Olympic Track Day 4 preview

Team GB - Schedule - BBCTV - Track Medals

Monday August 18 is the fourth day of action from the Laoshan Velodrome.

On the first day Team GB won the Team sprint gold medal, and followed this on day two with gold and sliver in the Kieran, gold and bronze in the men's individual pursuit and bronze in the points race. Day three gave up a gold and silver for Great Britain in the women's individual pursuit for Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Romero. Victoria Pendleton, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny qualified the best in the women's and men's sprint competitions respectively. Plus GB men broke the world record to make the final of the team pursuit gold.

Day four will see the conclusion of the Men's Team Pursuit, and the gold run off in the women's points race, whilst the sprint competitions progress to the finals due to be held on Tuesday (Day five) - see Track Medals

World Champion Marianne Vos of the Netherlands starts as the favourite, but the race can be a lottery and so don't write off Rebecca Romero (Great Britain) and riders such as Sarah Hammer (United States), or almost anyone in the starting line up.

Start List
16:30 Women's Points Race (China Time)

1 Marianne Vos Netherlands
2 Trine Schmidt Denmark
3 Vera Carrara Italy
4 Leire Olaberria Spain
5 Yoanka Gonzalez Cuba
6 Svetlana Pauliukaite Lithuania
7 Olga Slyusareva Russian Fed.
8 Pascale Jeuland France
9 Yan Li China
10 Kateherine Bates Australia
11 Minhye Lee Korea
12 Sarah Hammer United States
13 Gina Grain Canada
14 Satomi Wadami Japan
15 Catherine Cheatley New Zealand
16 Lada Kozlikova Czech Republic
17 Lesya Kalitovska Ukraine
18 Maria Calle Luisa Colombia
19 Evelyn Garcia El Salvador
20 Rebecca Romero Great Britain
21 Verena Jooss Germany
22 Wan Wong Yiu Hong Kong, China

The Great Britain team broke the World record in qualifying and only Denmark looked able to match them, we shall find out today whether they can win yet again.

18:20 Men's Team Pursuit Finals 1-2
GBR
78 Ed Clancy
82 Paul Manning
85 Geraint Thomas
86 Bradley Wiggins

Denmark
46 Michael Moerkoev
47 Casper Joergensen
49 Jens-Erik Madsen
50 Alex Rasmussen

18:15 Men's Team Pursuit Finals 3-4
New Zealand
142 Sam Bewley
146 Hayden Roulston
147 Marc Ryan
148 Jesse Sergent

Australia
4 Jack Bobridge
5 Graeme Brown
8 Mark Jamieson
12 Bradley McGee

Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) was the fastest qualifier and looks red hot to progress.

17:05 Women's Sprint Quarter finals - Race 1 (China Time)
17:45 Women's Sprint Quarter finals - Race 2
18:30 Women's Sprint Quarter finals - Race 3

Women's Sprint Quarter finals
Winner of each heat (Best of three) qualify to the semi finals to be held on Tuesday August 19 and the losers will race for 5th-8th place the same day.

Heat 1
88 Victoria Pendleton Great Britain
120 Simona Krupeckaite Lithuania

Heat 2
20 Natallia Tsylinskaya Belarus
29 Shuang Guo China

Heat 3
16 Anna Meares Australia
75 Clara Sanchez France

Heat 4
140 Willy Kanis Netherlands
191 Jennie Reed United States

Britain's Chris Hoy was the toast of qualifying and he should progress to the next round whilst Jason Kenny has a tough run off against Frenchman Kevin Sireau.

17:20 Men's Sprint Quarterfinals - Race 1 (China Time)
18:00 Men's Sprint Quarterfinals - Race 2
18:40 Men's Sprint Quarterfinals - Race 3

Men's Sprint Quarterfinals
Winner of each heat (Best of three) qualify to semifinals on Tuesday August 19 and losers race for 5th-8th place the same day.

Heat 1
80 Chris Hoy Great Britain
123 Mohd Awang Malaysia

Heat 2
72 Kevin Sireau France
81 Jason Kenny Great Britain

Heat 3
94 Maximilian Levy Germany
133 Teun Mulder Netherlands

Heat 4
64 Mickael Bourgain France
128 Theo Bos Netherlands