October 21/99 10:09 am - Track Worlds, 'Cross Nationals, Quebec Awards Posted by Editor on 10/21/99
World Track Championships - Berlin, Germany
Day 2 Evening Session
Women's Sprint - 1/8 Finals
Felicia Ballanger (Fra) beat Lyndelle Higginson (Aus) 12.091 Yan Wang (Chn) beat Jennie reed (USA) 12.535 Michelle Ferris (Aus) beat Katrin Meinke (Ger) 12.591 Tanya Dubnicoff (Can) beat Szilvia Szabolcsi (Hun) 12.074 Kathrin Freitag (Ger) beat Cuihua Jiang (Chn) 12.646 Oksana Grichina (Rus) beat Magali Faure (Fra) 12.324
Olympic Sprint Final
1 FRANCE (GANE, ROUSSEAU, TOURNANT) 44.848 (60.203 kmph) 2 GREAT BRITAIN 45.485 3 GERMANY 45.364 4 AUSTRALIA 45.687 5 GREECE 45.666 6 JAPAN 46.328 7 CZECH REPUBLIC 46.369 8 POLAND DNF
Team Pursuit - 1/4 Finals
Russia (4:05.9) beat Australia (4:09.1) Ukraine (4:04.7) beat Great Britain (4:07.7) Germany (4:03.5) beat New Zealand (caught) France (4:03.6) beat Spain (4:11.2)
In other Track Worlds news - it looks like Canada's 14th place finish in the Olympic Sprint means that they will not be able compete at the Olympics next year in this event (only top 12 qualify at the Worlds).
'Cross Nationals
We have been informed that one day licences will be available at the Nationals.
Quebec Cycling Awards (courtesy Pierre Thibault, FQSC)
The FQSC will hold on Sunday October 24, in Mont Sainte-Anne, its annual awards presentation and will also induct three new members in the Québec Cycling Hall of Fame.
The Athlete by Excellence award will recognize the male and female performances in mountain bike, road/track and BMX. This year, the top female athletes clearly outperform their male conterparts.
Lyne Bessette, 10th in the road UCI ranking, and Geneviève Jeanson, twice world champion at the Junior World Championship are ex aequo winners of the road/track title. Mélanie Dorion takes the number one place in mountain bike with a 19th position in the UCI world ranking. Mélanie Desrochers, 38th in the UCI BMX ranking and participant to the World BMX Championhip wins the title in this sector.
Eric Tourville, Canadian cross-country champion, Charles Dionne, time trial Canadian champion and Patrick Dionne, participant to the World BMX Championship, all win the 1999 title in their respective discipline.
The Elite Club of the Year award goes to the Oryx-Procycle Team in mountain bike, to the Club Espoirs de Laval-Naya on road/track and to the Club BMX Mauricycle-La Tuque. The top international/national events of the year are the Tour Trans Canada on road, the Diesel-UCI Downhill World Cup event in Bromont and the Eastern Canadian BMX Championship in Crabtree.
The Québec Cycling Hall of Fame will induct three new members in 1999. Marc Lemay, former president of the FQSC and the CCA, is involved with the UCI Mountain Bike Committee since 1990. He has been particularly noticed for his contribution with the inclusion of mountain bike in UCI and the cross-country event at the Olympic Games since 1996 in Atlanta. He will be inducted in the builder category. In the athlete's category, Magella Tremblay and Marc Blouin will also join the prestigious group established since 1986. They have put their mark on Québec and Canadian cycling history with the Québec team and the Canadian cycling team in the '70, participating to many major international events.
Men Mountain Bike - Eric Tourville, Sainte-Foy Road & Track - Charles Dionne, Saint-Rédempteur BMX - Patrick Dionne, La Tuque
Women Mountain Bike - Mélanie Dorion, Deux-Montagnes Road & Track - Lyne Bessette, Knowlton & Geneviève Jeanson, Lachine BMX - Mélanie Desrochers, Crabtree
Junior Men Mountain Bike - Mathieu Laurin, Vaudreuil Road & Track - Dominique Rollin, Boucherville BMX - Francis Hogue, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
Junior Women Mountain Bike - Julie Sanders, Beauport Road & Track - Catherine Pouliot-Bernard, Cap-Rouge BMX - Annick Lévesque, Saint-Luc
Espoir Men Mountain Bike - Frédéric Bussière, Sainte-Foy Road & Track - Frédéric Millette, Repentigny BMX - Alex Hébert, La Tuque
Espoir Women Mountain Bike - Anne-Marie Jobin, Loretteville Road & Track - Andrey Lemieux, Alma BMX - Sabrina Montour, Saint-Louis-de-France
Master Men Mountain Bike - Richard Tétreault, Drummondville Road & Track - Marc Lapointe, Drummondville
Master Women Mountain Bike - Nancy Manning, Chelsea Road & Track - Wendy Van der Weyden, Pierrefonds
Coach Mountain Bike - Lucie Marcoux, La Beauport Road & Track - Nicolas Tremblay, Alma BMX - Guillaume Pronovost, La Tuque
Commissaire Mountain Bike - France Champagne, Charlesbourg Road & Track - Lucette Bergeron, Laval BMX - Daniel Demers, Pointe-du-Lac
Volunteer Mountain Bike - Marc Deschênes, Alma Road & Track - (Prix Richard Michaud) Bernard Vives, Ville Mont-Royal BMX - Mario Béland, Cap-de-la-Madeleine
Development Club Mountain Bike - club Viromax, Otterburn Park Road & Track - club Espoirs de Laval-Naya BMX - club BMX -Cap-de-la-Madeleine
High Performance Club Mountain Bike - Equipe Oryx, Saint-Georges de Beauce Road & Track - Club Espoirs de Laval-Naya BMX - club BMX -La Tuque
Provincial Organization (Regional or Provincial) Mountain Bike - Finale des Jeux du Québec - Alma Road & Track - Finale des Jeux du Québec - Alma BMX - Championship of Québec - La Tuque
National or International Organization Mountain Bike - Downhill World Cup, Bromont Road & Track - Tour Trans-Canada BMX - Eastern Canadian Championships - Crabtree
Award of Distinction Mountain Bike - Bill Hurley, Chelsea - XC Master World Champion 30-34
President Award Road & Track - Geneviève Jeanson, Lachine - Double World Junior Champion
Quebec Cycling Hall of Fame
Athlete - Magella Tremblay, Montréal and Marc Blouin, Saint-Augustin de Desmaures Builder - Marc Lemay, Rouyn-Noranda
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