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Sarah Storey wins gold at Para-Cycling Track World Champions...

Storey, from Manchester, who could attempt to win five gold medals at the London Paralympic Games in the summer, made it look almost effortless and posted a new British record and personal best with a time of 37.371 seconds, leaving her h [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Cycling: Individual pursuit gold for Kiwi Latham

Waikato rider Peter Latham has won gold on the penultimate night of finals at the UJCI World Cup in Beijing. Latham took out the men's 4000m individual pursuit over Australian Mitchell Mulqueen to highlight the New Zealand performance [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Cyclist Wendy Houvenaghel ready to turn hobby into Olympic g...

Having already claimed a cycling silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Wendy Houvenaghel has set her sights on winning gold in London next summer and completing one of sport’s most unlikely success stories in the proces [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Cycling / Arndt crushes rivals to claim maiden time-trial go...

German Judith Arndt snatched her maiden time trial gold medal when she destroyed the field on a wet course at the road world championships yesterday. Despite the rain that hindered the pre-race favorites, the 35-year-old Arndt, who won th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Two golds for Aussies at cycling worlds

Luke Durbridge reinforced his burgeoning cycling reputation by crushing the field in the U/23 men's time trial at the world road championships in Copenhagen. The 20-year-old's time of 42 minutes 47.13sec on the mainly flat but tec [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Hughes wins 2nd gold in Pan Am Championships

Canada's Clara Hughes continued to impress in her return to cycling Sunday, fighting off severe cramps to win the road race at 2011 UCI Pan-American Championships. The Winnipeg native completed the 96-kilometre course in two hour [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Britain's young guns grab team gold

Great Britain were quickest in qualifying and then stormed to victory against the United States in the final, taking an early advantage and then pulling clear, crossing the line nearly two seconds ahead of the silver medallists in 3.23.4 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cycling: Golden return to track for Geraint Thomas

OLYMPIC champion Geraint Thomas declared his satisfaction at his brief return to track cycling after adding team pursuit gold to his individual silver in the UCI World Cup classics in Manchester. Thomas and Olympic champion Bradley Wiggi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Hoy strikes gold in Manchester

But Victoria Pendleton had to settle for bronze after she was beaten in the women's sprint semi-final by Australian arch-rival Anna Meares, who went on to claim the title. That took Britain's World Cup medal haul to six, with Hoy [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Alison Shanks claims second cycling World Cup gold

New Zealand cyclist Alison Shanks has claimed her second gold medal after winning the individual pursuit on the second day of the World Cup in Colombia. Shanks dominated the gold medal ride in the 3000m individual pursuit to beat off Gre [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Scotland, Canada win their first gold medals in cycling in C...

Both Canada and Scotland claimed their first gold medals in the cycling event in the XIX Commonwealth Games here at the Greater Noida Expressway on the outskirts of Delhi, today. In fact for Scotland, it was their first ever gold medal i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Track Cycling World Championships 2010 - Ed Clancy strikes g...

GB Performance director Dave Brailsford was not happy: “The photographic evidence is quite clear but they didnt have the bottle to implement the rules. Why have rules?But he will be delighted with Clancy, the ultimate team man, who [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Three-man Australia pip Brits to coveted pursuit gold

Australia overcame the loss of a man late in the race to win their first men's team pursuit gold since 2006 by just two tenths ahead of Britain at the world track cycling championships Friday. New Zealand dominated hosts Denmark [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Aussies on 4th track gold, Hoy saves Brits' blushes

Britain will insist that only the London Olympics really matter, but track cycling's world pacesetters were left trailing for the second day in a row by a rampant Australia Thursday. Australia were shamed into making big changes [...]