London Olympics 2012
Track Cycling
British Men’s Sprint selection are Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Philip Hindes.
British Men’s Endurance selection are Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Andrew Tennant & Steven Burke.
British Women’s Sprint selection are Victoria Pendleton MBE & Jessica Varnish.
British Women’s Endurance selection are Laura Trott, Dani King, Wendy Hovenaghel & Joanna Rowsell.
02 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.30pm
Men’s Team Pursuit Qualifying
Great Britain qualify in top postion & set a new WR: 3.52.499. They will ride against Australia. New Zealand & Denmark will ride for bronze.
Men’s Team Sprint Qualifying
Great Britain qualify fastest setting a new Olympic record of 43.065
Men’s Team Sprint Medals
Current Olympic Champions Great Britain Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Jamie Staff
Current World Champions Australia
Current British National Champions Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Jason Queally
World Record Time 42.914 by Germany 2011
Gold Great Britain (WR:42.600) Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Philip Hindes...
Silver France
Bronze Germany
Women’s Team Sprint Qualifying
China qualify the fastest setting a new world record of 32.447
Great Britain are relegated due to a change over infringement.
Women’s Team Sprint Medals
Current Olympic Champions None
Current World Champions Germany
Current British National Champions Victoria Pendleton & Jessica Varnish
World Record Time 32.549 by Germany at Melbourne 2012
Gold Germany Miriam Welte & Kristina Vogel
Silver China (WR: 32.422) set again in the Heat this time. (China were relegated to Silver due to a change over infringement)
Bronze Australia
03 August 2012 - The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.55pm
Men’s Team Pursuit Medals
Current Olympic Champions Great Britain Ed Clancy, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas & Paul Manning
Current World Champions Great Britain
Current British National Champions J Dibben, A Slater, O Doull, P Dibben
World Record Time 3:53.295 by Great Britain at Melbourne 2012
Gold Great Britain (WR: 3.51.659) Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke & Peter Kennaugh...
Silver Australia
Bronze New Zealand
Women’s Keirin Medals
Current Olympic Champion None
Current World Champion Anna Meares Australia
Current British National Champion Rebecca James
Gold Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
Silver Shuang Guo China
Bronze Sze Wai Lee Hong Kong
Women’s Team Pursuit Qualifying
Great Britain qualify with the quickest time setting a new world record of WR: 3.15.669
04 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.30am
Men’s Omnium 250m Flying Lap
Ed Clancy of Great Britain wins the first round of the men’s omnium event in a time of 12.556
Men’s Sprint Qualifying
Great Britain’s Jason Kenny sets the quickest qualifying time and new Olympic record of 9.713
04 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.40pm
Men’s Omnium 30Km Points Race
Roger Kluge of Germany wins the points race round of the omnium. Great Britain’s Ed Clancy finishes eleventh.
Men’s Omnium Elimination Race
Bryan Coquard of France wins the elimination round of the omnium. Great Britain’s Ed Clancy finishes a respectable fifth.
Men’s Sprint 1/16th Finals Repecharges 1/8th Finals 9-12th
Women’s Team Pursuit Heats
Great Britain set another world record of 3.14.682 to ride for gold against USA. Australia will ride for bronze against Canada later tonight.
Women’s Team Pursuit Medals
Current Olympic Champions None
Current World Champions Great Britain
Current British National Champions Dani King, Joanna Rowsell & Sarah Storey
World Record Time 3.15.720 by Great Britain in Melbourne 2012
Gold Great Britain (WR: 3.14.051) Dani King, Joanna Rowsell & Laura Trott
Silver USA
Bronze Canada
05 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.25am
Men’s Omnium 4Km Individual Pursuit
Lasse Norman Hanson of Norway wins the 4 kilometer pursuit round of the men’s omnium in a time of 4.20.674
Women’s Sprint Qualifying
Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton sets the quickest qualifying time of 10.724 in the women’s sprint, a new Olympic Record.
05 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 19.05pm
Men’s Omnium 15Km Scratch Race
Zac ary Bell of Canada wins the scratch race round of the men’s omnium.
Men’s Omnium 1Km Individual Time Trial
Great Britain’s Ed Clancy wins the final round of the men’s omnium in an almost world beating time of 1.00.981
Men’s Omnium Medals
Current Olympic Champion None
Current World Champion Glenn O'Shea Australia
Current British National Champion Jonathon Mould
Gold Lasse Norman Hanson Denmark
Silver Bryan Coquard France
Bronze Ed Clancy Great Britain
Men’s Sprint ¼ Finals 5-8th
Women’s Sprint Qualifying 1/16th Finals
Women’s Sprint Repecharges 1/8th Finals 9-12th
Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton progresses to the quarter finals on the 6th Aug..
06 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.55pm
Men’s Sprint Medals
Current Olympic Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain
Current World Champion Gregory Bauge France
Current British National Champion Chris Hoy
World Record Time 9.572 by Kevin Sireau in Moscow 2009
Gold Jason Kenny Great Britain
Silver Gregory Bauge France
Bronze Shane Perkins Australia
Women’s Omnium Flying Lap
Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the first round of the women’s omnium.
Women’s Omnium 20Km Points Race
Poland’s Malgorzata Wojtyra wins the second round of the women’s omnium.
Women’s Omnium Elimination Race
Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the third round of the women’s omnium.
Women’s Sprint 1/4th Finals 5-8th
Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton progresses to the sprint semi-finals on the 7th Aug..
07 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.30am
Men’s Keirin Round 1 & Repecharges
Great Britain’s Sir Chris Hoy wins round one, heat one to progress to the final.
Women’s Omnium 3Km Individual Pursuit
American Sarah Hammer wins round four of the women’s omnium.
07 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.00pm
Men’s Keirin Medals
Current Olympic Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain
Current World Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain
Current British National Champion Chris Hoy
Gold Sir Chris Hoy Great Britain
Silver Maxilian Levi Germany
Bronze Simon Van Velthooven New Zealand
Bronze Teun Mulder Netherlands
Women’s Omnium 10Km Scratch Race
American Sarah Hammer wins round five of the women’s omnium.
Women’s 500m Individual Time Trial
Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the final round of the women’s omnium in a time of 35.110
World Omnium champion, Twenty year old Laura Trott, just manages to win the omnium event. Her closest rival Sarah Hammer had one less point in the event and lost out, due to her fourth place finish in the final round. This gave Laura one whole point less in the competition and the top placed athlete.
Women’s Omnium Medals
Current Olympic Champion None
Current World Champion Laura Trott Great Britain
Current British National Champion None
Gold Laura Trott Great Britain
Silver Sarah Hammer USA
Bronze Annette Edmundson Australia
Women’s Sprint Medals
Current Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
Current World Champion Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
Current British National Champion Rebecca James
World Record Time 10.643 by Miriam Welte at Colorado Springs USA June 2012
Gold Anna Meares Australia
Silver Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
Bronze Shuang Gou China
Close of Track Cycling Events
Ten of each of the medals, were on offer, for the 2012 London Olympics. Five for the Men and Five for the Women...
Great Britain topped the Track Cycling medal table with 7 gold medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze.
Australia are the second highest, with 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal, and 3 bronze medals.
Germany are the third highest, with 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal.
Denmark are the only other country to win a gold medal, their only track cycling medal
The only discipline that Great Britain didn’t medal in, was the womens team sprint.
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