2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	London, Great Britain
Date(s)	2–6 March
Velodrome	Lee Valley VeloPark
Nations participating	45
Cyclists participating	390
Events	19

The 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2016. They took place in London in the Lee Valley VeloPark from 2–6 March 2016.^[1]

As the last major track cycling event prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics, the championships were particularly important for cyclists and national teams aiming to qualify for the track cycling competitions at Rio 2016.^[2][3] Hosts Great Britain finished top of the medals table with five gold, one silver and three bronze medals.

Tickets prices for the 12 different sessions ranged between £15 and £90, with student and over 60s discounts available. Higher priced tickets were tickets with better seating locations, afternoon (final) sessions and the sessions at the weekend. On 20 February 50,000 tickets were sold, with most of the sessions sold out.^[4]

For the championships 200 volunteers were recruited and helped in a variety of roles during set-up and across the event, from programme sellers and accreditation distributors to media and sports.

The schedule of events was as follows:^[5]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	5	1	3	9
2	Germany	3	2	3	8
3	Australia	2	2	1	5
4	Russia	2	0	1	3
5	China	1	2	0	3
6	New Zealand	1	1	0	2
	Poland	1	1	0	2
8	Spain	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
10	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
12	Netherlands	0	3	1	4
13	Canada	0	2	2	4
14	France	0	2	1	3
15	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
18	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		19	19	19	57

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's events
Sprint[6]	Jason Kenny  Great Britain	Matthew Glaetzer  Australia	Denis Dmitriev  Russia
Team Sprint[7]	New Zealand Ethan Mitchell Sam Webster Eddie Dawkins	Netherlands Nils van 't Hoenderdaal Jeffrey Hoogland Matthijs Büchli Hugo Haak	Germany René Enders Max Niederlag Joachim Eilers
Team Pursuit[8]	Australia Sam Welsford Michael Hepburn Callum Scotson Miles Scotson Alexander Porter Luke Davison	Great Britain Jonathan Dibben Ed Clancy Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins Steven Burke Andy Tennant	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Niklas Larsen Frederik Madsen Casper von Folsach Rasmus Quaade
Keirin[9]	Joachim Eilers  Germany	Eddie Dawkins  New Zealand	Azizulhasni Awang  Malaysia
Omnium[10]	Fernando Gaviria  Colombia	Roger Kluge  Germany	Glenn O'Shea  Australia
1 km Time Trial[11][O]	Joachim Eilers  Germany	Theo Bos  Netherlands	Quentin Lafargue  France
Pursuit[12][O]	Filippo Ganna  Italy	Domenic Weinstein  Germany	Andy Tennant  Great Britain
Scratch Race[13][O]	Sebastián Mora  Spain	Ignacio Prado  Mexico	Claudio Imhof   Switzerland
Points Race[14][O]	Jonathan Dibben  Great Britain	Andreas Graf  Austria	Kenny de Ketele  Belgium
Madison[15][N]	Great Britain Bradley Wiggins Mark Cavendish	France Morgan Kneisky Benjamin Thomas	Spain Sebastián Mora Albert Torres
Women's events
Sprint[16]	Zhong Tianshi  China	Lin Junhong  China	Kristina Vogel  Germany
Team Sprint[17]	Russia Daria Shmeleva Anastasia Voynova	China Gong Jinjie Zhong Tianshi	Germany Miriam Welte Kristina Vogel
Team Pursuit[18]	United States Sarah Hammer Kelly Catlin Chloé Dygert Jennifer Valente	Canada Allison Beveridge Jasmin Glaesser Kirsti Lay Georgia Simmerling	Great Britain Laura Trott Elinor Barker Ciara Horne Joanna Rowsell
Keirin[19]	Kristina Vogel  Germany	Anna Meares  Australia	Becky James  Great Britain
Omnium[20]	Laura Trott  Great Britain	Laurie Berthon  France	Sarah Hammer  United States
500 m Time Trial[21][O]	Anastasia Voynova  Russia	Lee Wai Sze  Hong Kong	Elis Ligtlee  Netherlands
Pursuit[22][O]	Rebecca Wiasak  Australia	Małgorzata Wojtyra  Poland	Annie Foreman-Mackey  Canada
Scratch Race[23][O]	Laura Trott  Great Britain	Kirsten Wild  Netherlands	Stephanie Roorda  Canada
Points Race[24][O]	Katarzyna Pawłowska  Poland	Jasmin Glaesser  Canada	Arlenis Sierra  Cuba

• Riders named in italics did not participate in the medal finals.
• ^O In the Olympics, all shaded events (except the madison) are contested within the omnium only.
• ^N The madison is not contested in the Olympics.

390 cyclists from 45 countries were registered for the championships.^[25] The registered riders from Egypt and Morocco did not participate. The number of registered cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses. Note that not all registered riders competed at the championships.

• Official website
• UCI Website
• Official results and starting lists