2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Host city	Manchester, United Kingdom
Date(s)	(2008-03-26 - 2008-03-30)26–30 March 2008
Velodrome	Manchester Velodrome
Events	18
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The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place at the Manchester Velodrome in Manchester, United Kingdom from 26 to 30 March 2008. Eighteen events were scheduled; the women's team pursuit being the only addition from the 2007 championships.

As in 2007, the domination of the Great Britain team was clear. Breaking three world records en route, they won eleven medals in total. Indeed, half of the eighteen gold medals on offer were won by the British team.

Medals table

Podium of the women's scratch race; Ellen van Dijk (1), Yumari González (2) and Belinda Goss (3)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	9	2		11
2	Netherlands	3	3	2	8
3	Belarus	2		1	3
4	France	1	3	3	7
5	United States	1	1	1	3
6	Cuba	1	1		2
7	New Zealand	1			1
8	Denmark		2	1	3
9	Lithuania		2		2
10	Germany		1	4	5
11	Australia		1	3	4
12	China		1		1
	Ukraine		1		1
14	Greece			1	1
	Italy			1	1
	Russia			1	1
Total		18	18	18	54

Medal Summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's sprint	Chris Hoy  Great Britain		Kévin Sireau  France		Mickaël Bourgain  France
Men's 1 km time trial	Teun Mulder  Netherlands	1:01.332	Michaël D'Almeida  France	1:01.514	François Pervis  France	1:01.574
Men's individual pursuit	Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain	4:18.519	Jenning Huizenga  Netherlands	4:23.474	Alexei Markov  Russia	4:21.097
Men's team pursuit	Ed Clancy Geraint Thomas Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain	3:56.322 WR	Michael Færk Christensen Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Alex Rasmussen  Denmark	3:59.381	Graeme Brown Mark Jamieson Bradley McGee Luke Roberts  Australia	4:00.089
Men's team sprint	Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant  France	43.271	Ross Edgar Chris Hoy Jamie Staff  Great Britain	43.777	Theo Bos Teun Mulder Tim Veldt  Netherlands	43.718
Men's keirin	Chris Hoy  Great Britain		Teun Mulder  Netherlands		Christos Volikakis  Greece
Men's scratch	Aliaksandr Lisouski  Belarus		Wim Stroetinga  Netherlands		Roger Kluge  Germany
Men's points race	Vasil Kiryienka  Belarus	24	Christophe Riblon  France	23	Peter Schep  Netherlands	19
Men's madison	Mark Cavendish Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain	19	Roger Kluge Olaf Pollack  Germany	13	Michael Mørkøv Alex Rasmussen  Denmark	11
Men's omnium	Hayden Godfrey  New Zealand	19	Leigh Howard  Australia	28	Aliaksandr Lisouski  Belarus	35
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain		Simona Krupeckaitė  Lithuania		Jennie Reed  United States
Women's 500 m time trial	Lisandra Guerra  Cuba	34.021	Simona Krupeckaitė  Lithuania	34.066	Sandie Clair  France	34.253
Women's individual pursuit	Rebecca Romero  Great Britain	3:30.501	Sarah Hammer  United States	3:37.006	Katie Mactier  Australia	3:32.347
Women's team pursuit	Wendy Houvenaghel Rebecca Romero Joanna Rowsell  Great Britain	3:22.415 WR	Svitlana Halyuk Lesya Kalytovska Lyubov Shulika  Ukraine	3:29.744	Charlotte Becker Verena Joos Alexandra Sontheimer  Germany	3:26.960
Women's team sprint	Victoria Pendleton Shanaze Reade  Great Britain	33.661	Gong Jinjie Zheng Lulu  China	34.223	Dana Glöss Miriam Welte  Germany	34.036
Women's keirin	Jennie Reed  United States		Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain		Christin Muche  Germany
Women's scratch	Ellen van Dijk  Netherlands		Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso  Cuba		Belinda Goss  Australia
Women's points race	Marianne Vos  Netherlands	33	Trine Schmidt  Denmark	25	Vera Carrara  Italy	20

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2008 UCI Track World Championships.

• 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - CM Great Britain, March 26-30, 2008 Cycling News

See also

• 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Ranking
• 2008 in track cycling