2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships

The 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability. The Championships took place at the Montichiari Velodrome in Montichiari, Italy from 17 to 20 March 2016. Great Britain were the most successful team of the competition in total medals (18) and in number of gold medals (8). The Championships saw 11 new world records set.

2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships

Venue	Montichiari, Italy
Date(s)	(2016-03-17 - 2016-03-20)17–20 March 2016
Velodrome	Montichiari Velodrome
Nations participating	32[1]
Cyclists participating	215[1]
Events	31

Classification

Main article: Para-cycling classification

Sport class

• Cycling
  • C1 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C2 - locomotor disability: Neurological, decrease in muscle strength, or amputation
  • C3 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C4 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
  • C5 - locomotor disability: Neurological, or amputation
• Tandem
  • Tandem B - visual impairment

Event winners

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's events
Sprint	Tandem B[2]	Neil Fachie Peter Mitchell (pilot)  Great Britain		Tristan Bangma Teun Mulder (pilot)  Netherlands		James Ball Craig MacLean (pilot)  Great Britain
1km time trial	C1[3]	Arnoud Nijhuis  Netherlands	1:12.423 WR	Li Zhangyu  China	1:12.597	Rodrigo Fernando Lopez  Argentina	1:20.296
	C2[4]	Tristen Chernove  Canada	1:13.279	Xie Hao  China	1:15.311	Louis Rolfe  Great Britain	1:15.925
	C3[5]	Joseph Berenyi  United States	1:09.534	Alexsey Obydennov  Russia	1:10.120	Sergey Batukov  Russia Eduardo Santas Asensio  Spain	1:10.317
	C4[6]	Jody Cundy  United Kingdom	1:04.654	Jozef Metelka  Slovakia	1:06.046	Wei Guoping  China	1:08.590
	C5[7]	Alfonso Cabello  Spain	1:05.045	Jon-Allan Butterworth  Great Britain	1:05.549	Alistair Donohoe  Australia	1:05.629
	Tandem B[8]	Neil Fachie Peter Mitchell (pilot)  Great Britain	1:00.633	Tristan Bangma Teun Mulder (pilot)  Netherlands	1:01.780	Stephen De Vries Patrick Bos (pilot)  Netherlands	1:02.214
3km pursuit	C1[9]	Li Zhangyu  China	3:55.352	Ross Wislon  Canada	3:58.141	Arnoud Nijhuis  Netherlands
	C2[10]	Tristen Chernove  Canada	3:44.498	Colin Lynch  Ireland	3:53.694	Arslan Gilmutdinov  Russia
	C3[11]	Joseph Berenyi  United States	3:35.569	David Nicholas  Australia	3:36.371	Eoghan Clifford  Ireland
4km pursuit	C4[12]	Jozef Metelka  Slovakia	4:28.000	Kyle Bridgwood  Australia	4:36.296	Sergey Pudov  Russia
	C5[13]	Michael Gallagher  Australia	4:38.467	Alistair Donohoe  Australia	4:38.520	Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine
	Tandem B[14]	Kieran Modra David Edwards (pilot)  Australia	4:12.324	Ignacio Avila Rodriguez Joan Font Bertoli (pilot)  Spain	4:16.406	Daniel Chalifour Jean-Michel Lachance (pilot)  Canada
Scratch race	C1-C3	Alexsey Obydennov  Russia		Fabio Anobile  Italy		Esneider Munoz Marin  Colombia
	C4-C5	Kyle Bridgwood  Australia		Jonathan Gildea  Great Britain		Alistair Donohoe  Australia
Women's events
Sprint	Tandem B[15]	Jessica Gallagher Madison Janssen (pilot)  Australia		Sophie Thornhill Helen Scott (pilot)  Great Britain		Larissa Klaassen Haliegh Dolman (pilot)  Netherlands
500m time trial	C1[16]	Li Jieli  China	44.439 WR
	C2[17]	Alyda Norbruis  Netherlands	40.260	Amanda Reid  Australia	42.147	Zhenling Song  China	44.237
	C3[18]	Megan Giglia  Great Britain	41.761 WR	Denise Schindler  Germany	43.159	Jamie Whitmore  United States	43.784
	C4[19]	Kadeena Cox  Great Britain	37.456 WR	Ruan Jianping  China	37.835	Katherine Horan  New Zealand	39.730
	C5[20]	Jufang Zhou  China	37.389	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	37.589	Crystal Lane  Great Britain	37.796
1km time trial	Tandem B[21]	Larissa Klaassen Haliegh Dolman (pilot)  Netherlands	1:06.095	Sophie Thornhill Helen Scott (pilot)  Great Britain	1:07.483	Jessica Gallagher Madison Janssen (pilot)  Australia	1:07.575
3km pursuit	C1[22]	Li Jieli  China	4:45.304
	C2[23]	Zeng Sini  China	4:13.373	Alyda Norbruis  Netherlands	4:14.184	Daniela Carolina Munevar  Colombia
	C3[24]	Megan Giglia  Great Britain	4:09.367	Denise Schindler  Germany	4:13.947	Simone Kennedy  Australia
	C4[25]	Shawn Morelli  United States	3:55.006 WR	Susan Powell  Australia	3:59.279	Alexandra Lisney  Australia
	C5[26]	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	3:38.756	Jufang Zhou  China		Anna Harkowska  Poland
	Tandem B[27]	Emma Foy Laura Thompson (pilot)  New Zealand	3:30.148	Yurie Kanuma Mai Tanaka (pilot)  Japan	3:35.526	Lora Turnham Corrine Hall (pilot)  Great Britain
Scratch race	C1-C3	Zeng Sini  China		Daniela Munevar  Colombia		Denise Shindler  Germany
	C4-C5	Anna Harkowska  Poland		Sarah Storey  Great Britain		Mariela Analia Delgado  Argentina
Mixed events
Team sprint	C1–5[28]	Louis Rolfe Jon-Allan Butterworth Jody Cundy  Great Britain	49.230 WR	Hao Xie Guoping Wei Xinyang Liu  China	49.530	Amador Granados Alkorta Eduardo Santas Asensio Alfonso Cabello  Spain

