2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team sprint

Rainbow jersey

The Women's Team Sprint was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ten teams of 2 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.[1]

The Qualifying and the Finals were held on the evening session on 27 March.[2]

Qualifying

RankTeamLap 1Time[1]Speed
(km/h)		Q
Lap 1-2
1 Great Britain19.088 (1)33.18654.239QF
Victoria Pendleton
Shanaze Reade		14.098 (1)
2 China19.138 (2)33.4353.030QF
Gong Jinjie
Zheng Lulu		14.805 (4)
3 Germany19.415 (4)34.13552.731QB
Dana Glöss
Miriam Welte		14.720 (2)
4 France19.266 (3)34.16552.685QB
Sandie Clair
Virginie Cueff		14.899 (5)
5 Russia20.133 (6)34.86751.624
Swetlana Grankowskaja
Oksana Grishina		14.734 (3)
6 Italy20.082 (5)35.41450.827
Valentina Alessio
Elisa Frisoni		15.332 (6)
7 Thailand21.658 (7)37.75247.679
Luekajorh Wathinee
Maneephan Jutatip		16.094 (7)

Finals

RankTeamLap 1Time[3]Speed
(km/h)
Lap 1-2
Gold Medal Race
 Great Britain19.455 (2)33.66153.474
Victoria Pendleton
Shanaze Reade		14.206 (1)
 China19.414 (1)34.22352.596
Gong Jinjie
Zheng Lulu		14.809 (2)
Bronze Medal Race
 Germany13.112 (1)34.03652.885
Dana Glöss
Miriam Welte		20.924 (1)
4 France13.133 (2)34.23452.579
Sandie Clair
Virgine Cueff		21.101 (2)

References

  1. 1 2 Swiss-Timing Corgémont Switzerland. "UCI 2008 Track World Championships Women's Team Sprint Qualifying Official Results" (PDF). Tissot. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  2. ↑ "UCI 2008 Track World Championships Programme" (PDF). UCI.
  3. ↑ "UCI 2008 Track World Championships Women's Team Sprint Finals Official Results" (PDF). Tissot.


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