2012 UEC European Track Championships

2012 UEC European Track Championships

Host city	Panevėžys, Lithuania
Date(s)	(2012-10-19 - 2012-10-21)19–21 October 2012
Velodrome	Cido Arena
Nations participating	21
Cyclists participating	146
Events	13
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The 2012 European Track Championships was the third edition of the elite European Track Championships in track cycling. It was held on October 19–21, 2012 and took place at the Cido Arena in Panevėžys, Lithuania.^[1]

It was the first European Elite Track Championships that had opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was held on 19 October, an hour before the start of the evening session.

Held some time after the 2012 Summer Olympics, a number of elite European cyclists, notably from Great Britain and France were not in attendance, either through retirement or a rest period. In their absence, the medal table was headed by Germany and the east European track powers; Russia, Belarus and hosts Lithuania.

Schedule

The competition days were split into two Sessions.^[2]

Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint	Denis Dmitriev Russia (RUS)		Max Niederlag Germany (GER)		Christos Volikakis Greece (GRE)
Team sprint	Germany Tobias Wächter Joachim Eilers Max Niederlag	44.381	Poland Kamil Kuczyński Maciej Bielecki Krzysztof Maksel	44.892	Great Britain Matthew Crampton Callum Skinner Lewis Oliva	45.081
Keirin	Tobias Wächter Germany (GER)		Joachim Eilers Germany (GER)		Denis Dmitriev Russia (RUS)
Omnium	Lucas Liss Germany (GER)	17	Artur Ershov Russia (RUS)	20	Gediminas Bagdonas Lithuania (LTU)	34
Team pursuit	Russia Artur Ershov Alexei Markov Alexander Serov Valery Kaykov	4:00.641	Germany Lucas Liss Henning Bommel Theo Reinhardt Maximilian Beyer	4:08.654	Italy Elia Viviani Michele Scartezzini Liam Bertazzo Ignazio Moser	4:06.380
Points race non-Olympic	Elia Viviani Italy (ITA)	44	Kirill Sveshnikov Russia (RUS)	26	Sergiy Lagkuti Ukraine (UKR)	25
Madison	Czech Republic Martin Blaha Jiři Hochmann		Russia Artur Ershov Valery Kaykov		Italy Angelo Ciccone Elia Viviani
Women's Events
Sprint	Olga Panarina Belarus (BLR)		Anastasiia Voinova Russia (RUS)		Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania (LTU)
Team sprint	Lithuania Simona Krupeckaitė Gintarė Gaivenytė	33.846	Russia Anastasiia Voinova Daria Shmeleva	33.882	France Sandie Clair Olivia Montauban	34.975
Keirin	Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania (LTU)		Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia (RUS)		Elena Brezhniva Russia (RUS)
Omnium	Tatsiana Sharakova Belarus (BLR)	18	Aušrinė Trebaitė Lithuania (LTU)	22	Katarzyna Pawłowska Poland (POL)	22
Team pursuit	Lithuania Aušrinė Trebaitė Vilija Sereikaitė Vaida Pikauskaitė	3:25.237 (NR)	Poland Katarzyna Pawłowska Eugenia Bujak Małgorzata Wojtyra	3:27.086	Belarus Tatsiana Sharakova Alena Dylko Aksana Papko	3:24.801
Points race non-Olympic	Stephanie Pohl Germany (GER)	33 +1 lap	Evgenia Romanyuta Russia (RUS)	25	Elke Gebhardt Germany (GER)	20

• shaded events are non-Olympic

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	3	1	8
2	Lithuania	3	1	2	6
3	Russia	2	7	2	11
4	Belarus	2	0	1	3
5	Italy	1	0	2	3
6	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
7	Poland	0	2	1	3
8	France	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	13	39

Participating nations

146 riders from 21 nations will participate.^[3][4]

References

External links

• Official website
• European Cycling Union
• Results