Li Zhangyu set a new world record of 3:51.961 in the men's C1 3km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.

Jozef Metelka set a new world record of 4.26.924 in the men's C4 4km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.

Jessica Gallagher and Madison Janssen set a new world record of 11.045 in the women's Tandem Sprint during the qualifying stages.

Megan Giglia set a new world record of 4:06.756 in the women's C2 3km Individual Pursuit during the qualification stages.

Sarah Storey caught Jufang Zhu with five laps to go.[29] Storey's time is that given from her qualification round.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	8	6	4	18
2	China (CHN)	6	5	2	13
3	Australia (AUS)	4	5	5	14
4	Netherlands (NED)	3	3	3	9
5	United States (USA)	3	0	1	4
6	Canada (CAN)	2	1	1	4
7	Russia (RUS)	1	1	3	5
8	Spain (ESP)	1	1	2	4
9	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	0	2
10	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
12	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
13	Colombia (COL)	0	1	2	3
14	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
15	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
17	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
18	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 nations)		31	29	30	90

Participating nations

32 nations participated.

Argentina  Australia  Austria  Belgium  Brazil  Canada  China  Colombia  Czech Republic  France  Great Britain

Germany  Ghana  Greece  Hungary  Iran  Ireland  Italy  Japan  Malaysia  Netherlands  New Zealand

Poland  Romania  Russia  South Africa  South Korea  Spain   Switzerland  Slovakia  Ukraine  United States

References

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7. "Men's C5 1km Time Trial Final - 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
8. "Men's B 1km Time Trial Final 19.03.2016 - Session" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016.
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12. "Men's C4 4km Pursuit Finals 19.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
13. "Men's C5 4km Pursuit Finals 19.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
14. "Men's B 4km Pursuit Finals 18.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
15. "Women's B Sprint 20.03.2016" (pdf). UCI. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
16. "Women's C1 500m Time Trial Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
17. "Women's C2 500m Time Trial Final 18.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
18. "Women's C3 500m Time Trial Final 18.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
19. "Women's C4 500m Time Trial Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
20. "Women's C5 500m Time Trial Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
21. "Women's B 1km Time Trial Final 19.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
22. "Women's C1 3km Pursuit Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
23. "Women's C2 3km Pursuit Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
24. "Women's C3 3km Pursuit Final 17.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
25. "Women's C4 3km Pursuit Final 19.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
26. "Women's C5 3km Pursuit Final 19.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
27. "Women's B 3km Pursuit Finals 18.03.2016 - Session 2" (pdf). UCI. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
28. "Mixed Team Sprint Finals 20.03.2016" (pdf). UCI. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
29. Hudson, Elizabeth (19 March 2016). "Para-cycling Track Worlds: Dame Sarah Storey wins gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 August 2016.

External links

• The Official 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships results book