Shanaze 5th in 500m TT!
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2007 UCI World Track Championships
29th of March to 1st April
Palma de Mallorca
Women's 500 Time Trial
Report
Shanaze Reade's amazing fifth place on debut in the 500m Time Trial was edge of the seat stuff. We all knew she could do a quick first lap, but what would she be capable of over two circuits? The answer was probably the fastest debut time in the discipline, a stunning 34.633s going off second. To put it in perspecitve, that's just a couple of hundredths shy of the time Vicky Pendleton did in last year's Championships. We knew what she could do on the BMX track and now no-one can now be in any doubt as to Reade's ability as a track rider. Oh, and she didn't use tri-bars! Awesome!
Amazingly Reade found herself in the hot seat whilst 17 riders tried and failed to beat her time. Only when the big hitting final four got up to ride did Reade finally meet her match. First Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania slipped inside her time and then the 19 year old Cuban Lisa Rodriguez very nearly went under 34 seconds. That looked promising, but then Anna Meares made Australia's first significant mark on the championships smashing the World Record by some 4 tenths of a second in recording 33.588. Defending champion Tsylinskaya had no answer to Meares and slotted into the bronze medal position.
Anna Blythe finished 8th, just missing a p.b. in the process, and Victoria Pendleton decided to skip the event to concentrate on the Sprint.
Results
1 MEARES Anna AUS 33.588
2 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra CUB 34.015
3 TSYLINSKAYA Natallia BLR 34.430
4 KRUPECKAITE Simona LTU 34.487
5 READE Shanaze GBR 34.633
6 KANIS Willy NED 34.700
7 HIJGENAAR Yvonne NED 34.776
8 BLYTH Anna GBR 34.870
9 CLAIR Sandie FRA 34.892
10 CUEFF Virginie FRA 35.159
11 BAYLEY Kristine AUS 35.264
12 GERISCH Jane GER 35.402
13 TIAN Fang CHN 35.471
14 GONG Jinjie CHN 35.473
15 WELTE Miriam GER 35.619
16 ABASSOVA Tamilla RUS 35.625
17 CONTRERAS REYES Nancy MEX 35.754
18 GARCIA ORREGO Diana Maria COL 36.063
19 SHULIKA Lyubov UKR 36.272
20 SARA Magdalena POL 36.919
21 CASAS ROIGE Helena ESP 37.010
posted by Argent @ 7:31 pm
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