Today’s third day of the World Cup track meeting in Kazakhstan began with confirmation of Martyn Irvine’s exclusion from the omnium and continued with a very rough ride for Caroline Ryan as she tackled the women’s event.
Cycling Ireland had appealed Irvine’s exclusion from the men’s event. However, the Olympic hopeful found out before today’s racing began that the judges were standing over their decision to exclude Irvine (Team Ireland) because he had taken too long to pull out of the elimination race on Friday evening.
If that decision wasn’t bad enough for the Irish, Caroline Ryan (Cunga Bikes) badly misjudged her effort in the qualifying heat of the women’s omnium. She finished 13th of 14 riders, with only 12 to progress to the competition proper in each of the two heats.
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The result meant Ryan was out of the omnium before it had even begun.
However, one of the women who qualified fell, breaking her collarbone meaning she could not take her place in the event proper.
This threw a valuable lifeline to Ryan, who progressed into the race proper as a substitute for the faller. But it was far from plain sailing for Ryan from that point.
The first event was the flying lap; her weakest event of the six omnium disciplines. She finished 22nd of the 24 starters, a poor result for the national TT champion and multiple national track champion.
Things didn’t get any better in the points race, where Ryan was 23rd of the 24 starters. In the final event of the day, the elimination race, Ryan was listed as a non starter and she was also not listed in the overall standings at the end of the day’s competition.
She is out of the race, though the reasons for her failure to start the elimination race are unclear. We’ll bring you details of that in a story or on Twitter when we get them.
In other news from Astana today, David O’Loughlin (Cunga Bikes) was 12th in the qualifying of the individual pursuit; with only the first four to progress into the ride-offs for the medals.
The Mayo man got a good start and was seventh of the 22 starters at both the 1km and 2km marks. However, he faded in the third kilometre, slipping five places to finish 12th.
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While it was a solid ride for O’Loughlin, who only returned to international track racing in recent weeks after over a year away, the overall trip to Astana for the Irish is one they will want to put behind them.
Women’s Omnium (Day 1)
Qualifying Heat 1
1 GLAESSER Jasmin CAN 10
2 GALYUK Svitlana UKR 8
3 D’HOORE Jolien BEL 5
13 RYAN Caroline CGA
Flying Lap
1 KING Dani GBR 2.850 (2) 14.332 62.796
2 HUANG Li CHN 2.825 (1) 14.387 62.556
3 HSIAO Mei Yu TPE 2.869 (4) 14.538 61.906
22 RYAN Caroline CGA 3.035 (21) 15.593 57.718
(24-rider field)
Points Race
1 ROMANYUTA Evgeniya RVL 3 5 5 1 20 20 33
2 GALYUK Svitlana UKR 5 1 1 10 20 20 27
3 D’HOORE Jolien BEL 1 5 7 20 20 26
23 RYAN Caroline CGA 0
Elimination Race
1 PAWLOWSKA Katarzyna POL
2 WILD Kirsten NED
3 ROMANYUTA Evgeniya RVL
RYAN Caroline DNS
Men’s Individual Pursuit
Qualifying
1 OSHEA Glenn AUS 4:21.439
2 CORNU Dominique BEL 4:22.904
3 ARNDT Nikias GER 4:23.091
4 QUAADE Rasmus Christian DEN 4:24.224
5 HUIZENGA Jenning NED 4:24.536
6 JANG Sunjae KOR 4:27.061
7 LINAREZ Carlos VEN 4:28.871
8 MORICE Julien FRA 4:29.005
9 CHEUNG King Lok HKG 4:30.353
10 KOZYREV Maxim LOK 4:30.695
11 XU Yulong HBC 4:31.231
12 O’LOUGHLIN David CGA 4:32.296
13 SHCHEDOV Vitaliy UKR 4:33.787
14 BRYLOWSKI Pawel POL 4:36.229
15 SCARTEZZINI Michele ITA 4:37.322
16 RACKWITZ Daniel TMV 4:39.164
17 XUE Saifei CHN 4:39.584
18 TORABI Ali IRI 4:39.720
19 STARK Dominique SUI 4:41.149
20 VALYNIN Valery RUS 4:42.005
21 TUYCHIEV Vladimir UZB 4:42.595
22 KUPESHOV Berik TTA 4:43.328
