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Saturday, 29th March 2008
Hoy and Vos go into the record books and Pendleton, Wiggins and Cavendish get Britain’s gold medal tally up to nine
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Chris Hoy (Great Britain) and Marianne Vos (Netherlands) went into the record books today as World Champions for 2008 but both have now set records for the number of World titles they have achieved in different cycling disciplines.
The Dutch girl rode to victory in the women’s points race after she lapped the field and mopped up enough points to relegate Denmark’s Trine Schmidt into silver medal position. Schmidt and Italian Vera Carrara were the only other riders to take a lap on the rest of the field to get 20 bonus points in the bag. Carrara’s twenty points were enough to see her win the bronze medal. Vos is now the only woman to have won senior World titles in the road race, cyclo-cross and on the track.
Hoy completed a remarkable year in Keirin racing by winning all his heats and the final in front of a full house in Manchester. In an incredible show of pure strength in the final, Hoy led from the front from two and half laps out with Teun Mulder (Netherlands) on his wheel. The Scotsman accelerated again to complete the last 200 metres flat out and denied the remaining five riders any chance of ruining his big moment. Hoy is now the only rider in history to win senior World titles in the Keirin, Kilometre, sprint and team sprint events. Greek sprinter Christos Volikakis won the bronze medal
Victoria Pendleton took her personal gold medal tally up to two for the championships. The British sprinter only needed two rides against Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) to win her sixth World Champion’s rainbow jersey. Krupeckaite had beaten last year’s silver medallist Shuang Guo (China) in the semi final to go head to head with the golden girl of British cycling. Pendleton’s rides had the packed Velodrome on their feet as she found great speed in the home straight in both rides and she crossed the line through a wall of noise.
High Road team mates Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish produced a fantastic ride to win the men’s Madison title. The British duo had scored maximum points in the first sprint of the race and added a few more during the next six. Germany, Denmark and Belgium put a lap into the rest of the field as the race became fast and furious. Former World points champion Joan Llaneras and his team mate Carlos Torrent found the legs to join the race leaders on the same lap. With time running out the British team put in an astonishing attack to lap the field to take the lead on points. Denmark and Spain did their best to pick up the pace in the main field but the Brits were unstoppable. The GB boys had one small scare when the German pairing of Roger Kluge and Olaf Pollack joined on the same lap and were placed only three points behind the British team. But Cavendish ensured they won gold by taking second place in the final sprint. Michael Morkov and Alex Rasmussen held on to take the bronze for Denmark.
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