American Velodrome Challenge, Day 1

Hellyer Velodrome, San Jose, CA, USA, June 26, 2009

 Men Keirin

 Some very fast men lined up for the Men’s Keirin. US National Champion Jimmy Watkins, 2008 Ominum World Champion Hayden Godfrey, local power house Pete Billington qualified for the final. So did up-and-coming rider Daniel Walker, who sent Olympian Gideon Massie to the reps.

 Massie made the decisive move in the final and won the $1000 purse, local fast man Steve Pelaez was holding off Hayden Godfrey.

	NUMBER	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME
1	94	Massie	Gideon
2	110	Pelaez	Steve
3	66	Godfrey	Hayden
4	137	Watkins	Jimmy
5	135	Walker	Daniel
6	34	Allen	Jason
7	42	Billington	Pete
8	98	McLaughry	Stephen

 

Women Keirin

Proman teammates finished 1st and 2nd in the Women’s Keirin with US National Champion Cari Higgins taking the win and US enduro track star Shelley Olds taking second. Jen Featheringill completed the podium.

	NUMBER	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME
1	73	Higgins	Cari
2	108	Olds	Shelley
3	63	Featheringill	Jen
4	140	Williams	Elisabeth
5	134	Walker	Cristin
6	64	Fisk	Andrea
7	96	McCaughey	Laura

Women Points 15k (45 laps)

The Women’s Points Race came down to a battle between Aussie Scratch Champion Laura McCaughey and US National Champ Shelley Olds. It came all down to the final sprint which was neutralized due a crash involving Cari Higgins. The race was re-started with 5 laps to go and Laura McCaughey took the opportunity and sealed the deal. Cari Higgins was up and riding again after her bike was fixed.

 

	NUMBER	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME
1	96	McCaughey	Laura
2	108	Olds	Shelley
3	73	Higgins	Cari
4	130	Triplett	Jennifer
5	104	Newell	Elizabeth
6	44	Boursaw	Amara

Men Madison 20k (60k laps)

The Men’s Madison race was the last race of the night and certainly one of the high-lights. Very quickly it became clear that this would be a battle between the Garmin team of Dan Holloway and guest rider, Bissell’s Ben Jacques-Maynes and the New Zealand Subway-Avanti team of the world champs Hayden Godfrey and Jason Allen. It all came down to one point which was battled out in the last sprint when the Kiwis took the victory.

Men Miss 'n' Out

The Men Miss ‘n’ Out saw a huge field of 35 racers. The pace was very high right from the gun. Many of the sprinters didn’t last for long and some of the big names got eliminated early. Pro-riders Ben Jacques–Maynes (Bissell), Roman Kilun (OUCH) and Iggy Silva (Rock Racing) nearly made it to the end. The final came down to Jame Carney, Dan Holloway and Dave McCook. But it was really Carney and Holloway who took the sprint to the line with Carney nosing out Holloway.

	NUMBER	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME
1	47	Carney	Jame
2	75	Holloway	Dan
3	97	McCook	David
4	79	Jacques-Maynes	Benjamin
5	82	KILUN	Roman
6	124	Silva	Iggy

Masters Miss 'n' Out

The Master Miss ‘n’ Out turned into a local Hellyer affair with the final five all from Hellyer. Finally, Briggs and Peterson sprinted it out, with Briggs taking it by inches.

1	46	Briggs	Patrick
2	111	Peterson	Brian
3	72	Hernandez	Michael
4	68	Hall	Doug
5	103	Nevitt	Andrew

Masters 10k Scratch

Local Eliot Logan was taking it long with four laps to go, creating a 100m gap but he was caught with 150 m to go by the charging field. Former Olympian Mark Whitehead crossed the lined first.

	NUMBER	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME
1	139	Whitehead	Mark
2	46	Briggs	Patrick
3	138	Watkins	Sean
4	111	Peterson	Brian
5	127	Tanaka	Alden