, Josiah Ng (Malaysia)
5, Eoin Mullen (Ireland)
Keirin finals:
1, Chris Hoy (Great Britain)
2, Rene Enders (Germany)
3, Mickael Bourgain (France)
4, Teun Mulder (Netherlands)
5, Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
6, Simon Van Velthooven (New Zealand)
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