CYCLING - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS .
MANCHESTER , England 1996-08-29
Results at the world track cycling championships on Thursday :
Individual pursuit semifinals ( over 4,000 metres ) :
Chris Boardman ( Britain ) 4:15.006 beat Alexei Markov ( Russia ) 4:23.029
Andrea Collinelli ( Italy ) 4:16.141 beat Francis Moreau ( France ) 4:19.665
Moreau takes bronze medal as faster losing semifinalist .
Final :
Chris Boardman ( Britain ) 4:11.114 ( world record ) beat Andrea Collinelli ( Italy ) 4:20.341
Olympic sprint championship ( three-man teams ) :
1. Australia ( Darryn Hill , Shane Kelly , Gary Neiwand ) 44.804
seconds
2. Germany ( Jens Fiedler , Michael Hubner , Soren Lausberg )
45.455
3. France ( Laurent Gane , Florian Rousseau , Herve Thuet )
45.810
4. Greece ( Dimitrios Georgalis , Georgios Chimonetos , Lampros
Vasilopoulos ) 46.538
Women 's world sprint championship quarter-finals ( best of
three matches ) :
Magali Faure ( France ) beat Kathrin Freitag ( Germany ) two
matches to nil ( with times for the last 200 metres of 11.833
seconds and 12.033 seconds )
Felicia Ballanger ( France ) beat Oksana Grichina ( Russia ) 2-0 ,
( 11.776 / 12.442 )
Tanya Dubnicoff ( Canada ) beat Michelle Ferris ( Australia ) 2-0 ,
( 12.211 / 12.208 )
Annett Neumann ( Germany ) beat Galina Enioukhina ( Russia ) 2-0 ,
( 12.434 / 12.177).