2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2011. The championships took place at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 23 to 27 March 2011. In January 2012 it was announced that Grégory Baugé's results in the Sprint and Team Sprint competitions would be nullified.[1]

2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
VenueApeldoorn, Netherlands Netherlands
Date(s) (2011-03-23 - 2011-03-27)23–27 March 2011
VelodromeOmnisport Apeldoorn
Events19

The championships were dominated by the rivalry between Australia and Great Britain, who shared 10 of the 19 gold medals available between them, including in eight of the ten Olympic events.

Participating nations

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41 nations participated.[2]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's events
Men's sprint[nb 1]
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Jason Kenny
  Great Britain
Chris Hoy
  Great Britain
Mickaël Bourgain
  France
Men's 1 km time trial
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Stefan Nimke
  Germany
1:00.793 Teun Mulder
  Netherlands
1:01:179 François Pervis
  France
1:01.228
Men's individual pursuit
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Jack Bobridge
  Australia
4:21.141 Jesse Sergent
  New Zealand
4:23.865 Michael Hepburn
  Australia
4:22.553
Men's team pursuit
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Jack Bobridge
Rohan Dennis
Luke Durbridge
Michael Hepburn

  Australia
3:57.832 Alexei Markov
Evgeny Kovalev
Ivan Kovalev
Alexander Serov
  Russia
4:02.229 Ed Clancy
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh
Andy Tennant
  Great Britain
4:02.781
Men's team sprint[nb 2]
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René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke
  Germany
44.483 Matthew Crampton
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny
  Great Britain
44.235 Dan Ellis
Matthew Glaetzer
Jason Niblett
  Australia
45.241
Men's keirin
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Shane Perkins
  Australia
Chris Hoy
  Great Britain
Teun Mulder
  Netherlands
Men's scratch
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Kwok Ho Ting
  Hong Kong
Elia Viviani
  Italy
Morgan Kneisky
  France
Men's points race
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Edwin Ávila
  Colombia
Cameron Meyer
  Australia
Morgan Kneisky
  France
Men's madison
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Leigh Howard
Cameron Meyer

  Australia
Martin Bláha
Jiří Hochmann
  Czech Republic
Theo Bos
Peter Schep
  Netherlands
Men's omnium
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Michael Freiberg
  Australia
Shane Archbold
  New Zealand
Gijs van Hoecke
  Belgium
Women's events
Women's sprint
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Anna Meares
  Australia
Simona Krupeckaitė
  Lithuania
Victoria Pendleton
  Great Britain
Women's 500 m time trial
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Olga Panarina
  Belarus
33.896 Sandie Clair
  France
33.919 Miriam Welte
  Germany
34.496
Women's individual pursuit
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Sarah Hammer
  United States
3.32.933 Alison Shanks
  New Zealand
3:33.229 Vilija Sereikaitė
  Lithuania
3.37.643
Women's team pursuit
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Laura Trott
Wendy Houvenaghel
Dani King

  Great Britain
3:23.419 Sarah Hammer
Dotsie Bausch
Jennie Reed
  United States
3:25.308 Kaytee Boyd
Jaime Nielsen
Alison Shanks
  New Zealand
3:24.065
Women's team sprint
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Kaarle McCulloch
Anna Meares

  Australia
33.237 Victoria Pendleton
Jessica Varnish
  Great Britain
33.525 Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang
Junhong Lin
  China
33.586
Women's keirin
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Anna Meares
  Australia
Olga Panarina
  Belarus
Clara Sanchez
  France
Women's scratch
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Marianne Vos
  Netherlands
Katherine Bates
  Australia
Dani King
  Great Britain
Women's points race
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Tatsiana Sharakova
  Belarus
Jarmila Machačová
  Czech Republic
Giorgia Bronzini
  Italy
Women's omnium
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Tara Whitten
  Canada
Sarah Hammer
  United States
Kirsten Wild
  Netherlands

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia82212
2  Great Britain2439
3  Belarus2103
4  Germany2013
5  United States1203
6  Netherlands1135
7  Canada1001
  Colombia1001
  Hong Kong1001
10  New Zealand0314
11  Czech Republic0202
12  France0156
13  Italy0112
  Lithuania0112
15  Russia0101
16  Belgium0011
  China0011
Totals (17 entries)19191957
  •   France were stripped of two gold medals in January 2012, following the suspension of Grégory Baugé for doping test availability violations, and the medals in those two events were redistributed by UCI.[3]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ France's Grégory Baugé originally won the gold medal, but was stripped of that title in January 2012, with the other riders in the final round promoted to the respective medal positions.[3]
  2. ^ France's Grégory Baugé, Michaël D'Almeida and Kévin Sireau originally won the gold medal, but were stripped of that title in January 2012, with the other teams in the final round promoted to the respective medal positions.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Nigel Wynn. "Gregory Bauge stripped of 2011 track sprint world titles | Latest News". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  2. ^ "41 countries to the World Championships track cycling". worldchamptrackcycling.com. 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Stokes, Shane (6 January 2012). "UCI confirms Jason Kenny, Germany are upgraded to 2011 world track champions". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
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