2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Stuttgart, Germany
Date(s)	(2003-07-30 - 2003-08-03)July 30–August 3, 2003
Velodrome	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
Events	15

The 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart, Germany from July 30 to August 3, 2003. The championships were due to be held in Shenzhen, China, but were moved to Stuttgart following the 2003 SARS outbreak in China.

One of Germany's best chances of earning a gold medal was the men's team pursuit, having broken the four-minute barrier at the 2000 Olympics. However, Erfurt coach Jens Lang and his cyclist Jens Lehmann disagreed with the national team selection, and threatened with not competing with Berlin riders Robert Bartko and Guido Fulst. As a result, the German federation decided to withdraw from the team pursuit event, and later decided to suspend the Erfurt riders from the national team.[1][2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	0	2	6
2	France (FRA)	2	2	2	6
3	Germany (GER)	2	0	1	3
4	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
5	Australia (AUS)	1	7	0	8
6	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
7	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
8	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	2	3
9	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
10	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
12	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		15	15	15	45

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's sprint details	Laurent Gané  France		Jobie Dajka  Australia		René Wolff  Germany
Men's 1 km time trial details	Stefan Nimke  Germany	1:01.599	Shane Kelly  Australia	1:01.957	Arnaud Tournant  France	1:02.055
Men's individual pursuit details	Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain		Luke Roberts  Australia		Sergi Escobar Roure  Spain
Men's team pursuit details	Graeme Brown Peter Dawson Brett Lancaster Luke Roberts  Australia		Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins Bryan Steel  Great Britain		Fabien Merciris Jérôme Neuville Franck Perque Fabien Sanchez  France
Men's team sprint details	Carsten Bergemann Jens Fiedler René Wolff  Germany		Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gané Arnaud Tournant  France		Chris Hoy Craig MacLean Jamie Staff  Great Britain
Men's keirin details	Laurent Gané  France		Jobie Dajka  Australia		Barry Forde  Barbados
Men's scratch details	Franco Marvulli  Switzerland		Robert Sassone  France		Jean Pierre van Zyl  South Africa
Men's points race details	Franz Stocher  Austria	77	Joan Llaneras  Spain	74	Jos Pronk  Netherlands	70
Men's madison details	Bruno Risi Franco Marvulli  Switzerland	13	Gregory Henderson Hayden Roulston  New Zealand	5	Juan Curuchet Walter Pérez  Argentina	5
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Svetlana Grankovskaya  Russia		Natallia Tsylinskaya  Belarus		Nancy Contreras  Mexico
Women's 500 m time trial details	Natallia Tsylinskaya  Belarus	34.078	Nancy Contreras  Mexico	34.516	Jiang Cuihua  China	34.746
Women's individual pursuit details	Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel  Netherlands		Katie Mactier  Australia		Olga Sliusareva  Russia
Women's keirin details	Svetlana Grankovskaya  Russia		Anna Meares  Australia		Oxana Grishina  Russia
Women's scratch details	Olga Sliusareva  Russia		Rochelle Gilmore  Australia		Adrie Visser  Netherlands
Women's points race details	Olga Sliusareva  Russia	27	Edita Kubelskienė  Lithuania	19	Yoanka González  Cuba	16

References

1. German pursuit team out - Valkerie Mangnall, Cycling News, 1 August 2003
2. Can Germany get back on track? - Cycling News, 20 August 2004

External links

• World Track Championships - CM Stuttgart, Germany, July 30 - August 3, 2003 Cycling News