| June 16, 2000 DUBNICOFF OUT OF MEDAL
HUNT AT WORLD CUP
MEXICO CITY-- World champion Arnaud Tournant of France
broke the world record in the men's one kilometre sprint Friday to open the third stop on
the World Cup track cycling circuit.
Tournant clocked one minute and 00.148 seconds to eclipse the previous standard of 1:00.60
set by Shane Kelly of Australia at the 1995 world championships in Bogota, Colombia. Ben
Kersten of Australia was second at 1:02.84 and Grzegorz Krejner of Poland third at
1:02.297.
Jim Fisher of Calgary was eighth at 1:03.440
just missing the Canadian record on 1:03.110 set by double Olympic medallist Curt Harnett
of Thunder Bay, Ont., in 1986 at Colorado Springs.
In the women's match sprint, Tanya Dubnicoff of Winnipeg
lost her quarterfinal race to Lyndell Higginson of Australia, the winner at the second
World Cup last month in Cali, Colombia. Dubnicoff, who is already qualified for the
Olympics, is relegated to the fifth to eighth place playoffs on Saturday.
It was a similar story for Lori-Ann Muenzer of Toronto
who lost in the second round and will also battle for positions 5-8. Muenzer clocked the
fastest time in the 200-metre preliminaries which determines the seedings for the match
sprint at 11.276 seconds. Dubnicoff was sixth in 11.386.
"A bit disappointing for Tanya tonight," said Canadian national team coach Kurt
Innes of Calgary. "But we're looking at the big picture and this is only a little
setback. It's a long season ahead with the Olympics only in September."
In the men's match sprint, Doug Baron of Calgary
is also in the 5-8 playoff while Lars Madsen of Edmonton was eliminated in the first round
repechage.
Competition continues Saturday.
Back to Cycling
Index
Canadian Sport News
(CSN
Nouvelles-Sport Canadien (NSC)
6569 des Chouettes Lane, Orléans, ON, Canada, K1C 7E6,
(t) 613-824-9475, (f) 613-834-8943
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/csnweb
|
