Indeed, Rowsell kept Britain’s moral high – by taking her second gold medal 24 hours after winning team pursuit gold on Friday. She had a difficult 2013 season, marred by breaking a collarbone in a crash at the women’s circuit race at the RideLondon GP in August. She has not competed on the road since but has stacked up intense training on the track to give her the necessary speed for the four-kilometer pursuit.
Rowsell qualified with the fastest time of 3:34.904 – beating Australia’s Rebecca Wiasak in the final. Scotland’s Kate Archibald also put in an impressive performance with a time of 3:37.093 – to win the bronze medal over Poland’s Eugenia Bujak.
Other nations had their share of success as well. Italy’s Marco Coledan won the men’s individual pursuit race, France’s Francois Pervis won the men’s Keirin and Ireland’s Martyn Irvine was victorious in the men’s points race.
Coledan beat Russia’s Alexandre Serov with a final with a time of 4:22.641. And, Spain’s Sebastian Mora trumped Tom Bohli of Switzerland in the ride-off for the bronze medal.
France’s Francois Pervis won the Keirin with a well-timed sprint, with Britain’s Jason Kenny only managing a a fourth place finish. Maximilian Levy was second and Hersony Canelon of Venezuela was third.
In the points race, Martyn Irvine won the gold medal – ahead of Denmark’s Lasse Norman Hansen by 20 points to 17.
Kristina Vogel dominated the women’s sprint after also taking gold in the team sprint on Friday. Vogel out performed Britain’s Becky James in the semi-finals before going on to beat Hong Kong’s Sarah Lee for gold. In addition, Lee beat Anna Meares in the ride-off for the bronze medal, with the Welsh women winning 2-0.
Belgium’s Jasper De Buyst took gold in the men’s multi-discipline Omnium event. He was only seventh fastest in the individual pursuit event but finished third in the scratch race and his consistency from day one secured him victory. Tim Veldt of the Netherlands was second with 18 points and Aaron Gate of New Zealand was third with 24 points.
Women omnium: Flying lap
Gillian Carleton (Can)
0:00:14.410
2
Laurie Berthon (Fra)
0:00:00.052
3
Annette Edmondson (Aus)
0:00:00.101
4
Jolien D’hoore (Bel)
0:00:00.133
5
Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spa)
0:00:00.165
6
Laura Trott (GBr)
0:00:00.183
7
Tamara Balabolina (Rus)
0:00:00.248
8
Annalisa Cucinotta (Ita)
0:00:00.519
9
Elizabeth Newell (USA)
0:00:00.539
10
Ganna Solovey (Ukr)
0:00:00.666
11
Sakura Tsukagoshi (Jpn)
0:00:00.696
12
Malgorzata Wojtyra (Pol)
0:00:00.702
13
Ausrine Trebaite (Ltu)
0:00:00.716
14
Xiao Juan Diao (HKg)
0:00:00.839
15
Volha Masiukovich (Blr)
0:00:00.871
16
Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex)
0:00:01.397
Casper Michael Von Folsach (Den)
0:04:20.702
2
Luke Davison (Aus)
0:00:03.944
3
Artyom Zakharov (Kaz)
0:00:04.652
4
Jonathan Dibben (GBr)
0:00:04.694
5
Tim Veldt (Ned)
0:00:07.078
6
Aaron Gate (NZl)
0:00:07.436
7
Jasper De Buyst (Bel)
0:00:07.557
8
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur (Spa)
0:00:07.595
9
Thomas Boudat (Fra)
0:00:11.609
10
Raman Tsishkou (Blr)
