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• Australia Beat Britain In World Cup Team Pursuit
  November 20th, 2009
  

  MELBOURNE, Nov 20, 2009 (AFP) – An untried Australian combination rode one of the fastest teams pursuit times here to beat arch-rivals Britain in the Melbourne World Cup round on Friday.
  Cameron Meyer, Rohan Dennis, Michael Hepburn and Luke Durbridge clocked three minutes 59.599 seconds to win the gold medal ride-off.
  The British, who broke Australia’s [...]

• Meares Heads Aussie Night At World Cup
  November 19th, 2009
  

  MELBOURNE, Nov 19, 2009 (AFP) – Olympic silver medallist Anna Meares headlined a winning night for Australia with victory over her Chinese rival Guo Shuang in the women’s sprint at the Melbourne World Cup round on Thursday.
  Meares beat Guo by two heats to nil in the best-of-three gold medal
  ride-off in one of three Australian [...]

• Injured Hoy Withdraws From World Championships
  March 4th, 2009
  

  LONDON, March 3, 2009 (AFP) – Sir Chris Hoy, Britain’s four-time Olympic track-cycling gold medallist, announced on Tuesday he was withdrawing from this month’s World Championships in Poland because of injury.
  Hoy, who has suffered complications following a hip injury sustained when falling off his bike in the keirin final [...]

• China Wins World Cup Fourth Leg
  January 18th, 2009
  

  BEIJING, Jan 18, 2009 (AFP) – China won the fourth leg of the UCI Track
  Cycling World Cup Classic series in Beijing on Sunday.
  The hosts claimed the team title after clinching three more silver medals
  on the third and final day of the competition.
  China hauled in a total of 108 points, [...]

• Britain’s Newton Picks Up Second World Cup Gold in China
  January 17th, 2009
  

  BEIJING, Jan 16, 2009 (AFP) – Great Britain’s Chris Newton won the Men’s
  30km Points Race on the first day of the Beijing UCI Track Cycling World Cup
  Classic series here on Friday.
  It is the second gold medal of the series for the rider, who also won in
  Manchester last November.
  Newton won [...]

• World Cup Cycling Results
  January 16th, 2009
  

  BEIJING, Jan 16, 2009 (AFP) – Results from the first day of the track
  cycling World Cup here on Friday:
  Men
  Team sprint
  1. Cofidis (FRA – Mickael Bourgain, Kevin Sireau, Francois Pervis) 44.861
  2. France (Gregory Bauge, Michael D’Almeida, Thierry Jollet) 45.424
  3. Germany (Sebastian Doehrer, Maximilian Levy, [...]

• World Cup Results – Day 2
  November 21st, 2008
  

  MELBOURNE, Nov 21, 2008 (AFP) – Results from the second day of the track
  cycling World Cup here on Friday:
  Men
  Team pursuit (4km)
  1. Australia (Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Luke Durbirdge, Mark
  Jamieson) 2. Spain (Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur, David Muntaner Juaneda, Toni
  Tauler Llull, Eloy Teruel Rovira) overlapped
  [...]

• Judith Arndt Of High Road Moves Into World Cup Lead At Berne
  May 5th, 2008
  

  Berne, Swizterland: Judith Arndt soared into the World Cup lead on Sunday after clinching second place in the Tour de Berne round of the series.
  “It’s a surprise, but a nice surprise.” Arndt said afterwards. “To be honest, I didn’t even know that I could get the leader’s jersey today. My goal is more to [...]