Revolution 45 | Season 11 – Round 5, Friday Evening

Katie Archibald & Dani King Collide in the Women's Omnium Elimination Race — Katie Archibald & Dani King Collide in the Women’s Omnium Elimination Race

Revolution Season 11 – Round 5

Author: Chris Maher, Photography: Chris Maher | Photography

Round One Manchester 26th Oct 2013

Round Two Glasgow 30th Nov 2013

Round Three Manchester 04th Jan 2014

Round Four Manchester 01st Feb 2014

Round Five London 14th – 15th Mar 2014

Friday 14th 19.00 - 22.00, Saturday 15th 2014: Session 1, 13.00 – 16.00. Session 2 19.00 - 22.30.

Friday Evening Session

Scotland’s Jenny Davis lead the first race at the Lee Valley VeloPark in the early stages of the Women’s Omnium Event for Revolution 45. The Flying Lap, contested by fifteen girls were the first to taste the 2012 Olympic boards in competition since that magic event.

There was a big applause for Dani King as she was announced to the public when beginning her lap and the Wiggle Honda rider managed second place so far, much to the delight of the crowd.

Spain’s Leire D Olaberria, the penultimate rider, quickly slipped into first place with the first sub fourteen second lap.

Hugh Porter’s announcement that Laura Trott was the last contestant begging her lap, saw the crown explode into rapture. The noise generated around the Velodrome on the two warm-up circuits were nothing compared to her Flying Lap that put Wiggle Honda’s Trott in the lead for the Omnium after round one.

Ev1 Women’s UCI – Omnium Flying Lap

Laura Trott 14.528
Leire Dorronsoro Olaberria 14.894
Jenny Davis 15.023
Dani King 15.180
Katie Archibald 15.336
Elinor Barker 15.561
Caroline Ryan 15.677
Ausrine Trebaite 15.698
Emily Nelson 15.731
Hayley Jones 15.761

Ev3 Men’s Team Elimination (GB V’s The Rest of the World)

T10 Christian Grasmann & Leif Lampater
T15 Roy Pieters & Yoeri Havic
T9 Albert Torres & David Muntaner
T2 Chris Latham & Mark Stewart
T14 Didier Caspers & Melvin Van Zijl
T13 Wim Stroetinga & Nick Stoepler
T11 Marc Hester & Jesper Morkov
T12 Tom Scully & Luke Roberts
T5 Germain Burton & Chris Lawless
T7 Gabriel Cullaigh & Matt Gibson

Ev4 Men’s UCI Keirin – Round 1

Heat 1:

Francois Pervis
Matt Crampton
Callum Skinner

Heat 2:

Jason Kenny
Chris Pritchard
Svanjunas Jonauskas

Ev5 Women’s UCI – Omnium Points Race 20km

Laura Trott
Leire Dorronsoro Olaberria
Dani King
Ausrine Trebaite
Katie Archibald
Hayley Jones
Sarah Inghelbrecht
Emily Nelson
Egle Zablotskyte
Winander Spoor

Ev6 Men’s Madison (GB V’s The Rest of the World)200 Laps

Albert Torres & David Muntaner
Marc Hester & Jesper Morkov
Wim Stroetinga & Nick Stoepler
Christian Grasmann & Leif Lampater
Chris Latham & Mark Stewart

Ev7 Men’s UCI Keirin – Minor Finals

Tomas Babek to the minor finals race

Recently crowned World Champion Francois Pervis demonstrates why the French Man wears the rainbow strips.

Ev8 Men’s UCI Keirin – Finals

Francois Pervis
Chris Pritchard
Matt Crampton
Svajunas Jonauskas
Callum Skinner
Jason Kenny

This final race of the Friday Evening’s session was round three of the UCI Women’s Omnium, The crowds favourite, The Elimination Race.

Knowing the tactics of a certain Laura Trott, the crowd were in for another thrilling display of bike handling. The race got underway and soon whittled down to the usual suspects. Trott, King, Archibald, Olaberria. Trott who always seems to find herself at the back of the bell elimination lap had the spectators on the edges of their seats through-out the race thus far.

But disaster for the last three, Trott, King, & Archibald who were sprinting for the last two slots, brought the race to an early conclusion as King and Archibald came together across the finish line and fell heavily into the track floor. This was the only crash of the evening luckily, but both girls laid still for quite a while, as the paramedics rushed around to check their conditions. Luckily, King got up soon after, with Archibald then following to a much relieved audience, and a round of applause. Trott had been further up the track and out of harms way.

Trott leads the Omnium so far after wining the first three rounds with three points only to her credit. Olaberria is second with eight points, & King is third with nine points.

Ev9 Women’s UCI – Omnium Elimination Race (provisional)