2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch

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Women's scatch
2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Race details
Dates30 March 2008
Stages1
Distance10 km (6.214 mi)
Medalists
   Gold  Ellen van Dijk (the Netherlands)
   Silver  Yumari González (Cuba)
   Bronze  Belinda Goss (Australia)
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The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch was the women's scratch race at 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. It was one of the eight women's events, held at the Manchester Velodrome in Manchester, Great Britain on the fifth and final day of the Championships on 30 March 2008. It was the seventh women's scatch race appearance at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. 21 women from 21 countries participated in the race.

After several attacks that did not come to anything Ellen van Dijk of the Netherlands struck out alone with less than eight laps to go. No one else reacted and she rode solo to the finish. The sprint of the peloton behind Van Dijk was won by Yumari González of Cuba who took the silver medal with Belinda Goss from Australia taking bronze.

Qualification

Qualification for the race was restricted to one cyclist per nation for the countries in the

B World Championship, one place at each continental championships and one wild card for nations that did not qualify through the UCI standing. National federations of the qualified countries selected the rider. The maximum quota of the event was set at 24 cyclists but only 21 cyclists were registered.[1][2]

Competition format

A scratch race is a race in which all riders start together and the object is to cross the finish line. The competition consisted on 40 laps, making a total of 10 km without intermediate points or sprints. There were no qualification rounds for this discipline so the event was run direct to the final.[3]

Schedule

Times are in

UTC+1)[3]

Sunday 30 March
16:30-16:50 Final
17:15:-17:25 Victory Ceremony

Pre-race favorites

Not all

The Netherlands did not select Marianne Vos, who won two of the four World Cup races, but selected Ellen van Dijk instead.[7][8]

Race

The race started at 16:30 

UTC+1) and was scheduled to last until 16:50.[3] 21 women form 21 countries took part in the race.[1]

The race had several attacks, the first meaningful one coming in only lap five from

Yumari González Valdivieso of Cuba, ahead of Belinda Goss from Australia. Annalisa Cucinotta of Italy was fourth and Rebecca Quinn from the United States of America finished fifth.[12]

Final classifications

The victory ceremony was held at 17:15 

UTC+1).[3] The winner was awarded the rainbow jersey
and the top three riders got flowers and respectively a gold, silver and bronze medal.

Ellen van Dijk after a World Cup scratch race in January 2008
Rank Name Country
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ellen van Dijk
Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yumari González
Cuba
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Belinda Goss
Australia
4 Annalisa Cucinotta  Italy
5 Rebecca Quinn  United States
6 Pascale Jeuland  France
7
Lizzie Armitstead
  United Kingdom
8 María Luisa Calle  Colombia
9 Elke Gebhardt  Germany
10
Catherine Cheatley
  New Zealand
11 Olga Slyusareva  Russia
12 Svitlana Halyuk  Ukraine
13 Jarmila Machačová  Czech Republic
14 Gina Grain  Canada
15 Aksana Papko  Belgium
16
Wan Yiu Wong
  Hong Kong
17 Jessica Jurado  Mexico
18
Svetlana Paulikaite
  Lithuania
19 Trine Schmidt  Denmark
DNF
Gema Pascual Torrecilla
  Spain
DNF Wathinee Luekajorh  Thailand

DNF = did not finish

Source[13]

Medalists reactions

1st place, gold medalist(s) Ellen van Dijk Netherlands

"I was never World champion so it is my biggest victory so far! I was focused on the

Olympic Games, because I only started riding [world cups] on the track four months ago. I didn't have enough points to ride in the individual pursuit in the Olympics." About the scratch race she continued: "My plan was to attack about 10 laps from the finish, I wanted to go when the speed was a bit lower. I did it about eight laps before the finish. I was surprised, but every country has just one rider so they don't work together. That was better for me to ride away. I didn't look behind, just once", she added. "I knew I had to give it everything and if there was no gap, then there was no gap. But it worked out well." Despite having quite a considerable gap coming into the final lap, Van Dijk refused to believe that the race was won until the very end. She detailed the point at which she realised that she was definitely going to triumph. "Just 100 metres before the finish", she said. "I didn't know how big the gap was [before then], I didn't look back, I was just focused on riding hard and getting everything out." A few days on from the frustration of non-qualification, her new rainbow jersey and gold medal provide her with a great deal of compensation. "I was really, really disappointed with that", she confirmed. "But this makes up for it."[9][14]

2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yumari González Cuba

"The race was very fast." She told the assembled media. "I didn't feel very good but at the end I was able to get the silver medal so I am happy about that."[10]

3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Belinda Goss Australia

"I'm certainly stoked by the result. It is such a great improvement on last year. It would have been great to have got gold, the top prize, but I am really happy. It has been a long wait. I had to put it in my head that I'd get in some training this week, get a bit fitter. But I am really happy with myself; things have been going well for me. I rode well in Europe last year."[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Start list". Tissot timing. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Guide des competitions championnats du monde sur piste – Manchester 2008" (PDF). UCI (in French). rfec.trackglobe.com. 5 March 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Competition Schedule". Tissot timing. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  4. ^ a b "UCI 2007 Track World Championships Women's Scratch Finals Official Results" (PDF). Tissot. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b "UCI Track Cycling World Cup Sydney AUS Women's Scratch" (PDF). Tissot.
  6. ^ a b "UCI Track Cycling World Cup Beijing CHN Women's Scratch" (PDF). Tissot.
  7. ^ a b "Final". Tissottiming.com. 15 February 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Final". Tissottiming.com. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  9. ^ a b c Atkins, B.; Shane Stokes (31 March 2008). "No Olympics for Van Dijk, but happy with worlds". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  10. ^ a b c "UCI 2008 Track World Championships - Day 5, March 30". cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
  11. ^ "Goud voor Mulder en Van Dijk" (in Dutch). NOS. 30 March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  12. ^ "Goud voor Ellen van Dijk op scratch" (in Dutch). WielerRevue.nl. 30 March 2008. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  13. ^ "Women's Scratch Final Results". Tissot timing. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  14. ^ "WK baanwielrennen: Ellen van Dijk" (in Dutch). NOS. 30 March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
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