Cycling Weekly — January 11, 2018

Photos: Andy Jones, Andy Whitehouse/5311 Media

Racing

Selected results

Points race (men): 1. Matt

Gibson (HMT); 2. Chris Latham

(Pedalsure); 3. Fred Wright (All

Stars)

Points race (women): 1. Kirsten

Wild (Team Rowe & King); 2.

Katie Archibald (Jadan-Weldtite);

3. Pfeiffer Georgi (Matrix Fitness)
   Madison TT (men): 1. Ed
   Clancy, Jon Mould (JLT Condor)
   53.553; 2. Chris Latham, Andy
   Tenant (Pedalsure) 54.300; 3.
   Matt Rotherham, Tom Rotherham
   (Moloja Pushbikers) 54.628
   Scratch (women): 1. Katie
   Archibald (Jadan-Weldtite); 2.
   Elinor Barker (Team Pedalsure); 3.
   Kirsten Wild (Team Rowe and King)
   Elimination scratch (women): 1.
   Katie Archibald (Jadan-Weldtite);


4. Ellie Dickinson (Team Breeze); 3.
   Emily Nelson (Storey Racing)
   Elimination scratch (men):


5. Andrew Tennant (Pedalsure);


6. Ed Clancy (JLT Condor); 3. Ethan
   Hayter (Inspired)
   Keirin: 1. Rayan Helal (Fra);


7. Jason Kenny (GB); 3. Carlo
   Cesar (Ned)
   Championship winners: Men:
   Team Pedalsure; Women: Rowe &
   King; Future Stars: Ella Barnwell
   and James Codd.

John Woodhouse

Kenny

pipped as

Archibald

dominates

Revolution | January 6 | Manchester

omeback kid Jason Kenny admitted

it had been a “tough day” after losing

out in both the sprint and keirin at the

Revolution meeting in Manchester.

Kenny, who had not raced since walking off the

track after securing the sixth Olympic gold of his

career in Rio, was beaten 2-1 by old adversary

Grégory Baugé in the sprint, before losing out to

another Frenchman, Rayan Helal, in the keirin.

“It’s been a tough day,” refl ected Kenny. “You

lose a little bit of match fi tness. I’ve not done a

sprint since the Olympics. It was tough, but it’s

good competition. Baugé did really well in the

fi nal of the sprint so there was nothing I could do

about that. I’m quite happy.”

The 29-year-old took heart from the 9.964 ride

he put in for sprint qualifi cation, and emphasised

he was happy with his decision to enter the meet.

“You’ve got to race,” he said. “You’ve got to put

it out there eventually. You’re always changing as

an athlete and you don’t know where you’re up

to until you put yourself on the line and compare

yourself to other people.

“You don’t know where your strengths or

weaknesses are. I learnt a lot today and I’ll

take that away, put it into the training, and come

back stronger.”

Elsewhere, Katie Archibald took both the

straight scratch race and the elimination/scratch,

as well as fi nishing second in the points race

behind Kirsten Wild, to confi rm her form with

the World Championships in the Netherlands just

seven weeks away.

“It was painful as ever,” she said, “but it hurts

a lot more getting beat than it does crossing the

fi nishing line fi rst.”

Archibald admitted she was honing her mental

sharpness as much as her physical form. “You

don’t want people to think that you’re weak and

you won because you were lucky,” she said, “but

you don’t want them to think that you’re so strong

that you won even though you were stupid.

There’s a balance between the two.”

Other notable performances included Ed Clancy

and Jon Mould smashing the Madison 1km world

record by nearly a second, clocking 53.553, Clancy

declaring the feat an “ace way to start 2018”.

He added: “It’s literally the only thing Jon

Mould has talked about since October. Glad we

could made it happen.”

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