2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Host city Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Date(s) March 29–April 1, 2007
Velodrome Palma Arena
Events 17
2006
2008

The 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships is the World Championship for track cycling. It took place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from March 29, 2007 to April 1, 2007. The event was dominated by the Great Britain team who topped the medals table, winning seven of the seventeen gold medals on offer.

The 2007 programme comprised 17 events, including the 10 Olympic events, and was also the first time that the multi-disciplinary Omnium - a cycling equivalent to the athletics pentathlon consisting of 5 events - was contested.

The Championships were a great success for the British Team in the run up to the 2008 Olympic Games. The team won over one fifth of all medals and were significantly clear at the top of the medal table.

Medals table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Great Britain 7 2 2 11
2  Australia 2 0 4 6
3  Netherlands 1 4 1 6
4  France 1 2 1 4
5  Cuba 1 1 0 2
6  Czech Republic 1 0 1 2
 Spain 1 0 1 2
 United States 1 0 1 2
9  Hong Kong 1 0 0 1
 Switzerland 1 0 0 1
11  China 0 2 0 2
12  Denmark 0 1 1 2
 Germany 0 1 1 2
14  Argentina 0 1 0 1
 Belgium 0 1 0 1
 Colombia 0 1 0 1
 Ukraine 0 1 0 1
18  Belarus 0 0 1 1
 Poland 0 0 1 1
 Russia 0 0 1 1
Total 17 17 17 51

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint
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Theo Bos
 Netherlands
Grégory Baugé
 France
Mickaël Bourgain
 France
1 km time trial
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Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
François Pervis
 France
Jamie Staff
 Great Britain
Individual pursuit
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Bradley Wiggins
 Great Britain
Robert Bartko
 Germany
Sergi Escobar Roure
 Spain
Team pursuit
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Edward Clancy
Geraint Thomas
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins

 Great Britain
Lyubomyr Polatayko
Maksym Polischyuk
Vitaliy Popkov
Vitaliy Shchedov
 Ukraine
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Mørkøv
Alex Rasmussen
 Denmark
Team sprint
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Grégory Baugé
Mickaël Bourgain
Arnaud Tournant

 France
Ross Edgar
Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
 Great Britain
Robert Förstemann
Maximilan Levy
Stefan Nimke
 Germany
Keirin
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Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Theo Bos
 Netherlands
Ross Edgar
 Great Britain
Scratch
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Wong Kam Po
 Hong Kong
Wim Stroetinga
 Netherlands
Rafal Ratajczyk
 Poland
Points race
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Joan Llaneras
 Spain
Iljo Keisse
 Belgium
Mikhail Ignatiev
 Russia
Madison
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Franco Marvulli
Bruno Risi
 Switzerland
Peter Schep
Danny Stam
 Netherlands
Alois Kaňkovský
Petr Lazar
 Czech Republic
Omnium
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Alois Kaňkovský
 Czech Republic
Walter Fernando Perez
 Argentina
Charles Bradley Huff
 United States
Women's Events
Sprint
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Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain
Guo Shuang
 China
Anna Meares
 Australia
500 m time trial
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Anna Meares
 Australia
Lisandra Guerra
 Cuba
Natallia Tsylinskaya
 Belarus
Individual pursuit
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Sarah Hammer
 United States
Rebecca Romero
 Great Britain
Katie Mactier
 Australia
Team sprint
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Victoria Pendleton
Shanaze Reade

 Great Britain
Yvonne Hijgenaar
Willy Kanis
 Netherlands
Kristine Bayley
Anna Meares
 Australia
Keirin
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Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain
Guo Shuang
 China
Anna Meares
 Australia
Scratch
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Yumari Gonzalez
 Cuba
María Luisa Calle
 Colombia
Adrie Visser
 Netherlands
Points race
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Katherine Bates
 Australia
Mie Bekker Lacota
 Denmark
Catherine Cheatley
 New Zealand

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