0:00:13.393
11
Olivier Beer (Swi)
0:00:13.651
12
Jacob Duehring (USA)
0:00:19.531
13
Vladislav Kreminskyi (Ukr)
0:00:19.694
14
Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn)
0:00:20.019
15
Darren Matthews (Bar)
0:00:25.193
16
Francesco Castegnaro (Ita)
0:00:26.879
17
Ondrej Rybin (Cze)
0:00:27.373
18
Varun Maharaj (Tri)
0:00:32.116
19
Shuang Shan (Chn)
0:00:35.098
Laurie Berthon (Fra)
28
pts
2
Sofia Arreola Navarro (Mex)
25
3
Elizabeth Newell (USA)
20
4
Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spa)
13
5
Jolien D’hoore (Bel)
9
6
Gillian Carleton (Can)
9
7
Laura Trott (GBr)
8
8
Ausrine Trebaite (Ltu)
7
9
Annette Edmondson (Aus)
7
10
Ganna Solovey (Ukr)
6
11
Annalisa Cucinotta (Ita)
6
12
Tamara Balabolina (Rus)
3
13
Volha Masiukovich (Blr)
2
14
Xiao Juan Diao (HKg)
15
Malgorzata Wojtyra (Pol)
DNF
Sakura Tsukagoshi (Jpn)
Result
1
Olivier Beer (Swi)
2
Tim Veldt (Ned)
3
Jasper De Buyst (Bel)
4
Jonathan Dibben (GBr)
5
Raman Tsishkou (Blr)
6
Aaron Gate (NZl)
7
Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn)
8
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur (Spa)
9
Thomas Boudat (Fra)
10
Luke Davison (Aus)
11
Artyom Zakharov (Kaz)
12
Vladislav Kreminskyi (Ukr)
13
Darren Matthews (Bar)
14
Francesco Castegnaro (Ita)
15
Jacob Duehring (USA)
16
Shuang Shan (Chn)
17
Casper Michael Von Folsach (Den)
18
Varun Maharaj (Tri)
DNF
Ondrej Rybin (Cze)
Jessica Varnish (GBr)
6
Stephanie Morton (Aus)
7
Virginie Cueff (Fra)
8
Elis Ligtlee (Ned)
Result
1
Joanna Rowsell (GBr)
0:03:34.904
2
Rebecca Wiasak (Aus)
0:00:01.926
3
Kate Archibald SCB
0:00:02.189
4
Eugenia Bujak (Pol)
0:00:05.584
5
Caroline Ryan (Irl)
6
Ciara Horne WAL
7
Alexandra Chekina (Rus)
8
Jade Wilcoxson (USA)
9
Beatrice Bartelloni (Ita)
10
Els Belmans (Bel)
Jasper De Buyst (Bel)
0:01:03.245
2
Luke Davison (Aus)
0:00:00.205
2
Tim Veldt (Ned)
4
Artyom Zakharov (Kaz)
0:00:00.361
5
Jonathan Dibben (GBr)
0:00:01.113
6
Shuang Shan (Chn)
0:00:01.199
7
Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur (Spa)
0:00:01.451
8
Olivier Beer (Swi)
0:00:01.626
9
Thomas Boudat (Fra)
0:00:01.696
10
Aaron Gate (NZl)
0:00:01.806
11
Raman Tsishkou (Blr)
0:00:02.193
12
Casper Michael Von Folsach (Den)
0:00:02.544
13
Jacob Duehring (USA)
0:00:03.212
14
Vladislav Kreminskyi (Ukr)
0:00:03.288
15
Ondrej Rybin (Cze)
0:00:03.553
16
Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn)
0:00:03.578
17
Varun Maharaj (Tri)
0:00:04.357
18
Darren Matthews (Bar)
0:00:05.480
19
Francesco Castegnaro (Ita)
0:00:10.248
Jasper De Buyst (Bel) 14 pts 2 Tim Veldt (Ned) 16 3 Aaron Gate (NZl) 18 4 Luke Davison (Aus) 22 5 Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur (Spa) 24 6 Thomas Boudat (Fra) 26 7 Jonathan Dibben (GBr) 29 8 Artyom Zakharov (Kaz) 35 9 Raman Tsishkou (Blr) 35 10 Casper Michael Von Folsach (Den) 39 11 Olivier Beer (Swi) 39 12 Jacob Duehring (USA) 48 13 Vladislav Kreminskyi (Ukr) 51 14 Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn) 56 15 Shuang Shan (Chn) 61 16 Francesco Castegnaro (Ita) 62 17 Darren Matthews (Bar) 68 18 Ondrej Rybin (Cze) 70 19 Varun Maharaj (Tri) 87 DNS Ivan Savitskiy (Rus)
