2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships

The 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability. The Championships took place at the Montichiari Velodrome in Montichiari, Italy from 17 to 20 March 2016. Great Britain were the most successful team of the competition in total medals (18) and in number of gold medals (8). The Championships saw 11 new world records set.

2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
VenueMontichiari, Italy
Date(s) (2016-03-17 - 2016-03-20)17–20 March 2016
VelodromeMontichiari Velodrome
Nations participating32[1]
Cyclists participating215[1]
Events31
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Classification edit

Sport class
  • Cycling
    • C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
    • C2 - locomotor disability: Neurological, decrease in muscle strength, or amputation
    • C3 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
    • C4 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
    • C5 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • Tandem

Event winners edit

Event Class Gold Silver Bronze
Men's events
Sprint
details
Tandem B[2] Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell (pilot)
  Great Britain
Tristan Bangma
Teun Mulder (pilot)
  Netherlands
James Ball
Craig MacLean (pilot)
  Great Britain
1km time trial
details
C1[3] Arnoud Nijhuis
  Netherlands
1:12.423 WR Li Zhangyu
  China
1:12.597 Rodrigo Fernando Lopez
  Argentina
1:20.296
C2[4] Tristen Chernove
  Canada
1:13.279 Xie Hao
  China
1:15.311 Louis Rolfe
  Great Britain
1:15.925
C3[5] Joseph Berenyi
  United States
1:09.534 Alexsey Obydennov
  Russia
1:10.120 Sergey Batukov
  Russia
Eduardo Santas Asensio
  Spain
1:10.317
C4[6] Jody Cundy
  United Kingdom
1:04.654 Jozef Metelka
  Slovakia
1:06.046 Wei Guoping
  China
1:08.590
C5[7] Alfonso Cabello
  Spain
1:05.045 Jon-Allan Butterworth
  Great Britain
1:05.549 Alistair Donohoe
  Australia
1:05.629
Tandem B[8] Neil Fachie
Peter Mitchell (pilot)
  Great Britain
1:00.633 Tristan Bangma
Teun Mulder (pilot)
  Netherlands
1:01.780 Stephen De Vries
Patrick Bos (pilot)
  Netherlands
1:02.214
3km pursuit
details
C1[9] Li Zhangyu
  China
3:55.352 Ross Wislon
  Canada
3:58.141 Arnoud Nijhuis
  Netherlands
C2[10] Tristen Chernove
  Canada
3:44.498 Colin Lynch
  Ireland
3:53.694 Arslan Gilmutdinov
  Russia
C3[11] Joseph Berenyi
  United States
3:35.569 David Nicholas
  Australia
3:36.371 Eoghan Clifford
  Ireland
4km pursuit
details
C4[12] Jozef Metelka ††
  Slovakia
4:28.000 Kyle Bridgwood
  Australia
4:36.296 Sergey Pudov
  Russia
C5[13] Michael Gallagher
  Australia
4:38.467 Alistair Donohoe
  Australia
4:38.520 Yegor Dementyev
  Ukraine
Tandem B[14] Kieran Modra
David Edwards (pilot)
  Australia
4:12.324 Ignacio Avila Rodriguez
Joan Font Bertoli (pilot)
  Spain
4:16.406 Daniel Chalifour
Jean-Michel Lachance (pilot)
  Canada
Scratch race
details
C1-C3 Alexsey Obydennov
  Russia
Fabio Anobile
  Italy
Esneider Munoz Marin
  Colombia
C4-C5 Kyle Bridgwood
  Australia
Jonathan Gildea
  Great Britain
Alistair Donohoe
  Australia
Women's events
Sprint
details
Tandem B[15] Jessica Gallagher†††
Madison Janssen (pilot)
  Australia
Sophie Thornhill
Helen Scott (pilot)
  Great Britain
Larissa Klaassen
Haliegh Dolman (pilot)
  Netherlands
500m time trial
details
C1[16] Li Jieli
  China
44.439 WR
C2[17] Alyda Norbruis
  Netherlands
40.260 Amanda Reid
  Australia
42.147 Zhenling Song
  China
44.237
C3[18] Megan Giglia
  Great Britain
41.761 WR Denise Schindler
  Germany
43.159 Jamie Whitmore
  United States
43.784
C4[19] Kadeena Cox
  Great Britain
37.456 WR Ruan Jianping
  China
37.835 Katherine Horan
  New Zealand
39.730
C5[20] Jufang Zhou
  China
37.389 Sarah Storey
  Great Britain
37.589 Crystal Lane
  Great Britain
37.796
1km time trial
details
Tandem B[21] Larissa Klaassen
Haliegh Dolman (pilot)
  Netherlands
1:06.095 Sophie Thornhill
Helen Scott (pilot)
  Great Britain
1:07.483 Jessica Gallagher
Madison Janssen (pilot)
  Australia
1:07.575
3km pursuit
details
C1[22] Li Jieli
  China
4:45.304
C2[23] Zeng Sini
  China
4:13.373 Alyda Norbruis
  Netherlands
4:14.184 Daniela Munévar
  Colombia
C3[24] Megan Giglia
  Great Britain
4:09.367 Denise Schindler
  Germany
4:13.947 Simone Kennedy
  Australia
C4[25] Shawn Morelli
  United States
3:55.006 WR Susan Powell
  Australia
3:59.279 Alexandra Lisney
  Australia
C5[26] Sarah Storey‡‡
  Great Britain
3:38.756 Jufang Zhou
  China
Anna Harkowska
  Poland
Tandem B[27] Emma Foy
Laura Thompson (pilot)
  New Zealand
3:30.148 Yurie Kanuma
Mai Tanaka (pilot)
  Japan
3:35.526 Lora Turnham
Corrine Hall (pilot)
  Great Britain
Scratch race
details
C1-C3 Zeng Sini
  China
Daniela Munévar
  Colombia
Denise Schindler
  Germany
C4-C5 Anna Harkowska
  Poland
Sarah Storey
  Great Britain
Mariela Delgado
  Argentina
Mixed events
Team sprint
details
C1–5[28] Louis Rolfe
Jon-Allan Butterworth
Jody Cundy
  Great Britain
49.230 WR Hao Xie
Guoping Wei
Xinyang Liu
  China
49.530 Amador Granados Alkorta
Eduardo Santas Asensio
Alfonso Cabello
  Spain
† Li Zhangyu set a new world record of 3:51.961 in the men's C1 3km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.
†† Jozef Metelka set a new world record of 4.26.924 in the men's C4 4km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.
††† Jessica Gallagher and Madison Janssen set a new world record of 11.045 in the women's Tandem Sprint during the qualifying stages.
‡Megan Giglia set a new world record of 4:06.756 in the women's C2 3km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.
‡‡ Sarah Storey caught Jufang Zhu with five laps to go.[29] Storey's time is that given from her qualification round.

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Great Britain (GBR)86418
2  China (CHN)65213
3  Australia (AUS)45514
4  Netherlands (NED)3339
5  United States (USA)3014
6  Canada (CAN)2114
7  Russia (RUS)1135
8  Spain (ESP)1124
9  Slovakia (SVK)1102
10  New Zealand (NZL)1012
  Poland (POL)1012
12  Germany (GER)0213
13  Colombia (COL)0123
14  Ireland (IRL)0112
15  Italy (ITA)0101
  Japan (JPN)0101
17  Argentina (ARG)0022
18  Ukraine (UKR)0011
Totals (18 entries)31293090

Participating nations edit

32 nations participated.

References edit

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External links edit